Kindergarten Learn At Home

Learn at Home Guide for Students: Kindergarten

Dear Parents and Students, The Learning at Home Student Guide includes suggested a suggested schedule, activities, and helpful websites to support your learning at home over the next week. Day 1..............................................................................................................X Day 2..............................................................................................................X Day 3..............................................................................................................X Day 4..............................................................................................................X Day 5..............................................................................................................X

Suggested Schedule

Kindergarten Day One Subject Reading and Writing Math Science Health Arts

Amount of Time

Possible Activities

Kindergarten – Day 1 Reading & Writing Name____________________________ Date________________

Activity 1:

Select a book to read. Tell your child the title and author. Before you read the book, look at the cover and the pictures. Ask your child what they think the story will be about. Write his or her comments below. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

After reading the story with your child, ask your child to tell you what actually happened. Did he or she guess correctly? Write his or her comments below. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

Activity 2:

Have your child draw a picture of the favorite part of the story below.

Kindergarten – Day 1 Mathematics Name____________________________ Date________________

[insert activity description and/or instructions and/or handout]

Kindergarten – Day 1 Science

Kindergarten – Day 1 Health and Fitness

Kindergarten – Day 1 Arts

Suggested Schedule Kindergarten Day Two Subject Reading and Writing Math Science Health Arts

Amount of Time

Possible Activities

Kindergarten – Day 2 Reading and Writing Name____________________________ Date________________

Activity 1:

Select a book/story to read together. Ask your child to tell you how this book is alike or unlike other books he or she has read/listened to. Write his or her comments below. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Read the story to your child. Ask him or her to think about one thing that stands out in his or her mind about this story. Write it down. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

Activity 2:

Have your child draw a picture of what happened in the story, and try to draw things in the order that they happened.

Kindergarten – Day 2 Mathematics Name____________________________ Date________________

[insert activity description and/or instructions and/or handout]

Kindergarten – Day 2 Science

Kindergarten – Day 2 Health and Fitness

Kindergarten – Day 2 Arts

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Day Three

Subject Reading and Writing Math Science Health Arts

Amount of Time

Possible Activities

Kindergarten – Day 3 Reading and Writing Name____________________________ Date________________

Activity 1:

Select a book to read with your child, or if your child can read, select a book that he or she is able to read on their own. After reading the story, ask that your child retell the story in his or her own words. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Write his or her comments below (or ask your child to write below). _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________

Activity 2:

Have your child write a letter to his or her favorite character below. What does he or she want to tell the character? Why?

Dear_____________________, ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ From, _________________________

Kindergarten – Day 3 Mathematics Name____________________________ Date________________

[insert activity description and/or instructions and/or handout]

Kindergarten – Day 3 Science

Kindergarten – Day 3 Health and Fitness

Kindergarten – Day 3 Arts

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Day Four

Subject Reading and Writing Math Science Health Arts

Amount of Time

Possible Activities

Kindergarten – Day 4 Reading and Writing Name____________________________ Date________________

Activity 1:

Select a book to read to your child or have your child read a book. After reading, ask your child to think about any new words he or she read or heard in the story. Write the new words here: ________________________________

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Activity 2:

Make flash cards of the new words from the story. See examples below:

Front of card

fish

Or

fish

back of card

Kindergarten – Day 4 Mathematics Name____________________________ Date________________

[insert activity description and/or instructions and/or handout]

Kindergarten – Day 4 Science

Kindergarten – Day 4 Health and Fitness

Kindergarten – Day 4 Arts

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Day Five

Subject Reading and Writing Math Science Health Arts

Amount of Time

Possible Activities

Kindergarten – Day 5 Reading and Writing Name____________________________ Date________________

Activity 1:

Your child is learning to get information from different print sources. Have a word hunt and ask your child find words they know from objects and items in the home: cereal boxes, toys, games, labels of foods in cupboard, advertisements, etc. Have him or her copy the words here, or help by writing them down for him or her. Write the new words here: ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ _______________________________

Activity 2:

Cut words out of newspapers, magazines, or ads. Have your child paste them in rows in the box below, according to the first letter of the word.

