Gates Chili Central School District Countdown to Kindergarten Activities Calendar 2018
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Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten Activities Calendar 2018
The months leading up to Kindergarten are an exciting time. We hope your family will
enjoy this calendar of fun activities as you count down to Kindergarten together!
Gates Chili Central School District
Early Childhood Committee
Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten
Activities Calendar
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 Cut small, medium and 2 Go outside! Build a 3 Read to your child
large circles. snowman, if you have for 20 minutes.
Have your child snow.
glue them to
paper to make
a snowman.
4 Ask your child to sing 5 6 7 Look 8 Tape a 9 Have your child sort 10 Demonstrate how to
his favorite song. Visit the March around the house through junk blue and coins cough into your elbow,
library looking for things that mail with yellow by so you don’t spread
to look for books about are your child. Can he/she crayon together and have size. germs.
GREEN.
St. Patrick’s Day. find letters that he/she your child color with it…it
knows? makes GREEN!
11 12 Hide pennies in a 13 March 14 Write a large “1” 15 Bath Time! 16 Visit the library 17
Make room and have your around the and next to the number, Have your child practice to look for books
some child pretend they are a house put one little drawing shapes, letters about Spring.
muffins leprechaun looking for looking for ball of play or numbers with suds.
to their gold. things that are shaped dough. Repeat
share. like a square. with #’s 2-5.
18 Help your child 19 Ask your child to 20 21 Name different 22 Look for the 23 Play in a sink of 24 Arrange a playdate.
learn their address and move like these animals colors of objects. Take number “9” in grocery warm, soapy water.
phone number. – rabbit, horse, frog, one object away and store ads.
bear, penguin. have them tell you what
color is missing?
25 Look for the 26 27 28 Teach your child 29 March around the 30 Talk to your child 31 Sprinkle salt on an
number “4” in grocery Have your child draw a Talk to your child about how to set the table. house and count how about a time that you ice cube, place a thread
ads. Have your child self portrait. whether March came in many windows, steps on played in the on top. Wait a minute,
point or circle them. like a lion and went out the stairs, number of snow when then, lift the
like a lamb? chairs, etc.. you were thread.
young
Make sure to register for Kindergarten at your home school:
Neil Armstrong: Feb. 27th and Feb. 28th , 2018 • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Walt Disney: March 6th and March 7th, 2018 • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Florence Brasser: March 1st and March 2nd, 2018 • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m Paul Road: March 8th and March 9th • 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Evening registrations for all schools will take place at District Office, 3 Spartan Way on March 13th and March 15th, 2018 • 6 – 8 p.m.
Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten
Activities Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 EASTER 2 Make a map of your 3 Have your child jump 4 Have your child help 5 Go outside and 6 Invite your child to 7 Pick up cotton balls
house. Have your child with two feet over with laundry by collect some rocks. look outside and tell you with tweezers or kitchen
trace paths from room puddles matching socks. Then talk about how what the weather looks tongs. Then try to pick
to room. or they are the same or like? Is it cloudy, them up with your toes!
pillows. different. sunny, or rainy?
8 Ask your child to 9 Read a book to your 10 Cut apart the 11 Have your child cut 12 Have your child 13 Take 14 With your child,
crab walk to the tub. child and have them letters of your child’s out coupons. count his/her snack a trip to the library and find words that start
show you how to hold name and have him/her such as pretzels, find a joke with the same sound as
the book. put them back in the book. Tell their name: Sam, soap,
correct order. each other a and sandwich
M good joke.
15 Clap out the rhythm 16 17 Point out numbers 18 Sing “Head, 19 Put agrapes
goldfish, bunch etc.
of 20 Make “binoculars”. 21 Plan a meal with
of your name and have on license plates. Shoulders, Knees and letters on a wall, turn Take 2 empty toilet your child. Have them
your child do the same. Toes” with your child. out the lights and have paper rolls cut out pictures of food
Then try other people’s Praise your child for your child point a and tape and tape/glue to paper
names. saying “Please and flashlight at them and them plate.
