English Conventions Essential Activities for Kindergarten
Videos
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Down by the Bay | Song
Among the vast variety of rhymes, the Down “By the Bay” is undoubtedly the best kids’ song. Considering the lyrics, visuals, and tone, it is an appropriate option for your little angels. Play the song once for your child, and he would love to hear it again and again. Its tune is so compelling that your kids can listen to it on repeat for many times. The use of multiple colors, exciting animations, and a simple story developed to make the song interesting for the children.
The song brilliantly serves the purpose of entertainment. It is made to be very appealing to little children. The combination of sound, visuals, aesthetic colors and enticing tone makes the song perfect for amusing the kids. In short, the song is an accessible source of entertaining the babies.
Let’s make words! After the kids have learned the alphabets their next lesson is using these alphabets and their sounds together to make words. For this, the kid must have a strong understanding of the alphabets and their sounds so that they can understand how they work together with each other.
Let’s make this less easy for the kids.
We need to learn how to put sounds in order to make meaningful words from them. Every word that you hear can be written down and to write these words we need the letters from the alphabets. Letters can arrange themselves in different orders to make meaningful words just like dog, cat, apple etc.
It is the ordering of alphabets that matters and how their sounds work together. Hence to master the art of word making you will need to do a lot of practice with the kid. The more words the kid makes the more he/she will be able to understand. And as they say, practice makes a man perfect.
For example:
CAT is a word because the ordering of the alphabets make sense. If you put the same alphabets in a different order, for example, ATC, then they don’t make any sense or a meaningful word. Hence the ordering of alphabets is very important.
You can use different word books and then practice them with your kid. Try to use new words but don’t overwhelm the child. Let the child learn with their own speed. Use books with animations so that the kid also knows the exact meaning of the word that he/she is learning.
The more the animations and relation of words with the animations the better will be their understanding and soon they will be able to make up words very easily.
Worksheets
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Down by the Bay: Choose the Noun Worksheet
The first part of learning to properly speak and construct proper English that your child must face and overcome will be the different parts of speech. The parts of speech are very important, and one of the most frequently used is the noun. Teach your child that a noun is a name of a person, animal, object, place, or thing. Now, look at this worksheet and read the short sentences to your kids, ask them to check the person, place or thing that describes what each of the characters in the sentences are doing.
In learning about the parts of speech, your kids will come across verbs. Now, verbs are a very important part of speech to learn. Explain to your kids that a verb is a word that describes an action. Give them simple examples such as ‘Playing’ ‘eating’ ‘talking’. Then, ask your child to give you their own verbs. Now, read the sentences in this worksheet to their little ears. Help them check the verb that best completes the sentences for each question.
Put on your hardhats and get out the tools; it’s time to do some repair work! Give your child a mission to seek out all the sentences that are written using the correct capitalization! This cute and colorful worksheet will task your kids with recognizing and identifying letter case, as it’s used in action. After checking the boxes of those sentences that are right, extend the lesson and make it more meaningful by asking advanced students to rewrite the incorrect sentences correctly!
A community is an area where different people live. In a community, we have professionals, buildings, and different types of people. Ask your students if they can name some of the buildings they have in their communities. Sam in the worksheet has visited a lot of buildings in his community. Help find him by describing where he is and checking the boxes in this worksheet. Next, go to the bottom of the page and help your students complete the sentences by checking the missing word.
Continue your child’s prepositional prowess by reviewing the words «in front» and «behind»! Children need the vocabulary to describe where something is located. This knowledge will help them in their studies as well as in basic communication with others! To practice, print this free PDF worksheet to get started. Help kids view the pictures at the top of the page. In the first column, select the boxes of the images that show the butterfly in front of something. In the second column, check off the pictures that show the caterpillar behind!
Punctuation marks are important in any sentence. Before beginning this worksheet, ask your students if they can tell you some of the punctuation marks which they are familiar with and what these punctuation marks signify. Some of the most common punctuation marks are the full stop, the question mark, and the exclamation mark. Point at each of the punctuation marks in the picture. Then, read the sentences to your students and help them circle the punctuation that fits each, from the picture on the left.
There are various parts of speech which your child will have to get completely familiar with. Before beginning this exercise, your child must have at least a basic understanding of verbs and nouns. The worksheet requires that your child be able to identify words that are nouns. Look through the colorful printout with your kids and ask them if they can spot any words which are nouns. Ask them to circle the pictures that have nouns under them.
How fascinated are your kids by crawly, tiny ants. They are everywhere, and they are often marching about with one business at hand or the other. Andre is the friendly ant in this worksheet. He is marching through the forest, just another busy day in his ant life. Look at each picture in this colorful printout which shows Andre doing one thing or the other. Help your child circle the best word that describes where he is in each picture.
Punctuation marks are important so that we can understand the expression of what we say, and it’s a key component in grammar. In this worksheet, your kindergarten student will be asked to circle the correct punctuation mark for each sentence in this printout, and you can help your child by reading each sentence aloud to help them recognize the type of expression needed in each sentence. Each sentence will have a picture to go along with it, and it’s up to kids to choose the right punctuation mark. Have fun!
Quizzes
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Capitalization and Punctuation
In this assessment, students will identify sentences that have correct capitalization and identify end punctuation.
This quiz assesses students’ ability to determine the relative position of an object.
In this assessment, students will identify plural nouns by recognizing the -s and -es endings of words.
In this assessment, students will use their knowledge of letter sound relationships and high frequency words to distinguish between similarly spelled words.
In this assessment, students will choose the correct spelling of simple phonetic words.
In this assessment, students will identify the correct use of common prepositions and choose the correct preposition, noun, or verb to complete a sentence.
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