Language Arts for Kindergarten Kiddos
April 6, 2015 4:46 PM Subscribe
I've been asked to sub in a Language Arts class tomorrow. I'm having a hard time coming up with fun activities. Help!
My son is homeschooled and goes to a weekly co-op. I've been asked to cover the kindergarten Language Arts class tomorrow as the teacher is out of town, and while it sounds like fun, I'm having a mental block and can't come up with any fun ideas for activities. I don't have a lot of arts and crafts materials, but I do have all the basics, and would like to do something hands on besides reading books and talking about letter sounds. All of the kids are 6 years old, and read on a basic level. I will have 4 students, and have one hour to fill. Any ideas for games, art projects, or other cool activities appreciated! I've been searching lots of websites but haven't seen anything that really works with the time or supplies I have. Thanks in advance!
My son is homeschooled and goes to a weekly co-op. I've been asked to cover the kindergarten Language Arts class tomorrow as the teacher is out of town, and while it sounds like fun, I'm having a mental block and can't come up with any fun ideas for activities. I don't have a lot of arts and crafts materials, but I do have all the basics, and would like to do something hands on besides reading books and talking about letter sounds. All of the kids are 6 years old, and read on a basic level. I will have 4 students, and have one hour to fill. Any ideas for games, art projects, or other cool activities appreciated! I've been searching lots of websites but haven't seen anything that really works with the time or supplies I have. Thanks in advance!
What about assigning each of them 4 letters to draw and colour in on an A5 sheet of paper. At the end you can string them together or pin them up to create the alphabet.
posted by billiebee at 5:11 PM on April 6, 2015
posted by billiebee at 5:11 PM on April 6, 2015
Or (as apparently I need reading comprehension lessons and you have 4 students aged 6 and not 6 students) you could print out the outlines of all the letters and just let them take a couple each and colour them in/decorate them with glitter etc as time allows. Maybe it could be an ongoing project.
posted by billiebee at 5:18 PM on April 6, 2015
posted by billiebee at 5:18 PM on April 6, 2015
Best answer: You could do a collaborative (oral) story by having each child contribute a sentence, like an exquisite corpse. When the story is over, each child draws an illustration to accompany it. The pictures will each be different, depending on what aspect of the story made the biggest impression on each child. You can then arrange those illustrations in order, and notice if there are duplicates (and discuss why) and if there are parts of the story left out (which you can then draw). You can also brainstorm titles for the story, which helps emphasize the main theme of the story.
posted by xo at 5:25 PM on April 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by xo at 5:25 PM on April 6, 2015 [4 favorites]
You could talk about parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and then do simple Mad Libs with them.
posted by belladonna at 5:43 PM on April 6, 2015
posted by belladonna at 5:43 PM on April 6, 2015
How good are they at writing? I've done acrostics with kiddos a year older, they worked out well. Pick a simple word for them to use and let them be as creative as they like (I found encouraging silliness made them more creative). It helps if you pick a theme, we did ours at Halloween so for example I gave them a word like ghost:
G
H
O
S
T
and they did the sentences describing something spooky. I let them look through the halloween books we had for vocab ideas. When they finished they decorated them.
If they aren't up to writing themselves, you could do a longer word and each kid make up a sentence with you as the scribe.
posted by kitten magic at 5:44 PM on April 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
G
H
O
S
T
and they did the sentences describing something spooky. I let them look through the halloween books we had for vocab ideas. When they finished they decorated them.
If they aren't up to writing themselves, you could do a longer word and each kid make up a sentence with you as the scribe.
posted by kitten magic at 5:44 PM on April 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
My kid is their age. This year he did a cute poem called a "diamante". (I think)
take 2 subjects for example...
DOG
Furry, loyal
Barking, digging,
bones, chew toys, cat nip, whiskers
purring, lapping
independent, smart
CAT
It makes a diamond and they can cut out an illustrate.
(look it up though, I may not have it exactly right!)
posted by beccaj at 6:29 PM on April 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
take 2 subjects for example...
DOG
Furry, loyal
Barking, digging,
bones, chew toys, cat nip, whiskers
purring, lapping
independent, smart
CAT
It makes a diamond and they can cut out an illustrate.
(look it up though, I may not have it exactly right!)
posted by beccaj at 6:29 PM on April 6, 2015 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Love the ideas, thank you!! I now have a lesson plan ready for tomorrow, utilizing some of your
ideas. Your brains were exactly what I needed to get my imaginative juices flowing. :-)
posted by I_love_the_rain at 10:59 PM on April 6, 2015
ideas. Your brains were exactly what I needed to get my imaginative juices flowing. :-)
posted by I_love_the_rain at 10:59 PM on April 6, 2015
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