Sincerely,
Katie Bianchi Alex Zeeb Amy Nixson Melaine Black Brandi Milford
Dear Kindergarten Families,
Welcome to The Museum School! We are so excited to start the new school year with each of your children. To keep learning alive during the summer, we ask that you and your child participate in some of our Rising Kindergarten Summer Packet activities.
In this packet you will find Literacy, Science, Social Studies, and Math activities. Your child may choose to complete all of the learning choices or we ask that your child choose at least three of the activities. Summer Packets are not required for students to complete but are highly encouraged.
There is one mandatory assignment. It is called “Me Museum”. Your child will share the “Me Museum” with his/her class during the week of August 10th. To access the Summer Packet, click here.
Have a wonderful summer and we look forward to a new school year!
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Rising Kindergarten Summer Packet
Choice Board Choose any three (or more) fun activities to complete over the summer with your child. Click on the activity to access directions and printable materials. | ||
Kindergarten Essential Skills
This page has a skill-based set of tasks that students can work on over the summer if needed. This page includes skills that incoming students should know entering Kindergarten.
Reading/Writing:
Math:
Independent living skills:
Number Hunt
Below is an example of what yours may look like:
Click the numbers for a printable Kindergarten number writing formation guide!
Shapes in the Environment
Enjoy a few shape songs from the StoryBots about finding shapes in the environment to help you
get started!
Shapes are all around us! Let’s find them!
Discuss different shapes with your child (circles, squares, rectangles, ovals, triangles, hexagons, cones, cylinders, spheres, and cubes).
Then go on a “shape hunt” in a safe place outside or in your house to find the shapes you discussed. Your child can take pictures of the shapes they saw or draw the shapes they found and create a “Shapes in the Environment Book”. Draw the shape, the object in the environment that is that shape, and label it.
GA Aquarium
Take a virtual trip to the Georgia Aquarium.
Create your own mini aquarium using Play Dough and other household items. For example, you might choose to draw a map on a large white sheet of paper and put your creative sea animals in their appropriate aquariums. Or you can make a diorama out of a shoe box. Maybe you create an aquatic mobile. Dive deep and get creative!
Scissor Snips
Line Cutting
Scissor Grip
Shape Art
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Build hand strength and practice scissor grip by cutting various materials such as...
Watch this helpful video for tips on scissor grip and cutting practice.
Click the
frog
for printable
line-cutting
practice.
Choose 1 or more of the activities below
to practice your cutting skills!
cooked spaghetti
playdough
toilet paper rolls
gummy worms
Click the shapes for printable shapes to cut out. Choose which shapes you want to cut. Then arrange them to create a picture! Will it be a flower?
A robot? A bear?
What can you make
with the shapes
you cut?
I Can Do It All By Myself!
Draw pictures or take pictures of you doing at least 4 of the Kindergarten readiness skills all by yourself! If some of these things are still difficult, this summer is a great time to practice!
Rockin’ Recipe
Let’s get cookin’!
Create your own or follow another recipe to make a special treat. If possible, bring your treat in on the first week of school and share it with the class! If we’re not able to share, feel free to document the fun with photographs or drawings and labels! Healthy treats encouraged and appreciated :)
Rainbow Writing
In kindergarten, your child will learn to print letters using Handwriting Without Tears.
This program helps children learn proper formation of letters to help with writing fluency and legibility.
How to Rainbow Write
Choose 4 or more colors.
Write your first name in one color.
Then choose another color to write your name again, tracing over the first color. Keep writing your name with each color until your name looks like a rainbow! The smiley face is the starting point!
Can you already write your name neatly?
Try rainbow writing
your last name!
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Zoo Atlanta
Visit Zoo Atlanta or use their website for pictures and information about the animals. Draw, color, and label your favorite animal that lives at the zoo.
Click on the panda for a
‘Live Panda Cam’
Click the worksheet for a printable ‘Zoo Activity Sheet’
Click on the Zoo Atlanta icon above for information about visiting Zoo Atlanta during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Me Museum
Our first Kindergarten Social Studies Unit at The Museum School is “All About Me and My Community.” We start the Unit learning about each other and celebrating our similarities and differences!
We ask that you work with your child to choose 5 artifacts to bring to school during the week of August 10th. These artifacts will be used as props while telling classmates about him/herself. The artifacts need to be small enough to fit into a shoebox (or other shoebox sized container).
This project is called a “Me Museum”. It will be one way we start to build our classroom community and learn more about each other.
After sharing, all of the “Me Museums” will be displayed together in the classroom. The children will decide how to display their artifacts, how to present them to their classmates, and how to show respect while viewing others’ museums! This will be a great introduction to the concept of “museum quality work” and our Core Values of respect, creativity and responsibility.
The “Me Museums” will stay at school on display until our first couple of weeks.
Please keep that in mind as you help your child select his/her artifacts.
We can’t wait to learn more about you through your Me Museum!