Download Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day Kindergarten Plan.

Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
JELV Kindergarten Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 1
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading online. (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Bob Books Lite, RazKids, Endless Alphabet Apps.
Cut out popcorn words or letters to create popcorn words
from magazines and newspapers.
Play a “Hide and Go Seek” word hunt (ask your parents or
friends to hide words in your house and then you find them).
Find the letters in your name around your house or
neighborhood.
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Help a grown up with the laundry and sort the clothes by the
type of clothing or by color.
Count how many tiles in your kitchen/bathroom, panels on
the doors in your house, or pictures on your wall.
Build lego towers (or you can use any different colored
items) using different patterns. Tell your parents or friends
the patterns you used.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Start a Winter Journal and write in it today.
Illustrate and label a winter scene.
Make a list of winter words.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them.
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Find 10 items in your home that are living and 10 items that
are nonliving
Practice steady beat by clapping to a song.
Have a 10-20 minute dance party.
Draw a picture using all types of lines. Tell a parent or
friend the different types of lines you used.
PLEASE NOTE: Snow Day activities are different than activities found on the homework
calendar
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 2
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading online (20 -30 minutes)
Read to someone (sibling, animal, adult) or have someone
read to you.
Make popcorn words with play dough or other objects.
Read a book, rate the book 1,2,3 or 4 stars. Write or draw
your favorite part.
For the story you read (from above), draw pictures of main
events in the story, add a caption and tape them together in
order.
Math Activities (Choose One)
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Dreambox online
www.fun4thebrain.com and play addition or subtraction
games.
Spread some shaving cream on the table and then practice
writing your numbers 0-20 in the shaving cream.
Draw 4 different sizes of snowmen. Cut them out and
arrange them from smallest to biggest, then biggest to
smallest.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Write about building a snowman.
Make a list of your favorite toys.
Parent Initials
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Go on a winter walk.
Play a game like charades.
Act out a favorite story.
Make two snowballs. Pour salt on one of the snowballs. See
which one melts the fastest. Make observations.
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 3
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading online (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Play Tales Touchy
Books, ABC Phonics Rhyming Words
Read a book. Draw and label a character from the book.
Play alphabet/sight word hopscotch. Say the names of the
letters or say the words as you land on each square.
Play a word game with a friend. Have them say a word and
identify the beginning, middle and ending sounds.
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online (20 -30 minutes)
Use playdough, toothpicks, and marshmallows, to practice
making 3D shapes (cone, sphere, cylinder, cube).
Count the number of steps it takes to get from the bedroom
to the kitchen, front door and/or other parts of your house.
Grab a handful of cheerios (or other item for counting).
Count how many you grabbed. Have a parent grab a
handful. Who grabbed more/less? Why?
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Draw a picture of your favorite toy and write about it.
Draw a map of your room and label it.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Identify animal tracks in the snow.
Draw your favorite animal. Why is it your favorite?
Move like different animals.
Tell about your favorite characters in a story. Why are they
your favorite?
PLEASE NOTE: Snow Day activities are different than activities found on the homework
calendar.
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 4
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading online (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Classic Nursery
Rhymes Lite, iReading HD
Time yourself. See how fast you can read the alphabet
letters or popcorn words.
Watch a children's show or movie and write a review of it.
Do you recommend the movie? Why or why not?
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Play a board game and see how quickly you can recognize
the number you roll on a dice.
Play Dominoes, Uno, or War to practice recognizing
numbers.
Build a fort. Decide what shapes will help you make the
strongest fort. Draw and label the different shapes in your
fort.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Label items in your house with sticky or post it notes. Focus
on stretching out the sounds your hear in each word.
Make a list of popcorn words.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Draw a winter landscape.
Make up your own short story and tell it to a friend or adult
(does not require writing).
Experiment with mixing primary colors (red, yellow and
blue) together to create a variety of secondary colors. This
can be done with paint or food coloring (in water or milk).
Choose 3 exercises and do them each for 1 minute (skip,
crab walk, jumping jacks, gallop, wheel barrel walk, hop on
one foot, jump, etc). Talk about how they made your heart
and muscles feel.
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 5
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading online (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Bob Books Lite, RazKids, Endless Alphabet Apps.
Act out a favorite book.
Use legos to form letters and words.
Search for words with ch, wh, th, sh, and ph. Read or write
them.
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Using play dough or other objects, practice making your
numbers from 0-20.
Tell and solve addition and subtraction story problems that
equal 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10.
Have a picnic inside and count the plates/cups/silverware.
Practice skip counting as an added challenge!
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Draw a picture in the snow and write a sentence to go with
it.
Write your popcorn words on scrap paper or sticky notes,
post around your house and go on a word hunt.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently
Special Areas (Choose One)
Draw a picture using cool colors (blue, purple, green).
Parent Initials
Make a collage with items from your home.
Sing a simple song together with your family or friend. You
can teach them the song too!
Listen to 3 of your favorite songs and clap to the beat.
PLEASE NOTE: Snow Day activities are different than activities found on the homework
calendar.
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 6
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Bob Books Lite, RazKids, Shake a Phrase
Play board games using words or letters (Scrabble Jr,
Boogle Jr, Bananagrams).
Listen to or read a book. Draw a picture of your favorite part
of the book.
Find something in the house that begins with each letter in
your first name.
Math Activities (Choose One)
Dreambox online
Parent Initials
Count out some cereal. Then organize it into groups of 10
and practice counting by 10’s.
