Pre K

• Take a Field Trip to a Flag Company: https://youtu.be/S8J4i8H00SU
• Find small items that are red and blue (buttons, pompoms, balls, blocks) and make an ABAB pattern. (Ex. red button, blue button, red button, blue button). Parents may need to model this 1st, then have kids guess what will come next. Lastly, have them compose one themselves. (Challenge: Find small items that are white and make an ABC pattern with the blue and red items).
• Using small fruit, or snacks, (ex. grapes, cereal) try to make an addition sentence. If I had 1 grape and then I get 2 more, how many do I have now? Keep playing using numbers adding up to 5.
• Throw a ball back and forth counting how many times the ball was caught.
• Use sidewalk chalk and practice writing numerals 0-10. Talk about using straight and curved lines to write the numerals.

• Practice saying the letters in your name in and out of order.
• Learn about opposites with Dr. Jean's video: https://youtu.be/hOOTu6O_fzw
  • Can you come up with more opposites?
  • Go on an Opposite hunt through the house, ex: on/off, above/below, light/dark.
• Pick a letter (consonants work best) and go on a scavenger hunt around your home looking for items that begin with that letter. (Ex. Letter B Ball, bubble gum, bowl, box, boy, buttons)
  • Challenge: Do it for 3 letters and try to find at least 5 items that begin with that letter.
• Have someone read you a story and try to find the name of the author and illustrator. Talk about what authors and illustrators do.
• Learn about alliteration (words that begin with the same letter) with this video: https://youtu.be/JQKSOoFwzhA

• Take a Field Trip to a Kindergarten Classroom: https://youtu.be/gIZuXyfCJbQ
• Put Your Toys Away: https://youtu.be/U8FrkTzsGZk
• The Feelings Song: https://youtu.be/-J7HcVLsCrY
• Make a checklist for morning routine and evening routine so your child can check what they have accomplished off. For example: Brush teeth, make bed, help with breakfast, put toys away.
• Watch the book Sophie is a S.T.A.R at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JKm5H_Yckk
  Practice S.T.A.R. breathing with your child. Smile, Take a deep breath And Relax.
• Practice dressing yourself including socks, shoes, underwear, shirts, bottoms. Please remember to work on buttoning, snaps, zippers and other types of closures. In school, students need to be able to complete these tasks as independently as possible.

• PBIS KIDS for Parents: https://www.pbs.org/parents/learn-grow/age-4
• National Association for the Education of Young Children: https://www.naeyc.org/
• Louisiana Believes Early Childhood: https://www.louisianabelieves.com/early-childhood
• Disney's Celebrate America Fourth of July Fireworks: https://youtu.be/4vLbFyRaIc8

Some ideas for rewards. These are just suggestions to help. Your family might have things that are special to you.

• Make a Banana Split
• Go to a local park and play
• Find and feed some local ducks
• Have a family movie night
• Let them pick what to listen to in the car.
• Play in the sprinkler or water hose
• Take a bike ride or walk in the neighborhood
• Go to Dollar Tree and pick out a dollar prize
• Lay on a blanket one night and watch the stars
• Look at the clouds and see if they look like anything.
• Play volleyball with a beach ball.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Visit a local Splash Pad
• Play a board game

• Go on a bug hunt outside and count how many bugs you find. Try to find 10 (challenge to 20).
• Shape hunt around your home looking for things that are circles, squares, triangles and rectangles.
• Get some plastic cups (try to get 6 different sizes) and put them in order from shortest to tallest.
  • Challenge: Can you put them in order another way?
• Using shaving cream on the kitchen counter and practice writing numbers 1-5 (challenge to 10).
• Line up some stuffed animals, dolls, etc. and use positional words to describe the line (first, last) Challenge: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or last).
• Practice counting to ten with this counting bugs video: https://youtu.be/F10LRMyMw5E
• Practice counting to ten with this counting insects video: https://youtu.be/75JCqGjyKOU

• Watch the book I Love Bugs at https://youtu.be/IGxI6v-kIOY
  • Challenge: list the rhyming words or list facts about the bugs.
• Adult writes names of family members and child tries to find their name. Challenge: try to read the names of the other family members.
• Let child pick out a favorite book and hold it while someone reads to them. Discuss how you read front to back one page at a time, left to right and top to bottom.
• Practice writing your name 3 times. Remember that names start with a capital letter and the other letters are lowercase. Ex. Jim, Michelle
• Draw a picture of an insect(s) and tell someone about it.
• Watch the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar: https://youtu.be/75NQK-Sm1YY
  • List items the caterpillar ate.
  • Challenge: Which foods were healthy and which ones were not healthy?
• Learn about butterflies with this video https://youtu.be/pV-XeI1H8rk
  • What are 3 things you learned about butterflies?

