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Online Resources and ActivitiesThe following link will take you to where you can sign up for a free years-worth of online story reading! Utilize these when you need to step away to take a call, wash a dish, or just when you kid needs a little constructive down time. following link will take you to a webpage on journaling for preschool. The site refers to journaling for 3 year olds but the idea will apply to 4 and 5 year olds as well. While the kids are home and out of school we want to make sure we are supporting their writing skills and development. Make sure your child is drawing and writing every day to help improve their literacy and fine motor skills. ’t forget about science! The best experimenters are always little kids. They are naturally inquisitive and curious about the world and how things work. There are an endless number of experiments and science activities found on the web that you can easily set up at home. Here are a few links to give you some ideas to get started. Most of the activities below are done with simple things you already have around the house! our classroom all of our art activities are process based. Process art is art that is created not with the end product needing to look a certain way but rather when the child is allowed to create as they go (e.g. “the process”) without concern for the end product. Here are a few ideas for some at-home process art projects! addition to the above activities here are a few other ideas for things you can do at your home to enhance your child’s stay-home time: Cook with your kid. Let your child, pour, mix, measure etc. Talk to them about the cooking process and the ingredients you are using. Believe it or not cooking is all math and science and it is a very natural way for children to learn math/science concepts. Read, read, read. It is important to read to your child every day. It is ALSO important for them to read to you. YES. Your pre-k student can “read”. This is a skill they have been working on every day at school during an activity called buddy reading. Reading for a pre-k kid is learning how to flip the pages in the right direction, looking at the pictures and creating a story out of what they see on the pages. As you continue to read to your child you will notice they will eventually begin to memorize part, if not all, of the story to read it back to you. This is a very important step in learning how to eventually decode the text themselves. Play outside. Explore whatever outdoor space you can together. Gather pieces of nature to observe (rocks, twigs, leaves, etc.). Get into the dirt and mud as we enter the spring season. Consider a gardening project! Explore the creepy, crawly creatures we can find just outside our door. Children are naturally curious about the word around them. I did a whole unit on worms one year and the kids went crazy over getting to hold, observe and learn about the worms. Play dress-up. As silly as it feels as an adult to play dress-up it is an activity that offers endless amounts of fun and creativity for your child. Use what you have to transform you or your child into a pirate, chef, veterinarian, etc. Make a box fort. If you are anything like me you’ve probably placed an online order or two in the recent past. Cut, tape, stack, color and drape blankets to create an elaborate box fort that will provide your child with days upon days of fun and entertainment. Try out a little Kid Rise Yoga with former Escalante-Biggs teacher Ms. Kayla at . If your child enjoys this they might also like Cosmic Yoga Adventures which can also be found on youtube. Create a daily schedule on a large poster paper that includes time you plan to spend together, apart (having designated alone times can give you the time you need to get things done around the house or just step away to take care of yourself), meals, specified activities, etc. Having a daily schedule gives your child structure that they not only need but naturally craze. To make it even more fun, allow your child to be in charge of the schedule. They will love being the one who says what is next and love crossing off what they have already done. (If you want help with making a schedule I am happy to assist!)Have your child write letters to their classmates. They don’t have to be phonetically accurate at this point. Just let them use the literacy knowledge they have gained so far to write scribbles, strings of letters, or partially phonetically spelled writing. Make sure you write down at the bottom what they say their message says and don’t forget to let them draw pictures, add stickers or anything else they can do to be creative! I will make sure they have an opportunity to get their letters delivered to their classmates. ................
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