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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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