Handouts (for current school year)
Helpful classroom handouts for Early Childhood families, updated at least annually.
handouts (additional)
Additional handouts available for families.
articles
A collection of articles for Early Childhood families on a variety of topics, updated throughout the school year.
websites
A list of suggested websites for Early Childhood families, may be updated as additional resources are discovered.
SeeSaw
Here you will find various activities you and your child can try at home to enrich your child's learning experience. These activities are completely optional, however, they do help to provide the teacher with more data on your child's development. If we ever needed to go to remote learning at any time for any reason, we would utilize SeeSaw. Your child's home learning code was given to you in your child's orientation folder at the beginning of the year. If your child enrolled mid-year, your child's home learning code was given to you in your child's classroom folder.
Teachers Pay Teachers
This website is a great resource for you to use to find activities to do with your child at home! Simply search for the skill you want to practice, select the grade level (Pre-K), and select the price (free). You will need to create an account, but it is free to do so. It also saves all of your downloads for future use from any computer.
Handwriting Practice
This is a website that you can use to generate tracing pages for your child to practice writing his/her name. This would be a great activity to work on together at home. For 2-day students especially, please don't rush your child. Scribbling and controlled scribbling are still considered acceptable for this age. However, you can help your child practice and continue to improve by placing your hand over your child's hand as you trace or write the letters together. This helps your child learn the motions. Afterward, let your child try to trace one on his/her own. In time, the scribbling/writing will improve. :)
Ms. Barker's YouTube Channel
Most of these videos were uploaded during Spring 2020, while we were learning from home. I did add additional videos later. These are available for your child to watch if you would like to use them. There are some corresponding worksheets for the number videos in the Handouts section of this page.
Pretend Snow Sensory Bin Activity for Home
Click on the link to find directions for how to make your own pretend snow to play with at home! You can use it to practice letters (as suggested in the blog), or other skills such as numbers or shapes. This is another fun way to learn together at home and reinforce some of the things your child is learning at school.
Sensory Activities for Home
Click on the link to see some ideas of how you can incorporate sensory play with your child at home. You can do these activities in an empty plastic storage container or tub. If you are worried about a mess, place down a tarp underneath or wait for warmer weather and try these activities outside!
Sounds Science Experiment
Click on the link to see how to make music using glasses of water at home! This is a great experiment to explore the sense of hearing with your child.
SeeSaw
Here you will find various activities you and your child can try at home to enrich your child's learning experience. These activities are completely optional, however, they do help to provide the teacher with more data on your child's development. If we ever needed to go to remote learning at any time for any reason, we would utilize SeeSaw. Your child's home learning code was given to you in your child's orientation folder at the beginning of the year. If your child enrolled mid-year, your child's home learning code was given to you in your child's classroom folder.
Teachers Pay Teachers
This website is a great resource for you to use to find activities to do with your child at home! Simply search for the skill you want to practice, select the grade level (Pre-K), and select the price (free). You will need to create an account, but it is free to do so. It also saves all of your downloads for future use from any computer.
Handwriting Practice
This is a website that you can use to generate tracing pages for your child to practice writing his/her name. This would be a great activity to work on together at home. For 2-day students especially, please don't rush your child. Scribbling and controlled scribbling are still considered acceptable for this age. However, you can help your child practice and continue to improve by placing your hand over your child's hand as you trace or write the letters together. This helps your child learn the motions. Afterward, let your child try to trace one on his/her own. In time, the scribbling/writing will improve. :)
Ms. Barker's YouTube Channel
Most of these videos were uploaded during Spring 2020, while we were learning from home. I did add additional videos later. These are available for your child to watch if you would like to use them. There are some corresponding worksheets for the number videos in the Handouts section of this page.
Pretend Snow Sensory Bin Activity for Home
Click on the link to find directions for how to make your own pretend snow to play with at home! You can use it to practice letters (as suggested in the blog), or other skills such as numbers or shapes. This is another fun way to learn together at home and reinforce some of the things your child is learning at school.
Sensory Activities for Home
Click on the link to see some ideas of how you can incorporate sensory play with your child at home. You can do these activities in an empty plastic storage container or tub. If you are worried about a mess, place down a tarp underneath or wait for warmer weather and try these activities outside!
Sounds Science Experiment
Click on the link to see how to make music using glasses of water at home! This is a great experiment to explore the sense of hearing with your child.