Yes. Read lots and lots and lots of books to the child. Practice letter sounds. Work on identifying colors and shapes. Practice counting objects to ten. Practice grouping objects into groups of ten. Practice grouping tens into one hundred. Practice Dolch primer and pre-primer sight words. Practice identifying patterns. Illustrate very basic addition and subtraction with physical objects. Practice writing letters and numbers. On paper, in sand, with paint, with macaroni and glue. Practice re-telling stories. Tell your child a made up story, or read a book, and see if the child can tell the story back to you. Focus on getting the events in the right order, and being able to accurately answer questions about the story. Practice playing with other kids as often as you can. Practice using good manners. Practice safety issues. Fire. Meeting dogs. Water. Stranger danger. etc. Read books, and more books, and even more books to the child. Go to the library weekly and let him/her pick out one book for every year of his/her age....while you pick out fourteen other books, so you can read them at least two new books a day. Invest a small fortune in art supplies and USE them daily. Draw numbers and letters. Read a story and have your child make illustrations. Have your child "write" original stories using pictures. Start saving colored paper from junk mail, toilet paper tubes, scraps of fabric, and anythign else you'd usually throw away that can be repurposed for creative projects. Start a curiosity cabinet of things the child finds outdoors...egg shells, stones, sea shells, pine cones, bird feathers. Show your child how to press leaves and flowers in books. Start a nature scrap book. Read more books. Go to a pioneer day event. Do puzzles of the United States. Watch Little House on the Prairie. Mark where your house is on a globe. Look at pictures of other places around the world and point to where the pictures are on the globe. Make cookies. Make French crepes. Make Indian flat bread. Make tacos. Talk about culture. Visit an orchard. Buy apples and make applesauce. Read more books. Tell the child I love you at least three times a day. Hug the kids often. Don't worry about the rest. LOL. PS...When you teach the letter "C" make this paper bag cat puppet! http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mbagcat.htm Sure, you can teach "C" without it. But why would you want to? LOL.
You can also do kindy while doing regular stuff around the house. Laundry can teach matching and pairs, little/littler/littlest, big/bigger/biggest, tall/taller/tallest (and other similar concepts), colors, symmetry (folding) and fractions (fold in half, in thirds, in fourths/quarters), and measuring (the detergent). Cooking can teach measuring and fractions, temperature, and some very basic chemistry, as well as health and nutrition. Cleaning can teach about bacteria and viruses, health, safety (don't ever mix ammonia and chlorine), the concept of deterioration (like that "science experiment" in the back of the refrigerator). Shopping can teach where foods come from, geography, health/nutrition, money, and making choices. Keeping appointments can teach about time and calendars, doctors and dentists, and getting there can teach about jobs/community helpers, road safety, safety signs, community services (over there is the police station, the fire station, the city hall, the "this" store and the "that" store, and so on, and that guy is a mail carrier, and whatever else you pass on the way), directions, maps, laws. Going outside can teach about weather, dressing for the weather, clouds, and whatever else you observe, and exercise/health. While washing dishes you can count, talk about what things are made of (metal, plastic, glass, wood) and used for. Setting the table you can do 1:1 correspondence (one for me, one for you, one for daddy or whoever else lives in the home), and beginning addition and subtraction (if the neighbors came over for lunch, then how many would we need), and things in sets (one plate, one fork, one glass, or fork/knife/spoon, or table/4 chairs, set of glasses, set of measuring cups/spoons). One thing will lead to another and you can follow up with books from the library, videos, etc. And if you think you need worksheets, get one of those giant K workbooks from WalMart. It has letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and handwriting, and other stuff. Plenty.
For structured both Easy Peasy and Ambleside Online are completely free! If she wants to pay, I bought Heart of Dakota used pretty cheaply. (like around 25 dollars).
Wow. What they said! I always find that kindergarten needs to be less structured and more about learning through play. That is what kindergarten USED to be when WE were kids. I concentrated on Learning letters, numbers, letter sounds, and math (like adding and subtracting, sorting, largest to smallest, etc). I used www.starfall.com to teach them to read at that age, and let them self-direct on it a bit. I did have them do the stories in order during our "formal" time, but I'd let them play for a while each day and look at or do what they wanted on it. All three of my kids learned to read using that site, and are great readers now. It's not for everyone, but worked for us. I always just used easy math workbooks from the dollar store until my youngest, I used Horizon's Kinder Math for her, she loved it!
