STEP
Hello, I am Step! A kindergarten-aged monkey who loves to help you learn English in the most fun way possible!
You’ll find me in your books, sharing helpful tips, making you laugh with my silly jokes, and guiding you through exciting activities. I even come to life in class as a puppet to play and learn with you! I love bananas, being kind to others, and making new friends like you.
You can also catch me in our awesome videos and storybooks. Let’s have fun together and learn step by step—come play with me at the school or online!
English Language Skills
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#1) Reading / Writing
Guides students from finger painting to crayons, and eventually pencils, focusing on tracing and mastering stroke order through hands-on practice, leading to writing complete English sentences.
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#2) Speaking / Singing
Engages children through songs on topics like ABCs, colors, and numbers, while encouraging collaboration and English pronunciation practice through listen-and-repeat activities, textbook work, and team games.
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#3) Sensory Games + Toys
Uses gestural language to teach concepts like numbers and ABCs, helping children understand letter and number shapes, while incorporating toys, stickers and finger-painting for a hands-on sentence building experience to keep them engaged and focused.
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#4) Team Activities
Engages students in fun, interactive group learning, helping them build communication skills in English while fostering confidence in speaking through exciting and enjoyable activities with their peers.
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#5) Visual Aids
Sparks imagination a through a combination of all of our main topics! Includes art, designs, objects, grammar, and engaging team games on each flashcard promoting both creative expression and collaborative learning.
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#6) Homework
Reinforces each lesson by providing extra practice to improve children's English skills, with QR codes on the pages linking to helpful videos that guide them through the tasks.
Age Groups
Group Lessons [Age 2-7]
Group Lessons: Introduction to English Team Activities
Our program combines movement, play, and talk (MPT) to keep kindergartners active and engaged while learning essential topics like colors, numbers, weather, ABCs, and grammar. Lessons, tailored for littles, middles, and bigs, include interactive flashcards with tracing, games, and vibrant designs, along with phonics, books, and team activities that promote collaboration and confidence. With consistent designs across the curriculum and group problem-solving games, students enjoy a seamless, engaging learning experience that blends fun with effective education.
Finger Steps (Sensory Art Beginners Textbook) [Age 2-6]
Finger Steps: A New Way to Learn through Fingerprinting
Introduce your child to language and creativity with Finger Steps, an interactive fingerprinting English education book for children ages 2-6, covering ABCs, Verbs, Numbers, Animals, Body Parts, Colors, and Art. This hands-on book combines fun, creativity, and learning, using vibrant activities, tactile sensory elements, and the unique RAPMAP method, where kids recite words while creating fingerprint art, making it an immersive and engaging language experience.
Book A (Writing Activities Textbook) [Age 4-7]
Book A: The First Step in Learning English
Designed for children aged 4+ to learn essential topics such as colors, shapes, numbers, adjectives, weather, phonics, and ABCs through vibrant, interactive crayon-based activities. Featuring engaging writing, coloring tasks, and a fun sticker page for learning prepositions, this book makes early English learning enjoyable and effective. What sets *Book A* apart is its integration of modern technology, with QR codes on each page linking to playful video explanations that reinforce lessons and keep children entertained. Focused on teaching capital letters in a unique order for easier learning, Book A enables young readers to write sentences by page 13, simplifying sentence building with easy-to-use structures like “I am,” “He/She/It is,” and “They are,” along with teaching plural object counting by adding “s.”
Step is Trick or Treating (Halloween Story Book) [Age 4-7]
Step is Trick or Treating: A Spooktacular Halloween Adventure for Kids
Delightful children’s book that follows the adventurous monkey, Step, on his festive trick-or-treat journey, perfect for kids eager to celebrate Halloween. The story takes Step on a colorful adventure through his school, neighborhood, and local store, teaching important English adjectives by describing candies as big and little, long and short, hard and soft, and yummy and yucky. Young learners will enjoy exploring language in a fun way while indulging in Halloween treats, with the adventure continuing as Step returns home to count his collected candies, reinforcing numbers through interactive activities. The book includes a visual vocabulary glossary, coloring pages, and word-tracing exercises, encouraging creative participation in Step’s Halloween fun, and is designed to enhance early literacy skills while making learning immersive and exciting. To top it off, an animated video brings Step’s Halloween adventure to life, offering an extra layer of fun and engagement for young readers and their families.
Where is Santa? (Christmas Story Book) [Age 4-7]
Where is Santa?: A Holiday Story Christmas Adventure
"Where is Santa" is a magical holiday adventure that invites young readers to join the search for Santa Claus through festive, interactive scenes. This engaging book combines storytelling with hands-on learning, featuring a glossary with visual aids, a coloring page, a word tracing worksheet, and Christmas-themed mazes to enhance vocabulary and critical thinking. It also includes a built-in letter to Santa and an animated video accessible via QR code, bringing the story to life. Perfect for holiday fun and education, it’s an unforgettable gift for children and their families.