• Learn about washing your hands with the Washing Hands Rap: https://youtu.be/OZ3oSvfiwU4
  • Can you name the steps?
• Learn about belly breathing with this Sesame Street video: https://youtu.be/_mZbzDOpylA
  • After watching the video, practice Belly Breathing.
• Go outside and listen to all the sounds for 1 minute (practice listening skills). What do you hear? Can you name 5 things?
• Practice saying your full name (first and last). Make sure you know your real name and not just your nickname!
• Watch the book Off to Kindergarten: https://youtu.be/naa5YOJUzuk
• Look in the mirror and make a happy, sad, and mad face. Describe what you see and things that make you feel happy, sad and mad. Draw a picture of something that makes you feel happy.

Louisiana Believes and their Child Development Resources for Families:
https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/public/1411_rg_child_d
evelopment.pdf

Some ideas for rewards. These are just suggestions to help. Your family might have things that are special to you.

• Make Ice Cream Sundaes
• Go to a local park and play
• Find and feed some local ducks
• Have a family movie night
• Cook your favorite dinner
• Play in the sprinkler or water hose
• Take a bike ride or walk in the neighborhood
• Go to Dollar Tree and pick out a dollar prize
• Lay on a blanket one night and watch the stars
• Look at the clouds and see if they look like anything.
• Play volleyball with a beach ball.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Visit a local Splash Pad
• Play a board game

• Practice counting from 1 to 15 with this video: https://youtu.be/9cAGoxFqSFQ
• Go outside and count flowers, trees, bushes, etc.
  • Challenge: which has more/less?
• Find a few leaves and put them in order by height. Practice using a ruler to measure their height.
• Find two trees and count steps to get from one tree to another. Then repeat the activity using big steps, small steps and hopping.
• Practice counting by counting the flower petals in this video: https://youtu.be/HsfJ95BHeWY
  • How high can you count by yourself? Remember when you count items, you touch one item with every number and the last number is the total amount.
• Gather a flower or leaf from outside and have an adult give child directions using positional words: in/on, over/under, up/down, inside/outside, beside/between, and in front/behind (ex. Put the flower on the sofa, put the flower under the chair, hold the flower up, hold the flower down).

• Watch the book How a Seed Grows to learn about how seeds grow: https://youtu.be/O_6J4PeVo3A
  • Listen to the story. Pretend to be a gardener. What do plants need to grow? Can you grow a bean seed? What would be the steps to do this?
• Learn about plants from National Geographic Kids: https://youtu.be/Ll04FjhoJuI
  • Is this story about real plants (non-fiction) or make believe plants (fiction)?
• Watch the book Plants Can’t Sit Still to learn how plants are able to move https://youtu.be/NFHSSq7cmy4
  • What are some ways that plants travel?
• Go outside and pick a flower. See how many parts of the flower you can identify. Draw a picture of the flower and try to label the parts.
  • Challenge: Write the parts of the flower.
• Name puzzle: On 2 separate sheets of paper, write your child’s name. Cut up one of them and put it back together matching it with the second one. Trace letters with fingers, make name with playdough, say sounds of each letter in name.
• Watch the book Lola Plants a Garden at https://youtu.be/OC7qurRN37A and retell the story to someone.

• Learn about social and emotional skills by watching the book Fiona Flamingo: https://youtu.be/ox7FcSCk4qw
  • Can you name all of the feelings the flamingo had during the story?
• Play a card game or board game with someone and practice taking turns.
• Learn about sharing and working together by watching the book It’s My Turn: https://youtu.be/xJBk9mJwkeI
  • Were they taking turns in the beginning? How is the ending different than the beginning?
• Listen to Move It and Freeze to develop listening skills: https://youtu.be/Nqg5zY0MOfI
• Practice saying your phone number and your address
  • Challenge: Practice typing in your phone number on a real phone.
• Draw a picture of yourself doing something you like to do and makes you happy. Use the picture to name as many body parts as you can.
• Listen to the song Be Kind to learn about why it is important to treat others with kindness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKSUsS-NoRY
  • Discuss with your child one random act of kindness that can be done for the week. 
  • Discuss feelings before and after.

• Louisiana Believes Developmental Milestones:

https://www.louisianabelieves.com/docs/default-source/ltsae/St-Tammany-net
work-page.pdf

• Starfall Education: https://www.starfall.com/h/
• St. Tammany Parish Library: https://www.sttammanylibrary.org/kids/

Some ideas for rewards. These are just suggestions to help. Your
family might have things that are special to you.

