Raising Rock Stars Preschool

Raising Rock Stars Preschool is a free 26-week Christian preschool printable program by Carisa Kluver of 1+1+1=1, built around weekly Bible memory verses and letter-of-the-week phonics. It is the canonical "free Christian preschool printable", the program homeschool families pull off the internet when they want structure for a four-year-old without committing budget.

Last updated: 2026-04-24 · Every Homeschool Editorial Team

At a glance

Method	Unit studies / letter-of-the-week / printable
Worldview	Christian-evangelical (broadly Protestant; built on My ABC Bible Verses)
Grades	Pre-K (age 4-5)
Formats	Free PDF printables; digital
Cost tier	Free
Parent intensity	3 (preschool-typical; printing, cutting, sitting beside the child)
ESA-common	No (free downloads not typically routed through ESA marketplaces)
Accredited	No (free supplemental program, not a school)
Established	The 1+1+1=1 site has run since 2008; Raising Rock Stars Preschool was first published in 2010
Website	1plus1plus1equals1.net

Our scoreboard (1-5)

Criterion	Score	One-line reason
Academic rigor	2	Preschool-appropriate; not the strongest phonics on its own
Ease of teaching	4	Printable packets, weekly cadence, scripted skill targets
Content quality	4	Carefully built around scripture memory; consistent weekly structure
Flexibility	5	Free; pair with anything; use one week or all twenty-six
Value for money	5	Cost is zero
Worldview scope	2	Scripture is the spine; non-Christian families substitute or use a different program
Visual/design	4	Friendly, child-warm, age-appropriate; designed by a working blogger-designer
Support resources	3	Active blog post comments and Pinterest; no formal community

Who the publisher is

Raising Rock Stars Preschool is published by Carisa Kluver of 1+1+1=1, a long-running homeschool blog that has been producing free preschool and elementary printables since 2008. Kluver began the project as a homeschool parent designing materials for her own children and posting them publicly; the site grew into one of the most heavily visited free-printable destinations in the homeschool corner of the internet, with deep cross-links across Pinterest, Teachers Pay Teachers, and homeschool blog rolls.

The Raising Rock Stars Preschool program ("RRSP" in the homeschool community shorthand) was launched in April 2010 and built explicitly around the children's book My ABC Bible Verses by Susan Hunt, a 26-letter book pairing each letter of the alphabet with a memory-verse-friendly Bible phrase. The 1+1+1=1 program turned that book into a 26-week printable curriculum: each week pairs a letter, a memory verse, and supporting phonics, math, handwriting, and Scripture-application activities. The program is free to download from the blog, with a paid bundled version available through the publisher's separate shop site for families who want the entire packet without navigating individual blog posts.

The publisher's worldview is broadly Protestant evangelical with a clear scripture-memory focus. The program is not denominationally specific, but the Bible-verse spine is integral to its design; the program does not function without it. Families looking for a secular letter-of-the-week preschool program, or a Catholic preschool program with sacramental and saints-based framing, will find Raising Rock Stars Preschool poorly fitted. Families who want gentle, free, evangelical preschool structure built around scripture memory are the design audience.

The core pedagogy

The program is structured as 26 weekly packets, one per letter of the alphabet, each anchored to a memory verse from My ABC Bible Verses. A typical week's packet includes: letter recognition and tracing pages, a memory-verse poster and copywork sheet, two or three phonics activities aimed at the week's letter sound, a number-of-the-week reinforcement page, a sight word, color, or shape of the week, and a small set of scripture-application crafts or coloring pages. Four review weeks are interspersed across the program, and assessment guides help the parent gauge whether to repeat or progress.

Pedagogically, Raising Rock Stars Preschool sits in the well-established letter-of-the-week tradition: a single letter and its phonemic content anchor a week of preschool activity across multiple skills. This is not the strongest phonics approach in isolation, programs like Logic of English Foundations, All About Reading Pre-Reading, and Memoria Press First Start Reading are more rigorous on phonemic awareness and decoding, but for a four-year-old who is not yet ready for a formal phonics program, letter-of-the-week structure produces familiarity with letter shapes and sounds that supports later reading instruction.

Signature mechanics: (1) Scripture-memory weekly anchor, every week opens with a Bible verse from the My ABC Bible Verses sequence, and the verse is woven into copywork, posters, and discussion through the week. (2) Multi-skill packet, each week's printable packet covers letter, number, sight word, color, and Scripture in a unified way, so a parent does not assemble across multiple curricula. (3) 26-week pacing, the program is roughly half a school year if used at one letter per week, or a full year if extended with review and play-based reinforcement. (4) Free with paid bundle option, every packet is downloadable free from the blog; families paying for the shop bundle get the same content in a single download.

A day in the life

A four-year-old using Raising Rock Stars Preschool typically spends 20-30 minutes a day on structured preschool work, with the rest of the day in play and reading aloud as is normal at this age. The day opens with the parent reading the week's Bible verse from a shared poster, sometimes accompanied by a finger-play or song the parent has invented around the verse. The child then completes one or two pages from the week's packet, tracing the letter, coloring a Scripture-application page, working a number page, with the parent sitting beside them and helping with pencil grip, letter formation, and pronunciation.

