Math For KindergartenĮmily reluctantly started the year with Horizons Math, she fought me tooth and nail everyday.Įven though she was learning and doing fine I do not wish for our days to be a fight if there is no reasons for it so I decided to look for something else. We used Zaner-Bloser K for half of the year before I dropped it in lieu of copy work. Handwriting was hard for Emily, she is a perfectionist and could not make herself happy with her writing because she wanted it to match the example perfectly and it would upset her that she could not no matter how hard she tried. Whats not to love about that?Īround January I heard about The Good and The Beautiful and fell in love with the idea of an all encompassing language arts curriculum so I bought the Level K and Emily completed it in May. We did the Fairy Tale Project which was so much fun, reading fairy tales, watching movies, and rewriting your own version. We love the Brave Writer Lifestyle so this year I chose the Jot it Down curriculum for writing.
Curriculum Choices For Homeschooling Kindergarten Kindergarten Language ArtsĮmily completed Hooked on Phonics Preschool and Hooked on Phonics Kindergarten last year so we continued with Hooked on Phonics First Grade this year, we do not use the DVDs we just use the workbooks and the readers. I think kids learn more and retain more when they are interested in what they are learning. I then plan a unit study around that for her. We have a routine that is do the next thing until I see my daughter has an interest in something. That is not to say we do not finish what we start, but I am not a strict planner nor do we have a schedule. While following our daughters interests for the other subjects. It’s truly one of the greatest gifts of choosing to homeschool.įirst, let me say that we are curriculum dabblers! We choose to use multiple resources to teach language arts and math goals. I am glad that homeschool allows us to switch curriculum and ebb and flow with our children’s needs. Kindergarten Books to Read Aloud & Independently.Unit Studies For Homeschooling Multiple Subjects At Once.
Curriculum Choices For Homeschooling Kindergarten.My favorite part is the morning meeting games and activities, and I wanted to share some quick, easy, and fun games you can use for morning meeting in kindergarten, prek, and first grade. Needless to say, I have honed my skills since then, and now I ALWAYS start the day with morning meeting. My students wanted to get to know their friends and their teachers and get acquainted with school, not listen to a reading program on the first day! There I was, the first day of school, reading from a reading program while my students were bouncing off the walls. She wanted us to jump right in on the FIRST day and SKIP MORNING MEETING! I was a newbie fresh meat teacher, so I did everything exactly as she said. These morning meeting games build a sense of community that is so important in kindergarten! I remember my first year teaching Kindergarten, my principal was very strict and wanted us to jump into reading instruction using this fancy reading program she had purchased. As we go back to school, I wanted to share some of my favorite morning meeting games for kindergarten.
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