Favorite Kindergarten Material

 

 

 

Character

 

This book can be used over and over again. I can't say enough wonderful things about it. Even moms need character building and nothing teaches godly virtues better than teaching godly virtues.

 

 

Here's the description from Christian Books.com

 

Give your children the basics of godly virtues
Your child will discover and learn the basic building blocks of Christ like character with this imaginative, storybook approach to the teaching of basic virtues. Here is an enjoyable, fresh way for parents to teach children the vital character traits taught in the Bible. Designed especially for young children, A Child's Book of Character Building is unique in its approach.

Each virtue is introduced by a definition and Scripture verse, and then it is reinforced by stories about the virtue in the Bible, at home, at school and at play. Older children can read the book alone, but parents and teacher sill enjoy reading the book to their youngsters and helping them apply it to their lives. Book One includes:

• Attentiveness
• Obedience
• Faith
• Wisdom
• Creativity
• Tenderheartedness
• Diligence
• Thankfulness
• Patience
• Honesty
• Contentment
• Joy

Science

 

 

 Love this fun, easy hands on science book. Perfect for beginning learners. Starts out simple and you can pick and choose what to teach. It contains about 50 projects you can do with materials found around the house and introduces your child to basic scientific knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

Math

 

We didn't actually use this for math but I will with my next two girls. We already had something similar and it worked fine but ideally this is what I would have bought if I had anything extra in my budget.

 Here's a description from Christian Book.com

No more hours of boring, endless repetition - your kids will actually thank you for this interactive math curriculum! Each level has two student workbooks, but the teacher handbook is the main component of the program. All instruction is provided through one-on-one teacher instruction, which is the biggest difference between Horizons and the self-guided Lifepacs.

Another big focus in Horizons is hands-on learning using a variety of manipulatives, which can mostly be found around the house: pencils, pipe cleaners, play or real money, thread, a timer, clock, yardstick, etc.

Novice home-educators should not be intimidated by the amount of teacher involvement as it is carefully layed out in the beginning of each year's teacher handbook. The teacher handbook also provides a variety of teaching suggestions and supplemental activities for additional practice.

The concepts covered in Horizons K include:

• Counting 1-100
• Number Recognition
• Number Writing
• Number Value
• Number Before, After, and Between
• Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Money
• Time
• Calendar
• Number Theory
• Colors
• Shapes
• Size
• Comparisons
• Direction and Position
• Coordination

Handwriting

 

Again, we didn't use this for Kindergarten but I ordered it for first grade and received it in the mail yesterday and it's awesome!! It was recommended by a friend who loved it.

Introduces students to the basic strokes used to form all the manuscript alphabet  

letters and numerals.

Provides meaningful practice, application, and easy step-by-step instruction.

Engages students with colorful, fun activities.

Includes letter cards and two sets of punch-out manipulatives to reinforce letter learning and the basic lines and strokes used to form letters and numerals.

Language

Here's the website description from Christian Light.

 

We plan to offer this black and white preliminary edition of Kindergarten II for several years while we refine the materials and add color to the booklets.

Kindergarten II has five LittleLight Workbooks. They prepare students to use CLE’s Learning to Read program. They introduce the concepts of matching, dot-to-dot, color names, sounds, letter writing, recognizing and writing numbers 1-100, and more.

The five LittleLight Activity Books are also included in the Kindergarten II course. They provide fun activities such as coloring, cutting and pasting, identifying, and more.

The Teacher’s Guide includes answer keys that are reproductions of the student booklets. It also includes instructions needed to teach the course.