Kindergarten Curriculum Picks 2025-2026

This year will be my second time teaching kindergarten! It is such a fun year to teach- the highlight being seeing them learn to read. We use a lot of picture books and focus on being outside in nature.

Most of our curriculum is from The Good and the Beautiful. We have used them for three years now and absolutely love it! We love that it is open-and-go style so it requires no prep from me. We literally sit down, open to the lesson we are on, and it tells me what to read/say to her and how to teach it. You can read more about why we love TGTB here.

The Good and the Beautiful offers their K-8 language arts and math courses for FREE as digital PDFs! I use this printer and this binding machine and we print all of our course books at home.

Language Arts-  I love that their language arts courses not only include reading, phonics, writing, literature, grammar, and spelling but geography and art as well. The course books are colorful and interactive.

The level K language arts includes a course book along with reading booster cards and books. The cards help the students master phonics concepts and they have corresponding books so they can practice the concept.

Example pages from the course book.

Example pages from the booster cards.

We will also be using these extra level K readers. They are such great quality, colorful, and correspond with the curriculum so she can get extra practice.

Math- We have loved the math courses from The Good and the Beautiful as well. The course books are full of colorful, short lessons that incorporate games to learn the math concepts being taught.

The math box is full of unique manipulatives that are used throughout the course. TGTB Math uses the spiral method, meaning they continue reviewing concepts previously taught so the child doesn't forget them. I have loved this method as we've used it with my older daughter- it has really helped my daughter master and retain the concepts.

Handwriting- I don't push handwriting at this age but my kindergartner insists on doing it because her sister does haha! She will be using the doodles and pre-writing part 2 from TGTB. It is tracing lines and curves mostly with images to color. We are also using a primary journal to answer journal prompts. I usually write her answer and she draws the picture.

We have already started this Dash Into Happy emotion course from Dash Into Learning. It uses fairytale stories with activities to teach kids about emotions and how to handle them. It includes games, coloring pages, recipes, and discussion questions. They have loved it so far!

We do science family style so she will just participate along with what her sister is doing. We will be using the Little Hearts and Hands studies from TGTB. They are short, very easy lessons with fun stories and educational videos. We are currently doing space with their Sparks and Stars guide.

For our history plans, check out my post here.

We do many interest-led unit studies in our homeschool every year as well. My kids pick a topic they are interested in and I piece a study together. I always include recipes, art projects, hands-on activities, and field trips.

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