No Child Left Behind

Curriculum Details

Our Kinder Kollege 2-year program includes a Teacher-to-student ratio of 1 teacher to 25 students: nine Teacher Jeanette Kinder Kollege workbooks (math, science, social studies, Bible stories, language arts, reading, writing, spelling, technology, and handwriting), and a backpack with school supplies.

Key Learning Areas

  • Science & Healthy Habits
    • The importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and exhibit how the world works, apply computation and estimation necessary for analyzing data and following scientific investigations, communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly
    • Use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities
    • Use the concepts of system, model, change, and scale when exploring scientific and technological matters
    • Communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
    • Weather

Science Smart Start

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408311
Format: Paperback (Full Color)
Pages: 60
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher: Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Science

  • Earth Science – analyze time patterns and objects (sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky, describe the physical attributes of rocks and soils.
  • Physical Science – describe objects in terms of their composition and physical attributes, explore the forces that cause a change in motion (speed and direction, push and pull), observe and communicate the effect of gravity on objects, magnets,
  • Life Science – distinguish living things from non-living things based on physical attributes, compare and contrast groups of organisms, man-made vs. natural
  • Plants and Animals
Energy Science
  • Energy Sources
  • Natural Energy Resources
  • How We Use Energy
Our Body 
  • blood, bones, skeleton, oxygen, muscles, lungs, spine, brain, nerves
Our Five Senses
  • seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting
Healthy Habits
  • My healthy habits
  • Bathroom Rules
  • Hand washing steps
  • How to prevent malaria and stay well
  • Keep clean

Primary Bible Lessons

The Bible is very important! It is a holy book that tells how God created the universe and everything in it, and God’s love for us. Kinder Kollege Primary Bible Lessons is specifically designed to encourage young students to begin life-long Bible study. All the adventure and spiritual truths of the Bible are skillfully presented in age-appropriate and easy-to-understand language.

Lessons include The Creation, the Golden Rules, Baby Jesus, the Easter Story, the Fruit of the Spirit, Bible Stories, Psalm 23, The 10 Commandments, and 52 Bible verses to memorize. At the end of the lessons, students will get the chance to solve mazes, word search, and other activities all based on specific lessons.

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408564
Format: Paperback (Full Color)
Pages: 60
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher:  Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Christian Religion

All the adventure and spiritual truths of the Bible are skillfully presented in age-appropriate and easy-to-understand language. At the end of each story, students will get the chance to solve mazes, word searches, and other activities all based on the specific story.

Learn to Letter

The perfect companion for all Kinder Kollege workbooks.

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408557
Format: paperback
Pages: 200
Price: $12.00 (USD)
Publisher:  Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 2
Genre: Handwriting

Age-appropriate line width
  • Primary composition
  • Primary writing tablet
Designed for pre-writing & early writing
  • Bold lines for accurate letter placement
  • Control pencil with narrow linewidth
Writing Activities
  • Creative story tablet
The Alphabets
  • Writing and Spelling begins with the Alphabets.
  • UPPER CASE
  • lower case
  • Spell and write first name
  • Spell and write last name
Spelling Words I
  • 2-Letter Words
  • Building words using Pyramids
  • build 2-Letter
  • Word Pyramids
  • 3-Letter Words
Alphabetical Order
  • Arrange words in the order of the letters of the alphabets
  • Alphabetize lists, words
Rhyming
  • Maze Rhymes
  • Rhyme and Reason
  • Perfect Pairs
  • Rhyming Time!
  • Odd Rhyme Out
  • Perfect Pairs Too
  • Word Search Puzzle
Spelling Words II
  • 4-letter Words
  • Rhyming Butterflies
  • Build-a-Word
  • Odd One Out
  • 5-letter words
Spelling Words III
  • 6-letter words
  • Trace your 7-letter words
  • 7-letter Pyramids
  • Trace your 8-letter words
Word Smart Puzzles
  • Animals at the Zoo
  • Animals in the water
  • Animals on the Farm
  • Bugs & Insects
  • Pets
  • Food
  • Fruits and Veggies
Word Smart Puzzles
  • Transportation
  • School Things
  • Going Shopping
  • How Do You Feel Today?
  • I Love My Family
  • Family Words

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408274
Format: paperback
Pages: 166
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher:  Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Language Arts, Spelling

