You can cover everything you need to cover with your kindergartener in 2-3 hours a day tops... that's most of elementery school, honestly. We're talking letters, numbers, colors, days of the week, months of the year, weather, seasons...lots of reading to them-- beginning letter sounds/phonics... counting to 10. Talking about bugs, leaves, etc. You don't even need material for that. Count your food, buy that giant kindergarten lined paper, and draw 4 pictures showing the seasons. Do activities to go with what they are learning. Every family has their own things they are into... my boys likes to draw so I had them draw stuff related to learning. Sonlight curriculum was my favorite because it was based on whole books. A lot of their suggested books you can find used or at the library, like The Berenstein Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature. Enjoy this time-it's precious. Edit: My oldest will graduate this year with an engineering degree (civil) from a military college and my youngest will be starting not long from now a mechanical engineering degree. Despite my inconsistencies, they still are wildly well adjusted, happy, and doing well. We don't have a lot of financial.luxuries, but our boys make us beam with joy.