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.