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Kindergarten – Day 5 Mathematics Name____________________________ Date________________

[insert activity description and/or instructions and/or handout]

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Kindergarten – Day 5 Science

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Kindergarten – Day 5 Health and Fitness

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Kindergarten – Day 5 Arts

Learn at Home Guide for Students: Kindergarten New York City Department of Education

FITNESS ACTIVITY GUIDE Parents: Help your child get 30 or more minutes of daily physical activity by choosing at least three activities from the options below. Each one takes about 10 minutes. We have included lots of choices, so that there is something for everyone -- from activities that increase heart rate, improve flexibility, and build muscle strength! If you have access to the Internet, you can help your child track her or his physical activity by going to http://www.bam.gov/sub_physicalactivity/cal_index.asp, where your child can create a customized physical activity calendar. GRADES K-2 • Activity Calendar (in English and Spanish) – hard copy and online at o http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/Toolbox/pdf_files/May09/Calendar_EC_Eng.pdf (English) o http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/Toolbox/pdf_files/May09/Calendar_EC_Span.pdf (Spanish) • Small Space Energizers – hard copy and online at o http://www.ncpe4me.com/pdf_files/K-5-Energizers.pdf • Get up and Move Game from “Lazy Town” – online only o http://www.noggin.com/games/lazytown/lazy_getup/ GRADES 3-5 • Activity Calendar (in English and Spanish) – hard copy and online at o http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/Toolbox/pdf_files/May09/Calendar_Elem_Eng.pdf (English) o http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/Toolbox/pdf_files/May09/Calendar_Elem_Span.pdf (Spanish) • Small Space Energizers – hard copy and online at o http://www.ncpe4me.com/pdf_files/K-5-Energizers.pdf • “10 at a Time” Activity Calendar – hard copy and online at o http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/Toolbox/pdf_files/May09/Ten.pdf • Get up and Move Game from “Lazy Town” – online only o http://www.noggin.com/games/lazytown/lazy_getup/ • Muscle Strengthening Routine at Home – online only o http://cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/videos/index.html

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INSERT FITNESS CALENDAR HERE

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RECOMMENDED ARTS ACTIVITIES All Arts Activities taken from the Blueprints for Teaching and Learning in the Arts: Grades PreK-12. DANCE PreK - Grade 2 Activities Practice structured warm-ups learned at school Explore and repeat movement. Improvise with props (e.g., balls, hoops, scarves). Explore images that suggest a beginning, middle and end; compose a short dance phrase—a movement sentence— with a beginning, middle and end.

Grade 3 to 5 Activities Practice exercises and combinations learned in a dance classroom that builds on strength, awareness, coordination and control. Discuss what a dancer brings to dance and what a viewer brings to dance. Compare and contrast live or taped performances of dances that are narrative (e.g., Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut) and abstract (e.g., Paul Taylor’s Esplanade). Compare and contrast works by choreographers such as Jerome Robbins (Fancy Free), Fred Astaire/Hermes Pan (Top Hat), Paul Taylor (Three Epitaphs), Alvin Ailey (Cry). View videotapes of children studying dance in other countries (e.g., Russia: The Children of Theatre Street), and compare with students’ own experiences in dance class. MUSIC PreK - Grade 2 Activities Visit public library and select a variety of recorded music selections for children. Perform music with repetitive or contrasting patterns. Perform music with a variety of dynamic levels. Sing songs in English and other languages with attention to feeling and musical interpretation. Play instruments with attention to feeling and musical interpretation. Narrate a story and create musical accompaniment using rhythm instruments. Perform the story and assign each Learn at Home Guide for Students: Kindergarten New York City Department of Education

