Here are some ideas for homeschooling your kindergarten child in May! These activities are based on Waldorf and Charlotte Mason education models, so there is no formal schooling yet, such as language arts or math lessons. Instead, the activities reflect the seasonal rhythm of the year to give children a sense of time, place, and connection.
Even though the official start of spring was in March, May is often when it feels like spring is really ushered in. Flowers are everywhere, and green leaves cover the trees. We see bees out and about and even the occasional butterfly. In Ohio, we plant most of our vegetables and flowers in mid to late May, after the danger of frost.
The watercolors I chose for this month reflect Memorial Day and what we see in the natural world around our home.
Theme and Festivals
Our theme for this month is gardening. On our property, we have several native plant gardens and a raised bed with strawberries, herbs, and vegetables. Most of our gardening activities in May involved cutting and clearing dried out stems from the previous year’s flowers, but we do get to plant our tomatoes and any herbs that didn’t survive the winter.
Our celebration this month is Mother’s Day. We’ll either take my Mom out for tea this month or have afternoon tea at our house. We’ll also observe Memorial Day at our city’s parade and ceremony.
Here is our May schedule. We follow a four-day schedule because of our Thursday co-op. I can’t share some of the handwork and beeswax modeling we have planned because they come from other curriculums, but I’ll let you know where you can find them. I’ve also created my own handwork resource.
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May Homeschool for Kindergarten
Theme: Gardening
Festivals: Mother’s Day
Daily homeschool schedule
During breakfast: Bible study; read a poem.
Lavender’s Blue circle time (movements with seasonal songs and verses).
Main activity
During lunch: Folk song, picture, composition, or hymn from Ambleside’s schedule. Then I read aloud. We’re currently working through the free reads on Ambleside’s Year 0 schedule.
Monday afternoon: Nature study
Main activities
Week 1
Friday: Paint rocks to look like insects
Week 2
Monday: Bake honey cake
Tuesday: Watercolor with green, yellow, and blue
Wednesday: Model a bee with beeswax
Friday: Thumbprint bumblebees
Week 3
Monday: Bake Very Hungry Caterpillar cake
Tuesday: Watercolor with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
Wednesday: Model a butterfly with beeswax
Friday: Handwork from Lavender’s Blue
Week 4
Monday: Make bug snacks
Tuesday: Watercolor with red and blue
Wednesday: Model a flag with beeswax
Friday: U.S. flag craft
Week 5
Monday: Fruit pizza flag
Tuesday: Summer break!
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