March Kindergarten Speech Activities You Can Do At Home
Three activity ideas you can do with your kindergartener to boost their speech and language skills.
1: Making Sentences
Work on vocabulary and sentence structure by making up sentences about these pictures.
What pictures do you have around your home that you can make sentences about?
Remember, there is more than one right answer.
Challenge: talk about the pictures in past tense (eat/ate) or future tense (will eat).
2: Identifying Colors
Teacher: “If you’re wearing green, line up by the door.”
Do you remember this from Kindergarten?
Why are teachers still doing this activity?
Attention and listening. Kids have to pay attention to the teacher and actively listen to what color is being called out.
Memory. Children need to hold that color in their head (short-term memory) while they scan their clothes for the color green.
Color identification. Kids must also be able to recognize colors to know if they are wearing green or not.
Following directions. Finally, following directions by remembering and knowing what to do if they are wearing green.
Think about this activity. Are there any ways you can practice this at home?
3: Associations
Can you match the object from each box by “What goes together”?
Learning word associations is a tool for strengthening vocabulary.
The more connections we have with a word, the better we understand it.
This is also helpful in remembering words.
Tip: other activities for building vocabulary include defining, describing, categorizing, finding words with similar meanings (synonyms), and connecting it to your past experiences (background knowledge).