• Make Ice Cream Sundays
• Go to a local park and play
• Find and feed some local ducks
• Have a family movie night
• Cook your favorite dinner
• Play in the sprinkler or water hose
• Take a bike ride or walk in the neighborhood
• Go to Dollar Tree and pick out a dollar prize
• Lay on a blanket one night and watch the stars
• Look at the clouds and see if they look like anything.
• Play volleyball with a beach ball.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Visit to a local Splash Pad
• Play a board game

• Sorting – Sort collections of items in your house by size, color and shapes. Items you can find include shells, buttons, rocks, leaves.
• Get some plastic spoons and forks and create a pattern (ex. Fork, spoon, fork, spoon). Parents may need to model 1st then child finishes the pattern before being able to create one.
  • Challenge: use 3 different things to make a pattern (Ex. fork, spoon, straw, fork, spoon, straw).
• Create shapes using items around the house (Playdough and Popsicle sticks, Marshmallows and toothpicks).
• Go on a walk around your neighborhood and try to find numbers.
• Distance – pick two locations in the house, guess how many steps it will take to get to and from that location. Count how many steps and see if your prediction is correct. Was it more or less? Why?

• Watch the book Adventure Annie Goes to Kindergarten: https://youtu.be/IEM7Ail9vMI
• Listen to the song Alphardy to practice the alphabet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTeUONxZYAs
  • After listening to the song, play hopscotch.
  • Tip: Change the skill that your child reviews with hopscotch; instead of putting numbers on the squares, consider letters.
  • Challenge: Mix uppercase and lowercase letters in the squares.
• Watch the book The Bus for Us to learn about the different kinds of vehicles you might see while riding the bus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqV9ghdCYQ
  • Have you ever seen these vehicles in your community? What are these vehicles used for?
• Practice typing your name a few times on a computer with a keyboard.
• Pick a color and find things around your home that are that color. Draw the pictures of the items and try to spell out the words.

• Take a virtual field trip to a Playground: https://youtu.be/dJKOw6ngH28
• Learn how to safely ride a bus: https://youtu.be/as-tfxoDPS4
  • What are some important things to remember when riding a school bus?
• Listen and watch Sophie's Big Voice to learn about how to use your "big voice": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ZBgGn3w_k
• Continue to practice dressing yourself including socks, shoes, underwear, shirts, bottoms. Please remember to work on buttoning, snaps, zippers and other types of closures. In school students need to be able to complete these tasks as independently as possible.
• Draw pictures of encouragement or something that makes you happy. Post them in the windows so anybody that passes by can see them.
• Take a drive to your child’s’ new school. Encourage them to talk about things they are excited about along with concerns.

• STPPS Bus Transportation: http://www.stpsb.org/transportation/index.htm
• STPPS Information for Families: https://www.stpsb.org/families
• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning:
  http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/family.html
• Louisiana Believes 2021-2022 Parent Back-To School Guide
  https://www.louisianabelieves.com/docs/default-source/family-support-to
  olbox-resources/parent-back-to-school-guide-(pk-2).pdf?sfvrsn=f633901f
  _16

Some ideas for rewards. These are just suggestions to help. Your family might have things that are special to you.

• Make Banana Splits
• Go to a local park and play
• Find and feed the local ducks
• Have a family movie night
• Cook your favorite dinner
• Play in the sprinkler or water hose
• Take a bike ride or walk in the neighborhood
• Go to Dollar Tree and pick out a dollar prize
• Lay on a blanket one night and watch the stars
• Look at the clouds and see if they look like anything.
• Play volleyball with a beach ball.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Visit a local Splash Pad
• Play a board game

• Sing along with The Ants Go Marching song to practice rhythm and counting: https://youtu.be/XXRiX8W83CA
• Shapes - Use water and a paintbrush to draw shapes outside on the concrete. What type of lines did you need to make the shapes? Straight or curved?
• Get a snack (ex. chips, cereal, gold fish) and have someone put out a few on a plate. Child guesses the number of snacks without counting, then counts to check their answer.
  • Ex: ”I think there are 4 goldfish. One, Two, Three. Oops There are only three. Keep doing that a few times using amounts of five or less.
  • Challenge: snacks up to ten.
• Practice counting to twelve with the Ladybugs Picnic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX9J7WcYtxI
• Practice directional words and spatial concepts with the All Around the Farm song: https://youtu.be/ykmFyHJq6FY

