Good morning fellow K12ers and Homeschoolers! My 4th child is going to turn 3 before the school year starts this fall and my 3rd child will be going into Kindergarten. So I was very interested in the new K12 Embark preschool program they have come out with. They have 2 programs available - Embark Online and Embark Comprehensive. After doing research on it we decided to purchase both programs. (Eventually K12 wants to offer it for free and put it in the OLS with teachers and everything just like with the other grades- but for now they don't.)
We decided to get the Online version for #3- so that he can work on the activities over the summer to get ready for Kindergarten in the fall. For #4 we decided to get the Comprehensive version so that for the next 2 years he can work on some of the activities. We bought everything available so we will not have to re-buy the books or manipulatives for #5. We will only have to purchase the program again.
Opening the boxes is such an exciting thing! Here are the objects that we got:
- Magnifying Glass
- Mirror, Acrylic
- Magnetic Wand
- Unifix Cubes (set of 100)
- Sphere (2.5" ball)
- Counting Bears (set of 80)
- Tactile alphabet letters (uppercase)
- Tactile alphabet letters (lowercase)
- Eyedropper
- American flag
- Colored buckets (set of 6)
- Attribute blocks (classroom set)
- Tactile numbers set
- Foam Number Dice (set of 6)
- U.S./World Folding Map (K-2)
- Inflatable Globe (K-2)
Here are the books that we got:
- The Runaway Bunny
- Kit Box 2 (box in which materials are packed)
- The Cake That Mack Ate by Rose Robart
- Jump Frog Jump by Robert Kalan
- Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
- Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
- The Reasons for Seasons Gail Gibbons
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Eric Carle
- The Clock Struck One by Trudy Harris
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
- Each Peach Pear Plum by Allan Ahlberg
- A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Frederick by Leo Lionni
- What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees by Nancy Tafuri
- Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
- What?s the Weather Today? by Allan Fowler
- Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Bruce Degen
- Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin
- My Five Senses by Margaret Miller
Prices are: $59.00 for Online - and you can learn more about it here
$99 for Comprehensive Course, along with $19 for a K12 kit, $99 for Materials, and $69 for the books for a total of $286.00 (does not include shipping). you can learn more about it here
For the spring of 2014 they are running a special: Use the Promotion Code: SPRING to get 15% off of your purchase.
I do not get any money from K12 - nor will I get any money if you click on the links. I merely have them to help you find what I am talking about. These programs are our own choice and I'm just trying to help other families out by review and blog. Thanks!