Word Lists
  • Let’s write some Christmas words
  • Number Words
  • Color Words
  • My Color Words
  • Patriotic Words
  • Rainy Season
  • Social Relations
  • Fruits & Vegetables
  • Here Are Some Nuts!
  • Things at the Beach
  • Weather Words
  • Body Parts
  • Opposite
  • Clothing Words
  • Let’s Eat
  • Months of the Year
  • 7 Days a Week!
  • School Days
  • Write your school supply list
  • Graduation Words
Word Work | Vocabulary | Phonics | Fluency
  • listen to a variety of texts and use new vocabulary in oral language
  • recognize words in a familiar context
  • identify own first and last name in print
  • read first 50 high-frequency sight words and common words, such as colors, numbers, names, and places
  • recognize and produce rhyming and non-rhyming words
  • recognize simple word opposites
  • match all consonant and short-vowel sounds to appropriate letters
  • identify component sounds (phonemes and combinations of phonemes) in spoken words
  • blend and segment syllables in spoken words
  • blend sounds to read one-syllable words
  • read previously taught high-frequency words at the rate of 30 words correct per minute
  • read previously taught grade-level text with appropriate expression
  • apply learned phonics skills when reading words and sentences in stories
  • use words that signal sequence relationships such as first, next, and last
  • explore the use of a Pictionary or dictionary to identify words
  • discuss the meaning of words and understand that some words have multiple meanings
  • connect life experiences to the read-aloud text

 

Listening, Speaking, and Viewing
  • listen attentively to respond to questions and to follow two-part directions
  • participate in vocal speaking and creative drama
  • recite short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with repeated patterns
  • use oral language to relate experiences and expand vocabulary
  • recall orally a series of three visually presented items
  • listen and speak appropriately with peers and adults
  • repeat auditory sequences: letters, words, numbers, and rhythmic patterns
  • communicate effectively when using descriptive language, relating experiences, and retelling stories
  • describe people, places, things, locations, and actions
  • use complete sentences when speaking and begin to use subject-verb agreement and tense correctly
Concepts About Print
  • relate written language to spoken language
  • distinguish among written letters, words, and sentences
  • recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words
  • segment phonemes in high-frequency words
  • blend phonemes to make high-frequency words
  • identify and match all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet out of sequence
  • recognize common environmental print such as common signs and logos and recognize that print and pictures (signs and labels, newspapers, and informational books) can inform, entertain, and persuade
  • demonstrate principles of directionality by holding print materials in the correct position and using left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression
  • begin to recognize and understand that punctuation and capitalization are used in all written sentences

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408298
Format: paperback
Pages: 172
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher:  Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Language Arts, Reading

Reading Strategies and Comprehension
  • listen to, select, and read a variety of literary (e.g., short stories and poems) and informational texts and materials for pleasure and to gain knowledge tell stories using wordless picture books and picture sequences
  • make predictions from pictures and titles
  • discriminate between real and imaginary content in texts
  • explore the comparison and contrast of content within stories
  • retell stories and respond to literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about the story
  • retell and identify the beginning, middle, and end of stories
  • sequence events in a story
  • demonstrate that print makes sense by reading and explaining one’s own writings and drawings
  • ask and answer questions about essential narrative elements (e.g., beginning-middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, resolution) of a read-aloud text
  • use prior knowledge, graphic features (illustrations), and graphic organizers to understand text
  • S-O “SO” reading song
Accessing Information | Reference Skills
  • explore the use of the media center, picture books, audiovisual resources, and available technology for reading and writings
  • Audiobook – when children listen to audiobooks, they hear firsthand the proper pacing and intonations of reading, how punctuation should sound, and how reading should sound.
Making a List
  • Putting a series of items written, mentioned, or considered, one following another
  • School supply list
  • Clothing list
  • Shopping list
  • Toy list
Label
  • To put a word or words on something to identify
  • I can label a picture!
Letter
  • Written communication you sent through the mail
  • I can write a letter!
  • What is at the post office?
  • Where is the Post Office?
Accessing Information / Reference Skills
  • explore the use of the media center, picture books, audiovisual resources, and available technology for reading and writings
Computers are fun!
  • Desktop Computer Parts
  • Laptop Computer Parts
  • Computer Devices
  • Making Connections – hear, read, write and watch
Technology
  • Things made by humans to make life easier
  • Technology makes life easier
  • helps us solve problems
  • Technology then and now
  • Tell how technology makes life fun
Good Citizenship
  • A community is a place where people live
  • Community Helpers are people in the community who help others
  • How do community helpers help? A police officer keeps us safe, a teacher helps us learn, and a doctor helps us feel better, a market woman sells us food
  • A good citizen is also a community helper
  • What I want to be when I grow up
The Alphabets
  • Begin with the Alphabets
  • Use pictures to spell words
What do writers write?
  • Building Sentences
  • Punctuation, using period, question mark, comma, exclamation point, quotation marks and apostrophe
  • Rules for Capital Letters, beginning of a sentence, the word, I, names of people, places, pets, days of the week, months of the year,
  • Noun
  • Pronouns
  • Personal Pronouns
  • Build a Sentence
  • I can build a sentence
Fix it Up!
  • Rewrite sentence correctly
  • Begin each sentence with a capital letter
  • Add correct ending punctuation
My sentences have swag!
  • S – starts with a capital.
  • W – written neatly.
  • A – a space between words.
  • G – given punctuation.
Adjectives
  • Describing words
  • Describes an object, food, person, or animal
  • Tell us color, feel, sound, amount, behavior, size, food,
Sequencing
  • First, next, last
  • First, second, third, last.
  • I can sequence events in a story
Narrative – Writing a story
  • write a story that involves one event
  • use drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to describe a personal experience
  • write about a picture
  • write a story
Accessing Information
  • Media center
  • The library is one type of media center
  • Media Purpose – to inform, entertain, or persuade
  • Persuade (to get people to believe something or do what they are saying), inform (to give people more information or teach them about something) and entertain (keep people attention, usually in an enjoyable way)
  • Digital Media

