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Home Learning Packet for Coronavirus Closings

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SPECIAL PERMISSIONS FOR SCHOOL CLOSINGS DUE TO CORONAVIRUS — Updated 3/13/20:

If you are using this packet for home learning during school closings, and your school requires you to email or upload home learning activities for parents:
You may email this packet to parents or upload it to a private online space that only your students’ parents can access. Otherwise, please provide a link to this webpage rather than upload this packet in a public online space.

The Home Learning Packet for school closings is basically the same as the Summer Packet that I have zipped together into one file so that you can share it with parents. Since this is an emergency situation for many schools, and this was something I already had available, it made sense to repurpose the summer packet. If I create additional materials, I will send a notification through my email newsletter — sign up here!

Summer Packet

Send home this Summer Packet at the end of the year for parents and students to work on during the summer, if they choose. Many parents aren’t sure what to do with young children to promote learning in the summer, and tend to resort to worksheets and flashcards. Hopefully this packet provides them with fun, hands-on learning activities. Find more End of Year Activities. There is a Spanish version of this Summer Packet also — scroll down!

Pre-K Summer Packet (Preschool Kids Going to Kindergarten): free printable pack

Updated 5/1/17.

PERMISSION FOR USING THE PRE-K SUMMER PACKET
In a nutshell: You may copy and send a paper copy home to parents. You MAY NOT republish this and claim it as your own work. You MAY NOT sell this summer packet to parents. You may not distribute this electronically.
Click here to download the full terms.

Parent Letter

Send home a parent note explaining the purpose of a summer packet, and a list of the materials enclosed. Here is a downloadable copy of the parent letter that you can print to send home to parents. There is a PDF file as well as editable Word and PowerPoint (PPT) files. With the PPT file, you can easily drag and drop the clipart of your choice onto the page.

Parent Letter for the Summer Packet
Parent Letter: PDF File
Parent Letter: Editable PPT
Parent Letter: Editable Word

Activity Booklet

Send home a booklet with several activities parents can do at home with their children. I also include a book list and website list.

Pre-K Summer Activities Packet

Download: Summer Activities Pack

Rhyming Cards

Include a set of rhyming cards are in the packet for children to practice matching rhyming words. You can have kids cut out and glue these to die cut shapes, then send them in the Summer Packet. Or, to save time, just add the sheet to the packet.

Rhyming Cards

Download: Rhyming Cards

Summer Book Bingo

Parents can randomly choose a book activity on this chart to do with their child during the summer. After they have read the book/completed the activity, the child can either color that square or stick a sticker over the square. They get bingo when the whole bingo chart is full.

Summer Book Bingo

Download: Summer Book Bingo

Ocean Animal Race (Counting Game)

This is a printable dice game children can play for counting and numeral recognition practice. To play, children roll a dotted game die. The child counts the dots on the die, and circles the number they rolled. They continue rolling and circling the number until one of the ocean animals wins. Directions are printed on the game for parents.

Ocean Animal Race Counting Game

Download: Ocean Race Game

Grid Game

Print and copy the grid game onto card stock paper for each child and add stickers for decoration. I use stickers of popular characters to spark their interest in the game (Barbie, Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc). Last year, when a child mentioned gifts in class, I had another child thank me for the Scooby Doo game, even though that wasn’t the end-of-year gift I had given them. You can either include dice (the Dollar Tree sells packs of them) or a home-made spinner. To play a Grid Game, children roll the die or spin the spinner and count out the correct amount of pieces to place in each grid. Play continues until the grid is full. Children practice one-to-one correspondence, numeral identification, and counting. If you prefer, you can print out ready-made grid games here and more grid games here.

Grid Game / Counting Game for Pre-K Summer Packet

Download: Grid Game

Nursery Rhyme Parent Handout

This is a sample of nursery rhymes that parents can recite with their child. At the top, it tells parents (very simply) that nursery rhymes are important for increasing reading ability.

Nursery Rhyme Parent Handout

Download: Nursery Rhyme Handout

Roll and Write Games

Include one or more Roll and Write Games. This is a fun way to encourage kids to write. If possible, include a letter dice, which you can make with a wooden cube or foam cube. In the past, I’ve found foam cubes at the Dollar Tree. I have lots of blackline printable Roll and Write Games here, and there are many themes available.

For more writing, you could even include some of these Writing Printables.

Pipe Cleaners

The pipe cleaners are included for letter and numeral formation. This is also explained in the parent letter.

Emergent Reader Books

Include one or two printable emergent reader books. You can find some for free on The Measured Mom here.

Lima Beans

Spray-paint lima beans so that they have a different color on each side. Children use them for counting, patterning, grid games, etc. They can use them in a toss game by tossing the beans on the table and counting how many of each color. They can also be used for comparing more/less/same.

