Free Secular Kindergarten Curriculum: Build Your Own Year

Reading and phonics

Start with Starfall for letter sounds and early reading, add Teach Your Monster to Read (free on the web) as the game that carries children from sounds to sentences, and use Duolingo ABC for short daily literacy lessons. Khan Academy Kids covers reading inside a broader learning path and is completely free.

Math

Khan Academy Kids includes math activities in its path. For practice on paper, K5 Learning has free printable math worksheets by grade, and Funbrain has free math games. Together that is concept, practice and play without spending anything.

Science

Mystery Science offers some free video-led lessons (the full program is paid), which is enough for a weekly science slot in kindergarten. Add library books and nature walks — the citizen-science projects on our sister unit-studies site are free too.

Books and read-alouds

Libby borrows free ebooks and audiobooks with a public library card, which replaces a purchased book list. A daily read-aloud from library books is the single highest-value part of a kindergarten year, and it costs nothing.

A sample weekly rhythm

• Monday to Friday, 20-30 minutes: one phonics activity (Starfall or Teach Your Monster) plus one math activity.
• Three times a week: a read-aloud from a library book, with your child hunting for sight words on the page.
• Once a week: a Mystery Science lesson or a nature walk with a question to investigate.
• Once a week: free choice from Funbrain, Code.org pre-reader courses, or ABCya games.

What to watch out for

• Free tiers change. Check each program's current pricing before you build your year around it.
• This plan needs a parent's steering — there is no single dashboard tracking everything, the way a paid curriculum would.
• If you would rather have one complete program and don't mind a faith-based one, Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool is free and complete, and AmblesideOnline is a free literature-rich option.