Pre-K SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES

• • The children can hold their own backpack

  • Dress themselves in the morning

  • Pick out their clothes the night before

  • Help set the table

  • Give them small jobs that they are responsible for

• Make a sign for their room or bed with their name

• Play school or library at home

• Look for "Ask Me About" papers to come home every once in a while

• Go on a nature walk and:

  • Count how many stones, sticks, leaves etc you find

  • Use stones, sticks, leave to make their name and other letters

• Read to them every night, use silly voices, loud voices, quiet voices etc

• Sort toys, buttons, clothes etc.

• Make bins with a picture of what belongs in there, encourage cleaning up independently

• Make an "office" just for them, have different kinds of markers, pens, pencils, paper...etc

In the Pre-K years, play-based learning is key to your child's development. Allow their natural curiosity to be your guide. For example, a child may see a spider that interests them. Encourage your child in this moment or throughout the day to:

• Draw the web or the spider

• Play a made-up bugs game

• Read spider books together

• Build a spider web using supplies around the house

• Figure out how many legs and how the legs of a spider work. This might lead to an investigation of the number of legs of different insects.