Extra Weekly Readers

If you have any leftover Weekly Readers, add these to the packet.

Spanish Summer Packet Pre-K

Spanish Pre-K Summer Packet

The Spanish edition of the Pre-K Summer Packet is now available, and it’s free! Just click the button to download.

Download: Spanish Pre-K Summer PacketSaveSave

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Comments

  2. I absolutely love this as well and will be using it! I don’t know how you do it, but I want to be as a good Pre-K teacher as you some day. Thanks for sharing such great ideas!!!

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  4. love this idea! I always feel bad to leave the children over the summer knowing that they will likely regress in all the subjects we spent so much time learning and practicing over the year.

    thanx for a great idea and btw I love this site… 🙂

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  5. Any ideas for practicing writing for children that are not yet fluent in English and hav ehard time with ABCs?

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  6. Thank you! I love the wonderful summer activity ideas. You have created a plethora of ideas and activities for students going into kindergarten! Love it 🙂

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  7. I love your activities! They are exactly what we have been teaching the kids all year and I will definitely use some of these as take-home activities for my students to do over the summer. Thanks! 🙂

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  8. Thanks- I love the book Bingo! I’ve made calendars to send home with my kids of things to do each day- I think I’ll add Book Bingo as another idea in the packet.

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  9. Thank you so much, Karen for your generous and well-organized resources! I am already putting them to good use in our faith-based Early Learning Center.

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  10. Karen,
    I just want to say THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! as a first year pre-kinders teacher your website is the MOST HELPFUL!! I gathered so many ideas from you! Now that I’m planning my school year I am so excited by the many things that you have shared on your website n blog! Thanks for all that you do and share n thanks for being my E-mentor!!

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  11. I love your summer packet, my pre-school parents will love it also…have a GREAT long summer break 🙂

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  13. Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic activities. This was EXACTLY what I was looking for to keep my 4 and 5 year old boys busy and preventing the iPad from becoming permanently attached to their hands!

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  14. I love the summer learning packet, this will be very useful to the kids in my area. I will be sure to inform daycares with early head start programs about your summer packet. This idea is wonderful, thank you so much 😇 and God Bless you.

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  15. This just came in the right moment at the right time. Big thank you Karen, I will definitely use this for my students 😊👍🏻

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  16. The Summer Packet is awesome. Is there a way to make it editable? The reason I am asking this is, so many of my parents only read Spanish. This are the ones that need the activities the most.

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    • I don’t have it available in Spanish at this time, but I’ll see if I can get someone to translate it. These days there are so many languages other than Spanish in the U.S., so I don’t know if it will make sense to have a lot of things translated to Spanish, but I’ll see if I can get this one. For example, where I live Gujarati is much more prominent than Spanish.

      Karen

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  20. Thank you so much, Karen! I was going to have to make up my own summer kit. You just saved me a LOT of time. Bless your heart! <3

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  22. I love all the ideas in this pack. Thank you so much for sharing! You are always a great help with your lovely ideas and great resources:)

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  23. Thank you so much! This is awesome! It will save me a lot of work. I appreciate your generosity with your time and products!

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  26. Thank you for this great packet! It will help our Pre K kids keep up their skills during the summer months. I just went on TPT and ordered some of your products. Thanks for sharing!

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  27. I absolutely LOVE this packet. Thank you for putting this together, it’s fantastic. What font did you use for the Parent Letter? I’d like to download it, edit the letter, and add a personal message.

    Thank you again! 🙂

    -Krystle

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  31. OMG, thanks so much for the Spanish packet. I was looking everywhere for something like this. Awesome! 🙏🏻

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  32. Thank you, once again, for an amazing product. I love your site and use so many of your ideas and products. I have been meaning to get a PreK to K summer packet together for years, and here it is!

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  35. Karen, I love your materials and I appreciate that some of your downloads have pictures only. That way I am able to use them to teach Spanish.
    Thank you so much

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  36. This is absolutely the best. I am in love with this packet. It will be a wonderful addition to my summer activities I send home with my children. Thanks for such great quality work.

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  38. I wanted to say,Thank You! For giving permission to use these with our families. They will love your work just I do!
    Grateful, Dee Bicket

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  39. I also want to say thank you for your generosity in allowing us to email your resources home to our families. May God Bless you and keep you healthy and safe in these trying times.

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  42. Thank you for the additional resources but most of all thank you for allowing us to share with our students and their families. Wishing you well and stay safe.

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  43. Thank-you so much for these useful activities! I am in far-away South Africa and these are going to keep my 4 year old busy during lockdown and into winter. Thanks a stack!

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  45. This is phenomenal! Thank you for sharing a perfect balance of hands-on and parental support.

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  46. Thanks for all your wonderful ideas and making these valuable tools available to all of us!! I just love your page.

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