Independent Study Packet Preschool Week 7
Independent Study Packet Preschool Week 7
Learning
Week 7 P
Preschool
Independent
Study Packet
Educational Activities
to Create, Problem Solve,
Move, and Have Fun
Table of Contents
This Activity Packet is a collection of open-ended multiple days. You may also want to review the
learning challenges that encourage your child to packet together and make a week long plan using
create, build, design, and move. For these the planner included, or your own.
activities, you will need materials like paper, tape,
markers, and scissors. You will also need other Brain Breaks can be used throughout the week to
materials, but feel free to substitute with what is support your child in moving their body when they
around your home. need to take a break from focusing on academic
work. The STEM Design Challenge: Plan, Reflect,
We recommend allowing your child to choose 2-3 Revise sheet can be used to help your child dig
activities per day. Each packet contains a selection deeper into the open-ended learning challenges.
of “choice boards,” and these can be used over
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Brain Breaks
What are brain breaks? Young learners often struggle to stay focused for
long periods of time. Brain breaks are short periods of time when we take a
step away from the routine work we are doing. They are quick and effective
ways to energize and refresh our thinking.
2. Keep It Up: Get a beach ball and keep it from hitting the ground. Add an
additional ball to make it even more fun!
3. Jump Counting: Have your child count while jumping with each count.
Challenge them by counting by twos, fives, or tens!
4. “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes”: Use a movement song like this one to
get your child moving. For added fun, see how fast you can go! This is a
great one for young learners.
5. Freeze Dance: Similar to the Dance Party brain break, this one incorporates
listening skills. When the music stops, your child must freeze and hold
their position until the music begins again.
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Brain Breaks
7. Race in Place: Have your child stand up and run in place. On your signal,
your child will get back to work.
8. Simon Says: Play this oldie but goodie to see how well your child can
follow specific directions...but only if Simon Says!
9. Rock, Paper, Scissors: Teach your child to play this fun, quick game and
see who wins! Best out of three.
• Drawing or coloring
• Story starters: Begin a story for one minute and let your child finish
the story on their own.
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Inside
Find something very soft.
Find an animal in a book.
Find a pair of matching socks. Find a photo of someone you love.
Find a character eating in a book. Find someone being helpful in a book.
Find a container that holds small things. Find two things that are green.
Find an item that you can see yourself in. Find something that uses electricity.
What is your favorite item from the indoor list? Draw it below.
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Outside
Find a stick that is smaller than your hand.
Find something that smells good.
Find something that is round. Find something that is heavy.
Find a stick that is larger than your hand. Find something orange.
Find something that needs sunlight to live. Find something that flies.
Find something that helps people stay safe. Find something that crawls.
What is your favorite item from the outdoor list? Draw it below.
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Amplify this challenge! Choose one or more of the following questions to add a new level of difficulty
to the challenge:
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Amplify this challenge! Choose one or more of the following questions to add a new level of difficulty
to the challenge:
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Below, we have written instructions for building a boat in case your child is struggling to come up with
ideas. Feel free to have your child build something entirely on their own, or use the procedure below:
1. First, take a piece of duct tape and stick some plastic straws to the adhesive side of the tape.
• Ask your child why plastic straws are a useful item to make a boat out of. (Answer: plastic straws
are buoyant, meaning they're able to float in water.)
2. Next, wrap your straws and duct tape in plastic wrap.
• Ask your child why they think using plastic wrap is useful. (Answer: plastic wrap makes the boat
"waterproof.")
3. Tape down the plastic wrap using duct tape to secure it in place.
• At this point, you have finished building the boat's structure.
4. After your child has finished building their boat, have them tape down a small paper cup to serve as
a weight holder for their pennies.
• Ask your child why they think it's important to have a weight holder. (Answer: a weight holder
balances out the weight of the boat, so it won't tip over when you place the pennies on top.)
5. Next, have your child add the pennies inside the cup one at a time, counting how many there are.
6. Finally, test out your child's boat!
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Extension
Extension
Now, can you create a
Now, can you create a
structure that balances on
maze using only three
your hand and is the same
household items?
height as your hand?
Extension
Extension
Now, can you design a
Now, can you build
structure out of rocks and
something that floats
natural materials that is
and holds ten pennies?
at least six inches tall?
Extension Extension
Now, can you use something Now, can you create a 3D
light and something heavy to sculpture with three
build something at least a foot different textures that can
tall that doesn’t fall down? hold something?
