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Kindergarten Daily Reading Activities: Teamwork

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Welcome to Teamwork. We'll provide five days of reading lessons designed to engage your child in an exploration of how great things can happen when we work together.

Day 1 Activity

Let’s Watch: The Playground

Watch the video The Playground to see how a community pitches in to build a new playground.
Discuss the Video
What tools did Mae use to help build the playground? What is something you do with your neighbors?

Let’s Read: Teamwork

It seems that anything Sam can do Ella can do better. But what happens when Ella’s kite gets stuck in a tree?

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Take It Further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Conclusions

  • What are three things that Ella and Sam do?
  • What does this tell you about them?

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.

Day 2 Activity

Let’s Reread: Teamwork

It seems that anything Sam can do Ella can do better. But what happens when Ella’s kite gets stuck in a tree?

Download Teamwork

Take It Further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Write about It

  • What can you and a friend do as a team?
  • Draw a picture of you and a friend working as a team.
  • Write sentences to tell about your picture.

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.

Day 3 Activity

Let’s Read: A City Garden

There’s a messy lot in the neighborhood. What happens when friends and neighbors get together to clean it up?

Download A City Garden

Take It Further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Sequence of Events

  • The story tells how to make a city garden. Tell the order in which things happen.
  • Use first, next, and last.

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.

Day 4 Activity

Let’s Reread: A City Garden

There’s a messy lot in the neighborhood. What happens when friends and neighbors get together to clean it up?

Download A City Garden

Take It Further

Extend the fun with an activity.

Talk about It

  • Draw a picture of a garden.
  • Tell directions about how to make that garden. Tell the order in which things would happen.
  • Tell who could help you make the garden.

Family Support

Use this learning guide to walk your child through the lesson. Explore additional Review & Extend activities together.
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