Kindergarten learning Resources

In Kindergarten, most students are approximately halfway between preschool first grade. Below are some resources to help you get started, organized by subject.

Math

• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Math Textbook
• Kinder Math and More – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
• Free Homeschool Math Curriculum - The Good and the Beautiful
• Math Resources — Hubbard's Cupboard

Language

• Kindergarten Spelling List 1 - Kindergarten Spelling Words
• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Poetry Textbook
• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Prose Subject
• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Writing Subject
• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Phonics Textbook
• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Reading Textbook
• Kinder Writing – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
• Sight Reading – Learn to Read – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
• Phonics – Learn to Read – Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool

Social Studies

• Soc Studies Resources — Hubbard's Cupboard
• ERIC - ED426959 - Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins. Geography. With Activities for Children Ages 2 to 5 Years of Age., 1999-Jan
• Michigan State Free School Textbooks K-12 - Free Kids Books
• 100 Days of American History
  

Science

• Marvelous Explorations Through Science and Stories (MESS) | ECLKC
• Science — Hubbard's Cupboard
• https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-kindergarten-science/
• https://emedia.uen.org/courses/utah-oer-textbooks-kindergarten-seed
• https://www.k5learning.com/free-preschool-kindergarten-worksheets/science
  
• There are also many books on science topics in the library

Art

• Under the Home Online Homeschool Curriculum - Studioart Lesson
• Free Homeschool Art Curriculum - Freedom Homeschooling
• Drawing paper with colors, finger paints, and colored pencils is also great

P.E. 

• Physical Education (Grades K-12) - OPEN Physical Education Curriculum
• Just letting them be children and run around is also great. 

Seasonal Units

• Unit Studies & Lessons - Freedom Homeschooling

Misc.

• Garden of Praise

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Preschool Learning Ideas

 Preschool Learning Topics

Preschool learning Topics

Pick 3-5 areas per day. Try to combine any areas when possible.

 Here is an example of a plan covering 1 week: 

 Learn about the bee:

• Bees are yellow and black (math and art)
• The word “bee” starts with the letter B (language)
• Practice writing the letter b (fine motor)
• With chalk, paint, colors, pencil, or in playdoh
• Look at pictures of bees in a book (Language)
• Get book from library
• Count the bees you see in the book (math)
• Read about where bees live and what they make (language and science)
• Draw a bee (art and fine motor)
• Pretend to buzz around like a bee (imaginative play and P.E.)
• Eat honey (science)
• Notice that the honey is sweet

 Topics By Subject:

Math

• Numbers
• Recognize numbers 1-20
• Count to 20
• Shapes
• Recognize the shapes
• Draw simple shapes
• Colors
• Addition within 10
• adding various things such as toys, pinecones, pieces of snack foods
• Subtraction within 10
• subtracting various things such as toys, pinecones, pieces of snack foods
• Calendar math
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• Yesterday
• Today
• Tomorrow
• Numbers 1-31
• How many days until ____?
• Holidays and other special days
• Seasons
• Pattens
• Be able to continue a simple ab pattern.
• Be able to continue a simple abc pattern.

Language

• Alphabet
• Recognize the letters
• Say the alphabet
• Write the alphabet
• Lower case letters
• Upper case letters
• Know several fairy tales or simple stories
• Listen to stories
• Put stories in order
• Put simple events in order
• Fact vs fiction
• Direction words (up, down, left, right)
• Print awareness
• How to hold a book
• Front of the book
• Back of the book
• Right side up
• Looking a pictures
• Noticing the words
• Turning the pages without tearing 
• Noticing words anywhere (signs, advertisements)
• word play
• rhyming words (cat, sat, mat) hear that the end sounds similar.

Social Studies

• Transportation
• Farm animals
• Wild animals
• Pets
• Jobs
• construction workers
• librarians
• storekeeper
• etc.
• Community helpers
• police
• nurses
• doctors
• firefighters
• teachers
• Simple history
• connect history with holidays such as 4th of July goes with birth of the USA, Columbus Day goes with Columbus sailing to the Americas, Thanksgiving goes with the pilgrims coming over on the Mayflower.
• Place around the neighborhood
• library
• grocery store
• parks
• churches
• other places

Science

• weather
• seasons
• summer- hot
• fall -cooling off
• winter -cold
• spring – warming up
• Float vs sink
• living vs non-living
• fish
• Birds
• hot vs cold
• Learn about your body (able to name parts of the body)
• Learn about the 5 senses
• taste
• touch
• smell
• hearing
• sight
• plants
• Anything that your children has expressed and interest in.

Life skills

• Get dressed
• Brush teeth
• Washing
• learn the body parts by washing them
• face
• neck
• chest
• hands
• feet
• knees
• toes
• Put on shoes
• Velcro
• shoelace tying
• Manners at the table
• sweep the floor
• Sort laundry (helps teach colors)
• Fold clothes (wash clothes, match socks, put shirts on hangers)
• Simple cooking (snack making)
• Set the table (spoons, forks, napkins)
• Clean up toys
• following directions

Physical Education

• Fine motor skills (helps with learning to write)
• cutting paper
• straight line
• zigzag line
• puzzles
• playdoh
• stringing beads
• coloring
• painting
• drawing with chalk
• mazes
• dot to dots
• building with blocks
• Gross motor skills
• jumping
• jump over a rope laid on the ground
• forwards
• backwards
• sideways
• running
• skipping
• balance beam walking (forwards, sideways, and backwards)
• draw a line on the ground then have the children walk the line
• lay a jump rope on the ground have the children walk it
• swinging
• bike riding

Bible (get a children’s story book bible)

• Creation
• Adam and Eve
• Noah’s ark
• Tower of Babel
• Daniel and the lion’s den
• Birth of Jesus
• Miricle's of Jesus
• any other simple Bible Stories

Music

• Sing nursey rhymes (helps develop literacy skills)
• Play with instruments (they sell these at the dollar store)
• Rhythm
• Listen to various instruments (YouTube has lots of videos)

 Art

•  Color (teaches the colors)
• Cut and pasta projects (teaches how to use scissors)

Free play

• Creativity
• Imaginative play
• Sharing
• Turning taking

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