Twice a week the day includes a craft tied to the letter or verse (a paper-plate ant for the letter A, a salt-dough heart for a Valentine-week verse). The parent typically prints the week's packet on Sunday evening, gathers any supplies needed for the week's craft, and works through the pages day by day. The full daily commitment for the parent is closer to thirty minutes including printing and prep; the child's seated work is closer to twenty.

What they do exceptionally well

Free and complete. The program is genuinely free. A family with no preschool budget can print 26 weeks of structured Christian preschool materials at the cost of paper and ink. This is the central value proposition, and it has held since 2010. Families who would otherwise improvise their preschooler's structure get a coherent program at zero cost.

Scripture-memory integration is real. Many letter-of-the-week programs add Bible references as decoration. Raising Rock Stars builds the entire program around scripture memory and uses the My ABC Bible Verses sequence as the structural spine. A child who completes the program has memorized 26 short Bible passages, which, for families that want their preschooler immersed in scripture, is a meaningful outcome.

Designer's eye. Carisa Kluver is a working designer, and the printables show it. The pages are warm and child-friendly without being cluttered; the typography is readable; the illustrations are competent. Free homeschool printables often look it; these don't.

What they do poorly

Not the strongest phonics on its own. Letter-of-the-week is a real preschool tradition, but for a child showing early reading readiness at age four, it is meaningfully weaker than a structured phonics-first program. Children who finish Raising Rock Stars Preschool at five and are not yet decoding will need a separate phonics curriculum (All About Reading, Logic of English, Memoria Press First Start Reading) for kindergarten regardless. The program is preparation, not instruction.

Scripture is not modular. The Bible verse is the week's anchor and runs through the week's pages. A non-Christian family that wants the letter-and-number scaffolding without the Bible content cannot easily extract one from the other. The program's design is a feature for its target audience and a barrier for families outside it.

Print burden. Free PDFs mean the family pays in paper, ink, and printer time. A family running the full program for one child prints roughly 200-300 pages over 26 weeks. This is not onerous, but it is real, and it is paid in inconvenient micro-units. The paid shop bundle resolves the navigation but not the printing.

Who it fits / who it doesn't

• Pick Raising Rock Stars Preschool if: you want free, structured Christian preschool printables for a four-year-old; you want scripture memory built into the weekly cadence; you have a printer and tolerance for printable preschool work; you are comfortable with letter-of-the-week pacing; you intend to follow with a formal phonics program for kindergarten.

• Skip Raising Rock Stars Preschool if: you want a secular preschool program (Mother Goose Time, Slingshot, BookShark Pre-K serve that better); you want a Catholic preschool program with saints, liturgical seasons, and sacramental framing; you have a child who is reading-ready at age four and needs a phonics-first program (Logic of English Foundations, All About Reading); you do not want printable-driven preschool; you want a complete K-readiness program rather than scripture-memory preschool.

Cost honest assessment

The program is free to download from the 1+1+1=1 blog, with weekly packets posted as individual blog posts. A paid bundle on the publisher's shop (1plus1plus1equals1shop.com) consolidates the entire program into a single download for a small one-time fee, last visible publicly in the $5-15 range, the bundle changes navigation rather than content. The implicit costs are paper, ink, and printer time.

Compared to other free preschool resources: The Crafty Classroom's Letter of the Week and Carisa Kluver's own ABCs of Bible Stories are the closest direct competitors, both also free or low-cost, with similar letter-of-the-week structure. Paid alternatives at the K-readiness preschool tier include Mother Goose Time at $30-40/month for a full themed kit, BookShark Pre-K at $250-400 for the literature-based kit, and Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten at $150-200 for the printed program.

A realistic family using Raising Rock Stars Preschool spends $0 in materials plus paper-and-ink costs of roughly $30-50 across a school year.

ESA eligibility notes

Free programs are not typically routed through state ESA marketplaces because there is no expense to reimburse. Families on ESAs who want a structured Christian preschool program at the publisher's expense are better served by a paid program (Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten, BookShark Pre-K) that offers a clear invoice. Raising Rock Stars Preschool is a no-cost supplement worth using regardless of ESA status; it is not the curriculum a family submits for ESA reimbursement.

Alternatives

• Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten, a family would pick Memoria Press JK over Raising Rock Stars because Memoria Press offers a polished printed program with a stronger phonics-first foundation and consistent classical pedagogy.
• BookShark Pre-K, a family would pick BookShark Pre-K over Raising Rock Stars because BookShark provides a complete literature-based preschool kit with all books and materials shipped to the home, removing the printing burden.
• Logic of English Foundations A, a family would pick Logic of English Foundations A over Raising Rock Stars because Foundations is a rigorous phonics-and-handwriting program for early-reading-ready four- and five-year-olds, ahead of Raising Rock Stars on decoding instruction.

How we verified this

Our editorial team reviewed Carisa Kluver's published Raising Rock Stars Preschool blog posts at 1plus1plus1equals1.net (including the original 2010 introduction and the lesson-planning sheets), the 1+1+1=1 shop's bundle listing, the program's spine book My ABC Bible Verses by Susan Hunt, and reviews of the program from secondary homeschool blogs. We cross-referenced against the Schoolhouse Review Crew's coverage and the publisher's social-channel descriptions of the program. Pricing details verified April 2026.