Teaching Kindergarten At Home
Whether you are teaching kindergarten at home for extra practice or support, your lessons and materials do not need to be complicated! Simple materials you have around your house will do the trick!
Some supplies that you may need:
- Sticky notes
- Paper
- Writing tools
- Small manipulatives – cheerios, legos, ziti, etc
- Books
- Organizer or caddy to keep all of the materials organized
The caddy pictured above can be found on Amazon here or by using the link below! I love that I can fit longer materials like books and have little organizers for smaller tools.
Seriously, that is it!
Now, read below to gain ideas for simple learning activities to do at home with your kindergarteners!
Write the Room
Write the room is a favorite! In this activity, children are moving around and learning at the same time. It is a win-win!
The options are endless with writing the room. This engaging activity can be used with:
- Sight Words
- Letters
- Spelling words
- Picture cards
- Numbers
- Quantities
- Shapes
- And so much more!
Here is how writing the room works!
Choose the learning task, let’s say sight words for this example, and on separate sticky notes write the sight words you want your child to record. Hide the notes around the room.
Your child will walk around with a piece of paper and writing tool and record the sight words they find. If you have clipboards or a portable hard surface for your child to write on it is helpful, but not necessary. A hardcover book would even work!
Variation: A scavenger hunt, where your child will gather all of the notes they find, then record.
Addition and Subtraction Stories
Give your child simple addition and subtraction stories that they can act out and solve with objects from around the room.
For example:
There are 10 Legos on the table.
Two Legos fell on the floor.
How many Legos are left on the table?
10-2=8
Super easy!
You can have your child record the equations on a piece of paper.
Variation 1: Give your child a set of objects and have them tell you a story. Then you solve the story on a piece of paper.
Variation 2: Tell your child a math story and have them draw it on a piece of paper. For example, I made found 3 crayons. Then I found 2 more crayons. How many crayons do I have in all?
I Spy Game
This game can be played with so many different learning tasks in mind.
- Letters
- Letter sounds
- Colors
- Rhyming words
- Quantities
Just to name a handful!
“I spy with my little eye something that starts with /b/”.
Give your child a chance to look around the room for something that starts with the /b/ sound.
If you want to practice counting, you can say something like:
“I spy with my little eye something in a group of 8.
Kids love this game and will want to keep playing.
Variation: Have your child be the “spy” and give you the clues!
Non-Standard Units Of Measurement
Give your child objects (all the same) and have them measure the length of things in the room.
Object to use for the non-standard unit:
- Legos (same size)
- Ziti
- Paperclips
- Anything!
Have them choose fun things to measure! Maybe your child wants to measure a marker, book, the cat’s tail, anything! Letting your kiddo use their creativity and imagination.
Just Read!
One of the best things you can do with your child is read. Promoting literacy early on has HUGE benefits to later learning.
When reading aloud to children stimulates the imagination, enhances language and vocabulary, broadens their understanding of the world, and helps to improve concentration.
You can also use questioning techniques to encourage other comprehension skills. For example:
- Before reading
- What do you think this book will be about? (after reading the title and looking at the cover)
- What do you notice about the cover?
- During reading
- How does [character] feel and how can you tell?
- Show me how [character] is feeling on your face.
- What do you think [vocabulary word] means?
- After reading
- What was your favorite part of the story?
- Tell me what happened in the story.
When applicable, have your child pull evidence from the story to support their understanding.
Have your kiddo pick the book, and get reading!
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Teaching Kindergarten At Home – Summary
I hope that this post is inspirational with implementing easy, engaging activities to help with teaching kindergarten at home.
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