Package Contents
- Teacher's Manual
- Student Sheets (purchase one per additional student)
- First Virtues
- The Preschooler's Bible
- A Big Treasury of Little Animals
- Animal Orchestra
- Baby Animals
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- Dinner at the Panda Palace
- The Fuzzy Duckling
- Good Night Gorilla
- The Lion and the Mouse
- The Margaret Wise Brown Treasury
- My First Counting Book
- Old MacDonald Had a Farm
- Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever!
- Terrific Trains
- The Three Bears
- Sing for Joy CD (see the case)
- Animal Cookie Cutters (12 shapes)
- Crayola Washable Jumbo Watercolor Set (purchase one per additional student)
- Gator Grabber Tweezers (2, preschool-sized)
- And a free gift:
- Discovery Blocks
- Discovery Blocks Design Book
- Lotto Animals
- Number Express
- Wedgits Building Blocks Starter Set
- Wedgits Design Cards
Contains the educational toys from our Preschool Deluxe Package. (Does not include daily lesson plans or items in the Basic Package.) This package is for those who want a collection of preschool educational toys but not a daily preschool curriculum. Includes:
- Discovery Blocks
- Discovery Blocks Design Book
- Lotto Animals
- Number Express
- Wedgits Building Blocks Starter Set
- Wedgits Design Cards
Overview
Focus: God Loves Us So We Love God and Others
- Complete Preschool Curriculum
- Multi-Sensory Hands-On Activities
- 12 Units Focus on Character Traits, Colors, and Animals
- Developmentally Appropriate
- Step-by-Step Instructions
- 60 Minutes Daily

All Aboard the Animal Train is our year-long hands-on learning adventure for three-year olds. This complete preschool program is flexible and simple to teach. You can begin any time of the year. You can do all the activities, or pick and choose the ones best for you. You can use the program as written for 36 weeks (3 weeks per unit) or shorten it if you want to condense the program for an older three-year-old.
Hands-on learning couldn't be simpler! Easy-to-teach activities are all scheduled for you with almost no preparation. (Who has time to gather ribbon in 6 colors, cut out 50 little penguins, or plan new activities every day?) Your child will learn about 12 animals (one in each unit) through finger plays, creative play, and colorful animal cookie cutters.
Our program is also bursting with fabulous books, all scheduled for you, about each animal. We're excited about this fun, educational curriculum with Biblical values and character development!
Each of the 12 three-week units focuses on a character trait, a color, and an animal. For example, Unit 1 focuses on love (God loves us, so we love God and others), rabbits, and red. In Unit 1 your child will:
- Hear Bible stories about God's love, sing a Bible song from the included CD, participate in simple character-developing activities, and create a unit poster (from the Student Sheets) to display during the unit.
- Help make red play dough from scratch, enjoy trying red foods, and go on a red color hunt around the house.
- Pretend to be a rabbit, learn a rabbit finger play, listen to stories about rabbits, and make a rabbit-shaped sandwich with cookie cutters included in the Package.
You and your child will enjoy four different activities each day:
- Clean Up and Together Time — daily activity scheduled in the Teacher's Manual
- Story Time — books and poems scheduled in the Teacher's Manual; included in the Basic and Deluxe Packages (A list of optional library books focusing on the 12 animals you will study is also included.)
- Surprise Time — five semi-independent activities; toys from the Deluxe Package or other simple-to-gather items listed in the Teacher's Manual
- Outside Time — unstructured outside play for health and large motor development

The goals of our program are:
Spiritual Growth- God loves us, so we love God and others.
- Twelve character traits — love, obedience, patience, kindness, sharing, thankfulness, politeness, friendliness, forgiveness, joy, truthfulness, doing your best
- Three Bible stories and a memory verse for each character trait
- Creative thinking, problem solving, imaginative play
- Songs and fingerplays
- Read-aloud stories and poems to develop reading readiness and a love for books
- Print awareness, phonemic awareness skills (rhymes, etc.)
- Informal alphabet readiness — watch the adult write and read words, enjoy several alphabet stories and an optional alphabet art activity
- Numbers, colors, shapes — a variety of multi-sensory activities develop true understanding
- Twelve animals — what fun!
- Each unit has a preschool learning song (about animals, colors, etc.) and a Bible song, using Sing for Joy CD created by MFW.
- Gross motor skills — pretend to be an animal, play outside, and more
- Fine motor skills — squeeze play dough, paint and color, learn finger plays, and more
- Health — focus on nutrition by enjoying healthy snacks
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be —
I had a mother who read to me.
Strickland Gillian
- You'd like to spend memory-making time each day with your child — an easy-to-teach Together Time activity (15 minutes), Story Time (books and poems provided), a semi-independent Surprise Time activity, and unstructured Outside Time.
- You are looking for a flexible, easy-to-use, educationally-sound, character-developing program.
- You'd love a big stack of read-aloud books, paint, sturdy activity sheets, and educational toys, with daily lessons already planned — all at a great price.

Consider these educational toys, not in the All Aboard the Animal Train packages, that are safe and educational for two-year-olds — Tall Stacker Pegs and Pegboard and Shape and Color Sorter.)
If you are already homeschooling older children:The All Aboard the Animal Train Teacher's Manual is very easy to follow, and you may find that an older child would enjoy helping you teach your preschooler. However, another option is to just order our Preschool Educational Toy Package which is designed for those who want a collection of preschool educational toys but not a daily preschool curriculum.