Happy Snow Day Kindergarten!

Kindergarten students can…

Literacy:

Log into LexiaCore on a computer or tablet and practice language arts skills.
- Username: first name Password: thesummit
Log into StoryLine Online on a computer or tablet and listen to a WINTER read-aloud. This book seems fitting!
Create a list of words that have consonant blends in the beginning or ending. (SLed)
Practice your sight words! Write them down on small pieces of paper and use them for a scavenger hunt.
Create a list of CVCe words using the magic E and explain to your family how these words change the vowel sound in the middle!
Turn your sight words into hopscotch. After you’ve done that, hide them in a dark room and use a flashlight to read them!
Write down as many words as you can think of that rhyme with MAN. Try it again with CAT, MIT, FIN. Challenge a family member to see who can think of more!
Make some hot chocolate and watch your favorite movie. Before the movie, make some predictions and inferences! When it is over, write or draw out the problem and solution!
Write your sight words on half sheets of paper. Crumble them up and have an indoor snowball fight! When you’re done, open the words and read them, them crumble them up again and again!
Make your own book by stapling some paper together. Remember to give your book a title!
- Identify the characters, setting, problem, and solution.

Math:

Conduct your own session of “Calendar Math.” What is today? Tomorrow? Yesterday? Follow our classroom routine.
Go on a shape hunt in your house. Where can you find circles? Triangles? Squares? Rectangles? Ovals?
- Draw a picture of what you found and bring it in to show me on our next day at school!
Make a pattern using buttons or another small object. What variations can you come up with? Can you make a challenge pattern?
Make your own number line using paper and string.
Use the cards from a deck of UNO to practice addition like we’ve been doing in class. Choose 2 cards and find the sum. See if you can solve your addition problem using different strategies (draw a picture, in your head, use your fingers, number line)
Get a piece of paper and write numbers 2-12 on it twice. Roll 2 dice and add to find the sum. Cover your answer up with a sticker or marker, then keep rolling. See if you can cover them all!
Play hide and seek with your family! You can even hide your stuffed animals around the house to add more fun. Instead of counting by ones, see if you can skip-count by 5s or 10s before you go and “seek!”
Create number bonds with objects at home.
- Example: 4 chairs and 1 table make 5 or 4+1=5

Discovery:

Brainstorm some design ideas that you can use for your building for Kinder City!
Create snow castles outside with sand tools from the beach.
Try to create something to add onto your building.
- Example: pillars for city hall or transportation for around the city!

For Fun:

Make play dough… here’s a recipe.
Make indoor “snow” – mix 3 cups baking soda with 1/2 cup hair conditioner (white conditioner to keep the snow white).
Make ice marbles: Fill a balloon with water and food coloring. Leave it outside in the cold and see what happens… we know what happens to water when it is below 32 degrees!
Build a miniature snowman in a baking pan. Use buttons, felt, pipe cleaners, or other materials to give your snowman its features. Make predictions about how long your snowman might take to melt. Now create an observation chart and check on your snowman periodically to record the melting process.
Make a fort in your bedroom or living room. Go inside and do some writing or reading.

PE: https://youtu.be/IX75VRKLpmw?feature=shared

ART: Take a long look in the mirror. Draw a self-portrait and add as many details as you can.

SPANISH: Raid mom or dad’s closet to put on a fashion show. Use Spanish vocabulary to describe the colors in your outfit!

YOGA: Do some yoga and deep breathing. Cosmic Kids Yoga is pretty cool on YouTube!

Snow Day Activities