Elyria City School District Elyria Early Childhood Village 42101 Griswold Road Elyria, Ohio 44035

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

English Language Arts Math ● Point to specific items in the pictures of a book. ● Practice making circles, lines, and squares on paper ● Give your student a one-step or two step direction to using crayons or markers. follow ● Follow a one-step direction with positional words on, ● Sing nursery rhymes together top, bottom, under, behind, next to, between ● Color a picture of a story that you read together ● Sort shapes into two groups ● Practice identifying your students name by pointing ● Sort colored items (socks, blocks, food items etc.) ● Practice identifying the letters in your students name by ● Practice counting groups to ten pointing ● Practice identifying numbers to 10 by pointing ● Read books and magazines together ● Measure items at home using a ruler, yardstick, ● Help write a letter to a family member measuring cups, scale, etc. ● Go on YouTube for read aloud books ● Draw pictures using a list of shapes ​ ● Write a list of activities you want to do outside in the ● Make a grocery list summer ● Most games rely on numbers and math to make them ● Use any book, magazine, or reading material and play “I work. The season is coming up. Brainstorm Spy” with the letters. Example: “I Spy the letter M.” Or and list ways in which baseball uses numbers and math. “I spy a letter that says /m/.” Think about whether baseball could work without ● Practice rhyming words. numbers. Try this activity with other sports such as ● Do a Writing Word Walk around the house. Using a football, basketball, or hockey. piece of paper and pencil walk around the house and write all the different words you see. ● Act a story you have read. Or, make it into a play. ● Cut out pictures from old magazines that all begin 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 do ● Name all environmental print you see when in the car you think will happen? What actually happens? (restaurant names, stores etc.) ● Spend time outside and collect nature items ● Find environmental print in your house (food logos, ● Go on a walk and look for animals outside to identify clothing logos, etc.) ● Watch zoo webcams online to view animals from home. ● Make a list of the places in which you would like to travel Discuss what they eat, where they live etc. and give reasons why ● Play with shaving cream, flour or other sensory items ● Make a map of your neighborhood or your house ● Watch Steve Spangler Science Videos and discuss the ● Make a safety poster about the proper way to wash your question at the end. hands. https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/video_type/ ● Learn a handwashing song. sick-science/ also found on YouTube at ● Call a grandparent on the phone and talk to them about ​ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDom90xOqP4av how life is the same and different now. ehFjSJO6NA

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. ● Do a puzzle. ● Get books from the library. ● Practice jumping on one foot as well as hoping forward with two feet ● See how long your student can stand on one foot ● Practice skipping and galloping ● Using safety scissors have your student cut on a straight line ● Using safety scissors have your student cut on a curved line ● Practice making a tower using blocks or empty food boxes

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Watch & Learn https://digital.scholastic.com/site/launch/watchandlearn?ucn=6427 Library (Prek – 3) 26498

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