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”