Jon-a-thon, La-toy-a Thank you.” name them. together.
22 Earth Day 23 Continue helping 24 Take a walk and 25 Have your child 26 Plan a playdate. 27 Have your child sort 28 Go for a
your child talk about why it’s not look for the letters in the laundry hike on a nature trail at
learn their good to litter. Maybe their name in the junk into piles of one of our local parks!
address and pick up some litter and mail. colors and
phone show them how to put in whites.
number. the trash.
29 With your finger, 30 Have your child
draw letters on your practice writing numbers
child’s back and have in pudding or shaving
them cream.
guess.
MAY
Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten
Activities Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Teach and sing the 2 Scavenger Hunt! Hide 3 Can your child tell 4 Read a story to your 5 Play “Simon Says”.
alphabet song with your some items and make you their full name? child and have them
child. clue cards to help your Or how about what Mom retell it
child find them. and Dad’s first names to you.
are?
6 Look for things that 7 8 Together, find items 9 Invite your child to 10 Together, use 11 Make a card for 12 Check out the Lilac
are RED in the house or in the house that rhyme! draw letters and objects from mom or grandma. Festival and talk about
outside. numbers on the sidewalk around the the different plants
Invite your child to
in chalk. house to flowering. Parade today
think about things that
make at 10:30 a.m.
start with their first
different sounds.
initial.
13 14 Have your child find 15 Invite 16 17 Play follow the 18 Help your child 19 Plan a playdate.
3 things longer than your child to leader! Let your child learn their address and
his/her foot & 3 that find coins copy you; then copy phone number.
Play “War” with a deck
are shorter. hidden in a your child.
of cards to reinforce
container of rice or
number comparisons.
sand!
20 Place an item in a 21 Play “I Spy!” 22 Read 23 Cover a table with 24 Discuss & practice 25 Go outside at night 26 Look through the
paper bag. Have your Look for squares, a book foil. Invite your child to ways to save energy at and look at the stars. junk mail for
child ask yes/no circles, triangles and together. write in shaving cream! home. the number
questions to rectangles. Find “5”.
guess what’s in matching uppercase &
the bag lowercase letters.
27 Have your child 28 29 Have your child 30 31 Go outside and play
draw a flag! Then talk help with laundry by catch.
about what makes a flag putting clothes in
wave? washer, naming each one
Have your child make
letters with playdoh.
Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten
Activities Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 As you drive, ask 2 Invite your child to
your child to find any sort coins by their
3’s in license plates. value.
3 Fill a bowl 4 Give your child a 5 6 Gather flowers on a 7 8 Have your child draw 9 As you drive, ask
with water. magazine and a pencil. nature walk & press a picture of your home. your child to count how
Invite your Look for these them between two many flags they see?
Have your child practice
child to drop letters: books.
writing uppercase Take pictures! Have
items in to see if they K, B, R and Z
letters. your child make up a
sink or float.
caption for each one.
10 Bake 11 Trace 12 How many blue 13 14 15 Put 5-10 items in a 16 Have your child
cookies letters into things can your child . Read a Ziploc bag. Ask your make a card for Dad or
together! your child’s find outside? Have story. child to guess how many Grandpa.
Count palm. him/her draw them Invite there are. Then count
them when they are Have him/her your child to retell it in them together.
done. guess the letters. his/her own words.
17 18 Walk outside in 19 Turn 20 21 Plant some seeds 22 Have your child 23
bare feet on different off the together! Count the draw portraits of each Invite your child to blow
surfaces: grass, lights & seeds and watch how family member. some bubbles!
Have your child draw a
puddles, sand, decking. read much the plants grow
rainbow. Name a fruit
How do they feel: hot, together daily.
for each color.
cold, smooth, rough? by flashlight!
24 Play a board game 25 Invite your child to 26 Have your child 27 How many jumping 28 Have 29 30 Who can
together! cut out things that tear the junk mail into jacks can you do? your child Read a stand
he/she likes to eat out strips. help your story on one foot
of grocery ads. write a before the
grocery list. Go going to bed. Make up a longest?
shopping together new ending.
