Kindergarten At Home Activities
Here are some 'at home' activities to do at home to support your child's learning!
Literacy:
Read books everyday! Talk to your child about the characters, setting, make predictions about what might come next, point out words that your child might know, point out punctuation marks. Ask questions before, during and after reading.
Cut up sentences - Write a simple sentence and cut the words apart. Have your child build the sentence as fast as they can and then re-read the sentence. See if your child can locate words out of order.
Write using different media or mediums -(shaving cream, paint with water or paint, play dough, use a stick in the dirt, chalk, markers -thick and thin-)
Become detectives -look for words, numbers, patterns and letters all around your environment.
Read and write books
Play games (Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Checkers, Pictionary, etc)
Recite, read, and illustrate Nursery Rhymes
Play rhyming word games- “I’m thinking of a word that rhymes with mat”
Name puzzles - write words and names on cards. Cut up the letters and ask your child to make the words as fast as they can.
Count and/or clap the number of syllables in words
Flash cards- Write letters and/or sight words on index cards.
Sort letters- (magnetic or on index cards) Have your child look at the letters and quickly sort them:
Sort words (index cards)
Cut up sentences - Write a simple sentence and cut the words apart. Have your child build the sentence as fast as they can and then re-read the sentence. See if your child can locate words out of order.
- For example, "I like to play."
- Then ask, "Can you find the word play?" etc.
Write using different media or mediums -(shaving cream, paint with water or paint, play dough, use a stick in the dirt, chalk, markers -thick and thin-)
- Have your child write their name, letters, sight words, draw pictures
Become detectives -look for words, numbers, patterns and letters all around your environment.
- Search on signs, magazines, t.v., newspapers, books, and labels and record what you found
Read and write books
- Read & write simple books that have multiple pages of sight words using names of family members (I can, I like, I am, I love, I feel), etc
- Create books about family, vacations, animals, sports, friendship, etc. (in both fiction, and non-fiction genres)
Play games (Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Checkers, Pictionary, etc)
- Play card games (Go fish, Rummy, War, Uno, Crazy 8’s)
- Make simple memory cards for letters and or sight words
Recite, read, and illustrate Nursery Rhymes
Play rhyming word games- “I’m thinking of a word that rhymes with mat”
Name puzzles - write words and names on cards. Cut up the letters and ask your child to make the words as fast as they can.
- Ask your child to locate specific letters in the puzzle. "Can you find the letter F?" "Can you find a lowercase t?"
Count and/or clap the number of syllables in words
Flash cards- Write letters and/or sight words on index cards.
- Letters- Have your child say the letters, say the sound the letter makes, and a word that begins with the letter
Sort letters- (magnetic or on index cards) Have your child look at the letters and quickly sort them:
- straight lines vs. curved lines (l, w, v and q, e, r) etc.
- letters with tails vs. letters without
- diagonal lines vs. straight lines
- tall letters vs. short letters
Sort words (index cards)
- Put in ABC order
- Syllables
- With certain letters or sounds
- Beginnings and endings
Download & Print kindergarten sight word lists
& Take home cards.
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Math:
Count every day!
Practice writing numbers 1-20
Ask your child what's different between two objects
Become detectives -look for numbers, shapes and patterns all around you.
- Count to 100 by 1's, 10's (and 5's for a challenge)
- Count coins, cereal, sticks etc. "How many crackers do you have?" "If I gave you one more, how many would you have?"
- Move the objects counted into different formations to teach your child that they will still have the same amount if the objects are in a line, scattered or in a circle if you haven't added any more or taken any away.
Practice writing numbers 1-20
- Have your child write their numbers using different media/mediums (shaving cream, paint, using a stick in the dirt)
- Write numbers in order and leave some numbers out to have your child figure out and write the missing numbers.
Ask your child what's different between two objects
- "How is this sock the same as the other sock?"
- "How are they different?"
Become detectives -look for numbers, shapes and patterns all around you.
- Search on signs, magazines, t.v., newspapers, books, and labels and record what you found