Kindergarten Learning at Home
Mendoza's Kindergarten Team has compiled resources for at-home learning activities. These activities are recommended but not required. Families may use the list as a menu from which to explore and select activities of interest to their student. Everything is an opportunity to learn; keep it fun and explore out-of-the -box ideas!
Please don’t make your kids sit at the kitchen table and do worksheets all day because that is NOT what they are doing all day at school. Take this time to develop social and emotional skills. Here is a great list of activities to do with your children. So many of these activities are beneficial for physical, social, and cognitive development!
Note: Several resources work best in Chrome. Open CHROME first. Then navigate back to this page to open the resource. You can click on the blue words or the images to be linked to the resources.
No access to the internet? Spectrum and Comcast offer free internet to students without WiFi during the school closures.
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!
Looking for a way to get your kid up and moving? Search Jack Hartmann's YouTube Channel for great active learning songs. We use A LOT of these in our classrooms and the children love them. You can find pretty much any skill your child needs to work on and in many cases, you can get your child moving to burn some of that pent up energy.
ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. Redeem Code: FREE CODE HAS EXPIRED If you were able to log on with the free code Wednesday (3/18), your account you made should still work. If you were not able to use the free code, you can still make a free account for 1 month, but you will need to pay the $9.95 if you continue to use it past the first month. If you do not have an account yet and you want to take advantage of the first month free promotion, please click on this little mouse. It will take you to the regular sign in page where you can create an account.
Free resources from Lakeshore Learning
Cara Carroll from Life In and Out of the classroom has shared a landing space on her website that will provide both parents & teachers with free resources that can be accessed while your students/children are at home. We are encouraged to see so many individuals and companies provide virtual opportunities for kids to continue their learning experience even when they aren’t in the classroom.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
Helping students exercise their brains and bodies
This program is usually used for review in the classroom. During the school closure, the company is giving parents 21 days of free access.
A set of 28 indoor movement challenges for our littlest learners!
Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links
(Click on colored text for links. Safe Travels!)
Find amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography, along with fun competitions, games and more. Visit National Geographic Kids today!
Meteorologist Crystal Wicker, designed Weather Wiz Kids® especially for children to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather.
Simply Kinder shares an extensive list of FREE WEBSITES. Some companies are offering free services for teachers because of the school closures. You have to scroll down a bit, but they are there.
Follow the link to see a list of the sight words we use in Kindergarten. Our goal is for the children to go to 1st grade knowing at least 75 of the 1st 100 high frequency words. We focus on the 1st 4 lists and add in some of the easier words from the 4th list. These are not words that the children sound out. They are words that they memorize for quick recall, kinda like you memorized math facts when you were a kid. Follow this link CLICK HERE for some great ideas for fun ways to practice these words at home. You have to scroll down a while, but they are there.
This site has a great explanation of why we work so hard on nonsense words. I know a lot of parents have questions about this and wonder why we think it is still something important to work on during the closure. The blog has a link to some free resources. It takes you to a teacher sight, but anyone can create an account and download their free resources made by teachers for teachers.