This month your child will go to Kindergarten Screening
Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten
Activities Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Help your child to 2 Cut out a large “M” 3 Plan a playdate! 4 5 Give your child 6 Play with a balloon 7 Make a pattern with
learn their address and and have your child specific one-step and by tapping it and trying garage sale stickers or
phone number. draw pictures of things then two-step directions to keep it up in the air colored pom poms.
that start with “M”. and encourage Have your child tell you
him/her to what comes next.
follow through.
8 Have your child sort 9 Make a 10 11 Invite 12 Move like different 13 With your child, 14 Make a set of
the silverware Venn diagram with your your child animals: bear, snake, think of words that cards 1-10. Shuffle
by size and names. to draw duck, horse, bunny. rhyme with bat. them and ask your child
shape. shapes: to put the numbers in
Practice counting aloud
square, circle, rectangle order.
to 20 while driving in
& triangle.
the car.
15 Think of words 16 Visit the library! 17 18 Sing “Itsy Bitsy 19 Clap the syllables in 20 Try different ways 21
with your child that Find a book on farm Invite Spider” a farm animal name. of walking: giant steps, Invite
begin with these letter animals. your with Horse, pig-let baby steps, tip-toeing, Your child to look for
sounds: J, S, W. child to your backwards, on heels. things that are
draw his/her favorite child. while
farm animal. driving in the car.
22 Do a puzzle 23 24 25 Write your child’s 26 Play with playdoh! 27 Label objects in 28 Show your child how
Invite your child to cut name with a highlighter Make letters with it or your child’s room. Have to make their bed.
out shapes! and have them trace it. cut it your child read these
with words.
BED
Go outside and roll like scissors!
a log & do a somersault!
29 Put number cards on 30 Ask your child 31 Read aloud to your
the wall. Have your questions that begin child. Move your finger
child use a flashlight to with who, what, when under the words as you
point to them in the and where. say them.
correct order.
Gates Chili Central School District
Countdown to Kindergarten
Activities Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Plan a playdate! 2 Go outside at night 3 Have your child 4 Say part of the
and count how many think of words that alphabet, stopping in the
fireflies begin with these letter middle. When you stop,
you can sounds: P, B, T have your child say the
see. next letter.
A, B, C, _, E
5 Take a walk and point 6 Have your child solve 7 Have your child take 8 Have your child tell 9 10 Ask your child to 11 Have your child
to sights along the way. a riddle: “I am thinking out the garbage. how he/she and a good name their favorite practice writing their
Ask your child to tell of something that friend are alike and insect. Then read a name in shaving cream.
you what rhymes with red. You different. book about it and look
sound it begins sleep on it.” Pick up various objects. for those insects in your
with. Which one weighs more? yard.
12 Go outside and play 13 Visit the library! 14 Read a story to 15 Have 16 Make a grocery list 17 Visit your child’s 18 Play a board game!
hopscotch! your child and discuss your child cut out the with your child. Allow school and play on the
whether or not the letters of the alphabet him/her to try to find playground.
story could really from the newspaper and the items in
happen. put them in order. the store.
19 Continue to help 20 Practice counting 21 Play with 22 Have your 23 Sing the alphabet 24 Have your child 25 Plan a playdate!
your child learn their aloud to 20 while Playdoh! child song! practice writing their
address and phone driving. wheelbarrow first
number. walk. name.
26 With your child 27 Look 28 Read a story to 29 Go outside and play 30 Have 31 Have your child tell
think of words that in the your child and have catch! your child a story by drawing
rhyme with PIG. grocery them retell it in their clean up pictures.
ads for the own words. their
number “6” and circle room
them.
This month there will be the Reading Caravan, Kindergarten Orientation
and School Bus Orientation!!
The staff of the
Gates Chili Central School District
wishes you a fun-filled, safe summer.
Calendar designed by Pamela DeMarsico
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