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Kindergarten Ideas for Learning at Home These are suggestions not requirements of activities for you and your child to do together.

English Language Arts Math ● K-2 students may use Smarty Ants ● Practice facts - create flashcards ○ Go to https://play.smartyants.com/login ● enVision online math games ​ ○ Username: teacher email https://media.pk12ls.com/curriculum/math/gamec ([email protected]) enter/en_US/enV2-grade-k.html ○ Password: Student ID Number ● money, tell time on a standard clock, play ● Read books, magazines, newspapers, etc store ● Write a letter to a family member ● Sort like-shaped items (2-D - circles, triangles, ● Go on YouTube for read aloud books rectangles, etc; 3-D - cones, spheres, prisms, etc) ​ ● Write a list of activities you want to do outside in ● Measure items at home using a ruler, yardstick, the summer measuring cups, scale, etc. ● Use any book, magazine, or reading material and ● Draw pictures using a list of shapes play “I Spy” with the letters. Example: “I Spy the ● Make a grocery list and estimate the total cost letter M.” Or “I spy a letter that says /m/.” ● Calculate sale price using advertisement from ● Practice rhyming words. newspaper, magazine, etc. ● Do a Writing Word Walk around the house. Using a ● Most games rely on numbers and math to make piece of paper and pencil walk around the house them work. The season is coming up. and write all the different words you see. Brainstorm and list ways in which baseball uses ● Act a story you have read. Or, make it into a numbers and math. Think about whether baseball play. could work without numbers. Try this activity with ● Cut out pictures from old magazines that all begin other sports such as football, basketball, or hockey. with the same letters. ● Talk about the past or the future. “What did you enjoy doing last winter?” or “What do you want to do next weekend?” ● Pick a sport and think about the specialized language it uses. Create a glossary of at least ten words related to that sport. Create definitions and draw and illustration for each word. Example: Baseball-balk, change-up, , , relief , hitter. ● Look around the room and find objects. Say an object name and clap out the number of syllables in the word. Example: book has one syllable, microwave has 3 syllables, coffee has 2 syllables.

Science Social Studies ● Use various items from around the house and build ● Research a topic of interest in the world (location, something. person, culture, holiday, etc.) ● Do an experiment using household materials. What ● Make a list of the places in which you would like to do you think will happen? What actually happens? travel and give reasons why ● Watch Steve Spangler Science Videos and discuss ● Make a map of your neighborhood or your house the question at the end. ● Make a safety poster about the proper way to wash https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/video_t your hands. ype/sick-science/ also found on YouTube at ● Call a grandparent on the phone and talk to them ​ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDom90xOq about how life is the same and different now. P4avehFjSJO6NA ● Name a sports or entertainment celebrity who is generally admired, and ask yourself “If this person is a hero?” Make a list of the celebrities that are heroes and another list for non-heros.

Other ● INFOhio: https://www.infohio.org/ ​ ○ Username: elyriaschools ○ Password: pioneers13 ● Play board games (Scrabble, Monopoly, Checkers, Chess, etc) ● Learn a card game ● Cook or bake; follow a recipe ● Yoga, exercise, etc ● Paint, color, draw ● Practice tying your shoes ● Make up a dance to your favorite song ● Listening to music can serve different purposes at different times. Listen to some music and decide its purpose for example to relax, to dance, to sing, or to learn. Also, think about how it makes you feel.

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