At Home Activities
Build Your Own PuzzleCreate your own puzzle by cutting a cereal box up into many pieces. You can do this with a picture, box, colouring page etc. Just make sure to ask a grown up first! Race your family members to see who can put it together fastest. What letters are on your cereal box? Try to start with the words on the box and say each letter as you build it!
Buzz! Game"Buzz" is a fun game to work on letters or sight words. Simply print letters or words on popsicle sticks or scrap pieces of paper and place them in a cup. Be sure to write "BUZZ!" on a few of the sticks. Take turns playing by pulling a popsicle stick from the cup and reading the letter or word. If you know the letter or word and can say it out loud, you get to keep the stick as a "point." You want to collect as many sticks or "points" as you can. If you pull a BUZZ! stick you have to start over and put all of your words back in the cup.
Some students in Mrs. Magee's class have played this game before too! They played it using the word "BANG!" as the unlucky sticks. Get creative and make up your own version of this game! BingoBingo is an easy game to work on math skills. My son Cohen is in grade 1 and playing double dice bingo to work on his addition facts. We are using cheerios for counters and I made a simple bingo sheet on paper. To adjust the game for kindergarten simply use 1 die and make a bingo sheet with numbers to 6 to work on subitizing and number recognition.
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Nature Letters + Words Try to make letters and words out of sticks or rocks you find in your yard! Can you spell your own name? What sight words can you build? Race with your brother or sister to see who can build a letter or word the fastest! Leave a kind message for your neighbours like "See you soon!" or "Be Happy!"
Play Doh LettersUse play doh, slime or clay to make letters, numbers, and words! Mold the play doh into the shapes of the letters, or carve the letters into it. Have a family member read your letter or word and make their own. Race to see who can make their name out of play-doh the fastest!
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Write + DrawKeep a journal of what you did today! Draw a picture, label it, and try to write a sentence to go with it. Sound out the words as best you can and make sure to add lots of detail to your drawing. Don't forget your finger spaces!
Share your writing with your family or hang it on the wall for everyone to see! Create a book of memories that you can keep forever :) Scavenger HuntAnything can become a scavenger hunt! Kids love to have a mission - have them find certain objects around your house to practice oral language skills. Search for things in nature that look like letters of the alphabet or simply play Eye-Spy using descriptive language, such as colours, shapes, size, etc.
How to Use the Spring Scavenger Hunt: The spring scavenger hunt is easy to use. You simply search for the items on the list and check them off as you find them. Practice your numbers by counting how many of each object you find and writing the numbers on your page. There are several ways to make the hunt more fun though. Here are a few ideas: Take Photos of Found Items Kids love to take pictures. Arm them with an inexpensive camera. Or, better yet, accompany them and take pictures of them WITH the items with your own camera or smartphone. Offer Prizes
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