Move, Dance, Sing

Activities for pre-K children

These activities get children moving, dancing, and singing! With music and movement, they can express themselves in joyful ways, build rhythm and coordination, and strengthen their growing bodies.

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Counting Scavenger Hunt

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old

Learning Area: Math, Science

Learning Objective: Children will go on an outside scavenger hunt to collect sets of items for each number 1-5.

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Family Fitness

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Children will do exercises with their parents by choosing number and movement cards out of a pile.

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Jump a Sentence

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: This activity uses gross motor skills to engage children in separating a sentence into its individual words. This teaches them that words, in a...

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Jump to the Number

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will play a game to practice identifying numbers from 0-10. Children who have mastered this skill will practice ordering...

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Let’s Tap and Count

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: Your child will play a tapping game to count numbers between one and ten in the correct order.

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Magic Monkey Chant

Age Group: 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old, 8 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will practice changing the first sound of some words in a chant. Playing with sounds in words is part of phonological...

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My Amazing Body

Age Group: 24-36 months, 3 years old, 4 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Social and Emotional

Learning Objective: Your child will increase self-awareness and learn about parts of the human body, as well as how they work, by reading a book and reciting a chant...

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Name Hopscotch

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will become more familiar with the letters and spelling of his name, and practice gross motor skills, by jumping on each...

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Nature Names

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Children and parents will go on a nature walk to collect items such as sticks, grass, flowers, leaves, etc. to use in forming the child’s name.

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Number Songs

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: In this early math activity, singing and chanting number songs encourage children to practice counting and subtraction skills.

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Roll a Sentence

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Your child will play a ball rolling game with you to learn about how a sentence is made up of individual words.

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Stomp the Letter

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: This activity reinforces letter recognition while exercising gross motor skills.

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