Here are some ideas for homeschooling your kindergarten child in March! 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.
March makes me happy. Yes, it’s still cold, but it’s the start of spring, and flowers begin blooming. There is hope for warmer days and an abundance of sunny skies. It’s also my birthday month, which, I admit, was more fun when I was younger, but I still enjoy celebrating it.
The watercolors I chose for this month reflect what we see in the natural world around our home.
Theme and Festivals
Our themes for this month are spring and rainbows. As rain and thunderstorms take the place of snow in March, seeing rainbows is a possibility. Rainbows can also represent all the colors we see starting to return to the earth.
Our celebrations this month are the first day of spring, my mom’s birthday, and my birthday. To celebrate the start of spring, we choose a Saturday for Spring’s birthday party, an idea that came from Lavender’s Blue. We invite my parents and grandma over for lunch or tea and dessert. Since my husband and I like to make Jesus’s resurrection the sole focus for Easter, Spring’s birthday party is when we dye eggs, give gifts like rain boots and special toys to our daughters, and hide eggs to find. Last year, my mom made a bunny cake, one of my favorite desserts when I was a kid.
Here is our March 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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March Homeschool for Kindergarten
Theme: Spring, rainbows
Festivals: First day of Spring, birthdays
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
Monday: Bake maple donuts
Tuesday: Watercolor with green
Wednesday: Model eggs with beeswax; rainbow weaving
Friday: Sprout chia or grass seeds indoors
Week 2
Monday: Bake meringue cookies
Tuesday: Watercolor with blue
Wednesday: Model rain drop with beeswax; rainbow weaving
Friday: Handwork from Whole Family Rhythms
Week 3
Monday: Bake sun bread
Tuesday: Watercolor with yellow
Wednesday: Model sun with beeswax; rainbow weaving
Friday: Bake bunny cake
Saturday: Spring’s Birthday Party; dye eggs
Week 4
Monday: Bake carrot muffins
Tuesday: Watercolor with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
Wednesday: Model rainbow with beeswax; rainbow weaving
Friday: Handwork from Lavender’s Blue
Week 5
Monday: Bake hummingbird cake