It was simple to learn and implement for teachers, students and now parents!! Today, since routines have finally settled – I am able to video personal messages to kids about their work.”Īmber has these recommendations for teachers using Seesaw for the first time: There is a database of assignments teachers have shared that you can use as well. They have many safety settings for keeping things private or public with in your classroom. Kids can type, draw, write, voice or video record responses. “You can post PDFS, links to websites, video or voice recordings of yourself. I made a free eLearning template just for you to use in kindergarten! Check out how to make an easy-to-navigate eLearning lesson plan using a Google Slide presentation. Here are a few of the current favorite ways teachers are using these tools right now. In general, you can pick the sites or specific games you want by copying the site (or game) URL and pasting it in your favorite method of sharing work. Well, it depends on what you have to work with.įor some teachers, this means that you are putting out work for your students using Seesaw, ClassDojo, Google Classroom or something your school already has in place for eLearning. Okay, so now that we have these fantastic links, what do we do with them? You may also want to check out links or activity ideas in this kindergarten online free curriculum. Ask students to work for 15-20 minutes a day. You can sign your class up for, which is free. Post a picture each day with their list – get kids moving, away from their screens and get them outdoors. Send your students on daily scavenger hunts. Encourage them to draw a picture of their favorite thing they learned while watching or to draw what the featured animal eats. Let your students take a daily home safari. Use this “Don’t Let the Pigeon” writing activity as an example. These lessons are taught by the author of the Pigeon books and you could ask your students to write a simple sentence to go with their completed picture. Keep your guided drawing activities alive with Mo Willems drawing lessons. These can help you round out your lesson plans. Here is a list of new or temporary activities that have become available. desert dive teeter-totter (simple machines: lever).Base ten snakes (choose count and write – either ones or tens).Bird hop and panda pop (choose magic e)Īll of these math games are my favorites on these math sub-skills for the second semester.Long o word building / long o picture hunt / long o story.Long a word building / long a picture hunt / long a story.Bird hop and panda pop (choose wh, ch, sh, th).Shark sounds (select ch, sh, th and oo).Dinosaur eggs (select sh, th, ch and ee).Bird hop and panda pop (choose sight words or sight words 2).Spooky spellings (year 1, books 1 and/or 2).Phonics pop (set 1, 2, 3 or 4 have short vowels included).Reading games & activitiesĪll of these reading games are my favorites on these reading sub-skills for the second semester. I hope having them listed out by skill is helpful when you’re making your lesson plans. Some of these specific games come from the websites above, but there are extra ones too. Online games specific to kindergarten standards Now let’s look at some specific games that are free to use. is a differentiation platform with built-in activities for ELA, math, social studies and science.Storyline online has recently added some new videos and the quality of these videos is great.
Brightly storytime is a quality set of read-alouds hosted on youtube.You might find it helpful to explore their list of games. Use both the alphabet and learn to read page for the maximum benefit and a couple of the kindergarten math activities are good too. is a classic beginning learner website.has both language arts and math games for kindergarten plus a small selection of read-alouds and math videos.You’re probably familiar with these already, but I’m also going to include some specific games below too. Some sites may require minimal help with navigation or directions (if there is no audio-support) but the content is all right-on for kindergarten. And I’ve used them with kindergarten, so they are teacher-approved. These sites I’m listing require no logins, no passwords and are free to use. How to connect with students while out of the classroom.Online games specific to kindergarten standards.