Please complete any of the following learning activities throughout the year. There are numerous activities at varying levels so that you can choose the activities that best meet the needs of your child. It may be helpful to read through every activity before getting started.
Literacy
Have your child practice printing their name and each of the following words: - colour words - number words - mom - dad - any sibling's names The goal is to have your child focus on forming various letters of the alphabet. Use sidewalk chalk and complete this activity outside while you soak up the sun. |
Practice identifying letters while painting a picture with Alpha Pig! You can find this fun, interactive game, on pbskids.org/superwhy/games/alpha-pigs-paint-by-letter/ |
Practice identifying upper and lowercase letters by playing Alphabet Bingo. The Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls blog gives you step by step instructions for making your own Alphabet Bingo game at home. You can access the blog at https://frugalfun4boys.com/learn-the-alphabet-bingo-game/. Write uppercase letters on your bingo board and lowercase letters on your playing cards to make the game a little more challenging. |
Have your child complete the learning activities from https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-classic/?mg=k to introduce your child to reading. |
Watch, Leapfrog Letter Factory on Netflix Kids to practice letter recognition and letter-sound correspondence. |
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Use sticky notes to practice matching upper and lowercase letters. Write each uppercase letter on a separate sticky note. Then write each lowercase letter on a second set of notes. Put one set all over the house. Then hand the other notes, one at a time, to your child. They need to name the letter and find its match |
Work on your rhyming skills by watching the amazing rhyming videos on Jack Hartmann's Rhyming video playlist. Access the playlist by clicking the following link: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8gCrX4G1M9wE79TgvgNdsInndRG-KIQ |
Have your child practice beginning sounds with a fun drawing game. Give you child a letter, for example A. Then, have them brainstorm and draw objects that begin with the letter A on a piece of paper. Go through as many letters as you would like. To extend this activity even further, have your child write the name of each object they draw. |
Have your child practice beginning sounds with a fun drawing game. Give you child a letter, for example A. Then, have them brainstorm and draw objects that begin with the letter A on a piece of paper. Go through as many letters as you would like. To extend this activity even further, have your child write the name of each object they draw. |
Play Beat The Clock to practice a variety of skills. How to play: - Write a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters or any words your child is learning to read in a vertical line. - One person is in charge of the 1 minute timer, while the other uses their fingers to point to each letter/word and say their name. The goal is to finish before the time runs out! |
Go a letter hunt through old flyers and magazines. Have your child write the uppercase and lowercase letters on a piece of paper. Then, task them with finding the letters in old flyers and magazines, cutting them out, and gluing them to their paper next to the letter they printed. If you don't have old flyers or magazines at home, you could drive around town and take pictures of the letters on different signs. |
Play ABC go fish. Print each of the letters of the alphabet on 2 sticky notes, recipe cards, or pieces of paper - one per note. Use these cards to play go fish. |
Have your child use Play-Doh to form their name, the letters of the alphabet, or any words they are learning to read. |
Play beginning sound I Spy. Have your child hunt for something in the house that starts with each letter sound. |
Numeracy
Have a nerf gun battle with your child. Before you start shooting, task your child with counting all the nerf darts that you are going to use. How many do you have? Count up from that number as high as you can. Count down from that number to 0. When your battle is over, can you count all the bullets again? |
Use sticky notes to practice identifying numbers. Write each number from 1-20 on sticky notes – one per note. Then write them on a second set of notes. Put one set all over the house. Then hand the other notes, one at a time, to your child. They need to name the number and find its match. Extend the activities by representing the numbers as tally marks, ten frames, or dice. |
Pick a random number for your child and ask them to complete the following activities: - write your number as a numeral - write the number that comes before yours - write the number that comes after yours - write your number in tally marks - show your number in a 10 frame - show your number on dice - show your number on a domino - show your number with pictures |
Help your child complete the Lego Math Challenges from https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/26-Brick-Math-Challenge-Cards.pdf. |
Use your Lego to make number towers. Stack the blocks together to make the numbers 1-20. Count each stack forwards and backwards as you go. |
Have your child play the patterning games from https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=FINISH%20THE%20PATTERN |
Play a card or board game together with your child. These games have a ton of numeracy concepts built in such as subtilizing, counting, and comparing numbers. Add extra numeracy questions (for example, can add 5 to the number you rolled?) into your play to increase your child's learning opportunities. My favourite games to play for numeracy concepts are Sorry and Go Fish! |
Work together with your child to make three different paper airplanes. Throw them all from the same starting point and have your child measure how far each airplane flew. Then, ask your child to line their airplanes up in order of the longest to shortest length of flight. Here is a video that shows you how to make three different paper airplanes with a step-by-step tutorial for each: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VvZ3tGszQ4 |
Play Back To Back together with your child to practice identifying, comparing, and adding numbers. How to play: - for this game, you will need 2 players. The two players will stand back to back and show a number between 1 and 10 with their fingers. - Count to 3 and say go! Once you say go, both players turn around and face one another. - The first person to shout out which number is larger, wins! - To make this game more challenging, have your child add the two numbers together. |
Have your child walk across their bedroom to measure it's length with their feet (walking heel to toe). For example: My bedroom is 15 of my feet long. Then, have someone else in your family do the same thing. Based on the length of your measurements, who has the bigger feet? How do you know? |
Have your child watch the video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcc8HbmoAuc to learn about sorting shapes based by attributes. At the end of the video, the teacher will assign homework pages to her class. Pause the video on each homework page and go through the questions with your child. |
Fill a small cookie sheet with salt, flour, sprinkles, etc. Then have your child practice forming letters by writing them in the salt on the cookie sheet with their pointer finger. If your child is ready, they can write addition problems in the cookie sheet to solve instead. |
Click the link below so that your child can play Bang, a fun numbers game, with Mrs. Wright and her friend Miss Cahill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1Df-qnA8Q&feature=emb_logo. |
Have your child make their own two and three item patterns using colours, shapes, animals or items from around the house. |
Use a dice to practice counting on. Roll the dice and count from that number up to 10. If you need more of a challenge, use two dice and count on to 20! |
Using a package of skittles, have your child complete the following activities:
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Subitizing is a mathematical concept that teaches students to recognize numeric values represented in different ways. Watch the subitizing video from Jack Hartmann at www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Mazc-SsG0&ab_channel=JackHartmannKidsMusicChannel to practice. |
Bake something with your child. Baking is a great activity to reinforce counting and measurement. Put the cup of flour and the tablespoon of sugar side by side and ask your child which quantity is larger/smaller. Count the number of cookies on the baking tray. What number is one more? How many cookies would you have left if you, and the adult you're baking with, both eat a cookie? |