Homeschool activities for Pre-K

Geography

• Me on the map: Where I live, from my room out to the planet.
• My map: The words for where things are, then a first map.

Every geography activity

History

• Every year: The year as a wheel, with your family's days on it.
• My day in order: First, next and last, in the shape of their own day.
• The one-shelf museum: A museum on one real shelf, and a visitor who learns from it.
• Time capsule: A box for next year, and proof of what changed.

Every history activity

Science

• A bean in a jar: A bean your child grew, and their drawing of its root.
• The dough table: Prints your child pressed in play dough, and at K a print they read like a clue.
• Fruit faces: A smiling face your child made from fruit, and then ate.
• Leaf rubbings and pressed flowers: Crayon rubbings of three leaves and two pressed flowers, made by your child.
• What the colours do: A new colour your child made by mixing two, and can tell you how.
• Big and small (dinosaurs): Was a dinosaur bigger than your car? Your child finds out.
• Grow it: A real bean on the sill, and a daily look at what changed.
• Same spot, four seasons: One favourite place, visited each season, and what changed.
• Sort the zoo: Your child sorts the things from their own storybooks: alive or not, then animal or plant.
• Weather window: A daily look at the sky becomes a pattern.
• What do you notice?: Your child learns to look closely and ask a question.
• What lives in the pond?: Find the pond's living things, and one true fact about each.
• Who lives here?: A loop of string on the ground becomes a small world.

Every science activity

Math

• Potato and leaf prints: A row of potato and leaf prints that repeats, made by your child.
• Torn paper picture: A torn paper picture your child made with their fingers, and can tell you about.
• Lemonade stand: Your child runs the stand and gives change like a shopkeeper.
• Pattern parade: Your child hears a rule, keeps it going, then makes one.
• Snack count: A number becomes an amount your child can hold.
• Sock sort: Your child makes a rule, keeps it, and counts the piles.
• Which one doesn't belong?: Your child looks closely and says why, in their own words.

Every math activity

Music & arts

• A shaker and a rubber-band guitar: Two instruments your child made, and a high note and a low one they found by ear.

Reading

• A sock puppet and a two-minute show: A sock puppet your child made, and a show they put on for you.
• The clue board: A quiz board of pictures from your child's storybooks, cleared together, with no points and no clock.
• Find it at home: Your child finds the things from their storybooks in your own home.
• Memory pairs: Your child finds the pairs among pictures from their own storybooks, and, from Grade 1, matches each picture to its word.
• Sound it: Your child hears which words start with the same sound, using the pictures from their storybooks.
• Story order: Your child puts a story they have read back in order and tells it in their own words.