I think summer is a great opportunity to focus in a little bit on individual courses and grade levels with the Time4Learning program. If you have been considering using the Time4Learning homeschool curriculum for your child, you may be curious how the program works, what is included, and how much is, or isn’t required of you and your child. This summer series will hopefully answer those questions in detail, and make you feel better able to make decisions about whether the Time4Learning curriculum is right for you and your child.
We’ll start off the series with a look at Kindergarten Math. This is an incredibly important place to begin, because early elementary math is the foundation that all other math instruction is built on. Clear and comprehensive coverage of the basics of arithmetic are vital to long term math success.
The Time4Learning Kindergarten Math curriculum is a fun, interactive way to build the necessary collection 
of skills needed for early math mastery. Kindergarten math students will be learning basic math concepts. In case they haven’t picked it up during their preschool years, kindergarten math students will be learning to count to 100, and to read and write numbers to ten. Kindergarten children will learn about cardinal numbers, which indicate quantity, and ordinal numbers, which indicate position.
While learning to count to 100, kindergarten math students will be counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s. They will learn the concept of odd and even numbers and be able to identify them. Kindergarten math students will also be introduced to sets, addition, and subtraction. They will use numbers and pictures to count objects in a set. They will compare two sets and tell which is equal to, more than, or less than the other.
Kindergarten math will teach them to create number stories using objects so they’ll learn strategies for solving number problems. This will develop an awareness of how addition and subtraction are used in everyday activities. The children will be able to use addition and subtraction concepts to move forward or backwards along a number line.
Just like all of the math levels, the T4L Kindergarten program uses a combination of learning games, lessons, and printable worksheets. There are over 100 math activities in the kindergarten curriculum, and children can either move through them sequentially, or pick and choose from the lessons, using the Activity Finder. Parents can easily follow their child’s progress by logging into the child’s portfolio and viewing day by day lessons or a customizable and printable report than can be sorted by subject, lesson type, or date range.
To find out more about the Kindergarten math program at Time4Learning, try out one of the demo lessons, ask a question in our parents forum, or even view the entire kindergarten scope and sequence. Sign up today to let your kindergartener experience the fun and learning encompassed in the Time4Learning Kindergarten Math Program.
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This post was written by Kerry on June 9, 2009
