Kindergarten Ready Warriors! (Self-Paced)
Let's get ready for kindergarten in this 4-lesson self-paced course.
Course Summary
Each week is like a jam packed mini pre-kindergarten class with the goal of preparing learners for kindergarten. Lively Montessori style, crafts, games and STEAM video lessons.
Put on your full armor by completing each kindergarten lesson! Similar to earning merit badges, students will earn pieces of armor such as, a helmet, breastplate, sword, shield, leg harness and arm harness. I will use props, puppets and stuffed animals to engage students and aid in learning. Classes will include singing and well edited video lessons. Each class will build upon the former. I also include several practice homework worksheets.
Topics Covered:
WEEK 1) Sight words and Rhyming. Review phonics for the entire alphabet! Homework: printable "find a letter" pages for the alphabet. Online rhyming game for fun and extra practice.
WEEK 2) Introduce and review sight words. Critical Thinking using opposites. Days of the week, months of the year and seasons. Homework: Create handprint trees of the four seasons. Online quiz for fun and extra practice.
WEEK 3) Introduce and review sight words. We will identify shapes and count shape's sides. Learn about more complex shapes such as hexagons and octagons. Homework: Name the shape - win the cake game!
WEEK 4) Explore math such as skip counting, simple adding, subtracting and ordinal numbers. Counting scoops of ice cream including single, double, triple, quadruple, quintuple and sextuple. Homework: Printable play-dough counting dinosaurs project.
Please note that this is not a live class but interaction is required. Learners can play the learning games and take the quizzes as many times as they'd like. If they are competitive, they will enjoy trying to trying to earn a top spot on the leaderboard. I will have a “question of the week” or “challenge of the week”. Each week will also include a show and tell portion for students to share in the classroom. They can share their favorite toy, craft or drawing based upon the challenge of the week. When students share their answers, pictures or videos I will award pieces of armor by live video. By the end of the course, if they participate, they will have earned the full armor making them ready for kindergarten.
Course Curriculum
Course Pricing
Elizabeth McMann
Hello parents and students,
I started Teach Me Truth Christian School because of the need for families to have a safe space for learning. After reading, "Mama Bear Apologetics", I recognized the call for a Christian education platform. Not only teaching children about the Bible, but also teaching apologetics that back up the Bible with science, logic, facts, history and intellectual reasoning. I am passionate about homesteading, homeschooling and working on becoming more independent from the world and government. Most schools in person and online censor Christianity and promote everything else - and I mean everything else! As parents, our jobs are becoming more difficult to protect our children from the evils of this world while at the same time educating them about the truth. Soon after starting the online platform, God called me to start an in-person school as well.
My Teaching Style: I encourage learning through enthusiastic engagement. I believe children learn best through curiosity or play. Teaching online has been my passion for six years. I was an online English teacher with VIPKID for over three years and an Outschool teacher since 2020. VIPKID taught me how to engage with students in a virtual setting. They taught me how to use props, singing and demonstrations to increase learning. I encourage student output and participation during class.
About Me: I have a bachelor's degree in marketing and science. I am an entrepreneur and business owner. I have also been in the beauty industry for over 15 years. I am a homeschooling mom of five. I am constantly seeking creative ways for my children and students to learn new things.
My Homeschooling Style: As a homeschooling mom of 4, my favorite part of teaching is sort of "tricking" them into learning. What I mean by this is, we often play learning games and sing songs. In addition to this, my children have learning games on their devices and we listen to learning songs in the car. Some of our favorite online resources include: Easy Peasy Homeschool, Education.com and Miacademy and Flock School. Some of our favorite learning games are: ABC and sight word bingo, memory match, shout-and-grab, ABC caterpillar board game, dinosaur nest game, Uno, chess, checkers, matching, fill in the blank phonics sounds and more. We love arts and craft time as well as create weekly science projects. My kiddos enjoy both live and self-paced online classes. Our kids participate in chores, taking care of our chickens, ducks, dog and cat. We love projects and currently are building a chicken coop. Lastly, our book work is a small part of learning each day.
