- Cut
- Lace
- Trace
- Color using 1 1/2 inch piece of crayon inside the lines.
- Finger paint
- Model with clay
- Turn nuts and bolts
- Tear around magazine pictures
- Paste
- String beads
- Write on a chalkboard
- Snap
- Zip
- Fold
- Squeeze water from a sponge
- Spoon rice from one container to another
- Put things in a pocket chart
- Put things pennies in a slot
- Screw lids on a jar
- Spoon water into a bowl
- Use a flour sifter
- Use tongs to pick up objects
- Punch holes in paper.
- Pin safety pins on material
- Scrub pots
- Sand Wood
- Pick up un-popped popcorn with tweezers
Washington Elementary Kindergarten
At Washington Elementary, the Kindergarten teachers would like you to be informed about working with your child. Our hope is that this blog can be another tool to help you work with your child. Parents are their child's first and most important teacher. Here are some simple ideas that you can use in your own home that will give that additional support at home your child may need. We welcome your ideas and suggestions and appreciate your efforts! Washington Elementary parents rock!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Fine Motor Activities
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Comprehension Strategies
It is key to ask your child questions before, during and after reading with them. No matter what questions you ask, lookout for questions that increase your talking about the book. Here are few examples of questions that you could ask.
- Factual questions ask for details about the text: "When does this story take place?" or "What kind of bird is this?"
- Inferential questions encourage children to read between the lines of the text: "Why do hockey players wear skates?"
- Opinion questions invite children to tell you what they think: "What do you think about that?" or "What did you think of the book?"
- Text-to-self questions bridge the text to the child's own experience: "How did you feel when that happened to you?"
- Text-to-text questions bridge the text to another text the child has read: "Is this like another book that we've read?"
- Prediction questions ask children to tell you what might happen next: "What do you think the bird is going to do with the twig?" or "What do you think the author will teach us about next?"
- Authorship questions ask children to think like the author: "What would you have David do if you wrote the story?"
- Vocabulary questions ask children what they know about a word: "What do you think the word glare means?"
The words that are used may seem too complicated for a kindergartener. The truth is that when they start doing guided reading their teachers will be using these words all the time. Why not start now. Well I hope these ideas have given you a starting point. Go have a great time reading to your kindergartener.
Begining Sounds
http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/Kindergarten/la.htm
Sorting
http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/interactive/kindergarten.htm#Math%20Links
Numeral Recognition and Writing
- Start at the top and come straight down(repeat two times). To make a numeral 1.
- Half way around and slide to the right(repeat two times). To make a numeral 2.
- Circle around and around again (repeat two times.) To make a numeral 3.
- Down, slide, cut in half, thats the way(repeat two times) To make a numeral 4.
- Down and around and put on his hat(repeat two times) To make a numeral 5.
- Come right down and give it a curl (repeat two times) To make a numeral 6.
- Slide to th right and then slant down(repeat two times) To make a numeral 7.
- Make an "S" and go straight home(repeat two times) To make a numeral 8.
- Circle around and then straight down(repeat two times) To make a numeral 9.
- Make a one and then add a zero(repeat two times) To make a numeral 10.
Patterns, Shapes and Colors
http://kids.aol.com/homework-help/junior/math/shapes
Counting by Tens, Fives, and Twos.
http://www.jackhartmann.com/order.php