Friday, March 4, 2011

Our Curriculum Choices for Kindergarten

After months of research, I'm excited to finally pick our curriculum choices for Kindergarten!

Reading:
A Reason for Guided Reading (Thank you grandmas!!!)
TONS of Social Studies, Science, and Math Units taught through picture books
Free Language Arts Activities HERE

Writing: 
Handwriting Practice Sheets- printables
Morning Message -GLE Driven Mini Lesson on grammar and writing
Creative Dictation Writing
Draw Write Now- Drawing, writing, social studies, and science  
Free Language Arts Activities HERE 

Spelling:
Free Language Arts Activities HERE 

Math:
Singapore Math Practice - Frank Schaffer
Free Math Resources HERE

Science:
Created Units
Free Science Resources HERE

SS:
Created Units
Free SS Resources HERE

Biblical Character Training and Devotionals:
Plants Grown Up - Doorposts
Awana Bible Verses found HERE 

Unit Resources:
We'll be incorporating interest led units as well

Technology:

PE:
Seasonal Team Sports with Upward and YMCA

Art:
Unit Studies Integration

Review/Reinforcement/Fill in the Holes/Seat Work/Warm Ups:
Building Thinking Skills

Plus:
-Field Trips, Field Trips and more Field Trips with our homeschool friends!
-Local Co-op
-Themed Learning Playdates

Notes:
~I am an eclectic teacher....we won't be doing all of the activities included in some of the resources.
~I am trying some of these resources for the first time...I am not opposed to stopping if I see they're not working for our family, but after much research and looking at sample pages, they are my top choices for now. 
~Many of these links are to the resource, but I was able to find most of them inexpensively used by utilizing our local homeschool resource library, Amazon.com, and homeschool used curriculum sites.  Some of them are still on my wish list...
~We're starting "Kindergarten" early.  We've been doing preschool for a couple of years and Kyler is more than ready.  I'm excited to let Kyler advance naturally in his stronger subjects.

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