Extension Extension
Now, can you design a fairy Now, can you create a ramp
garden that keeps the rain that makes toy cars go fast
out and makes bugs happy? using something plastic?
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Create a Collagraph
Print-making is thought to have originated in China after the invention of paper in the 2nd
century AD. This activity features a special kind of print-making called collagraphy, where flat materials
are layered and glued onto a base, then painted and used to create a final finished print. Using this
ancient art is a great way to teach your child about history and inspire their creativity at the same time.
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Me On TV!
Sick of hearing, "Mooo-oom! Can I watch TV?" The next time this common cry fills your living
room, how about suggesting your child create a memorable program of their own? Once the little
superstar in your life discovers how much fun it is to make up their own characters and stories, they will
be hard-pressed to find a TV show character that's up to snuff!
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4K Goals
Math
Colors: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, grey,
pink and white
Shapes: Circle, square, rectangle, star, heart, triangle, hexagon,
oval, crescent (moon), rhombus (diamond), cube and sphere
Counting: Count to 20
Counting Objects: Counts 10 or more objects using 1:1
correspondence
Number Identification: Names the numbers 0-10
Shows an amount to represent a number: Recognizes a number
and can make a group of items to represent that number
correctly. For example, show a card with the number 4 and
student can give you 4 crayons.
Subitizes Regular Dice (dots on dice) : Names the amount seen on
dice when quickly shown (within 2 seconds).
Subitizes 10 Frame: Names the amount of counters on the 10 frame
when quickly shown (within 2 seconds).
Sorting: Sorts items by making groups, including color, shape and
size.
Greater or Less Than: When looking at two groups, students can
determine which group has more or less objects.
Patterns: Students can make an AB Pattern with items. This could
be red cube, blue cube, red cube, blue cube
Measuring and Ordering Objects: Students will measure the
length of an object with unifix cubes and say the amount of cubes
long the object is. Students can also put 3 objects in order from
shortest to longest.
Positional Words: Students will be able to place an object in the
correct place when asked using the following words: over, under,
next to, behind, inside, outside, in between, in front of and on top.
Literacy
Alphabet Knowledge: Naming the letters of the alphabet, upper
case first and then lower case.
Sounds: Students are shown the letter and need to provide the
sound it makes. (Jolly Phonics sounds and motions can be found
on YouTube)
Concepts of Print: Parts of a book, including cover, pages, where
the title is, how to turn pages, counting the number of words in
the title, where to start reading (left to right directionality), finding
space between words, finding a specific letter within a line of print
and pointing to each word as it is spoken.
Name Writing: Students will memorize and write their first name
in all capital letters.
Rhyming: Students will listen to a word and determine which
word rhymes with the given word, out of three choices.
Beginning Sound: Students will provide the first sound they hear
in a word after the word is given. (Example: dog student gives /d/
sound.
Daily Fun with Your Little One!
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 Stories 2 Play 3 Reading 4 Science 5 Math 6 Play
It’s National Drive-In
It’s National Say It’s National Gingerbread
On National Repeat While grocery It’s National Cheese Day. Movie Day. Pretend
Something Nice Day. Day! Use graham
Day, play your child’s shopping, give your Put a slice of cheese on your living room is a
Tell your child a story crackers, candy, and
favorite board game child a word to look a piece of bread and put drive-in theater. Sit
about a time someone frosting to create a
together. Then, play for, such as “sweet” it in the microwave for 10 in cars created out of
said something nice to summery gingerbread
it again! or “crunchy.” seconds. Talk about what bean bag chairs or
you and how it made house, counting the
happens to the cheese. cushions as you watch
you feel. pieces as you go.
a favorite movie.
7 Songs 8 Writing 9 Sounds 10 Science 11 Stories 12 Rhymes 13 Math
It’s National Best While at the park, sit Pour milk in a saucer Read a wordless picture On National Red Rose
Sing your child’s Friends Day. Have your and drop in different book together, such as
quietly for one minute. Day, ask your child
favorite song together. child draw a picture colors of food coloring. Mr. Wuffles by David While going for a walk
Then, talk about what to think of her own
Then, sing it again, but of her best friend. It Dip a cotton swab in Wiesner. Have your outside, count how
you heard. What rhyming poem that
take turns making up can be a person, an dish soap and swirl it child tell the story in his many animals you see.
were the loudest and starts with “roses
your own lyrics. animal, or even an slowly through the milk. own words as you look
quietest sounds? are red.”
imaginary friend! Watch what happens! at the pictures.
