Kindergarten

What can I do at home to help?

LANGUAGE ARTS/WRITING

What can I do at home to help?

LETTERS

• Identify upper case/lower case letters and sounds• Upper Case/Lower Case matching

• Make UC/LC letters out of playdough, in sand, with noodles, puzzles

• Practice Letter Sounds through YouTube Videos, flashcards, games

PHONICS

• Identify Syllables

• Identify rhyming words

• Blend 3 – 4 letter words

• Segment words

• Initial Sounds

• Medial Sounds

• Ending Sounds

WRITING

• Write his/her first and last name in Proper Noun Form (Capital, then the rest lower case)

• Write letters to represent the sounds in the word (segment words)

• Label Pictures

• Invented Spelling is OK!

• Make Lists

SIGHT WORDS

• Flash Cards

• Find in books and magazines

• Stamp it out

• Rainbow write

• YouTube Videos (Google “Kindergarten Sight Words”)

• READ TO YOUR CHILD EVERY DAY!

Other Ways to Facilitate Reading/Language Arts

• Encourage your child to speak in complete sentences.

• Ask more than yes or no questions.

• Cut paper and use tweezers to pick things up at home to improve fine motor skills.

• Encourage Writing!

MATHWhat can I do at home to help?

COUNTING

• Count by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s, to 100

• Count concrete objects up to 20 (one to one correspondence)

• Count backwards from 20

• Write and Identify numbers up to 20

• Count from any given number

• What number comes before, What number comes after…

REASONING

• Make numbers in different ways

• Sorting and Classifying

• Describe using attributes

• Find Shapes in Environment

• Tell Time (on the hour, 30 minute)

• Identify Coins and Values

SCIENCEWhat can I do at home to help?

Explore

• Describe the natural word

• Listen to the Weather Report

• Collections (shells, leaves, stones)

• Patterns in nature

• Cook together

• Classify: Living and Non-Living

• Visit Zoos, Aquariums, Museums, Planetariums, Arboretums

SOCIAL STUDIESWhat can I do at home to help?

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Observe family photos and point out similarities and differences in characteristics

• Celebrations, Traditions, Holidays

• Grocery Shopping (Needs and Wants)

• Purpose of Rules

• Vote at Home on choices

• Texas and United States Flags

• Identify Community Helpers

MAKE EVERYTHING A

LEARNING OPPURTUNITY!