It’s hard to believe we have just picked our Kindergarten homeschool curriculum for our youngest! Time flies! Homeschooling a preschooler was so much fun.
Ariella is eager to learn and practically taught herself to read this year for our surprise. I’ve been trying to delay a formal education for her as much as I can as I am a firm believer that later is better.
Choosing the perfect kindergarten homeschool curriculum is not an easy task, but it is not an impossible one either! You can learn how to chose the right homeschool curriculum for your family here.
We found the perfect kindergarten homeschool curriculum for our daughter at Sonlight Curriculum.
We are huge fans of Sonlight for many, MANY, many reasons! This is our fourth year using Sonlight as our main curriculum and we have never been disappointed! Sonlight has the best selections of living books I have ever seen. It is a literature based curriculum that is perfect for any Charlotte Mason fan.
Here are some of our favorite reasons to love Sonlight:
- Literature based curriculum
- Best selections of living books
- Perfect for any Charlotte Mason fan
- You choose what you want and what works best for your children in your curriculum package
- Instructor guide ready to go (No planning needed!)
- All researches have been done for me so I can spend my time focusing on teaching only! Not planning, not research…
- Sonlight advisors available to help you anytime you need
- Payment plans!! Did you know that??
- Love to learn guarantee. If you don’t like it, you can send it back even after you have used it for a while and they will give you 100% money back! (What other curriculum company does that for you?)
Click HERE to receive $5 off your Sonlight purchase of $50+.
So what have we picked for our Kindergarten homeschool curriculum?
We picked Sonlight Core P4/5: Explore God’s World – Discover fascinating differences (and similarities) between people around the world.
This is the spine of our Kindergarten homeschool curriculum and includes many wonderful classics.
Here is a list of all the books and resources we will be using in our Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum this year:
Sonlight’s Instructor Guide
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for Bible
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for History & Geography
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for Language Arts
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
With a lilting rhyme and distinctive drawings, this book is a must for learning the sounds of the alphabet.
Sonlight Language Arts K package with K readers:
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Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum Read Alouds
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for Science
Kindergarten Teacher Resources
Developing the Early Learner, Volume IV
Very easy to use, this fourth volume of four carefully sequenced workbooks helps you discover your children’s learning strengths and weaknesses.
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for Phonics & Spelling
I am a huge fan of All About Spelling and we just started Level 1 and Level 2 with our children along Hooked on Phonics. Our youngest loves both and this is how she began to read on her own! We will continue to use All About Spelling Level 1 with her and Hooked On Phonics Learn To Read Digital Program.
I have recently reviewed Hooked on Phonics Learn To Read Digital Program for Educents blog and I am writing a review for All About Spelling soon. I am very impressed with the results obtained by both programs!
Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum for Math
Although Sonlight offers great Math curriculum like Math-U-See, Horizons Math, Singapore Math and many others, we have chosen CTC Math K for all of our children including our youngest.
CTC Math is a complete online Math curriculum starting with Kindergarten and it is by far our favorite Math curriculum ever!
I highly recommend CTC Math and can’t shout out from the rooftops enough about how it has turned our little Math haters into great Math lovers and it has brought so much joy and peace to our homeschool days! What a difference!
You can check out these two reviews I wrote about it to find out the impact it had on our homeschool and why we love it so much.
Here are the reasons my kids love CTC Math:
- CTC Math has short and engaging video lessons.
- Kids go through the lessons at their own pace.
- They are receiving instant feedback after each lesson.
- They are learning mostly independently (Hallelujah! Moms, that gives us a break.)
- They get more time on the iPad or the computer which here is a reward for them.
- Their website is very easy to navigate (all in one place).
Here are the reasons I love and have chosen CTC Math for our children:
- Parents have a separate login and I can monitor everything my kids are learning.
- We receive weekly reports delivered to our email.
- I can create my task list (lesson plan) for each child if I want to.
- I can print out every report even reward certificates for my children when they finish each module.
- All grades are recorded for me so I don’t have to worry about that.
- Parents and students have access to all grades so if there is anything my kids need to revise from last year’s math, we can.
- It’s very affordable!! It costs a 1/3 of our last curriculum for all 3 children.
- I have access to their progress and can analyze it anytime from any device, even from my smart phone.
- I know how much time they spend on each lesson, their grades, what time they started and what time they finished their math.
- It is a complete curriculum for grades K to 8, with no need for supplementation and they do have high school math too.
- CTC Math lays down every option at your fingertip in their dashboard for you to know that your kids are really learning and not just wasting time.
- They offer homeschoolers 60% off plus 3 months for free when you subscribe for the annual membership
- 100% money back guaranteed if you are not satisfied with their program.
You can click here to try it FREE for two weeks!
I am confident that my youngest will have a successful Kindergarten year with our choices for our 2016-2017 Kindergarten homeschool curriculum. I am excited and she is excited and eager to begin!
YOUR TURN: Are you still looking for the perfect Kindergarten homeschool curriculum? Have you found yours yet? Are you nervous about teaching your child to read?
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Ana is the unhurried homeschool mom of 3, wife, health coach, social media and online marketing strategist, and blogger. She loves to encourage, inspire and empower moms to go from stressed to blessed by providing them with the tips, strategies, and resources they need to succeed. Ana is the founder of They Call Me Blessed and the creator of 5 Days to Your Best Homeschool Years, Grow Your Blog Partying in 30 Days, and the Beyond Blessed Life Planners. She leads a vibrant online community for moms on Facebook and you can connect with her at www.facebook.com/theycallmeblessedblog.
thank you so much for all your helpful tips. i am starting my kinder research now. my little will be 5 next year october.
how many hours does the curriculum take for kindergarten?
Stacey, it depends on you and your child. The read alouds can be done in the morning and also at bedtime. Short lessons works best with little ones and rotation between reading and hands on activities. Keep things like “play” until you see your child ready for more “school” like work. 😉 And lots of hugs and cuddles in between.
This year I will have a 4yr Pre-K, 2 Kinder’s and 3rd Grade. I really love incorporating school time and play time. I also love how many of the things they will be learning overlap so I can design our school year in a more natural flow and let them sit together for several things each week.
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Yes!! I agree, Tiffany. The best way to way to homeschool is weaving naturally learning into our family flow. We read a lot together as a family so read aloud a are part of our natural routine and so does readers. That’s why a literature-based curriculum works so well for us. 🙂
Thanks for such a great article I would surely share this with my daughter as she has started homeschooling for their children and its fun to see how she schedules curriculum for kindergarten for her children