Send your kindergartners home with a sheet of construction paper in which they will create a fun fall collage with their parents. Students and parents will look for leaves on the ground and pick their favorite ones to glue to their piece of paper with a parent's help. The students are encouraged to collect other materials to add to their collage, such as acorns, twigs and bark. When the assignment is finished, hang all the collages in the classroom to celebrate the season.
During class time, give your students various magazines and newspapers filled with pictures of animals and have them cut out their favorite ones using child-safe scissors. The students then take these animal pictures home and discuss them with their families. The students will look at the pictures and decide what each animal might say if it could talk. Parents can help them to glue the pictures to a piece of construction paper and write what each animal is saying below the picture.
Send home a note with parents asking them to help their student to pick out a family photograph to show the class. The photo can be of a family member, a family memory or something else of importance to the student. Parents should help their child by talking to them about what happened when the picture was taken and to help them remember the experience in the picture. The students will then each have a chance to share their photo and the story behind it with the class.
The game of I Spy is a fun way for parents to reinforce what is learned in school. Have parents help their children find different examples of whatever you're currently teaching in their daily lives, such as types of food, letters and numbers, animals or simple machines. The parents will help their children write down these different examples and then students will share them with the class. See which student can find the most examples in their everyday life.