I found some homeschooling information that I wanted to share with all of those friends who will be homeschooling their kindergartner this year. You may need to know it...you may not. But I wanted to post it just in case. Because I was really excited to find it (and the website), being that I'm not going with any particular curriculum for kindergarten. The following are a list of the subjects needed for kindergarten completion AND the topics used for each subject, as listed on the site: http://homeschooling.about.com/.
I plan on tweaking it for us. I think some of the topics listed are a little more advanced than Kindergarten, but...who knows? I will be adding things like Bible memorization and Spanish and ...?
But it's so nice to feel like I have a list of topic ideas to try out. ...and a glorious check list of sorts. (I love checking things off)
KINDERGARTEN requirements
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Meanings of holidays, traditions, and customs
Understanding and appreciating other cultures
Individual's role in family, home, school, and community
Relationship of the individual to the group
Work and jobs
Safety rules and symbols
Basic human needs
Self-respect and self-awareness
Awareness of others
Location of home and school
Diagram of home and school
SCIENCE:
Observation of everyday, familiar things
Common animals and plants
Interrelationships of animals and plants
Classification of living things
Farm animals
Care of pets
Like and unlike plants
Indoor plants
The sun: our principal source of energy
Weather and Seasons
Temperature
Light
Colors
Senses
Earth, moon, stars, planets
Simple measurement
Beginning experimentation
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Phonics
Choral reading
Listening to literature, music, poetry
Nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables
Social listening
Constructing visual images while listening
Oral communication skills
Role play
Following and giving directions
Paraphrasing and summarizing
Organizing ideas
Experience stories
Relating events and experiences using complete sentences
Listening for correct speech habits and word usage
Beginning writing process
Manuscript handwriting
HEALTH/SAFETY:
Personal hygiene
Good eating habits
Good grooming
Care of teeth
Major body parts
Physical fitness
Safety to and from school
MATH:
Simple counting to 20
One-to-one relationship
Concepts of more, less than, same
Sequence of events
Correspondence of quantities
Ordinal-cardinal relationship
Number-numeral relationship
Recognition of basic sets
Meaning of addition and subtraction
Introduction to number line
Estimation
Elementary geometry (shapes)
Calendar and clock
Denominations of money
Basic problem-solving strategies
Basic chart and graph concepts
5 comments:
WOW -- I have to say I'm REALLY glad I don't need to be worried about home schooling. Reading that list made me feel overwhelmed... for you! :o)
Yeah, I know. :) It's kind of like kindergarten on steroids or something, eh? Hence the reason I said we'd "tweak" it. hee hee
I could stand to learn a lot of those things myself. Are you taking additional students?
Wow! That is quite the list. I am still undecided as to when to start Kindergarten with Joseph. That list isn't helping with the "start now" side of me. :) I better get my hiney in gear.
With Charis reading already you are going to have a smooth sailing K year! She is one smart cookie.
Um, I'm glad this list inspires you, because it has the opposite effect on me--totally stressing me out!!! :) I do feel confident in my plan for Josiah's kindergarten year, and I know we're really hitting the things on that list...but to see it all laid out like that makes me start sweating!
It's ironic because in homeschooling, we're "supposed" to focus less on "grading" our students by conventional methods. The actual learning is the important part, not the grade, right? But then we turn right around and start "grading" ourselves as homeschool moms! At least, I do. Silly! :)
It's so nice that our kids are still in the sponge stage, where they soak up learning!
I have no doubt that you all will have a great kindergarten year! And I think Selah will really have fun and benefit from it, too. :)
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