Organizations within your community often offer programs for homeschool children of all ages. For example, your local zoo may schedule one afternoon a month for homeschool children to attend learning sessions involving zoo animals that focus on science and nature. However, if you live out in the country and don't have access to such programs, you can develop your own homeschool field trip program focused on science and nature by exploring nearby sites of interest, such as a national park, nature trails or beaches.
You can buy reading and math programs online and at educational supply stores. These programs provide the homeschool teacher with a complete age appropriate step-by-step guide for teaching reading or math to a kindergartener. These programs will offer you teaching approaches, activities, games and ideas for teaching various concepts that you can customize according to your child's needs. Programs in reading and math can cost as little as $20, but may also require an investment of several hundred dollars.
Numerous programs exist for homeschooling all age groups with a faith-based foundation. You can find these programs online or by checking with your local religious leaders. Homeschool religious programs concentrate on the core curriculum for students, as well as time for learning about the religion that the child's family is associated with. In addition, these faith-based programs often have online support groups that you can turn to for information and camaradarie.
Many parents who want to homeschool their kindergarten children do not have any experience teaching and, because of this, may feel overwhelmed in developing a kindergarten curriculum. For this reason a variety of companies exist online that sell complete core curriculum guides that you can use in your instruction. However, keep in mind that each state has its own requirements related to curriculum for each age group of children. Therefore, check with your local state board of education on core curriculum requirements for kindergarteners before you make a purchase of this sort.