Learning Activities
Learning Support at Home
This page has resources that support almost all of the activities we do in the classroom. If you are looking for ways to support and enrich your child's learning at home, this page has many different ideas and activities.
Outdoor learning
- Here is a wonderful post from a colleague of mine with lots of playful ideas for April Outdoor learning
- David Suzuki has many ideas and suggestions about outside time -Be a superhero
- The Vancouver Island YMCA has a link for kids workout activities YMCA kids YPlay.
Oral language
- This site has a series of videos that are a lot of fun. The Francomobile ones encourage children read the subtitles and speak French. Videos to practice speaking French
- Speech and Language links. If your child receives speech and language support this link has great ideas for home practice SLP home practice
Reading Activities
These links have to do with reading. The first link has lots of interactive activities that support your child as they learn to read and write. The other links are for listening to stories. This will help them build vocabulary and story sense.- Story books in French Tumble books Biblio enfant
- Fairytales read aloud to student by a librarian. Coucou contes
- The Three Little Pigs and other well known stories- French Children's stories
- A link to books on youtube in French- Book Inc in French
- Books on line to listen to in French- Raconte-moi une histoire
- Fairy Tales in French- Monde des petits and French Fairy tales this site can just be audio if you are having bandwidth issues.
Writing Activities
- Using scrabble tiles - How many French words can you make with the scrabble tiles? How many tiles do you have leftover? Can you use all the tiles?
- Keep a journal of things you love.
Math Activities
These are links to math activities (hands on). I have chosen these links as the activities are most like the activities that the children practice in class.
- Which One Doesn't Belong- For this site see if you can come up with a logical reason why each item does not belong in a group with the other 3.
- Number Talks- How many? How do you know? What addition or subtraction stories can you tell from the picture?
- Math games and activities using... -Math with dominos, Math with dice
- Hands on activities to do at home-Math games and crafts
- Instructions to Make 10- Making 10
- These math activities are ones I use in class. The most appropriate levels for this grade are stage A, B, and C. Number Sense, Addition and Subtraction
- This is a math site that we use K-7 at school. This link is to at home activities. Youcubed home activities
Everyday things that you can do:
Literacy
- play hangman at home with French words- colour words, ask your child for words
- make up silly sentences
- play I spy with French colours or the beginning letters sound e.g. "I spy something that begins with m"
- read with your child and to your child
- have your child help write grocery lists
- have your child write own invitations and Valentine's cards (allow at least a week for this task)
- have your child label drawings with a few words
Math
- play games with cards and dice such as Go Fish, Crazy Eight's and Snakes and Ladders, Junior Monopoly
- have your child match and sort objects in the home
- notice patterns and share them with your child
- count things often by 1, 2, 5 and 10
- share when you are using math in the house e.g. counting money, using a recipe, matching lost socks, cutting a cake into equal parts
General resources and games
This is a series of links to webpages that have a variety of entertaining activities for math, sight words, reading, songs, stories and games.
- TV Ontario songs and French TV show- TVO Enfants
- This site has many, many activities by grade and subject for your child. Education activities for you
- French CBC page-Radio-Canada
- Quebec's open learning page Open learning
- Yoga in French from Ontario Mini Yoga TFO. This is just one sequence but there is a channel with many more videos like this.
Resources for parenting
These are just a few resources that I thought might be of interest. They support my philosphy as a teacher and a parent. Hopefully they are of interest to you as well.
- The Canadian Pediatrics recoomendations for sleep- Chart of amount of sleep for kids
- Peaceful parenting for a peaceful world -Ideals for peaceful parenting
- An interesting articles about TV and video game time for children – Limiting handheld devices, Media diet for children