Kindergarten Curriculum and Resources

The Kid has decided that she wants to start kindergarten. Next week.

*shrug* Okay. Whatever you want, kid.

She says the difference between kindergarten and what we have been doing is that some stuff will be required instead of optional and she will get to do "trickier math".

Reading (3x weekly)
Read alouds from a mom-made reading list at her ability level

Math (3x weekly)
RightStart B
Time-Life I Love Math series
MathStart level 2 books by Stuart J. Murphy
Considering a subscription to Dreambox

Spelling (1x weekly)
All About Spelling 2 and 3, with adaptations for handwriting

Science (1x weekly, but she'll request more and do these much more than "planned")
Lego Education Early Simple Machines
The Private Eye
The Happy Scientist videos
Building Foundations for Scientific Understanding
Caterpillar-to-Butterfly kit
Child-friendly Microscope
Various Thames and Kosmos sets 
Memberships to local children's museum and the zoo

Spanish (1x weekly)
Salsa Spanish
DuoLingo This moved too fast for my daughter and she became frustrated. She asked for something that we did together and not something online. So we added:

Risas y Sonrisas

Handwriting (1x weekly)
StartWrite software

History (1x weekly)
Mom-made Prehistory year (Big Bang to early man)

Art (every other week)
Usborne Big Drawing Book
Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas
Artistic Pursuits preschool level

Music (every other week)
The Story of the Orchestra

While we are taking the summer off from lessons, in the fall she will likely continue swim, gymnastics, and violin.