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What is the best homeschool curriculum for kindergarten? The fear may begin to settle in…. But, Sweet Mama…let me share a secret with you to encourage your heart. So no matter what curriculum you choose—your child will be good more than good! You will learn and thrive and get your bearings in this new world of homeschooling! I pray that it encourages and blesses you as you prepare and make plans to homeschool your kindergartener! And right now the academic focus should really be on two things—reading and math!
Everything else is essentially frosting on the cake! I highly suggest you spend most of your time, energy, and budget on those two subjects! They have been thriving on play and lots of time for creative pursuits aka: tape, markers, scissors, and glue…my dining room table may not recover. Ready for Reading: Level 1 is a beginning phonics program, which I designed especially for homeschool moms—and for my own twins! It is based on my time teaching 2nd grade and experiences teaching 4 of my children to read.
All About Reading is another phonics-based curriculum that many homeschool families have used with great success! You can read more about choosing a phonics curriculum here! Check out these amazing physical curriculum options. My son and I have been using Timberdoodle since Kindergarten and we absolutely love it.
They provide you with a checklist of what you can do each day, which is handy. Using the checklist helps to cut down on the time I spend planning our homeschool week. We basically just work through the list, checking things off as we go. It also allows each family to find their own rhythm — whether it takes 30 minutes or 3 hours it takes us about an hour or two each day to get through everything.
You can check out my full review of the 1 st Timberdoodle Curriculum to get an idea of what it is like. If you need a good, hands-on yet gentle approach to teaching your kindergartener math concepts, Math-U-See is a great option. It starts off with the Universal Primer set.
You also gain access to a digital pack which has digital versions of all of the materials including digital manipulatives! If instilling Christian values in your children is important, Abeka is wildly popular. The mission at Abeka is to help students grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. You can select from a variety of kits based on subjects and grade level. This is an alternative inexpensive option to using Hooked on Phonics — or you can use it together with Hooked on Phonics.
I add in an Alpha-phonics lesson once a week whenever there is a lesson in Hooked on Phonics that is just review. This works great and switches things up a bit. These are a set of simple beginning readers for kids. Bob Books have different levels. I got this one and this one to get started. I love Explode the Code. Many people do as you can see by their reviews on amazon. Explode The Code is phonics based and the information is presented sequentially and systematically. If your child is still working their way through the preschool level, I recommend you start with A, B and C levels first.
Learning sight words in Kindergarten is important as part of their reading curriculum. There are many resources on the subject and you could even get a list of the sight words for free by searching online.
Be sure to also practice the Pre-K sight words list. You do want to incorporate some kind of games and activities so kids can learn their sight words.
You could even use these specific Bob Books to help reinforce the sight words. If you use all of these five things together, you will have a solid kindergarten reading curriculum. I do know that may homeschoolers use Handwriting Without Tears with great success. The best way to practice Kindergarten handwriting is to print out tracing letters and numbers and use sheet protectors in a binder. This way your kindergartener could use dry-erase markers and practice over and over without wasting so much paper!
If you have a young kindergartener, have them start out with the uppercase letters first and then have them move on to lowercase letters. This Kumon book goes over the exact order.
If you get this, I suggest you tear this book apart and use sheet protectors so your child can re-use this again and again!
Kumon also has a lowercase letters book and the First Book of Numbers here. Kindergarten kids should be writing a sentence a day in a writing journal. It need not be a long sentence. At the start, they can copy a short sentence you write. Later on in the year, they may want to form their own sentences. Words used in copy work could include actual sight words which is great for practicing, and words introduced during phonics.
I recommend you use a writing journal that has a picture box at the top of the page such as this one so your kindergartener can also draw a picture if they like drawing!
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