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!
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.
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.
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!
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!