I’m on my second kindergartener this year. For math I made a 36 week plan highlighting the skills she needs to learn. Foor example, one week might be skip counting by tens, another might be patterns. We get fun books at the library on whatever topic is for the week, and we have a box of manipulatives like beans, popsicle sticks, foam shapes, and counting charts we use. We built patterns with legos and went on a pattern hunt around the house. We found examples of different shapes in different rooms. If he does not know his numbers yet you could start with a *number of the week* type thing until he knows them all, working on counting objects and recognizing the numeral and also writing it when he is ready. My daughter also cooks with me, which has lots of math involved.
With my K’er she joins in our family time (which includes my 2nd grade son and my 3yo) which is Bible, singing, memorization, picture/composer/nature/poet study (alternating days), and Spanish. Then we all do copywork together, followed by our family read aloud, after which I send her older brother off to read and her younger sister to play while I do math and phonics with my K’er.
That’s all she does. She does sometimes listen to her older brother’s books I read aloud. Sometimes her and her sister cloister themselves upstairs with dolls. 🙂
What I try to accomplish in the K year and before is fostering curiosity and imagination and a start in the basics. I want them to learn their numbers and be able to count and grasp number concepts, and start learning to read.
I provide lots of interesting books but there’s no set schedule or objectives in history or science.
Tara