Sort out your toys or legos by color, size, and type.
Count, beginning at numbers other than 1. For example,
begin counting at 7.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Draw a picture from a book you listened to or read. Write
one sentence explaining why you liked it or not.
Practice writing your letters or popcorn words with different
materials (shaving cream, in the snow with a stick, Q-tips
and paint).
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Move your body to videos at gonoodle.com
Talk about your favorite instrument. If you have one at
home, play it or have an adult play it for you.
Find as many secondary colored objects in your house as
you can (purple, green or orange).
Visit http://www.sfskids.org/ and choose a game to play
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 7
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Read Me Stories,
Endless Reader
Read a story. Draw 3 pictures to show what happened in the
beginning, middle and end.
Make popcorn words in shaving cream.
At dinner, name a rhyming word (it can be a nonsense/made
up word) for every food on the table. See if everybody in
your family can do it too!
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Make a snack following a recipe and compare the measured
ingredients by amount.
Visit www.ixl.com and try some of the free Kindergarten
math activities.
Go on a winter walk. How many neighbors have shoveled
their driveway. How many yards have snowmen? How
many cars are in driveways? Discuss which has more or
less.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Write 3-4 sentences using popcorn words.
Help your family make a shopping list.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
If you were the illustrator of a book what would the front
cover look like? Draw your own front cover and write the
title, author, and illustrator (which will be your own name).
Draw and label an animal in its habitat
Clap some rhythms using “ta” “ti ti” or “Jelly”. Teach them
to your family or friends.
Fold paper into 3D shapes and glue them on to a flat piece
of paper. Name your new masterpiece.
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 8
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: PlayTales Touchy
Books, ABC Phonics Rhyming Words
Find and read popcorn words in books and magazines.
Play alphabet/sight word hopscotch. Say the names of the
letters or say the words as you land on each square.
Choose a room in your house. Say different items you see
and figure out how many word parts/syllables are in each
word.
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Count forwards and backwards from 100 using different
silly voices.
Walk around your house and look for 2D and 3D shapes.
Make a tally mark for each type of shape you find.
Make snow angels with friends or family and see whose is
the biggest, smallest, etc
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Have an adult write “secret sentences” and cut them apart.
See if you can put them back in order.
Make a list of the items you need to wear on a cold day.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they are limited in what
they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage stretching out the sounds in the words and
writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words or writing for them.
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Point to a part of a book and ask your parent or sibling to
guess the part of the book.
Choose 3 exercises and do them each for 1 minute (skip,
crab walk, jumping jacks, gallop, wheel barrel walk, hop on
one foot, jump, etc). Talk about how they made your heart
and muscles feel.
Find foods and tell your family members what food groups
they belong to.
Explore the website National Geographic Creature Feature.
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 9
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Lexia or Starfall Reading (20 -30 minutes)
Choose one of these free tablet apps: Classic Nursery
Rhymes Lite, iReading HD
Read a recipe and then make it.
Listen to a story (parents, sibling, recording,
Storylineonline.com).
Pick a letter. Draw 5 pictures of things that begin with that
letter.
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Count out loud to 100. Every time you say one of the decade
numbers (10, 20, 30, 40, etc.) jump!
Order a group of at least 5 objects from shortest to longest,
tallest to shortest, and heaviest to lightest.
Have a grown-up call out a number (or pull a number card
from a deck of cards). Create a set of items, such as cereal,
to match the number.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Cut out letters, or popcorn words that you find in magazines
or newspapers, and make a collage.
Make a list of your favorite movies.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they are limited in what
they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage stretching out the sounds in the words and
writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words or writing for them.
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Read a story and decide if it would belong in the fiction or
nonfiction section of the library and why.
Have a head shoulders knees and toes challenge. See how
fast you can go.
Read a story, draw pictures of the characters, cut them out
and use them as puppets to retell the story.
Go for a quick walk outside. Talk about what kind of
animals you see in the winter. Ask if there are more animals
out in the summer or in the winter? Why?
Student Name: ___________________________________Date: ________________________
Non-Traditional Instructional Snow Day 10
Please complete and initial one activity per subject area (reading, math, writing and special
areas). Please return, along with completed work, to school the first day back.
Reading Activities (Choose One)
Lexia or Starfall Reading (20 -30 minutes)
Read street signs.
Use legos to make letters, then words.
See how many words you can rhyme with pig, cat, dog,
sock, bell, flag, pen, fin, dad, and mom.
Choose a letter and hunt for it in magazines, books, or
newspapers. See how many you can find.
Parent Initials
Math Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Dreambox online
Practice writing your numbers 0-20 outside in the snow!
Using blocks or legos, make towers with a friend, sibling, or
grown-up. Each of you grab a handful, build, and compare
to see whose is bigger!
Play a board game or card game. Focus on recognizing dot
patterns without counting and on recognizing numerals.
Writing Activities (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Create a new entry in your winter journal.
Make a list of things you like to do when it is cold.
Make a list of your favorite cold weather food and drinks.
***Please remember this is an opportunity for your child to practice their writing. Even if they
are limited in what they can write, let them attempt to do the work independently. Encourage
stretching out the sounds in the words and writing what they hear as opposed to spelling words
or writing for them
Special Areas (Choose One)
Parent Initials
Read a story and decide if it would belong in the fiction or
nonfiction section of the library and why.
Think of an animal that is a neutral color and draw it and its
habitat.
Make snowballs and practice the overhand throw.
Create a dance.