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408281
Format: paperback
Pages: 200
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher:  Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Language Arts, Writing, Primary Handwriting Guidelines

Parts of a Story
  • How a story is written
  • The author writes the story
  • The illustrator draws the pictures
  • The title is the name of the book
  • The setting is where the story takes place
  • The characters are the people or animals in the story
  • The plot is the events in the story: beginning, middle, and end.
  • The conflict is the problems that the characters face
  • The resolution is the part when the problem is solved.
Persuasive Writing – Opinions
  • begin to use formats appropriate to the genre (letter and poster)
  • state an opinion
  • use words, illustrations, or graphics to support an opinion
  • Something I think or feel
  • I can use opinion words!
  • What’s your opinion?
  • Sharing opinions with a friend
Writing Informational
  • What writers do to influence people
  • write a piece that involves one topic
  • use drawings, letters, and phonetically spelled words to share information
  • publish a final copy
  • Print Media
  • Research
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Spelling
  • use left to right and top to bottom directionality in writing
  • begin to use capitalization at the beginning of sentences and punctuation (periods and question marks) at the end of sentences
Writing Across Genres
  • write or dictate to describe familiar persons, places, objects, or experiences explore prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
  • write legibly in manuscript own first and last names with initial capital letters, self-selected and teacher-selected words, and upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
  • begin to develop a draft from pre-writing
  • begin to develop a sense of closure
  • begin to use describing words
  • pre-write orally or in writing to generate ideas (graphic organizers and pictures)
Response to Literature
  • retell a story orally, through pictures, or in writing
  • make connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text- to-world
Primary Technology

By the time children complete kindergarten, they should be able to navigate computers and iPads, launch applications, and using menus. Many of their classmates might already have these skills, which are required for basic computer and iPad usage. Keep in mind that technology is continually evolving, so it is important to follow flexible guidelines.

Technology Words
  • Computers – what is a computer? Using science in solving problems, write, fix, save, and print,
  • Devices – comparing technology, technology at home and school, cell phones, tablet, laptop, projector, radio, headphones,
  • Accessing Information
  • Using technology
  • Technology and Transportation
A student completing this workbook should:
  • Use fine motor skills to use the mouse to move a cursor to a target on the screen.
  • Show awareness of the “power keys” on a keyboard (e.g., “enter,” “ESC,” “delete,” and the space bar).
  • Know the difference between the left and right mouse buttons (which can be helped by a small label or sticker).
  • Be familiar with at least five quality interactive applications, games, or activities.
  • Have a basic working vocabulary of common technology terms, such as “digital camera,” “iPad,” “computer,” “Internet,” “mouse,” “keyboard,” and “printer.”

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408502
Format: Paperback (Full Color)
Pages: 38
Price: $12.00 (USD)
Publisher:  Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten-Grade 1
Genre: Technology, Computer

A student completing this workbook should:
  • Have been exposed to common technical terms in the natural context of everyday conversation, such as “on/off,” “Internet,” “browser,” “software,” “hardware,” “computer,” “mouse,” “monitor,” “keyboard,” “digital camera,” “printer,” “battery,” and so on.
  • Have taken their first digital photo.
  • Find the numerals on a QWERTY keyboard.
  • Type their first name on a QWERTY keyboard.
  • Understand the basic functions of a browser, including how to open or close windows and use the “back” key.
Numbers & Operations
  • Counting through 30
  • Numbers 0–100
  • Recognize and write numerals through 20 to label sets
Process Skills to solve problems:
  • Match numerals to sets through 20
  • Identify spatial relationships such as when an object is beside, above, below, in front of, behind, inside, or outside another object
  • Sequence & Identify ordinal numbers (1st through 10th)
  • Use informal strategies to share objects equally between two or three people or sets
Geometry:
  • Shapes – recognize, name, and sort geometric figures: triangles, rectangles, squares, circles
  • Compare geometric shapes and identify similarities and differences of two and three-dimensional figures
  • Recognize and name spheres and cubes
Algebra
  • Introduction to Addition and Subtraction
  • Patterns – identify missing shapes within a given pattern of geometric shapes
  • Extend a given pattern and recognize similarities such as color, shape, texture, or number, in different patterns

