School-Age – Get Ready for School

Be a Storyteller

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will use pictures from a book to retell a story.

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Beginning Sounds Picture Collage

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

Learning Area: Reading and Writing, Physical Development

Learning Objective: Your child will practice recognizing beginning sounds in words and create a collage of pictures that start with the same sound.

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Change a Letter

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

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Your child will move letters around to make words and read the words.

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Compare the Book and the Movie

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

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Your child will practice making pictures in their mind as you read a book together. Then you and your child will watch the movie adaptation of the...

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Create a Journal

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: You will make a simple journal for your child and encourage him to write or draw about people and experiences he would like to remember.

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Ducks in the Pond

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Math

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will play a game of counting objects and creating sets of objects.

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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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Feed Me More!

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

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will feed a monster by choosing the plate of food that has more. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Follow the Clues

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 use what they already know and clues from the text to make a smart guess, or inference, about a story.

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Guess the Word!

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Your child will try to guess simple words that you say in parts. This blending of sounds is a pre-reading skill.

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Let’s Write a Story!

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: In this activity, your child will create an imaginary story and help you write sentences and draw pictures about it.

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Make Them Equal

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

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will make equal sets by taking items away from one group. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Making Graphs

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will make graphs and analyze the data to see which group has more, less, or equal. (A login is required for your child to complete this...

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Making Pizzas

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

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will practice one-to-one correspondence by making sets of six. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Paper Chain Connections

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

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Your child will make a paper chain of the connections they make to a book.

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Secret Word Game

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

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: In this activity, you will help your child practice putting sounds together to form words. This is a pre-reading activity. It is important to only...

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Sets of Pennies

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

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will create sets of six to ten pennies. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Shape House

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

Learning Area: Math, Physical Development

Learning Objective: The child will manipulate shapes to make a house. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Shape Similarities

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Math

Learning Objective: In this activity, children identify shapes and use their features to sort them into “like” categories. Sorting is a foundational math skill for...

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Shapes All Around Me

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

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will identify shapes they see in the environment. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Small Number Addition

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

Learning Area: Math

Learning Objective: The child will add small sets. (A login is required for your child to complete this online activity.)

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Sound Blending with Animals

Age Group: 3 years old, 4 years old, 5 years old, 6 years old, 7 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: In this game, your child will listen carefully for sounds in animal names and put the sounds together to make the word. Separating and blending...

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Story Retelling with Puppets

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Language and Communication, Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Increase your child’s understanding and language skills by using visual aids while retelling a story. In this activity, puppets and props are...

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Unscramble Me

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

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: Your child will arrange a set of mixed up letters to spell and read common words.

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Vowel Bingo

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

Learning Area: Reading and Writing

Learning Objective: In this game, your child will say the vowel sound in a word and write the letter that represents the sound.

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Which Weighs More?

Age Group: 4 years old, 5 years old

Learning Area: Math, Science

Learning Objective: To introduce the concept of weight, this activity uses a filled water bottle as a comparison tool to determine how much things weigh. The question...

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