Social Studies Activities Start with the basics.Īccording to an article in Family Education, “In the earliest years of school, the social studies curriculum is oriented toward the family and the neighborhood, social relationships, and what might be called civic responsibilities.” There are lots of simple activities you can do at home like teaching your child their address and phone number, the names of all the people in your family, and features of your neighborhood. Many places are offering virtual tours, from aquariums, and planetariums to great science museums around the world … Check out our picks for best virtual field trips. Maybe you can’t go out to the zoo or the Natural History Museum, but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the learning. Read about science.įire up your little one’s imagination with these fascinating reads chosen by teachers. PBS has a seemingly endless list of fascinating science resources to dive into including images, videos and interactive lessons from PBS Learning Media, all sorted by topic and grade level from frogs and owls to the sun and the moon. Explore the concepts of magnetism, buoyancy, and absorption. We think there’s no such thing as “too young” to conduct science experiments! Try making rainbow clouds, homemade paper or monster toothpaste. What could be more fun than peeking in on animals in their natural habitat? Make like a junior zoologist and check out this list of nature webcams. There are also loads of websites that provide math lessons and games.
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Check out the free printables for kindergartners available from. While hands-on learning and math games are the best way to learn math, there is also a place for worksheets to give kids practice working independently. There are a large variety of board games that teach kids basic math concepts, from Sorry! to Quirkle to one of our favorites, Sum Swamp. For more titles, check out our list of Picture Books About Math. Learn about big numbers with this book, Billions of Bricks: A Counting Book About Building by Kurt Cyrus. Stories are a great way to introduce and reinforce math concepts for young learners. You can use them for number identification (play a memory game), sequencing (put cards in numerical order), addition (add cards together to race to 20), and more. Learn to play cards.Ī simple deck of playing cards can provide many ways to practice math skills. For 16 more ideas, check out our kindergarten math games roundup. Try the fun stack cup activity shown above to practice counting skills. Games and hands-on activities are an excellent way to engage young learners in math learning. Try some of these fun alphabet activities that reinforce letter learning, like practicing letter formation with shaving cream on a cookie sheet, going on an alphabet scavenger hunt, and drawing pictures from letters. There are tons of activities-from identifying letters to learning vowel sounds and sight words. Do word work games.Ĭheck out the website IXL for word work activities that are the just right for kindergartners. Pre-writers can dictate their writing to an adult or tell a story aloud. Find subjects from spiders to favorite books and favorite foods. Write stories.įor kindergartners who are beginning writers, K12Reader has a great list of writing prompts five- and six-years-olds will enjoy. Treat your little one to a classic like Winnie the Pooh. In addition, Audible is offering free audiobooks for kids during school closures. For more, check out our Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read-Alouds and Activities.
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Some of the big names include Mac Barnett, Oliver Jeffers, and Peter Reynolds. And lucky for us, many of our favorite authors are offering online read-alouds and activities on social media. Research shows that listening to fluent readers read aloud is one of the ways to build better readers.
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For free e-book options you can download to your home device, check out this round-up of sources for free e-books. One of the very best things parents can do with their children at home is read, read, read! This title, Do Not Lick This Book, by Iden Ben-Barak is a great one for teaching hygiene rules! For more awesome books on topics from feelings and emotions to math, science and everything in between, check out our picks for 50 Great Books for Kindergarten. We only recommend items our team loves! Reading & Language Arts Activities
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