Lessons
Miss Humblebee's Academy is a thematic-based curriculum, where core disciplines are connected by a common theme (e.g., All About Me, Animal Classes, My Five Senses). The benefits of a thematic approach is that children will develop learning skills more quickly because material is presented in an inter-disciplinary manner. The lessons are in the following subject areas: Language & Literacy, Math, Science & Social Studies, Art & Music, Social & Emotional Learning, and Fitness.
Subjects We Teach
Language & Literacy
Miss Humblebee's Academy language and literature helps children develop skills required by state and national standards for early learning and K-12 school readiness. Preschool through kindergarten-aged children learn basic concepts and build a strong foundation in letter knowledge and sound. The curriculum gradually becomes more challenging as the child advances.
Children will learn:
- Alphabet knowledge, sounds each letter represents and writing practice sheets
- Upper and lowercase letter recognition
- Follow multi-step auditory directions
- Rhyming
- Blends (br, tr) and digraphs (ch, sh)
- Segmenting and putting sounds together to create words
- Parts of a book
- Comprehension
- Categorizing like words
- Sight words
- Auditory discrimination; example: distinguishing the difference between bin and pin
In addition, your child and you will enjoy hours of educational and entertaining reading that spans many literature styles, in both English and Spanish.
Math
Miss Humblebee’s Academy Math helps preschool through kindergarten-aged children develop skills required by state and national standards for early learning and K-12 school readiness.; Children learn basic concepts and gain a strong foundation in number recognition, counting, and writing. The curriculum gradually grows more challenging as the child advances.
Children will learn:
- Matching and sorting
- Number recognition, counting, and writing practice sheets 1-100
- Ordinal terms -- first, second, third...
- Prepositions -- on, under, above, up, below, left, right, middle
- Shapes – 2D and 3D and writing practice sheets
- Patterns – identifying, copying and creating
- Measurement
- Weight, size, and capacity
- Addition and subtraction
- Time
- Money
Science & Social Studies
Miss Humblebee’s Academy Science and Social Studies helps children develop the skills required by state and national standards for early learning and K-12 school readiness. Teaching children about the world around them opens their eyes to possibilities for experimenting and exploring areas of science.
Inquiry Skills, such as:
- Classifying and sorting objects by identifying one property (living vs. non-living)
- Sequencing by size
- Use of descriptive vocabulary (big, small, cold, hot)
Physical Sciences, including:
- Cause and effect (how adding water can change consistency)
- Sound qualities (pitch, volume)
- Sink and float experiments
- Senses
Life Sciences, such as:
- Identifying basic characteristics (color, size, shape)
- Features of the human body and what each does (mouth is for eating, hands are for touching)
- Basic comparisons (taller, shorter, thinner, wider)
- Life cycles
Earth and Space
Weather
Solar System
Planets
World Around Us
7 Continents
Multiculturalism/Ethnic Diversity
Art
Children explore art through the ages by learning about famous painters and paintings, as well as different forms of artistic expression. Children will also listen to auditory cues to paint by number and paint by letter.
Learning about art becomes even more exciting when children create their own masterpieces. Miss Humblebee's Academy offers hundreds of drawing, coloring, and tracing activities that can be completed on the computer or printed out to be used offline. Every artwork completed by the child can be turned into a puzzle with three levels of difficulty.
Music
More than 60 songs ranging from traditional music such as:
"Hey, Diddle Diddle"
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
"Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
to new exclusive thematic music, including:
"I'm a Shark"
"The Vowel Song"
"Shapes, Shapes, They're Everywhere"
You and your child will enjoy hours of educational, entertaining music spanning many music genres.
The music is available for listening on the site as well as for purchase in our Shop.
Social & Emotional Learning
Collection of nearly 100 online classroom lessons and offline extension activities help children learn how to regulate their emotions, develop self-confidence, and more. Includes digital animations, real-life video modeling, songs, and eBooks for both online and offline opportunities.
Fitness
Short on-demand videos and printables to encourage kids to get moving as part of a healthy lifestyle.
