TK

Relax! Just by being in TK this year, your students have a great jump start for kindergarten next year. They are all going to be successful. Keep your kids playing, building, creating, moving and reading. Although the entire website is available for you as you homeschool, we will provide tips and ideas in this tab just for you!

Make Musical Instruments from Household Items!

Look around your home and find some things that you might be able to reuse/repurpose to make some musical instruments. Share your wonderful creations with your teacher on Marco Polo or Remind.

Please Practice the following this week:

  • Patterns
  • Writing Numbers
  • Saying the letter sounds
  • Identifying first sounds in words
Butterfly-Color-Patterns.pdf
Garden-Patterns-Cut-Paste.pdf
MTS-Writing-Number-0.pdf
MTS-Writing-Number-1.pdf
MTS-Writing-Number-2.pdf
MTS-Writing-Number-3.pdf
MTS-Writing-Number-4.pdf
MTS-Writing-Number-5.pdf

Rhyming teaches children how language works. It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words. ... When children are familiar with a nursery rhyme or rhyming book, they learn to anticipate the rhyming word. This prepares them to make predictions when they read, another important reading skill. Remember to read lots of rhyming stories and point out or notice when words rhyme. The kids love it!

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words. Phonological awareness includes this ability, but it also includes the ability to hear and manipulate larger units of sound, such as beginning sounds, ending sounds and syllables.

Here are some cut and paste mystery puzzles! Be careful, cut and glue the pieces so that you can find the safari picture! If you finish and color it, send your teacher a picture on Remind!

FineMotorCuttingActivityandNumberRecognitionPuzzleZooThemedFreebie.pdf

It is very important to listen carefully when you are reading a story. Here is a quick check-list of things your 5 year old should practice sharing after every story you read.

FiveFingerRetellGraphicOrganizer.pdf

Try using Q-Tips to paint or have kids carefully trace lines. You can have them write their name first and then make a pattern with colors or simply have them focus on staying on the lines they have made.

TK kids need to practice matching upper and lower case letters. Try this game and see how many matches you can make!

DigitalAlphabetMemoryGameUpperandLowerCaseMatching.pdf

Access our Interactive Teaching Tools at no cost

You can now access the Pre-K Interactive Teaching Tool and/or Handwriting Interactive Teaching Tool for 90 days at no cost. Families, you may utilize these tools during the school closure. Click on the links above to get started.

Click this button to see a few fun creation challenges!

27-Brick-Challenge-Calendar.pdf

Using Legos is an easy and fun way to strengthen small muscles in the hands as well as challenge a mind to create! Try these daily building tasks and snap a quick picture to send to your teacher through Marco Polo. Happy building!

This is the recipe we use at J.X. We love it. Make sure to store your playdough in an airtight container. Making and playing with playdough is a wonderful way to exercise hand muscles!