Mrs. Medlock's Kindergarten Class

There are many projects you can work on with your child this summer. Please continue to review the skills we have learned in kindergarten.

• Give your child magazines and let him/her cut out words, numbers, or pictures and make a collage
• Use ribbons, buttons, yarn and make a craft
• Give your child alphabet letters and have him/her match the letters to objects that start with that sound.
• Find sight words in books, billboards, signs, and cereal boxes
• Make macaroni necklaces
• Dye pasta and make a craft
• Make playdough
• Go on a nature walk and collect leaves and rocks
• Play educational games on the computer (the library has a kids computer section)
• Take a trip to the library (many fun activities will be taking place this summer)
• Read books
• Make ice cream
• Make cookies, cake, or brownies
• Make lemonade
• Make a scrapbook
• Other cooking activities
• Make a vehicle out of a cardboard box
• Make something out of a shoebox
• Keep a journal
• Paint
• Write on the sidewalk with chalk
• Blow bubbles
• Have a backyard picnic
• Make an obstacle course in your yard
• Draw a hopscotch grid on sidewalk and play
• Mud paint on the sidewalk
• Have a water fight.
• Make popsicles with ice trays
• Color
• Go outside. Find things for the sense of touch, things that are smooth, rough, prickly, sharp, hard, soft, dry, wet, etc.,
• Count by 2's, 5's, and 10's
• Go on a nature hike. Collect things and put them in a picture.
• Count out loud to 100
• Make a sandwich. Cut it in two equal parts.
• Make pizza. Cut the pizza in fractions.
• Make a list of everything you can find in your hose that is orange.(Do a color a day)
• Draw a map of your neighborhood, put a treasure (a small box with a few treats) somewhere in your neighborhood and mark it on your map.  Invite your friends to try to find the treasure.
• Collect bottles from your neighborhood and donate the money to a local charity.
• Find out something new about your pet.  See if you can teach it one new trick. 
• Play the “What’s Missing?” game with someone. Find 5-10 objects inside your home. Arrange them on a tray. Have someone look at them for 5 seconds and then cover eyes while you take one of the items away. Can they guess what is missing? Then let your friend remove an item and you try to guess what is missing.    
• Have a paper airplane contest, who can make a paper airplane that flies the furthest. 
• Cut out food pictures from magazines. Make 4 category cards - Dairy Products, Meat, Fruit and Vegetable, and Bread and Cereal. Arrange the pictures under the correct category.   
• Draw a map of your house and label all the exits you would use in case of a fire.  Plan a meeting place with your family in case there ever was a fire and what talk about what you should do as well.  
• With your mom or dad's help find some "good" old toys and clothes and donate them to a shelter in your town.
• Go on a picnic

• Cut out words from the newspaper - one for each letter of the alphabet

Ziploc bag ice cream (recipe)

½ cup whole milk

1 tbsp sugar

1/8 tsp vanilla

1 small Ziploc bag

1 large Ziploc bag

Ice Rock salt

towel

Preparation Pour milk, sugar, and vanilla into small ziploc. Make sure to seal all the way! Put small ziploc into large ziploc with ice and salt. You may add other bags of ice cream at this time. Wrap towel around large ziploc. Shake large ziploc until ice cream freezes, about 15 minutes. If making ice cream indoors, use the towel to wipe up any water that spills out.

Playdough Recipe

1/2 cup salt

1 cup flour

1 tablespoon cream of tartar

1 tablespoon oil 1 cup water food coloring

What to do: Combine ingredients in a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring all the time. When the dough has a good consistency, take it off the heat and allow to cool.

Homemade Lemonade

Here's what you will need to make it: 4 lemons 1 cup of sugar 6 cups of water knife bowl strainer pitcher mixing spoon ice

Here's what you have to do:

1. Check with a grown-up before you start this.

2. Roll each lemon with the palm of your hand on a counter or tabletop. This will make the lemons easier to squeeze and help them make more juice.

3. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze them into a bowl.

4. It's a good idea to strain the lemon juice so you don't get any seeds in your lemonade.

5. Pour the lemon juice into a pitcher.

6. Next, add 1 cup of sugar.

7. Then, add 6 cups of water.

8. Stir everything together.

9. Pour the lemonade into a glass of ice and enjoy!

Ideas to practice the sight words: