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Pre-K

At the earliest levels, Starfall demonstrates learning through exploration and play. Begin with the senses, exploring colors, music, and rhymes. Children gain exposure to early literacy and math concepts through exposure to letter-sound relationships, counting, and numbers in a pressure-free, fun-filled environment.

Letter Recognition

In the Starfall ABCs, children learn the upper and lowercase alphabet letters and sounds by clicking on the individual letters. Children can access the sign language alphabet by clicking on the Hand interpreter symbol.

Color Recognition

In Colors!, children learn to recognize the colors and color names, as well as the color used in phrases and sentences. Each color activity ends with a reward.

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Rhyme & Rhythm

In Songs + Rhymes, children will enjoy nursery motion songs, abc rhymes, historical folk songs, and classic sing-along songs.

Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry

In Starfall’s Talking Library, children enter a library where they may listen to a variety of text that includes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Texts in the library may also be read aloud to the children.

Included Titles
  • The Gingerbread Boy
  • My Father Runs an Excavator
  • Dolphins Are Not Fish
  • Dinosaurs!
  • Humpback Whales
  • A Tale of Two Little Engines
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears
  • The Cobbler and the Elves
  • The Ant and the Chrysalis
  • The Frog Prince
  • How the Turtle Cracked Its Shell
  • The Green Grass Grew All Around
  • Stone Soup
  • Over in the Meadow
  • Who Likes the Rain?
  • Why the Sun and the Moon Live In the Sky
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • The Troll Who Lived Under the Bridge
  • The Ugly Duckling
  • Let’s Eat! A book about delicious colors
  • Reach for the Stars
  • Thermometers
  • The Story of Milk
  • A Day in the Life of a Firefighter
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Folktale & Fable Familiarity

In our I’m Reading activities, children can listen to text from a variety of genres, including folktales and Chinese fables.

Math Songs

Starfall’s Math Songs introduce basic math concepts including zero, counting to ten, adding and subtracting, time, days of the week, and months of the year.

Number Recognition & Counting

Children learn additional math skills including number recognition, counting, one-to-one correspondence, representation of numbers, and patterns.

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Shape Recognition & Manipulation

In the Geometry & Measurement activities, children explore 2D and 3D shapes, recognizing and describing them. They also sort shapes, recognize shapes in the environment, use non-standard tools for measurement, and manipulate shapes to solve puzzles.

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Addition & Subtraction

Our Add & Subtract activities will introduce children to the operations of addition and subtraction. Activities include addition and subtraction practice within 10.

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Social-Emotional Learning

As learners grow, social and emotional skills help them develop healthy identities, manage emotions, achieve goals, practice empathy, build and maintain healthy relationships, and make responsible decisions.