One is a research-informed guide for you — fifty simple activities hidden inside your ordinary day. The other is a 123-page activity book for your child — letters, numbers, puzzles and brain games. Choose either, or use both together.
50
WAYS
to Build Your Child's Academic Foundation
AGES 4–6
For the parent · Ages 4–6
50 playful activities across six areas of school readiness, using what's already in your house.
LITTLE
GENIUS
Complete School Foundation & Brain Booster
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For the child · Ages 3–6
123 pages, 30 parts: alphabet, numbers, brain games, GK, habits, badges and a certificate.
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The honest version
Most parents of 3–6-year-olds aren't short on love or effort. They're short on a clear answer to one quiet question: am I actually doing the right things at home?
"Are ABCs and counting enough?"
School readiness is much wider than letters and numbers — and nobody hands parents the list.
"Worksheets end in tears."
The moment learning starts to feel like pressure, a young child is very good at letting you know.
"Ideas everywhere, no plan."
Saved posts, bookmarked videos, half-finished printables — and still no sense of what to do on a Tuesday.
These two books solve that from opposite ends. One shows you the learning already sitting inside your day. The other gives your child a structured, playful path to follow, page by page.
Young children build skills through play, conversation, routines and repetition. Every idea here fits inside something you already do — reading a book, cooking dinner, walking to the shop, tidying up. You don't do all fifty: you pick two or three a week and rotate as your child's interest shifts.
5–15 min
Short, joyful sessions beat an hour with a reluctant child.
2–3 a week
Follow your child's lead and repeat favourites often.
6 areas
A wide base of school readiness, not one narrow skill.
0 worksheets
Games, talk and routines — nothing to print, nothing to buy.
Story retelling, rhyme play, letter hunts, sound games and shared reading that turns a book into a conversation.
Counting in real life, dice patterns, cooking math, hopscotch number lines, sorting and more-or-less games.
Playdough, threading, scissor practice, sand tracing and puzzles — the hand strength a pencil grip needs later.
Sink or float, colour mixing, shadow tracing, growing a seed, weather charting and the classic fizzing reaction.
Simon Says, memory pairs, multi-step instructions, I Spy and turn-taking — the listening side of readiness.
A daily reading ritual, talking through the day, grocery games, thoughtful screen time and praising effort.
Every one of the fifty follows the same shape: what to do, why it works, and one tip to adapt it to your child.
Instead of reading straight through, pause to ask "what do you think will happen?" or "how do you think she feels?" This turns reading into a conversation.
Try this: Let your child ask you questions too — curiosity runs both ways.
Roll a die and have your child call out the number without counting each dot — just recognising the pattern. This skill, called subitizing, is a building block of confident number sense.
Try this: Start with dice showing only 1–3 dots if six feels like too much at first.
Gather a mix of household objects and let your child guess, then test, whether each one sinks or floats. Predicting before testing is the core of scientific thinking.
Try this: Group the results afterward: what do all the "floaters" have in common?
Give a playful instruction with two or three steps at once ("touch the door, hop twice, then bring me a spoon") and see if your child can complete it in order.
Try this: If they miss a step, repeat calmly rather than adding pressure — it's practice, not a test.
Notice and name the effort and strategy your child used ("you kept trying different ways until it worked") rather than only praising the outcome.
Try this: This works especially well right after a mistake.
A Research-Informed Guide
50
WAYS
to Build Your Child's Academic Foundation
AGES 4–6
Ages 4–6 · Digital PDF e-book · 24 pages
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Little Genius walks through 30 parts in a deliberate order, starting with what a child already knows — themselves, their family, colours, shapes — and building towards phonics, numbers to 20, reasoning puzzles and school-readiness skills. Smart Owl, Curious Bunny, Clever Cub and Little Explorer come along for the whole journey.
Beginner
Simple recognition & listening. Ages 3–4.
Developing
Matching, comparing, short reasoning. Ages 4–5.
Challenge
Independent thinking & problem solving. Ages 5–6.
Letter shapes, beginning sounds, three words per letter, rhyming words and opposites.
Counting sets, tracing, missing numbers, comparison, patterns and first addition stories.
Primary and secondary colours, sorting, flat and 3D shapes, and shape patterns.
Five parts: observation, memory, logical reasoning, sequencing & classification, mazes.
Body & family, animals and their homes, plants, weather, transport, community helpers, quizzes.
Personal habits, classroom skills like listening and turn-taking, and social skills.
Naming feelings, calming down, road and home safety, and trusted adults.
Draw-and-imagine pages, story completion, craft ideas, memory games, bingo and riddles.
Five escalating levels, from easy recognition to mixed problem solving.
Three friendly tick-lists. No pass, no fail — just what to explore next.
Badges to earn, a weekly planner, and a complete answer key for parents.
The book finishes with a Little Genius certificate to print, fill in and hang up.
Exactly how the activities are written — short, spoken-aloud instructions your child can follow with you.
Aa
Apple 🍎 · Ant 🐜
Bb
Ball ⚽ · Bird 🐦
Cc
Cat 🐱 · Cake 🎂
Dd
Dog 🐶 · Drum 🥁
TRY: Trace each big letter with your finger, then say its sound. 🦉
1 ⭐
2 🍎 🍎
3 🐤 🐤 🐤
4 🎈 🎈 🎈 🎈
5 🐟 🐟 🐟 🐟 🐟
🤔 THINK: If you have 3 fingers up, how many more make 5?
Continue each shape pattern by saying what comes next.
🔴 🔵 🔴 🔵 🔴 ?
🔺 🔺 ⬤ 🔺 🔺 ⬤ ?
⬛ ⬜ ⬜ ⬛ ⬜ ⬜ ?
⭐ CHALLENGE: Make your own AB pattern using two shapes. 🐰
Point to each part on yourself as you say its name out loud!
Eyes — seeing
Ears — hearing
Nose — smelling
💡 Parent Tip: Call out a body part and race to touch it.
Level C — Patterns & Sequencing: What comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, __
Level D — Reasoning: You have 5 candies and give 2 to a friend. How many are left?
Five levels, A to E — the last mixes maths, sorting and comparison. 🐻
Every child grows at their own pace. Celebrate progress, not perfection. 💛
The book's own guidance: 10–20 minutes a day is enough for ages 3–4, and 15–25 minutes works well for ages 5–6. It comes with three ready-made plans so you don't have to design the session.
15-MINUTE PLAN
30-MINUTE PLAN
WEEKEND PLAN
AGES 3–6
LITTLE
GENIUS
Complete School Foundation & Brain Booster
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Ages 4–6 · 24 pages
50 Ways to Build Your Child's Academic Foundation
50 activities across six areas of school readiness, for you to lead.
Ages 3–6 · 123 pages
Little Genius — Early Learning & Brain Booster
30 parts of activity pages, brain challenges, badges and a certificate.
One payment, both PDFs. Instant digital access after payment — you'll land on a download page with both books.
Which one?
50 Ways · Ages 4–6
Little Genius · Ages 3–6
Using both? They fit together naturally: Little Genius gives your child a page to work on, and 50 Ways gives you something to do with the rest of the day.
Neither of these is…
A replacement for preschool, a teacher or a school curriculum, and neither is medical or developmental advice. If you have concerns about your child's development, your pediatrician or a child development specialist is the best first call.
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A letter, a number, a puddle, a question at dinner. Small, joyful moments — done often — are what build a foundation.
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