• Watch the book We’re Going on a Picnic: https://youtu.be/W_-JOreALIg
• Learn about the National Parks of the USA: https://youtu.be/QM5wVpOj9iI
• Use toothpicks, yarn or Q-tips to create letters of the alphabet.
• Create a list using pictures or words of items you need to go on a picnic.
• Pick out a favorite book and look for letters in your name, Also, try to find words, spaces between words and punctuation.
  • Challenge: pick out a sentence and count how many words are in that sentence.
• Practice writing your first name five times starting with a capital letter and the rest of the letters are lowercase. (Ex. Lisa, Luke)

• Calm Down Corner- Create a calm down corner somewhere in the house where your child feels safe. Have something that is comfortable to sit on, some toys they can manipulate and some books. If they need a minute to themselves they can go read or look at a book. THIS IS NOT A TIME OUT AREA!
• Ask a friend or 2 over and have a picnic outside. Everyone picks a game or activity to play and practice taking turns.
• Try a food that you have never tried before and then describe it to someone.
• Learn about washing your hands with the Washing Hands Rap: https://youtu.be/OZ3oSvfiwU4
  • Can you name the steps?
• Watch the book Clifford Goes to Kindergarten to learn about what to expect in kindergarten: https://youtu.be/TGiTVTm4CP4

• STPPS Registration for Pre-K and Kindergarten: http://www.stpsb.org/register/
• Resources on discipline from Conscious Discipline:
  https://consciousdiscipline.com/free-resources/discipline-tips/

Some ideas for rewards. These are just suggestions to help. Your family might have things that are special to you.

• Make Ice Cream Sundaes
• Go to a local park and play
• Find local ducks and feed them
• Have a family movie night
• Cook your favorite dinner
• Play in the sprinkler or water hose
• Take a bike ride or walk in the neighborhood
• Go to Dollar Tree and pick out a dollar prize
• Lay on a blanket one night and watch the stars
• Look at the clouds and see if they look like anything.
• Play volleyball with a beach ball.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Visit a local Splash Pad
• Play a board game

• Take a virtual field trip to an Oceanographic Center: https://youtu.be/FQUeEBSKuA8
• In the tub or a pool use a measuring cup and smaller cups, scoops and spoons. Guess (estimate) how many cups it will take to fill the measuring cup. Check your guess. Was it more or less than your guess?
• Use a snack (colored goldfish or fruit loops work well) to make patterns. Ex: Red fish, orange fish, red fish, orange fish
• Use a snack to sort items into groups. Ex: Fruit gummies, sort by colors
• Go Fish! Game. Using a deck of cards, have your child count out 5 cards for each person playing the game. Ask, for example, do you have a 7 and then they have to give you the card that you asked for to make a match. Take turns going around the table.
• Practice naming shapes with the Name the Shape Game video: https://youtu.be/svrkthG2950
  • How are the four shapes (square, triangle, circle and rectangle) the same and different (curved/straight lines, number of sides, corners)?

• Listen to the Under the Sea song: https://youtu.be/a3iJjUKWrkk
  • How were the sea creatures sorted?
  • How were they the same and different?
• Watch the book Commotion in the Ocean: https://youtu.be/7tXIFl4R9PI 
  • Try to find rhyming word in the book (ex: speak, squeak)

• Take a virtual field trip to the beach: https://youtu.be/cPUNkkgD-ko
• Have your child sit in front of a mirror and practice making different
  emotions. Describe what their eyes and their mouth are doing. For example: Happy, Sad, Excited, Mad, Frustrated, Silly.
• Make a checklist for morning routine and evening routine so your child can check what they have accomplished off. For example: Brush teeth, make bed, help with breakfast, put toys away.
• Watch “What a Wonderful Child You Are”: https://youtu.be/GRLPIoep7uI
  • Practice giving somebody a compliment.

• ABCya! Learning Games: https://www.abcya.com/
• Council for Exceptional Children: https://exceptionalchildren.org/
• National Geographic Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
• Cosmic Kids Yoga: https://youtu.be/LhYtcadR9nw

Some ideas for rewards. These are just suggestions to help. Your
family might have things that are special to you.

• Make Ice Cream Sundaes
• Go to a local park and play
• Find local ducks and feed them
• Have a family movie night
• Cook your favorite dinner
• Play in the sprinkler or water hose
• Take a bike ride or walk in the neighborhood
• Go to Dollar Tree and pick out a dollar prize
• Lay on a blanket one night and watch the stars
• Look at the clouds and see if they look like anything.
• Play volleyball with a beach ball.
• Go on a scavenger hunt.
• Visit a local Splash Pad
• Play a board game