Please reach out with questions! I am happy to help or give guidance! Remember, the beauty of children in kindergarten is to help them learn to love education and discovery. Everyone teaches and learns differently-I have found these curriculums have worked well, and have covered what I feel is important in my children’s education. I hope this post has been helpful to see some resources that have been helpful and successful in our journey in schooling. We have done a few things out of a Community Helpers Unit I created when I taught elementary school. Science and History-I choose not to touch much on these area besides major holidays and read alouds. (I did not purchase the manipulative kit because I had many of the same resources, but I did purchase the base 10 sheets, garden manipulatives, and tangram set) (This includes only the Letters and Sounds workbook from the Abeka program, Charts, and Readers-none of the other extra workbooks) A Beka also offers enrollment in their own A Beka Academy using internet-streamed video instruction in conjunction with their own textbooks. A Beka offers materials for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade including supplementary materials. Phonics/Reading- Letters of the Week by Confessions of a Homeschooler and Abeka K5 Phonics A Beka Book Curriculum - First Grade Package. Kindergarten work picks back up after lunch when my preschool goes down for his nap. After this portion of our day, we are playing, doing chores, or running errands. We then gather together, with the older two, and read aloud and have a snack. Academically, he was more than ready, but maturity-wise, he was very young. He had a birthday close to the cut-off in our area and was not sent to kindergarten until he was almost sixas recommended by his preschool teacher. ![]() After our activities, the boys do a page in their handwriting book from The Good and the Beautiful. I introduced the Kindergarten Abeka math curriculum to my son at the age of five. After our reading time together, we move to our desks and do a few activities from Confessions of a Homeschooler. We then move to a book about the chosen letter of the week, listening for the sound of that letter throughout the book. I read the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book every Monday, followed by putting our letter of the week on the giant coconut tree in our school room. An eclectic approach means selecting curriculum from several publishers, each organized in a different way. My kindergartener already knows all of the letters and the sounds, so this is more for my preschooler, but it is beneficial for even kindergarteners to be reminded. ![]() After we go through our sounds-every single day-we move to talking about our letter of the week. It is important for kids to know from the beginning the difference between the two. Connor the Consonant comes out when we talk consonants and Vicki the Vowel comes to talk only vowels. ![]() Earlier in the school year, I use two different puppets to distinguish between consonants and vowels. During our phonics lesson we go through our letters and sounds chart from Abeka saying each sound along with the clue word-sounds are best learned NOT in isolation, so this is why we say the sound WITH the clue word.
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