Activities for 5/6 yr old?

Question

My daughter is at school and I want to do extra curriculam activites with her at home, please can you give me some good sites for me to get material from and for her to play/learn on. She has been using Cbeebies site for games but has outgrown this now.

Answer 1

See what she is doing in pre-k and go over what they are doing daily.

Answer 2

My grand-daughter is the same. Even outgrown DORA!  She luvs her ater school club, goes to rainbows, starting gymnastics, luvs to make stuff and learn school work and luvs her new nintendo which she has to look after puppies properly. She luvs to bake with mum and anything to do with coloured paper, shapes, letters not too much glitter though. Its endless what they want to do, and can do nowadays. Good luck and enjoy cause its priceless watchin them learn.

Answer 3

There is a really good website called FactMonster.com   It has some really great educational puzzles, tests, and practice drills for all levels. My kids love it!

Answer 4

Let her sleep!!!

Answer 5

My brother goes to preschool and some activities they do are:

1. Play Pretend

2. Nap

3. Sing

4. f**t (just joking)

5. Show and tell

Answer 6

Hope these are useful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircl... – story books to make

http://www.dltk-kids.com – excellent site packed with ideas

http://www.thebigbus.com/bt/bobear/ - BT learning zone

http://www.northpole.com a lovely site for children, full of craft ideas and Christmas fun

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.ht... - loads of craft ideas for all year round

http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/christma... - more Christmas themes crafts

http://thecoloringspot.com/ocean-life/oc... - ocean themes colouring in pages

http://www.progressivephonics.com/downlo... - free worksheets to download (needs adobe acrobat) based on phonics

http://www.free-phonics-worksheets.com/h... - more phonics worksheets to print

http://www.kidsrcrafty.com/dot-to-dot.ht... - Basic dot to dot

http://www.speechteach.co.uk/p_general/d... - worksheets to print, focusing of encouraging speech development

http://www.scholastic.co.uk/magazines/wo... - Although it’s a magazine subscription page you don’t need to subscribe to download excellent activity pages! Just click on the links and it brings up the pages – I’ve got loads of flash cards from doing this.

http://www.netmums.com – excellent regional events/places to visit in your area, which anyone can add to!

http://www.funwithspot.com – activities worksheets based on the popular children’s character

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/index2.html - flash cards, literacy and numercy  worksheets

Answer 7

google... there are many sites that will have great ideas

Answer 8

funschool is good, my little girl who is 6 likes the my little pony website where she can decorate tiaras for the ponys with different jewels, or if she is a girly girl the barbie she will like the barbie website where she can dress up the barbies and change hairstyles and make up.

Answer 9

Two of the favorites for my daughter are:

http://www.starfall.com/  a fun, free reading site &

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/GradeLevel?... This site is also free; you do have to register so they save your child's account, but they don't annoy you with email or anything.

Enjoy!

Answer 10

Whoever said sleep apparently is not caring.

I.  Introduce her to more complex board games such as

    A. Chess

    B. Checkers

        1. Including making towers out of the pieces

        2. Chinese and American

II. Crafts including

    A. Pom Pom Snowman

    B. Tissue Paper American Flag

    C. Any type of magnet

    D. A creation out of paper towel/toilet paper rolls and tissue

        paper boxes

    E. Abstract Drawing

III. How about some things to express herse, including?

    A. You making up dance steps for her and her repeating them

    B. Teach her fun kid songs, such as,

         1. B-I-N-G-O

         2. Anything by Raffi

         3. Old McDonald

         4. Mary Had a Little Lamb

    C. Play Charades

IV. Creative Cooking, such as

    A. Juice Cocktails

    B. Pigs in a Blanket



V. Lastly, fun kid websites, such as

   A. Cool Math 4 Kids

       1. The easier parts of it (For all ages)

   B. Club Penguin

   C. Kidsites.com

       1. Kidsites doesn't have stuff 4 kids on it, but it gives links to

           other websites with kids stuff

Hope this helps!!!!!!

Answer 11

coloring, spelling board games, mathcing card games, flash cards

Answer 12

coloring, spelling board games, mathcing card games, flash cards .and much more things

Answer 13

go to these sites and they will give you links to other sites, kids domain,kaboose, activity village, DLTK, they have craft ideas, games to play and make and easy cookery ideas.  have fun

Answer 14

You could buy some from the shops like curry's, comet, games workshop, and other computer shops.  Hope the websites i have pasted here for you are what you are looking for.