Kindergarten Your child is in kindergarten, and you're wondering what you can do to help him or her be more successful in school! Here are a few videos with activities that you can do with your child at home. Check out the Pre-Kindergarten and First Grade pages for even more ideas of things to do at home.
Reading Click on the videos below to see how to do simple reading interventions with your child at home. Doing these activities regularly will help your child improve his or her reading abilities! Feel free to email the kindergarten teachers if you have any questions!
Blending
Echoed Reading
Sounding Out Words
Sight Word
Have your child choose twobooks at his or her reading level!Then, for each book, have your child complete the following activity. Children who complete two activities over the summer and bring them to school in the fall will get to participate in a celebration event.
Sight Words Practice these sight words: the and a is you on this we are can see here said in my dad go look at car for am me do how big it his to had her mom red get be school over home he many up baby down with help dog like not she play they walk too where your come him time all mother away ball back
Writing Activities Make lists Write in a journal Send letters or postcards Take photos and write captions for them Write How-To stories about things they have done Make a menu for a fake restaurant Practice writing in sand or shaving cream
Math Activities Practice saying your address and phone number Name the months of the year Name the days of the week Build sets of numbers 0-20 Go outside and count how many steps it takes to get from one side of your house to the other Count by ones, twos, fives, and tens Write the numbers as high as you can Make patterns Identify different objects in the house and what shape they are (square? circle? cube? cylinder?) Sort pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
Your child is in kindergarten, and you're wondering what you can do to help him or her be more successful in school! Here are a few videos with activities that you can do with your child at home.
Check out the Pre-Kindergarten and First Grade pages for even more ideas of things to do at home.
Reading
Click on the videos below to see how to do simple reading interventions with your child at home.
Doing these activities regularly will help your child improve his or her reading abilities!
Feel free to email the kindergarten teachers if you have any questions!
Blending
Echoed Reading
Sounding Out Words
Sight Word
Have your child choose twobooks at his or her reading level!Then, for each book, have your child complete the following activity. Children who complete two activities over the summer and bring them to school in the fall will get to participate in a celebration event.
Sight Words
Practice these sight words:
the and a is you on this we are can see here said in my
dad go look at car for am me do how big it his to had
her mom red get be school over home he many up baby down with help
dog like not she play they walk too where your come him time all mother
away ball back
Writing Activities
Make lists
Write in a journal
Send letters or postcards
Take photos and write captions for them
Write How-To stories about things they have done
Make a menu for a fake restaurant
Practice writing in sand or shaving cream
Math Activities
Practice saying your address and phone number
Name the months of the year
Name the days of the week
Build sets of numbers 0-20
Go outside and count how many steps it takes to get from one side of your house to the other
Count by ones, twos, fives, and tens
Write the numbers as high as you can
Make patterns
Identify different objects in the house and what shape they are (square? circle? cube? cylinder?)
Sort pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters
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