Thematic Kindergarten is a course designed to help beginning students enjoy learning letters, their sounds, numbers, their order, shapes and colors. The activities are auditory and hands-on, but students will still need some adult help to navigate through the course. Emphasis is on both learning sight words and knowing letter sounds. Interactive reading materials encourage beginning readers. Sorting and ordering skills provide lots of practice. The consistent structure of the course helps the student become comfortable with online learning. Students who participate in Thematic Kindergarten Part A will complete a variety of activities that will help them to master all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet and their sounds. They will also be introduced to consonant blends and understand how they are used to create words. Students will learn how to write sentences to create a story, and learn the importance of using punctuation, spaces and proper capitalization. Finally, students will participate in a variety of activities that will allow them to understand patterns, data collection, two and three-dimensional shapes and to master the numbers from 0 to 20.