When it comes to discovering ideas for a kindergarten
activity, an easy place to start is the calendar.
For
example in the month of May there is national reading is
fun week. Hey, there's a thought emphasize that it's
national reading is fun week while take your child to
your local library's children's corner and get them
comfortable in the library. April has kite month and
poetry month. Many of these kindergarten activity ideas
can be used for preschool or pre kindergarten
activities. The kite month alone theme can be parlayed
into several homeschool learning activities and learning
opportunities.
Still haven't gotten your creative juices flowing yet?
O.K. lets toss out a couple, off the top of the head,
activities we can attach to our kite example.
When you're working with your child you can easily
combine their enthusiasm for building their kite into a
couple kindergarten activities such as arts and crafts.
Toss in a bit of phonics for a pre kindergarten activity
if you put big colorful letters on your kite. Math and
science as you design, measure, and cut the layout.
Make
a field trip to the hobby store that is after you have
done some list building with your child and got them
thinking about their parts list! Our kids never missed
an opportunity for this and we were fortunate enough
that there was/is even a kite flying bonanza at the
local park each year.
It was a great outing and
something that the kids looked forward to. And, I might
add, each year as the kids got older, it was incredible
to watch as their little kindergarten activity of
putting together a little kite, grow into quite the
science project incorporating aerodynamics, weights, and
resistance into their later kite projects.
O.K. there is just one or two quick ideas on how you can
use your calendar to develop monthly, weekly, or even
some daily kindergarten activities. To cover multiple
learning schemes I always found it helpful to take a
simple thought such as kite flying and then break apart
the parts of such an activity and use them for
individual lessons and homeschool activities.
