Mrs. Mendez's Monkeys
Kindergarten
Give each of them a BIG hug from me, I miss them so much!!!
General Tips
*Children their age learn best through PLAY so take this time to do just that, PLAY!!! All of these games are play based but with some academics in there, best of both worlds!
*Utilize those older siblings to do some of these games with them
*Please make sure your child is using the technology resouces somewhat equally and not just all Dreambox or all IRead, try to have them use all of them throughout the week. Dreambox and IRead can be enterchanged with Happy Numbers and Lalilio. RazKids is very important for reading so please use at least 2 times a week.
Learning Websites and Resources
Classlink- https://launchpad.classlink.com/hayscisd Here you can access IRead, RazKids and Dreambox. You will need you child's ID number that I sent through Dojo.
Brainpop Jr.- https://jr.brainpop.com/ Great learning videos on all subjects and have small quizzes at the end. The school log in is username: teamhays_7 password: learn
Starfall- https://www.starfall.com/h/ The kiddos enjoy this website
Happy Numbers- https://happynumbers.com/ Another choice for math practice besides Dreambox. Logins were sent through Dojo. Just click "I am a Student" and set up their account. Students will be given a test to start so the program knows where to start them and then it will be tailored to their needs and self paced.
Lalilo- https://www.lalilo.com/ Another choice for phonics practice besides IRead. Log ins were sent through Dojo. Students will be given a test to start so the program knows where to start them and then it will be tailored to their needs and self paced.
ABCya- https://www.abcya.com/ LOTS of games for all subjects. If you get a puzzle piece saying Flash has been blocked, click the puzzle piece and you can go into your settings and set it to ask you if you want to block Flash first. Then you would click the puzzle piece again and hit Allow.
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems- https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/ the kiddos love this author and he is doing daily lunch drawings everyday at noon.
Virtual Field Trips- https://adventuresinfamilyhood.com/20-virtual-field-trips-to-take-with-your-kids.html Enough said LOL
Virtual Field Trips pt. 2- https://socalfieldtrips.com/101-virtual-field-trips-for-students/
Scholastic- https://shop.scholastic.com/parent-ecommerce/clubs.html?esp=SBC%2Fib%2F20200325%2F%2Fbanner%2FSSOOnlinePopupShop%2FClubsShingleCOVID9%2FShopNow%2F Scholastic is now delivering to your house!!!! Just set up an account and you can order books and use our class code (HFHGW) at checkout.
HaysCISD Home Learning Resources- https://sites.google.com/g.hayscisd.net/homelearning/general-resources-for-families Here you can find other activities that are low tech and more curriculum based.
Jack Hartman videos on Youtube are your new best friend lol. He has fun songs and videos on all subjects!
STEM Challenges
Reading
Read EVERY day with your kiddo, it is beyond beneficial. Listen to them read aloud their books from RAZ-Kids, this is where I get my books I send for homework from. Use the anchor charts below and the links to drive your discussions and questioning.
***If you need books I have linked Scholastic above under resources since they are now delivering to yalls homes.
Decoding strategies- https://thisreadingmama.com/strategies-for-unknown-words/
Writing
Handwriting
Sight Word Games
Blending Practice
Math Games
- Dice, dominoes and a deck or 2 of cards are GREAT things to have on hand and can be used for SO MANY games. There are dice apps that you can download.
- we have been working on counting on, so when adding have them start with a number and then keep counting the dots etc to get the answer instead of them counting all of them each time. For example they roll a 5 and a 4, they would say 5.. 6,7,8,9.
- when playing or working with addition and subtraction make sure you are always having them write the number sentence (__+__=__ and __-__=__).
Uno games- http://primaryplayground.net/5-math-games-to-play-with-uno-cards/
Science
Pick your flower, put it between 2 sheets of parchment paper and stack some heavy books on top and leave for a week. Then put packing tape on top to "laminate" them!!