student a role, such as: narrator, actor, musician, conductor, set/costume designer, tech/lighting/sound, composer, audience member, poster designer, usher, ticket maker and seller, etc. Draw a picture representing a person in the arts professions. Create a book with pictures and text that describes a particular career path. Sing songs about people’s jobs, such as “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” “Whistle While You Work,” or “Working Together” by Carmino Ravosa. Make up original verses to reflect jobs students can identify in their lives. List places in the community where music is performed. Identify the function and role of music in their daily lives (school, home, place of worship, shopping mall, etc.). Describe or compare ways music is used at home and at school for holidays, celebrations, and traditions. Create a list of expected behaviors before attending a concert in the school or community. Discuss and model expectations in class. Listen to a CD containing soothing environmental sounds (e.g., the ocean, a rainforest, birds, the wind). Simulate the sounds orally using breath, long-sustained vowels, or short percussive sounds made at the front of the mouth. Grade 3 to 5 Activities Listen to an American spiritual such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and, working in small groups, discuss feelings the song evokes. Use pantomime to demonstrate and capture responses. Listen to an orchestral piece such as “Dance Macabre” (Saint-Saens) and, in small groups, brainstorm/list the emotions and feelings evoked by the music. Discuss and report back to the class. Create instruments made from recycled or found materials. Use the Internet to identify music makers and music-making institutions in New York City. Go online and research the most unusual or unexpected jobs in the music industry. Develop 10 questions to ask a person in the music industry about jobs other than performing. THEATER PreK - Grade 2 Activities Pantomime simple daily activities, including healthful practices in eating and hygiene. Demonstrate the sound and movements of animals and/or people in a story. Learn at Home Guide for Students: Kindergarten New York City Department of Education

Dramatize storytelling through use of body, voice and gesture. Listen to a story and create improvised dialogue to play a scene from the story. Use gesture and voice with a prop, mask or puppet to express character. Create or re-create a story using tableaux (frozen body pictures) with beginning-middle-end and who-whatwhere evidence. Create a five-panel storyboard or cartoon for an original story or improvisation, with notes describing the main action in each segment. Use a photograph as a prompt for asking and answering the “5 Ws” (who, what when, where and why?) about the characters in an imagined story. Draw a scene or design a costume from a story read in class. Use a children’s story such as Goodnight Moon or Tar Beach to generate drawings and a 3-D set model based on the illustrations in the book. Using a drawing of a character as a basis, create a stick puppet that demonstrates the characteristics of the puppet through costume. Grade 3 to 5 Activities Through storytelling, puppetry, poetry jam or pantomime, tell a short original or traditional story, using theater skills. May be done solo or with siblings. Write a character biography or autobiography using the “5 W’s” (who, what, when, where, why). Develop scenes through improvisation, theater games or writing that have distinct character, clear relationships, conflict, setting, actions and beginning- middle- end. Use situations from literature, history or current events to create tableaux (frozen body pictures), and then devise character monologues from that frozen moment. Measure a room at home, create a ground plan and place furniture according to the plan. Design a marketing poster and program with logo or illustration based on a particular story or play. VISUAL ARTS PreK - Grade 2 Activities Create a painting that demonstrates: Learn at Home Guide for Students: Kindergarten New York City Department of Education

• personal observations about a place • control of paint media and various brushes • basic organization of space • experimentation with mixing colors Demonstrate the various ways that paints and brushes can be used: • paint – thick, thin • strokes – long, short, curved • colors – light, dark, dull, bright • shapes – big, small, layered Create a drawing that demonstrates: • experimentation with various drawing tools such as, oil pastels, pencils, colored pencils, crayons • use of varied lines and colors to convey expression Discuss how artists express themselves; note the use of different mediums, and the effects of black and white, and color. Create a collage that demonstrates experimentation with: • placement of shapes • color • pre-cut and torn paper • composition • textured materials • layering Discuss the role of color and placement of shapes in creating a sense of depth and balance. Grade 3 to 5 Activities Create a painting that demonstrates: • observation of detail • use of primary and secondary colors • use of tints and shades • balanced composition Looking at a work of art, discuss how the artists use detail, color, and balance to evoke a sense of place. Create a series of drawings that demonstrates: • volume • proportion • gesture • control Suggested theme: gesture drawings that show a figure at rest, work, and play. Refer to drawings by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, and Keith Haring to explore the expressive use of line; the work of Reginald Marsh and Al Hirschfeld to examine gesture. Create a collage using hand-painted paper that demonstrates: • awareness of visual textures • mixing secondary and tertiary colors Learn at Home Guide for Students: Kindergarten New York City Department of Education

• designing and cutting out shapes • use of positive and negative space

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