Kindergarten Curriculum — Old-Fashioned Education

For Ages 4 to 7
General History
40 Week Schedule, PDF File

Bible Study

• Easy-to-read bible story books from the library. Figure on 1 a week.

Devotions

• Keys for Kids or Kids 4 Truth Devotionals or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic

Choose 1.

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 1
• Ray’s Arithmetic, purchased separately
• Math program of your choice, purchased separately

Science

• The History of Insects
• The Insect Folk
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children
• Burgess Bird Book for Children

Library Skills

Go to the library once a week, learn how it all works. If you go on Fridays then you can check out the books you’ll need for the following week.

Language Arts

• Purchased workbook on Handwriting for Beginners, widely available at Walmart, K-Mart, Warehouse Stores, etc.
• Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades, pp1-25
• McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer
• When appropriate begin writting 1 short story a week (4 or more sentences, as you deem fit)

Literature

• All the best Easy-to-Read books from the library, 1 a day.

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books:

• The Yellow Fairy Book
• The Violet Fairy Book
• The Red Fairy Book
• The Pink Fairy Book
• The Orange Fairy Book
• The Lilac Fairy Book
• The Grey Fairy Book
• The Green Fairy Book
• The Crimson Fairy Book
• The Brown Fairy Book
• The Blue Fairy Book
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
• Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
• The Real Mother Goose

History

• All the best easy-to-read history books from the library, figure on 1 or 2 a week.
• Make a Family Scrap Book & a Family Tree.

Biography

• The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Geography & Social Studies

• Easy-to-read books from the library about neighborhoods, maps, foreign countries, immigration, and our government. Figure on 1 or 2 a week.