Get to Know the Teacher’s Guide

ABOUT THE KICK START KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM

Our intuitive and engaging student materials make learning handwriting joyful and fun. The materials below were created to fit into your daily routine. As you become familiar with the program, gradually incorporate new activities and choose those that suit your students’ needs.

Kick Start Kindergarten Student Edition

The Student Edition is loaded with capital, lowercase, word, sentence, and number practice. Your students will love the fun activities, which develop their handwriting and sentence skills. We developed 36 weeks of teaching guidelines in this teacher’s guide to help you plan your lessons.

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The Digital Student App

Our Digital Student App allows students to access the full Handwriting Without Tears curriculum virtually. In a student friendly digital environment, they complete lessons assigned by their teacher that include, music, animations, and digital formation tools. The physical Student Edition and Digital Student App work together to provide a perfectly integrated print and digital solution for handwriting.

Wood Pieces Set for Capital Letters

Included are the four basic shapes used to build capital letters: 8 Big Lines, 6 Little Lines, 6 Big Curves, 6 Little Curves. Children polish, sort, stack, and learn the names of the Wood Pieces. When they use Wood Pieces in teacher-directed play, they learn size, shape, and position concepts.

Capital Letter Cards & Mat for Wood Pieces

Next, students use the Wood Pieces to build letters. For example: they make B with a Big Line + Little Curve + Little Curve. The Mat and Letter Cards use a icon on the top left corner for orientation.

Slate Chalkboard & Blackboard with Double Lines

Use the Slate Chalkboard to teach capitals and numbers and the Blackboard with Double Lines to teach lowercase letters. Incorporate our Wet-Dry-Try technique to add endless opportunities to trace, write, and learn to form letters and numbers.

Individual Student Manipulative Kits

The individual manipulative kits include essential multisensory materials so students can access our hands-on learning activities from any learning environment.

Magic C Bunny

Make the puppet your teaching assistant. Access A Click Away for directions to make your own Magic C Bunny out of a paper napkin. Your students will form letters correctly when they learn the Magic C way.

Music & Movement

Music promotes movement, and movement positively affects cognitive development. Whether children are tapping Big Lines or writing letters in the air, our music and movement activities will enliven your lessons and catch your students’ attention. You’ll find our lessons are loaded with active learning, like Syllable Moves- a fun, stand-up-and-move activity that teaches students to hear and distinguish syllables.

FLIP Crayons® & Pencils for Little Hands

FLIP Crayons help children develop hand coordination and fine motor skills. They will love flipping them over and over to change colors. Our golf-size pencils are perfect for kindergarten children because they can write with pencils that fit their hand size.