A confident start begins with small, everyday steps.
Help your child prepare for preschool with practical guidance, familiar routines, and printable tools you can use together.
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Try the free morning routine
Two complementary resources. One complete bundle.
Words for a hard goodbye. Space to notice what’s growing. A morning routine your child can follow. Take a look inside the guide and toolkit.
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Start with the guidance, choose practical printables, or bring both home together.
Best value
The Parent Guide and Printable Toolkit together, with color and low-ink editions of each.
139 distinct pages across both resources. Low-ink editions repeat the same content.
Understand readiness and prepare with confidence.
Seven parts, a detailed 30-day countdown, a letter to parents, and helpful resources with printed web addresses. 98 pages, plus a matching low-ink edition. Toolkit sold separately.
$11.95 USD
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Useful tools for small, everyday steps.
Readiness check-ins, family practice plans, visual routines, conversation prompts and family-to-school forms. 41 pages, plus a matching low-ink edition. Guide sold separately.
$6.95 USD
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One useful page. A little more familiarity.
Try the free morning routine before choosing a paid resource. Talk through the pictures together and check off each step as you go.
The three-page sample includes simple instructions, a color chart, and a low-ink version of the same routine.
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Dr. Michelle Peterson is an early childhood educator, researcher, educational leader, and the founder of Spark Academy, a play-based preschool in Morton, Illinois.
Her resources bring together classroom experience and doctoral research on peer engagement through play, with practical support for the adults who care for young children.
Meet Dr. Michelle PetersonCreated for families everywhere, wherever your child attends preschool. These resources are optional and are not required for enrollment at Spark.
Choose the Parent Guide for explanations and practical guidance, the Printable Toolkit for pages to use with your family or classroom, or the Complete Bundle for both. The bundle costs $14.95, saving $3.95 compared with purchasing the two resources separately.
Your purchase takes place on Payhip, which handles payment and access to the downloads. The Complete Bundle checkout asks you to create an account or log in so you can access both resources. Each paid product includes a ZIP package containing the color PDF, low-ink PDF and a Read Me. The bundle gives you both product packages. No printed book will be mailed.
Use US Letter paper (8.5 × 11 inches) and print at actual size / 100%. Choose only the pages you need. The low-ink editions contain the same content and page numbers as the color editions.
The printables are designed for handwriting. They are not editable documents or interactive forms.
One purchase covers one household or one educator and their enrolled classroom families. You may print or privately share the PDFs with those families. Other educators need their own licenses. Please do not resell, publicly post, or redistribute the files outside that group.
No. These resources provide educational information and everyday practice ideas. Readiness check-ins are not developmental screenings and do not replace individualized advice, evaluation or your preschool’s policies.
Bring the Parent Guide and Printable Toolkit home together.
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Looking for a preschool near Morton? Come visit Spark Academy.