Christian Homeschooling Kindergarten Curriculum
Are you searching for a complete, Christian homeschooling kindergarten curriculum for this coming school year? Well, Heart of Dakota’s award-winning Little Hearts for His Glory includes everything you need for your kindergartener! Designed for ages 5-7, Little Hearts for His Glory makes teaching quick and easy by bringing together engaging daily lessons, captivating books, and memorable activities – all from a solid biblical perspective. This unique combination makes school enjoyable to teach and fosters a love for learning and a love for the Lord.
Little Hearts for His Glory gave me such an amazing start to homeschooling each of my three children! They loved homeschooling right away, and so did I. Twenty years later, I look back and give thanks to God for our successful start to homeschooling with Little Hearts for His Glory. I want the same to be true for you and your children as you embark on your own Christian homeschool journey! So, let’s take a closer look at this amazing Christian homeschooling kindergarten curriculum!
Narrative, Charlotte Mason-inspired readings bring history to life!
Little Hearts for His Glory provides a broad overview of history, spanning from Creation to present day. In this overview, Bible stories are integrated with history stories, giving your child the opportunity to see God’s sovereign hand working through the ages. With a unique blend of living books, hands-on activities, and a biblical perspective, Little Hearts for His Glory tells world history through the stories of those who lived it. This Christian homeschooling kindergarten curriculum brings history to life in an inspiring, memorable way!
Storytime read-alouds weave memorable stories and make your reading time together a joy!
Seven classic Thornton Burgess books and a compilation of stories by Beatrix Potter provide special “cuddle-up-and-read” time! Both of these beloved series provide an enjoyable transition from picture books to chapter books. Kindergarten children get to know the animal characters well and eagerly anticipate what might happen next. Follow-up skills to the readings ensure children gain needed language skills. Discussing provided questions, retelling parts of the story, practicing early writing skills, making moral connections, and relating personally to the characters help kindergarteners develop language arts skills – all while enjoying these amazing books!
Bible study uses Scripture as its foundation and builds upon it to help kindergarteners grow their faith!
The Bible study in Little Hearts for His Glory is meant to instill Biblical values in children by training them to hear God’s Word and hide it in their hearts. In coordination with the history stories, children read and discuss key Bible verses, complete Scripture memorization exercises, sing catchy songs, and enjoy heartfelt devotionals that point them to Christ. Bible study in Little Hearts for His Glory stands upon the firm foundation of scripture and helps kindergarteners faith blossom!
A choice of multiple phonics programs lets you pick the one that fits your kindergartener the best!
Little Hearts for His Glory provides three different phonics options to teach reading. This allows you to pick which phonics fits your kindergartener best! Choose from The Reading Lesson, Reading Made Easy, or Sound Bytes Reading. No matter which option you choose, these programs include the phonics instruction your child will need to become a reader. If you’ve already fallen in love with another phonics program, no worries! You can always use your own phonics resource instead!
A choice of multiple handwriting programs lets you pick the one that best fits your child!
Little Hearts for His Glory offers a choice of two different handwriting approaches. A Reason for Handwriting features the traditional Palmer method of forming letters, while the Getty-Dubay Italic series features an italic style of letter formation. You can use one of these time-tested handwriting selections as planned in Little Hearts for His Glory. Or, if you prefer a different handwriting program, you can certainly use that instead!
Use an academically strong, time-proven math program alongside short, fun hands-on math activities!
Little Hearts for His Glory’s math has the best of both worlds! It uses a time-honored math program but partners it with purposeful, fun hands-on math activities. Singapore Math’s concise math texts build number sense, mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and essential math skills. By featuring an approach that moves from concrete to pictorial to abstract, Singapore math teaches concepts in a way that leaves children feeling math can be understood. Hands-on math activities that coordinate with the lessons in Essentials Kindergarten Level A/B use concrete objects to illustrate mathematical concepts are provided inside the Little Hearts for His Glory guide. This balanced approach helped each of our three sons have a strong start to math in kindergarten!
Enjoy a Christ-centered, hands-on, history-connected approach to science!
Little Hearts for His Glory features a unique, hands-on approach to science that has a unit study feel! It integrates a Bible-based science text with topics from the history stories. So, as students delve into life science, physical science, and earth science, they complete fun activities and discover what they learn matches up with the Bible.
Kindergarten children explore the heavens and the earth, light and darkness, the firmament, oceans and fresh water, seeds and plants, the four seasons, the creatures of the earth, and man in The World God Made. As they learn about the exciting world around them, they become familiar with science-related vocabulary, make biblical connections, and conduct quick, hands-on activities related to the science readings. This science honors our Creator, and explores the world He made!
Help your kindergartener develop critical thinking skills using these two timeless, well-loved resources!
Teach your kindergarten children critical thinking and fine motor skills with Do It Carefully and Finding the Answers. These tried-and-true workbooks cover a variety of necessary skills. Do It Carefully practices shapes, letters, and words and helps students utilize thinking skills as they color, cut, and paste. Finding the Answers emphasizes rhyming words, identifying sequences, making comparisons and associations, following directions, and more advanced cutting and pasting. Children who are already proficient at cutting, coloring, copying, and pasting should use the first grade option instead.
Teach left/right brain along with large motor skills in a fun, engaging way!
Little Hearts for His Glory includes engaging “rhymes in motion” to teach left-right brain integration along with large motor skills in a fun and imaginative way. As students learn a new rhyme each week, they will perform accompanying movements at the same time. Rhymes coordinate with the history theme and further give a unit study feel. As students sing or say the rhymes, they practice movements like hopping, skipping, galloping, alternating left and right actions, clapping in rhythm, and more! These rhymes not only develop left/right brain connections and large motor skills, they also reinforce the weekly history theme!
In Closing
If you want a happy, Christ-centered, successful start to homeschooling your kindergartener, Little Hearts for His Glory is the curriculum you want! We began homeschooling more than 20 years ago thinking we’d just “give kindergarten a try.” Well, I guess I’d say kindergarten was quite the success. We homeschooled all the way through twelfth grade with Heart of Dakota! What a blessing! And it all started with Little Hands to Heaven for preschool and Little Hearts for His Glory for kindergarten! I could not be happier with our homeschool journey – and to think, we only thought we’d “give kindergarten a try.” I hope you give kindergarten a try like we did, and I also hope you use Little Hearts for His Glory and find yourselves marveling at the journey all the way through high school at the end!
In Christ,
Julie
