Kindergarten Curriculum Overview

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Kindergarten Overview

Time4Learning is popular as a kindergarten homeschooling curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and as a summer school alternative.

For kindergarten students, Time4Learning provides math and language arts, which both correlate to state standards. Students will also be given access to the lowest available grade level of science activities (1st). The animated characters guide children through the learning activities, making it simple for pre-readers to use.

Kindergarten Learning Objectives:

While in kindergarten, a child should master the prerequisites for attaining success in the first grade language arts, reading and mathematics curriculum. By the end of any kindergarten language arts and reading program, students should develop an awareness of letters. They should recognize that those letters have specific sounds. They should also be aware that those letters make up words, which in turn form sentences. Students leaving Kindergarten should have developed a vocabulary set by listening to and identifying unknown words in stories. They should also begin to recognize basic sight words in text. This is an important prereading strategy.

At the end of any kindergarten mathematics program, students should have developed a strong number sense, and should identify whole numbers up to thirty. They should be able to express various ways of representing these numbers. Kindergarten students should be able to sort and organize objects based on certain attributes. Students should also recognize basic shapes.

Kindergarten Language Arts and Reading

Time4Learning offers an in depth language arts curriculum for kindergartners. Interactive activities cover phonics, verbal comprehension, reading fluency, building vocabulary, and following instructions. A foundation of beginning skills are taught through guided lessons, integrating age-appropriate concepts within thematic units of study.

Kindergarten students will discover learning through direct teaching and exploration of fundamentals with specific focus on the alphabet and letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and rhyming words. Game-like activities, decodable stories, and the “writer’s corner” isolate two letters at a time and allow students to explore all possible sounds and blends, creating phonological and phonemic awareness.

Through a series of prereading, reading, comprehension, and prewriting activities, students will further develop strategies such as recalling details, drawing conclusions, and summarizing stories. Kindergarten culminates with a thorough review of phonics, highlighting letter and sound recognition. For more details on the lesson plans for kindergarten language arts, please visit our scope and sequence page.

Kindergarten Math

The kindergarten math curriculum builds a broad math foundation including recognizing patterns and categories, number systems, operations, geometry, measurement, and probability. Kindergarten students learn to identify and categorize shapes by their properties, and to recognize and complete patterns through game-like activities such as: “Shape Hunt,” and “Photo Finish.”

Interactive lessons teach children to count to a hundred; to “skip count” by twos, fives, and tens; to identify the value of coins; to understand greater than and less than; and to portray numbers with picture graphs. Online activities on time, temperature, and calendars build familiarity with critical basic math skills. For more details on our kindergarten math lesson plans please visit our scope and sequence pages.

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Kindergarten Lessons - Time4Learning's Program Structure

Time4Learning provides an interactive student paced curriculum. When the student logs in, they can choose which subject to study. The lessons are organized into units which include multimedia lessons, interactive exercises, printable worksheets for reinforcement, optional parent-teaching guides for more indepth work, assessments, a complete printable lesson plan, and online progress reports.The parent reports includes information on activities completed and mastered; there are no formal tests or quizzes in the kindergarten program. The assessments start with first grade.

Reports/ Printable Worksheets. Time4Learning understands the importance of tracking student progress.  Parents are able to access the reports section by using their own logins and passwords.  The reports section is printable, as are the lessons plans.

Time4Learning provides kindergarten printable worksheets. Parental support is also given through our online parents forum where discussions and questions may be posted amongst experienced users and those that are "just looking".

Your child's progress will be built on two proven principles … First work, then play. This age-old structure (as in first the main course, then dessert ) is highly motivating. Engaging in learning leads to success. Help your child succeed with our interactive curriculum. There are thousands of activities, lessons and assessments that will keep your child enthusiastic about learning.

In kindergarten, the children can use the Time4Learning online timer. This means that parents can assign children an amount of time to complete their lessons. In kindergarten, we might recommend that you start with 35 minutes of lessons. This means that when they start studying, there is an online timer that counts down from 35 minutes. When the lesson timer reaches zero, the children are allowed to go to the online playground. In fact, most children will complete the lessons that they are involved in, and they only look at the timer after finishing a lesson. When they see that it’s at zero, they can go to the Online Playground.

The online playground includes over 100 carefully selected games. Some are fun action games, others are learning games but unlike the lessons, they are entirely exploratory.   There is also a playground timer controlled by the parents to limit how long they spend in the playground. While useful to many families, the use of the timer is optional.

Kindergarten Interactive Curriculum by Time4Learning
For Homeschooling, Afterschool, or Summer School Use

Time4Learning is used as a homeschool curriculum, an afterschool tutorial, or as an excellent alternative to summer school. Time4Learning works well with other programs too, providing educational structure within the home and is a great homeschooling resource. Learn more.

Many gifted and special needs students find Time4Learning to be an invaluable addition to their education. Time4Learning's benefits to special needs children stems from the freedom to progress at your own pace, to repeat lessons, the patience of the computer, and in many cases, the privacy of self-study on the computers. Parents particularly like that they can have a child working on different levels in different subjects, and that as children progress, adjustments to the grade level are simple and cost-free.

Kids like using the computer to learn and to develop their skills. The Time4Learning educational teaching games give students independence as they progress at their own pace.

Parents like that it tracks progress and helps kids advance by teaching through individualized learning paths that assure mastery of the skills and concepts that makes kids succeed.

Have a child with math and reading skills at different grade levels? No problem, just tell us in the online registration process.

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