Homeschool Kindergarten
Ages 5–6
Kindergarten is the year the code cracks: letters make sounds, sounds blend into words, and numbers stop being a song and start being amounts.
Plan this yearEverything Kindergarten covers
The full scope and sequence, on the page. No signup to read it.
📖 Reading
All 26 letter sounds
Sees a letter and says its sound — not its name — quickly and without a run-up.
Blending sounds into a word
Reads c-a-t by saying each sound and pushing them together into "cat".
The first sight words
Reads the highest-frequency words — the, is, was, said, you, they — instantly, without sounding them out.
Understanding a story that's read to them
Answers who / where / what happened, and predicts what might come next.
✏️ Writing
Forming letters the right way round
Writes lower-case letters starting at the correct point and moving in the correct direction.
Spelling by the sounds you hear
Writes a word by saying it slowly and putting down a letter for each sound — kat for cat counts.
Writing a whole sentence
Writes a short sentence with a capital at the start, spaces between words, and a full stop.
🔢 Math
Counting to 100, and counting on from anywhere
Counts to 100 by ones and tens, and can start from 47 without going back to one.
Reading and writing numerals to 20
Sees 14 and says fourteen, hears seventeen and writes 17.
Adding and subtracting within 10
Solves 4 + 3 and 8 − 2 with objects, fingers, or by counting on.
Number bonds to 5 and 10
Knows instantly that 7 and 3 make 10, and can break 5 into 4+1, 3+2.
Flat shapes and solid shapes
Names circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon, and knows a cube and a sphere are the solid versions.
Measuring and comparing
Compares length, weight and capacity directly, and measures with repeated units like blocks or footsteps.
🔬 Science
Living and non-living, and what plants need
Sorts things into living and non-living with a reason, and knows plants need water, light and air.
Pushes, pulls, and what things are made of
Describes a movement as a push or a pull, and sorts materials as hard, soft, bendy, or see-through.
🌍 Social Studies
First maps and position words
Draws a simple map of a familiar room and uses above, below, behind, next to, between.
Rules, fairness, and jobs people do
Explains why a rule exists rather than just naming it, and describes what different workers do.
🧭 Study & Life Skills
Sticking with one thing
Stays with a chosen task for ten minutes without needing to be re-directed.
Running their own morning
Gets dressed, packs their bag, and gets to the door with two or fewer reminders.
See what Kindergarten actually looks like
Not a description of the year — the real thing. Below is a real week from the plan and two real lessons opened up, with every worksheet, game and off-screen task they point at. Everything is a live link.
Mon
Day 41
- Make the morning chart
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: s, a, t
- Math: Count to twenty, moving
- Writing: Sky, grass, worm
- Brain break
- Science: Alive or not?
- Social Studies: A bird's view of the table
Tue
Day 42
- Make the morning chart
- Morning warm-up
- Math: Count the stairs to thirty
- Reading: p, i, n
- Writing: Start at the top
- Brain break
- Science: Two beans, two homes
- Social Studies: Map your bedroom
Wed
Day 43
- Make the morning chart
- Morning warm-up
- Math: Count on from seven
- Reading: Six sounds, timed
- Writing: p and i
- Brain break
- Science: Check the beans
- Social Studies: Where is it?
Thu
Day 44
- Map with a key
- Morning warm-up
- Math: Count by tens
- Reading: m, d, g
- Writing: n and m
- Brain break
- Science: What do animals need?
- Life Skills: Make the morning chart
Fri
Day 45
- Map with a key
- Morning warm-up
- Reading: Sound splat
- Math: The thirties and forties
- Writing: d and b, one at a time
- Brain break
- Science: Plant something real
- Life Skills: Run the whole morning
Generated by the same code that runs a real school day. A child at a different level in a subject gets that subject’s lessons instead — nothing else about the day changes.
Two real lessons, start to finish
🔢 Math · 26 min
Counting to 100, and counting on from anywhere — practice 13
Why this matters · 1 min
Counting on is the bridge to addition. A child who must restart from one every time will still be counting on fingers in Grade 3.
Learn it · 4 min
Counts to 100 by ones and tens, and can start from 47 without going back to one.
See it done · 3 min
Family Ten FrameOn their own · 8 min
First Grade Math Workbook — Counting by 10s — ChallengeShow what they know · 5 min
Family Patterns
📚 Reading · 38 min
Every sound so far
Why this matters · 1 min
Every word they will ever decode is built from this. Slow sound recall is the most common single cause of struggling reading in Grade 1.
Learn it · 4 min
Sees a letter and says its sound — not its name — quickly and without a run-up.
See it done · 3 min
Sight Words — Set 3On their own · 8 min
End of Year — Thank You Letter to Teacher — KindergartenAway from the screen · 12 min
Full alphabet run at random, timed. Circle the four slowest and drill only those tomorrow.
Every sound so farShow what they know · 5 min
Family Match
Steps with nothing behind them are left out rather than stubbed. A “coming soon” tile in a paid homeschool product is worse than a shorter lesson.
How much of it there is
| Subject | Units | Lessons |
|---|---|---|
| 📚 Reading | 13 | 139 |
| ✏️ Writing | 7 | 70 |
| 🔢 Math | 13 | 143 |
| 🔬 Science | 5 | 52 |
| 🌍 Social Studies | 3 | 23 |
| 🧭 Life Skills | 2 | 14 |
| Total | 43 | 441 |
Counted from the plan itself. Subjects with fewer lessons have less material in the catalogue at this grade — we would rather show you that than pad the number.
What you will have in June
- Attendance — days and instructional hours, derived from work actually finished.
- Report cards — one a quarter, with the level each strand started and ended at.
- A portfolio — finished work, collected as it happens rather than assembled in a panic.
- A reading log — in the app and off it.
We keep records. We do not give legal advice and we never certify compliance — check with your state’s department of education.
When to ask for help
- By the end of the year, still cannot name or sound out more than half the alphabet.
- Cannot hear that cat and hat rhyme, or that cat starts with /c/, even with practice.
- Cannot count a set of ten objects accurately with one touch per number.
- Still reverses most letters and numbers at the very end of Kindergarten, alongside real reading difficulty.
- Won't or can't sit for a five-minute task at home even one-to-one and with no screen nearby.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many hours a day is Kindergarten homeschool?
We default to three hours a day across 180 school days, and you can set it anywhere from one to five. At this age Fifteen minutes, split into two goes if needed. Reading a word for the first time is exhausting for a five-year-old — stop while they're still proud.
What if my child is ahead or behind in one subject?
Each of the six strands has its own level. A child can do this grade in reading and the one below in maths without any of it being a workaround — that is the normal case here, not an exception.
What records will I have at the end of Kindergarten?
Attendance in days and instructional hours, a report card per quarter, a portfolio of finished work, and a reading log. From Grade 9 there is also a parent-issued transcript with credits and GPA.