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Sunday, May 25, 2014

Homeschooling Kindergarten:
Our Curriculum Plan


LANGUAGE ARTS - 20 to 40 minutes per day PLUS 20 minutes read-out-loud time

Learning how to read:
  • “Get Set For The Code” Workbooks by Explode the Code
  • Various iPad Apps (Word Wizard, Hooked on Phonics, Reading Eggs)
  • Leap Frog DVDs (Letter Factory, etc) and phonics videos from Discovery Education

Read Out Loud Books:
Will choose about 50 books from Sonlight.com, Timberdoodle.com, “Come Sit By Me” and “Five in a Row”. Will purchase our favourites, and borrow some from the library. Do poetry picnics. Have a picnic indoors or outdoors while reading poetry out loud.

Writing:
  • Handwriting Without Tears (wooden letters, CD’s, workbook)
  • Various iPad Apps

Spelling - not until Grade 1 or 2


MATH - 10 minutes per day
  • Miquon Math
  • Math Apps


SCIENCE
  • read "Let's Learn and Find Out Science" series


SOCIAL STUDIES - about 1 hour per week
  • Apple Press “My First Mapping Book”
  • Interactive Globe
  • “My House”, “My Neighborhood”, “My City”, “My Province”, “My Country”, “My World” - drawing activity.

BIBLE - 10-20 minutes per day
  • “Everything a Child Should Know About God” by Kenneth Taylor
  • “The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes” by Kenneth Taylor

FINE ARTS (Music, Art, Drama) - 2 hours per week
  • Ballet
  • Art at home using resources like DeepSpaceSparkle.com
  • Music: listen to various types of music, maybe start lessons. Learn about rhythm. Learn about various instruments.

PHYS ED & HEALTH - 2 hours per week
  • Gymnastics
  • Swimming
  • Videos about stranger safety, fire safety, community helpers, etc. from Discovery Education.
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Resources & Books We Like for Kindergarten:


ART SUPPLIES:
  • LYRA jumbo pencil crayons - Made in Germany
  • Watercolours (in the tube)
  • Liquid Tempra Paints
  • Oil Pastels
  • Chalk Pastels
  • Washable Crayola Markers
  • Sharpie's in a variety of colours and tip widths
  • Air Dry Clay
  • Embellishments: Glitter, googly eyes, feathers, pipe cleaners, stickers, etc.
  • Washable non-toxic glue
  • Scotch tape and hands-free dispenser
  • Magazine scraps for collage
  • Painting Paper
  • Paper Cutter
  • Sponges
  • Child Safe Scissors
  • Painters Palette
  • Variety of paint brushes
  • Glitter Glue
  • Stencils
  • Drawing Books


MUSIC CD’s and AUDIO BOOKS
“Sing the Word: from A to Z” by The Harrow Family (Scripture Verses, easy to memorize)
“You are My Little Bird” Elizabeth Mitchell
“Family Tree” Francis England
“Cedarmont Worship for Kids”
“Hidden in My Heart: A Lullaby Journey Through Scripture” Volume 1, 2 and 3
“Cedarmont Kids: Classic Hymns for Children” 
“Bible Story Songs: God’s Design - Creation, Volume 1”
“James Herriot’s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Animal Tales” Audiobook
“The Adventures of Frog & Toad Collection” Audiobook Series


READ OUT LOUD BOOKS ABOUT POETRY
  • “Talking Like The Rain: A Read-to-me Book of Poems” by X.J. Kennedy
  • “Rain” by Peter Spier
  • “Sheep in a Jeep” by Nancy Shaw Seussian
  • “Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose”
  • “The Llama Who Had No Pajama”

READ OUT LOUD BOOKS ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES
  • Usborne: “Houses & Homes, Then and Now”
  • “A Mountain Alphabet by Andrew Kiss
  • “Follow That Map! A first book of mapping skills” by Scot Ritchie
  • “People” by Peter Spier
  • “Stories from Africa” Sonlight
  • “Whats Under the Sea? Sonlight
  • Usborne: “Wild Places”
  • Usborne: “Living Long Ago”


READ OUT LOUD BOOKS ABOUT HEALTH & CAREERS
  • “A Day in the Life of a Zookeeper” by Nate Le Boutillier
  • “The Post Office Book: Mail and how it moves” by Gail Gibbons
  • “The Usborne Book of Things People Do” by Anne Civardi
  • “Milk: From Cow to Carton” by Aliki
  • “Seven Little Postmen” (A Little Golden Book) by Margaret Wise
  • “Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day?”
  • Usborne: “Things People Do”


OTHER READ ALOUDS:
  • “Big Sarah’s Little Boots” by Paulette Bourgeois
  • “Dear Mr. Blueberry” by Simon James
  • “The Year at Maple Hill Farm” by Alice Provensen
  • “Harold and the Purple Crayon” by Crockett Johnson
  • “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”
  • “If You Give a Mouse A Cookie”
  • “The Runaway Bunny” by Margaret Wise Brown
  • “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister
  • “The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats
  • “The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munsch
  • “Kitten’s First Full Moon” by Kevin Henkes
  • “The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear” by Don Wood
  • “Swimmy” by Leo Lionni
  • “George Shrinks” By William Joyce
  • “The Adventures of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter
  • Usborne “Lion Storyteller Bedtime”
  • “Milly Molly Mandy”
  • “Animals Animals” by Eric Carle
  • “Children’s Book of Virtues”
  • “Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit”
  • “Uncle Wiggly’s Story Book”
  • “The God’s Must Be Angry”
  • “New Toes for Tia”
  • “Five True Dog Stories”
  • “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” Eric Carle
  • “The House at Pooh Corner”





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