How to Create Homework for Kindergarten
If you're homeschooling your kids or you want to reinforce regular school learning methods, you might want to figure out how to create homework for kindergarten students. Homework for this age shouldn't take more than fifteen minutes total, and should be fun and exciting for both you and your child.
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Instructions
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Practice the child's handwriting on lined kindergarten paper. You can also use regular lined paper and draw darker lines for your child to follow. Practice first writing her name and letting her copy the shapes of the letters. Then move on to the full alphabet, practicing a letter each week, until she can recognize, say and write each letter.
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Teach simple geometry by having your child draw shapes. Learning to recognize circles, triangles, squares and rectangles is common in kindergarten.
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Have you child practice motor skills by cutting out the shapes he draws. Give him other fun projects to cut out with child safety scissors, such as simple craft projects and holiday decorations on colored paper.
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Improve coordination and teach art skills by having your child glue shapes onto paper. She can manipulate the shapes she cut out earlier to glue together a simple person or house, or provide other opportunities for her to glue the items she cut out in step 3 to complete a new project for step 4.
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Practice counting skills whenever possible, such as counting out shapes cut or items needing to be glued. Go over the digits, 1 through 10, in the same manner as learning to write the alphabet above. Use fun manipulatives, such as miniature marshmallows, that he can eat once he counts them correctly.
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Tips & Warnings
Want to make drawing shapes more challenging? Make your child draw the shapes on lined paper. Tell them to not go outside of the lines. This will help encourage a more structured type of drawing.
Don't overload your kindergartner. Schooling is supposed to be fun, and forcing a small child to learn more and longer doesn't improve her knowledge or skill.
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