Book Details:

ISBN13: 9781945408304
Format: paperback
Pages: 166
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher: Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Math

Let’s Measure!
  • Compare and order objects on the basis of length (longer/shorter), capacity (more/less), height (taller/shorter), and weight (heavier/lighter)
  • Name days of the week, months of the year, and the two seasons
  • Use the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow to describe the passage of time order daily events
  • Tell the time when daily events occur, such as morning, afternoon, and night
Data Analysis and Probability
  • Pose information questions, collect and organize data, and record results using objects, pictures, and picture graphs.
Our Nation
  • Counties, Capitals, and Flags
  • Liberian Flag
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • National Anthem Song
  • Names of Presidents
  • First and Current President
  • Liberian Symbols
Good Citizenship
  • Community is a place where people live
  • Community Helpers are people in the community who help others
  • How community helpers help? A police officer keeps us safe, a teacher helps us learn, and a doctor helps us feel better, a market woman sells us food
  • A good citizen is also a community helper
  • What I want to be when I grow up
My Vote is Important

I will vote for politicians who build schools, clinics, bridges, and roads, and also give us clean water. I will not vote for politicians who give us small gifts like t-shirts or bags of rice in order to win the election. Small gifts are good for just me. Big gifts are good for everybody. A good citizen cares about others. I am a good citizen. I do not want small gifts for myself. I want big gifts for everybody.

Book Details:
ISBN13: 9781945408519
Format: Paperback (Full Color)
Pages: 54
Price: $15.00 (USD)
Publisher: Liberia Literary Society
Size: 8.5 x 11 in
Ages: 5
Grades: Kindergarten – Grade 1
Genre: Social Studies, Liberia

Map and Globe Skills
  • Use cardinal directions
  • Continents and Oceans
  • Latitude and Longitude
Information Processing Skills
  • Compare similarities and differences
  • Organize items chronologically
  • Identify issues and/or problems
Where We Live
  • Explain that a map is a drawing of a place and a globe is a model of the earth
  • Identify city’s geographic location in the world
Civics for Early Learners
  • Model good citizenship
  • Good behavior and habits
  • Community Helpers and Workers
Personal Finance – LRD(s) and USD ($)
  • Currency and Money
  • Explain that people must make choices because they cannot have everything they want
  • Making smart decisions

Personal Finance –  explain that people must make choices because they cannot have everything they want, identify liberties (Liberia currency) by name and value (5, 10, 20, 50, 100 liberties), count out liberties to buy items that together cost less than 50 liberties, make fair trades involving combinations of 5, 10, 20 liberties, Wants and Needs.

Book Details

Publisher: ‎ Liberia Literary Society (Nov. 30, 2020)
Paperback: ‎ 252 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 1945408359
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1945408359
Size: ‎ 8.5 x 0.53 x 11.02 inches

Teacher's Guide

Perfect for the Classroom & Homeschooling.

Teacher Jeanette Kinder Kollege curriculum bundled for Kindergarten-Grade One includes nine subjects: Language Arts (Reading, Spelling, & Writing), Primary Arithmetic, Science, Computer & Technology, Liberia Social Studies, Primary Bible Lessons, Primary Handwriting, and Life Skills for children.

Teaching children essential life skills help them to succeed in all aspects of life, not just in the classroom, but also in relationships and work as adults. Children can learn these skills beginning in early childhood. Teacher Jeanette Kinder Life Skills focus on learning the importance of friendship, dealing with emotions (sad, mad & glad), Personal Safety (knowing what’s a good ‘touch’ and what’s a bad ‘touch’), Table Manners, and the Five Character Traits (Acceptance, Honesty, Kindness, Perseverance & Responsibility) to encourage a love for learning.

Homeschooling may seem like a daunting task, that’s why Kinder Kollege Teacher’s Guide provides all of the materials and support you need for teaching. Students will gain the academic skills required for success. Included in Kinder Kollege Teacher’s Guide: tips, forms, worksheets, lesson plans, pacing guides with suggested pacing, and an overview of the materials to help you teach.