Stay Engaged in Learning

Dear Pre-K Parents/Guardians,

Auburn School District schools are closed.

During this time, Auburn teachers are working to prepare to support your student(s) while at home. Your first point of contact should be your child’s teacher(s) and principal. Please look for communication from your child’s school. Here are a few things you can do to keep your children learning while at home.

We recommend that you continue to maintain a daily routine as much as possible. This may include getting breakfast and lunch from your local site. To find out where breakfast and lunch are being served, click here.

Reading:

• Read aloud with your child daily 20 minutes daily (ask them questions and have them point to pictures).

• Sing rhyming songs.

  • Super Simple Songs

  • ABC Mouse

• Sing the Alphabet Song.

• Practice identifying and naming letters and playing letter games (like sorting letters).

  • Starfall

• Practice identifying the beginning sounds of words.

• Practice reading words found around the home (cereal boxes, labels, signs)

• Practice long and short vowel (a, e, i, o, u) sounds.

• Practice sight words (and, do, go, to, you, are, he, is, little, my, she, was, with, for, have, of, they, said, want, here, me, this, was, help)

Writing

• Write down what your child says and read it back.

• Print your child’s name on things and help your child to trace or print their name.

• Have your child practice writing their name, upper and lower case letters.

• Ask your child to draw a picture and write words to describe what they drew.

• Practice writing letters

  • Letter School

Math

• Use number names when labeling things in the environment (“I see two dogs”).

• Count or sort items throughout your day (while folding laundry, cooking, cleaning up toys).

• Sort objects by size (small, medium, large).

• Use position words (first, last, top, bottom) and sequencing words (first, next, finally).

• Ask your child to practice counting to 20 with you.

  • Starfall

• Label colors in the environment.

• Identify shapes around the house and have students describe their attributes.

Other

• Describe what you are doing, seeing and hearing as you talk to your child throughout their day, including what’s coming next to help build routines.

• Ask your child questions and create stories together.

• Label and describe emotions of your child and other examples, such as pictures or books.

• Provide creative art and imaginative play opportunities with a variety of materials found around the house.

• Play games and practice taking turns.

• Encourage 30 minutes per day of activity (PE/Health).

  • Go Noodle

  • Cosmic Kids Yoga

• Teacher/Class Specific Assignments/Work.

• Resources for English Learning students