Stage · Roots · Year 1 of 4
Kindergarten
Age 5
Formation question
“Who am I? Whose am I?”
ABC anchor
Attitude · Love · Joy · Peace
What to Expect
How Kindergarten works in KFA.
Kindergarten in KFA is the first fully fleshed year — 36 weeks, 5 streams a day (WORD · MIND · CRAFT · BODY · CALLING), about 60–90 minutes of structured time plus play and read-aloud. The child encounters phonics systematically, math through stewardship-framed problems, the Story of God told whole, and the fruit of the Spirit one month at a time. By year-end the family lights a candle, the child paints their Memorial Stone, and the family names what God formed.
Stage & Cycle Placement
Where Kindergarten sits in the formation arc.
Stage
Roots
Year 1 of the Roots Stage.
Capstone: First Stones — Memorial Stone painted, named, and kept on the family shelf
Family Cycle
No Cycle this year
Story of God 36-week arc — Genesis 1 → Acts in narrative form
Fruit focus
Monthly fruit-of-the-Spirit theme — 9 fruits across the year
What Kindergarten Carries
The skills, the practices, the formation work.
Recites the 9 fruits of the Spirit
Sings or recites the 9 monthly memory verses
Reads CVC words and short sentences (Phase A → D phonics)
Writes their first name and the alphabet
Counts to 20 and writes numerals 1–20
Adds and subtracts within 10 with concrete objects
Tells the Big Story of God in their own words (Creation → Fall → Promise → Jesus → Church)
Names one fruit they have grown in this year
Faithfulness over perfection. No comparison to grade-level peers.
ESA-Eligible
Texas ESA-eligible · $129/mo · $1,500/yr · effectively $0 out-of-pocket for ESA families.
Texas HB 1 (2025) · $2,000/student/year for K-12 homeschool families starting 2026–2027.
Sample Week
Week 1 · Creation, Days 1–3
The first week of Roots Year 1. Genesis 1, the first three letters introduced (M · S · A), counting 0–5 with concrete objects, drawing “Day 1 — light” for craft.
The week
- Story of God: Genesis 1:1–13
- Fruit theme: Love (1 John 4:19)
- Memory verse: Genesis 1:1
- Phonics: Letters M, S, A
- Math: Counting 0–5; one-to-one correspondence
A real Monday
- 15 min — Stillness · Genesis · memory verse
- 15 min — Phonics M (sound, formation, song)
- 30+ min — Outdoor
- 15 min — Count to 5 with rocks
- 20 min — Craft: draw “Day 1 — light”
- 15 min — Family read-aloud
- 5 min — Bedtime reflection
Begin the Conversation
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