14 Reading 156 Play 16 Songs 17 Writing 18 Math 19 Sounds 20 Rhymes
It’s National Smile Use a marker to write
Go to the library and Power Day. Have a On National Go Fishing How many words
simple words on sheets On National Seashell
have your child pick out contest to see who Sing “If You’re Happy Day, have your child can your child think
of bubble wrap. Have Day, how many words
a nonfiction book about can keep a straight and You Know It” and “go fishing” for objects of that have the same
your child pop the can your child think of
his favorite animal to face the longest as do the motions. of a certain shape beginning sound as
bubble wrap around that rhyme with “shell”?
read together. you make silly faces at around the house. “June”?
the letters.
each other.
21 Play 22 Reading 23 Math 24 Writing 25 Songs 26 Sounds 27 Stories
Read And Then Comes It’s National Pink Talk about your Today is
Summer by Tom Day. Flip through a In the morning, have Make up a song about favorite sounds at Summersgiving. Tell
It’s National Selfie Day. magazine and have
Brenner and Jaime your child help you summer vacation, and different times of the each other stories of
Have fun taking silly your child point out all
Kim together, and talk write a to-do list for sing it to the tune of day. What sounds do things that happened
selfies together! of the pink objects that
about your favorite the day. “Jingle Bells.” you hear at certain this week that you are
things about summer. he sees. times every day? thankful for.
28 Reading 29 Science 30 Rhymes
Help your child get ready to learn to read!
On National Waffle Read a rhyming
It’s National Paul Iron Day, make waffles Each day features a fun activity that will help
picture book together,
Bunyan Day! Read The together and talk about your child build pre-reading skills. Activities
such as A Hippy-
Bunyans by Audrey what happens to the are color-coded by skill. Ask your children’s
Hoppy Toad by
Wood and David batter after you add it librarian for more ideas on how to promote
Peggy Archer and
Shannon together. to the waffle iron. early literacy skills with daily activities at home.
Anne Wilsdorf.
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junio 2020 Calendario de alfabetización temprana
Domingo Lunes Martes Miércoles Jueves Viernes Sábado
1 2 3 4 5 6
Cuentos - Es un "dicho" Jugar - En el Día Lectura- Mientras compra Ciencia - Es el Día Matemáticas - ¡Es el Día Jugar - Es el Día Nacional del
nacional: "Buen día". Nacional de Repetición, comestibles, dele a su Nacional del Queso. Nacional del Pan de Autocine. Imagine que tu sala
Cuéntele a su hijo una jueguen juntos el juego hijo una palabra para que Coloque una rebanada de Jengibre! Use galletas de estar es un autocine.
historia sobre una vez que de mesa favorito de su busque, tal como, "dulce" queso en un pedazo de Graham, dulces y Siéntese en automóviles
alguien le dijo algo agradable hijo y cuando terminen, o "crujiente". pan y póngalo en el glaseado para crear una creados con sillas o cojines de
y cómo lo hizo sentir. ¡Vuelvanlo a jugar de microondas por 10 casa de veraniega de "pufs" mientras mira una
nuevo! segundos. Habla sobre lo pan de jengibre, cuente película favorita.
que le sucede al queso. las piezas a medida que
avanza.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Canciones - Canten juntos Escritura - Es el Día Nacional Los sonidos - Mientras Ciencia - Vierta la leche Cuentos - Lean juntos un Rimas - En el Día Matemáticas - Mientras sale a
la canción favorita de su de los Mejores Amigos. Haga esté en el parque, en un platillo y colóquelo libro ilustrado sin palabras, Nacional de la Rosa caminar, cuente cuántos
hijo(a). Luego, cántalo de que su hijo(a) dibuje a su siéntese en silencio por en diferentes colores de como "Mr. Wuffles" de Roja, pídale a su hijo que animales ve.
nuevo tomando turnos e mejor amigo(a). ¡Puede ser un minuto. Luego, hable colorante para alimentos. David Wiesner. Haga que piense en su propio
inventen sus propias letras una persona, un animal o sobre lo que escuchó. Sumerja un hisopo de su hijo(a) cuente la historia poema que comienza
de la canción. incluso un amigo imaginario! ¿Cuáles fueron los algodón en jabón para con sus propias palabras con "las rosas son rojas".
sonidos más fuertes y platos y agítelo mientras mira las
silenciosos? lentamente a través de la imágenes.
leche. ¡Mira lo que pasa!
