KINDERGARTENCHOICE BOARDCreated by Deb Watters

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SORT THE SHOESHow many ways can you sort the shoes in your house?

Sort the shoes and let someone guess your sorting rule.

What else could you sort in your home?

GROW A GARDEN Grow a garbage garden with left overs from dinner.

Pictured here are romaine lettuce, celery and green onions.

Measure and draw as they grow and then plant them.

NATURE DESIGN AND WRITE If you take a walk outside collect some non- living things.

Use your nature pieces to create a picture. Write about what you create.

Share your writing with someone.

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SHADOW TRACINGFind a sunny spot. Set up some objects and put some paper beside them.

Trace the shadows that you see. You could use objects of any size.

Share your pictures.

Can people guess what you traced?

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NUMBER WALK/DRIVE If you are taking a walk or a drive in your community, record all the numbers you find with photos or drawings.

Where can you see numbers?

Share what you have found.

SOUND SEARCHPrint the alphabet on stickies or paper.

Search for something in your house that starts with the sound of each letter.

You can search outside too.

TRACE AND MEASURE Trace your body on a large piece of paper, the sidewalk or driveway.

Choose two different items and measure your outline.

What did you discover?

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BUILD YOUR MUSCLESBuild your finger and hand muscles by putting uncooked spaghetti noodles into a strainer.

How many can you fit?

Try not to break the noodles!

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CREATE A PUZZLE Find a cardboard box in your recycling bin. It could be a cereal box, a cracker box or even a pizza box.

Cut out the front of the box. Cut the front of the box into puzzle pieces.

You can make it harder by cutting smaller pieces.

What shapes did you cut out?

Practice putting your puzzle together.

What strategies did you use?

Can someone else do your puzzle?

What strategies do they use?

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PLAY A SOCK BALL GAME Check out this site on how to make a sock ball and enjoy exercising and playing:

https://activeforlife.com/6-active-games-kids-can-play-with-a-pair-of-socks/

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HOW MANY STEPSHow many steps will it take to walk ACROSS your kitchen?

How many steps from the front door to the back door? How many steps AROUND your bedroom?

Estimate first and then see how close your estimate was. Are steps close or far apart?

Does it make a difference? Why?

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BUILD IT WITH 10Find 10 items in your house.

Use the items to build something.

How many different things can you build with the same items?

Build something tall, long, wide, short.

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MAKE A RAINBOWMake a coffee filter rainbow.

You only need coffee filters and colourful markers.

Decorate the filter and spray it with water.

Instructions are here Coffee Filter Rainbow

SOLVE THE MYSTERYGo on an adventure with the Gumboot kids.

These little mice and their friends solve mysteries about nature. They solve 3 cases, The Case of the Buried Treasure, The Case of the Spotted Jelly and the Case of the Story Rock.

Gumboot Kids

SHAVING CREAM PRINTINGPractice printing your letters, words, and numbers in shaving cream. Or just make designs! Spray and spread shaving cream on a cookie sheet.

Use a paint brush, cotton swab or your own idea to print.

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COUNTING SYLLABLESWatch the video about counting syllables.

How many syllables are in your name? How many syllables are in the names of your family members?

Counting Syllables

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SPELD LET’S TALK TOGETHER ORAL LANGUAGE CARDSChose one of the oral language cards and have a chat about what you see. Use the questions that are available with each of the cards.

https://www.speld-sa.org.au

Click Let’s Talk Together Oral Language Cards

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SESAME STREET SONGSON VIDEOPick a video starring one of your favourite characters and sing along with them.

Click Sesame Street Songs on Video

INDOOR SCAVENGER HUNTCan you find all of the things on the Scavenger hunt?

How will you keep track of what you have found?

Can you make your own scavenger hunt for someone in your family to try?

MAKE A COLOUR WHEELCan you make a wheel of of colour?

Use the primary and secondary colours and find things inside and out to make your wheel.

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SING AND DANCEChoose one of the videos from the music channel and sing and dance along.

Choose a song about letters, sounds or numbers.

Jack Hartman Kids Music Channel

- Deb Watters

Oral Language and Phonological and Phonemic Awareness

SPELD Let’s Talk Together Oral Language Cardshttps://www.speld-sa.org.au

Sesame Street Songs on Videohttps://www.sesamestreet.org/videos?vid=25436

PreKinders Phonological Awareness https://www.prekinders.com/category/literacy/phonological-awareness/

Reading

Literacy Place Kindergarten Shared Reading ebookshttp://scholastic.ca/education/free_digital_resources/?linkId=84514967

Scholastic Learn at Home Grades Pre K - K (Read Alouds)https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-prek-k.html

Lalilo Phonics and Comprehension K-3https://lalilo.com/?language=en

SPELD Phonics Bookshttps://www.speld-sa.org.au/services/phonic-books.html

Teach Your Monster to Readhttps://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

Scavenger Huntshttps://buggyandbuddy.com/30-free-printable-scavenger-hunts-for-kids/https://primaryplayground.net/scavenger-hunts/https://handsonaswegrow.com/32-ways-kids-can-go-on-scavenger-hunts/

Raz Kidshttps://accounts.learninga-z.com

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Writing

Fine Motorhttps://www.prekinders.com/fine-motor-skills/https://handsonaswegrow.com/kids-activities/fine-motor-activities/https://funlearningforkids.com/favorite-fine-motor-activities-preschoolers/https://handsonaswegrow.com/cutting-activities-fine-motor/https://theimaginationtree.com/40-fine-motor-skills-activities-for-kids/http://www.therakids.org/media/pdf/FineMotorActivitiesForHome.pdf

All Kinds of WritingCreating a Simple Choice Board Instructions: https://bit.ly/35gXooPInteractive Journal Writing: https://bit.ly/2WgFUEXWriting Lists: https://bit.ly/3f6lib3Writing Messages: https://bit.ly/2xlavsnWriting to Magic Creatures: https://bit.ly/35pPfyj

Handwriting Without Tears https://www.lwtears.com/programs/distance-learning

Teaching Catholic Kidshttps://teachingcatholickids.com/

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