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Books to Read at Home

As your Kindergartener learns about the natural world throughout the year, read along at home!

Seasons

Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak

Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenard Pak

Reading

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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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