Extra Skills to Work on at Home

Math:

• Practice counting to 100 by 1s and 10s

• Practice counting forwards and backwards 

• Count from any number forwards and backwards (ex: start counting forward from 16 or backwards starting at 60)

• 2D and 3D shape scavenger hunt inside or outside

• Find things around the house that are taller than you and shorter than you or things that way more than you or less than you

• Practice basic addition and subtraction facts

  • Make flashcards

  • Try to solve them without using your fingers

  • Use sidewalk chalk to practice basic facts

• Practice writing your numbers 0-20

  • Use pencils, crayons, or markers

  • Use shaving cream and write numbers in the shaving cream using your finger

  • Use sidewalk chalk to write numbers

• Play a boardgame that entails counting or math

• Play a math game online from the technology list

Reading:

• Read:

  • Read a book to a family member or pet

  • Have someone read a book to you

  • Discuss the book or answer questions about the book: 

    • Name the parts of the book: front cover, back cover, title page and spine

    • Who was the main character?

    • Where did the story take place?

    • What was the problem and solution?

    • What happened in the beginning, middle, and end?

• Practice your power words

  • Play memory with your power words

  • Write your words on paper and hang them around your house and go on a power word hunt

  • Write them on paper and have someone call one of the words out and jump on it

  • Practice writing your words with sidewalk chalk

  • 1G Power Words Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_1rGenzkA

  • 2G Power Words Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tGNNfUG5_Q

• Practice identifying letters and letter sounds

  • Play memory with letter

  • Write letter on paper and hang them around your house and go on a letter hunt

  • Write them on paper and have someone call one of the words out and jump on it

  • Practice writing your letters with sidewalk chalk

• Practice spelling 3 letter words by tapping them out or spelling them

• Practice fundations by saying the fundations chant- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMiie4vNwk&t=1s

Writing:

• Continue the May Writing calendar

• Keep a journal

• Look at a picture and write about it

• Draw a picture and write about it

• Write a book

• Practice handwriting by writing numbers and letters

Have fun together!

• Play indoor hide and seek.

• Make decorations, curate a playlist, and throw a family dance party.

• Try a new cookie or cake recipe. Bonus idea: Set up a camera or smartphone and film a cooking show!

• Go camping in the living room.

• Play board games.

• Design and go on an indoor treasure hunt.

• Plan a family garden.

• Dress up in your best clothes and have a fancy dinner.

• Have an indoor picnic.

• Listen to an audiobook or podcast.

• Try Cosmic Kids Yoga.

• Create your own bingo cards and have a bingo tournament.

• Create a family tree.

• Learn and play a new card game.

• Play with sidewalk chalk.

• Play indoor volleyball or soccer with balloons.

• Make paper airplanes and see whose plane flies the farthest.

• Make your own popsicles.

• Go in your backyard and look for four-leaf clovers.

• Play “I Spy” inside or out the window.                                                                                                                                                               

• Have breakfast in bed.

• Have a tea party.

• Create a nature scavenger hunt in your back yard.

• Play “The Floor is Lava.”

• Snuggle on the couch and read your favorite books.

• Rearrange or redecorate your room.

• Have a pillow fight.

• Make an indoor obstacle course.

• Have a family music night.

• Build a giant fort out of blankets, chairs and pillows

• Put on a puppet show.

• Make a scrapbook.

• Do a puzzle.

• Create a new dessert.

• Play 20 Questions.

• Write letters to family and friends.

• Play hangman or tic-tac-toe.

• Make a time capsule! One day your kids can use it to tell their kids all about this craziness.

• Skills a student needs to be successful when going to first grade:

  • Identify all letters and sounds

  • Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s

  • Write the numbers 0-20

  • Identify 60 1G power words

  • Basic addition and subtraction facts to 5

  • Basic sentence structure

  • Tapping/sounding out 3 letter words (ex.: cat, dig, mud)

  • Basic geometry (2D and 3D shapes)

  • Sorting by color, shape, size, or other similar attributes

  • Composing and decomposing numbers

  • Reading comprehension:

-answer questions about a story

-retell a story

-know character, setting, problem, solution, beginning, middle, and end