Description
Looking for a winter break activity to send home with your students so they don’t forget everything you’ve taught them? This Kindergarten Winter Break Activity packet is the perfect thing to send home with families to give them some suggested winter break activities to do during vacation! There are two versions – one where the teacher will give a prize if the student brings it back to school, and one where the students do not need to return the packet to school.
ALSO INCLUDED in this Winter Break Activity packet are 2 activities that are perfect for helping with the transition back to school! Students can write about their vacation and students can learn about other students’ vacation through the Find a Friend activity!
What’s Included in This Kindergarten Winter Break Activity Packet?
17 Winter Break Activity printable pages!
- Two letters to families options:
- One letter to families explaining the optional work.
- One letter to families explaining the optional work and the possibility of a prize if the completed Winter Break Activity packet is returned to school.
- Winter BINGO choice board, filled with various activities such as…
- Write and send a thank you letter.
- Count backwards from 30 to 0!
- Give a family member a compliment
- Read a book somewhere warm!
- Sight Word Activities:
- Two sight word list sheets for students to write in their sight words to practice: one with numbers along the left margin, the other without.
- Sight word hangman game boards
- Sight word Tic-Tac-Toe board template
- Two sight word Go Fish! cards templates for students to write in their words, cut, and play!
- 1 more and 1 less board game, as students move around the board they have to say the number that is 1 more and 1 less than the number they landed on.
- I can write my letters! Tracing and practice worksheet for uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z)
- I can write my numbers! Tracing worksheet (1-20)
- “My December Vacation!” or “My Winter Break!” worksheet for students to draw and write about their break.
- “December Vacation: Find a Friend!” or “Winter Break: Find a Friend!” activity board, a fun way for students to welcome each other back from break and talk about what they did!
What Skills Does This Kindergarten Winter Break Activity Packet Address?
- Students will practice reading and following directions
- Students will practice reading short sentences
- Students will practice writing short sentences
- Students will practice reading and writing sight words
- Students will practice writing and recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z)
- Students will practice writing and recognizing numbers (1-20)
What Standards Does This Kindergarten Winter Break Activity Packet Address?
RF.K.1 -Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
RF.K.1d – Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
RF.K.3c – Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
RF.K.4 – Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
K.CC.A.1 – Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
K.CC.A.2 – Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
K.CC.A.3 – Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
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