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Learning with Kindergarten students can take place anywhere, anytime. Encourage active learning throughout your day!

• Counting Opportunities:

  • Count steps while walking or climbing stairs.

  • Count cars of a particular color while on a drive.

  • Count items during grocery shopping, like fruits or boxes of cereal.

  • Use cooking and baking as an opportunity to count and measure ingredients.

• Rhyming Activities:

  • Make up silly rhymes during everyday activities, like dressing up or cleaning.

  • Read nursery rhymes and encourage children to come up with their own ending rhymes.

  • Play simple rhyming games during car rides, like naming words that rhyme with a seen object.

• Shape and Color Identification:

  • Ask children to identify shapes and colors in their environment, like round plates or green trees.

  • Turn shape and color identification into a scavenger hunt at home or at the park.

• Pattern Recognition:

  • Create patterns with everyday objects (like forks and spoons) and ask the child to continue the pattern.

  • Notice and discuss patterns in clothing, nature, or buildings.

• Storytelling and Imagination:

  • Encourage children to tell a story about their day or make up stories based on pictures in books.

  • Ask open-ended questions to stimulate imaginative thinking, like “What would you do if you could fly?”

• Problem Solving in Daily Tasks:

  • Involve children in simple problem-solving activities, like figuring out how to organize toys.

  • Encourage them to come up with solutions for small challenges, like fitting puzzle pieces or building a block tower.

• Observation and Inquiry:

  • Take nature walks and ask children to observe and ask questions about what they see.

  • Encourage curiosity in daily activities, like cooking, gardening, or watching weather changes.

• Letter Recognition and Writing:

  • Point out and read signs and labels in the environment.

  • Provide opportunities for them to write and draw, like making grocery lists or drawing a picture of their day.

• Number Concepts:

  • Talk about time using concepts like ‘before’, ‘after’, and ‘in an hour’.

  • Discuss quantities and simple additions or subtractions, like adding plates to the table or taking away toys.

• READ to and with your Kindergarten student! 

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