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Leyendo - Vaya a la Jugar - Es el Día Nacional Canciones - Canta "Si Escritura - Use un Matemáticas - En el Día Los sonidos - Cuántas Rimas - En el Día Nacional de
biblioteca y haga que su del Poder de la Sonrisa. eres feliz y lo sabes" y marcador para escribir Nacional de Ir a Pescar, palabras ¿Puede su hijo la Concha Marina, ¿cuántas
hijo elija un libro sobre su Haga un concurso para ver haz los movimientos. palabras simples en hojas haga que su hijo "vaya a pensar que tiene el palabras que riman con
animal favorito para leer quién puede mantener una de plástico de burbujas. pescar" objetos de cierta mismo sonido inicial a la "concha" puede pensar su hijo
juntos, que no sea de cara seria por más tiempo Haga que su hijo haga forma/figura en la casa. palabra "junio"? (a)?
ciencia ficción, mientras hacen "Muecas" estallar la burbuja
con la cara, el uno al otro. alrededor de las letras.
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Jugar - Es el Día Nacional Lectura - Lean juntos el libro: Matemáticas - Es Día Escritura - Por la mañana, Canciones - Inventa una Los sonidos - Habla Cuentos - Hoy es ocasión para
de Selfie. ¡Diviértete "Luego viene el verano/Them Nacional del Rosado. haga que su hijo lo ayude canción sobre las sobre tu sonidos compartir recuerdos del
tomando juntos selfies Comes Summer " de Tom Hojee una revista y haga a escribir una lista de vacaciones de verano y favoritos en diferentes verano. Cuéntense historias de
cómicos! Brenner y Jaime Kim, y que su hijo señale todos tareas para el día. cántalo al son de "Jingle momentos del día ¿Qué cosas que sucedieron esta
hablen sobre sus cosas los objetos rosados que Bells". sonidos escuchas a semana por las que están
favoritas sobre el verano. ve. ciertas horas todos los agradecidos.
días?
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Lectura - Es el Día Ciencia - En el Día Nacional Rimas - Lean juntos un
Nacional de "Paul
Bunyan". Lean juntos:
del Waffle, juntos hagan
waffle y hablen sobre lo que
libro de imágenes que
rimen, como el libro
¡Ayude a su hijo(a) a estar
"The Bunyans" de Audrey
Wood y David Shannon.
le sucede a la masa después
de agregarlo al molde para
titulado "A Hippy-Hoppy
Toad" de Peggy Archer y
listo para aprender a leer!
hacer waffle. Anne Wilsdorf.
Color & Activity Placemat!
Personalize your very own
Cut along the dotted line, then line up with the second page and tape or glue them together to make your placemat!
placemat. Write and decorate your name in the center!
Tape or glue first page here.
Dot to Dot Dinosaur
Connect the dots from A to Z and color in the picture.
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
P
Q
R
V U T S
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Join the ballet: Dress up in Robot dance: Turn into a mechanical robot
your fanciest clothes and and see who can do
become a ballerina on the most realistic
the stage. robot moves!
Jump to the beat: Put on some upbeat music Scarf or ribbon dance: Grab some scarves,
and see who can do the ribbons, or long pieces of
most jumping jacks (or fabric and dance to
jumps) for the the music using your
duration of materials as a prop.
the song. The
winner chooses
the next move!
Animal dance: Turn on some lively Slow motion dance: Dance as slowly as you
instrumental music and can while still moving
turn into your favorite your body for the
animal on the entire song.
dance floor!
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Wonderful Weather Word
Make your own book! Cut along the dotted lines to make your book
cover, then follow the directions on the next 5 pages to make your very
own Weather Word book.
Wonderful
Weather Word
Today is
sunny and hot.
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Wonderful Weather Word
Read each page. Trace the weather word. Draw a picture that
matches the sentence, then cut out the page. When you are done
with all the pages, ask a grownup to staple your book together.
Today is
windy and rainy.
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Wonderful Weather Word
Read each page. Trace the weather word. Draw a picture that
matches the sentence, then cut out the page. When you are done
with all the pages, ask a grownup to staple your book together.
Today is
snowy and cold.
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Wonderful Weather Word
Read each page. Trace the weather word. Draw a picture that
matches the sentence, then cut out the page. When you are done
with all the pages, ask a grownup to staple your book together.
Today is
cloudy.
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What Should I Wear?
Sometimes we have to wear certain clothes because of the weather. Look at the
clothes. What type of weather would you wear these clothes in? Draw a line from the
clothing to the correct picture of the weather.









