Read to or with your child for 10-15 minutes a day simply for pleasure. Engage in a conversation about what you read and why you liked it.

Recommended time: 30 min. daily

Printable Workbook:

• Kindergarten: English and Spanish

Offline

Students are currently working on learning about 2D and 3D Shapes.

Below are a list of things that you can do at home with your child.

• Find 2-D shapes at home with a family member (circle, triangle, rectangle, square).

• Find 3-D shapes at home with a family member (cylinder, cone, sphere, cube).

Complete 2 Activities each Week.

• Count forwards and backwards by ones and by tens. For a challenge, ask your child to start at any number (such as 23) and count by tens. Example: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

• Use sidewalk chalk (or paper and a pencil) to draw a number line. Put numbers in order on the number line. Choose a number. What number is one more (less) than? What number comes before or after? Which number is more or less?

• Go outside and collect rocks. Sort them by shape, color, and/or size. Count the rocks in each group and the total amount.

• Use small objects (beans, pennies, cereal) to act out math addition and subtraction story problems. Addition is defined as joining (example: Bob had 1 pencil. His sister gave him two more. Now how many pencils does Bob have?) and subtraction is defined as separating (example: There were 2 birds in the tree. 1 flew away. How many birds are left in the tree?). Ask students to tell you how many are left.

• Practice measuring skills: Find two objects. Ask your child to tell you which item is longer or shorter than the other? Which item is heavier or lighter than the other.

• Show your child two sets of items and ask them to tell you which has the most or the least (fewest). Example: Which is fewer: the box of 4 crayons or the box of 8 crayons?

• Practice reading and writing numbers. Ask your child to read numbers in their environment, such as addresses on the mail, prices at online stores, numbers on car gauges, etc. Students can write numbers using various mediums including pencils, crayons, sand trays, shaving cream, etc.

• Go on a shape hunt. Identify shapes in your house. For example, a plate is a circle or a kleenex box is a rectangular prism. Talk about the number of sides, corners and faces each shape has.

• Play card or board games, such as Go Fish, Uno, Chutes & Ladders or Candy Land. Students practice counting the dots on dice and reading the numbers on cards and moving a given number of spaces.

• Ask your child to bring one book, two pencils and three sheets of paper. As your child brings the objects, have them count out each item one by one. Take one of the items out and ask, “How many are now left?”

• Display a set of three or four objects on the table. Ask your child to look, then cover the objects with your hand or cloth and quickly ask, “How many are under the cloth?” Continue playing by adding or taking away objects.

• Count throughout the day...count how many steps it takes to get to the bathroom, count how many pillows are on the couch, count how many doors/windows are in the house, count how many grapes they will eat for snack, etc.

Videos:

• Shape Hunt - This video illustrates how basic shapes can be found in real world objects.

• 3D Shapes I Know - This upbeat music video explores 3-dimensional figures.

Websites:

• Shapes Splat - Your child will have fun identifying and targeting different 2-D and 3-D shapes in this game.

• Kindergarten Math by IXL - Your child can use Lessons V.1 to V.6 and W.1 to W.7 on the IXL site to identify, count, and compare different shapes. (limited access)

Printable Resources:

• Kindergarten 3D Figures Worksheet #1: English and Spanish

• Kindergarten 3D Figures Worksheet #2: English and Spanish

students are currently working on: Organisms and Environments Part 1 Living and Nonliving, Basic Needs, and Offspring

The activities listed below are optional until assigned by your teacher.

Activity Direction/Notes

STEMScopes:

Science Activities

Family Investigation:

• Go on a scavenger hunt in your home and outside and identify things that are living and nonliving. Draw a picture of at least 2 living things and 2 nonliving things.

🖨️Printable Resources:

• Circle Living or Nonliving

• Cut and Color Living and Nonliving

• Am I living?

Offline Activities - One Activity per Week

• Go outside with a notebook. Draw at least 1 plant and 1 animal.Talk about: What does each of those plants or animals need to survive?

• During the early morning or in the evening, go outside with a notebook.Draw the appearance of the moon each night.Discuss and draw your prediction: What do you think the moon will look like tomorrow?

• Weather: Make a weather calendar for the week. What does the weather look like today? Is it hot, cold, windy, sunny? Draw a picture in the morning, afternoon and night.Discuss: What kind of weather is your favorite?

• Work with a parent to prepare a snack together. At the beginning, take a picture of the ingredients, and at the end, take a picture of the prepared snack.Discuss: What did you like about making this snack? How would you change it to make it better?

• Get a notebook. Take some magnets off your refrigerator. Go around your house and test to see what responds to a magnet. On the left side of the notebook, draw pictures of things that did not respond to the magnet.On the right side of the notebook, draw pictures of things that did respond to the magnet.

• Discuss: How were the things that responded to the magnet different from the things that did not respond to the magnet?

• Fill up a bucket or a sink with water. Grab some items around your house and put them in the water. Do they sink or float? Make a T-chart with items that sink on the left and items that float on the right.Discuss: What did you notice about items that sink? Items that float?

Activity Directions & Notes

Studies Weekly

• Log-in through Classlink

• Listen to the articles and watch the videos

OFFLINE ACTIVITIES - 1 activity every week

• Describe your day to a household member, and ask them to write down what you say. Be to include what you did during the day, things you liked, things you didn't like. Ask the writer to start by writing the date and then to write what you say. You design a cover, and at the end of our "Shelter in Place," you'll have your very own priimary source diary of this historical event.

• Who are the helpers in your community? Draw a picture of five the people you see who are helping the community as you go through your day. Be sure to include those you see in your neighborhood, on TV, in shows.

• Ask someone in your family to tell you her story/history. Remember one thing he or she shares and tell someone else in your family. Then draw a picture of that person doing the one thing you remember and present it to the person you interviewed.

• Draw a picture of someone in your family working at their job.

• Make a list of the tools you see in your home. Tell a parent or guardian what five of them are used for.

• Draw a picture of someone who is a hero to you and tell someone why you believe so.

• Find a picture of a famous person who made a difference in the world. Cut it out if possible. Explain how to someone in your household.

• Work together to make a simple map of your home or street. Talk about how long it takes to get from one place to another.

• Ask someone to write down ways you are a helper to your family. Come up with one new way you can help while we all stay and work at home.

• Find out (if you don’t already know) the name of the Governor of Texas. Tell someone in your home what his role is during the time we stay at home.

• Recite the Texas Pledge of Allegiance. Then recite the American Pledge of Allegiance. Talk about what each pledge means with an adult in your family.

• Interview two people in your family and ask them what their ideal job would be and why? Think about a job you might like when you're older.

• Think about a movie you've seen in which the character had to take on some kind of responsibility for his or her community. Draw a picture of that character taking on that responsibility and what he or she may have had to sacrifice to be a good citizen.

• Take a virtual field trip with a family member on Kidvision Pre-K on KLRU or PBS.

• Watch "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" on KLRU. Discuss the challenge Daniel experiences during the show. Then discuss how he demonstrates good citizenship with someone in your family.

• Watch Sesame Street on KLRU. Draw a picture of one of the characters you see in the show who demonstrate good citizenship. Put their name at the top of the drawing. Share what they did with a family member.