Building Legacies . . . One Student at a Time

Pre-K Social-Emotional/Physical Skill Resources

  • Engage in self-expression

    Activity 1: Sing "If you're happy and you know it"

    The student will show the emotion on their face. Repeat the song with the following emotions-sad, angry, surprised, and sleepy. 

    Begin to demonstrate self-control.

    Activity 1: Red Light, Green Light

    Play-"Red Light, Green Light" One child is the stoplight, the other children are the cars. When the stoplight yells “Green light!” the children run towards the stoplight. When the stoplight yells “Red light!” all the children must stop. If a child doesn’t stop, they must go back to the starting line. 

    Develop relationships and social skills with peers.

    Activity 1: Hide and Seek

    You can play this with an object in the house. Hide the object and try to seek it. Once everyone has had a turn hiding the object the game will end. 

    Activity 2: Building Blocks

    Use real and found items around the house to build something. Work together to create something special. 

    Activity 3: Friendship Quilt

    Have each person decorate a piece of paper with whatever materials you choose or just use crayons and markers. Place all the pieces together to create a friendship or family quilt.

    Activity 4: Paper Dance

    Give each person a piece of large paper or newspaper to use as their dance floor. As you play music everyone freestyle dances. When the music stops everyone folds their paper in half. Repeat this until you cannot dance anymore. You can discuss personal space. 

    Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.

    Activity 1: Sky High

    Lay on blankets or in the grass. Encourage each other to look at the clouds and ask them what they see or what they think the clouds look like.

    Activity 2: Nature Cafe

    Take child on a nature walk with a grocery bag. Encourage child to pick up different items they see. Ask child to use these items to pretend like they are cooking. Ask questions like “What are you cooking?”.

    Activity 3: Taste test

    Taste test two similar items. Ex. Mozzarella and blue cheese. Discuss ways that they are the same and ways that they are different. Encourage children to examine the size, shape, and texture.

    Activity 4: Make a Critter

    Have child use sand, sticks, pine cones, and other items to create a critter of any size and shape. Encourage them to find real and found materials to create their critter.

    Sustain attention to a specific activity and demonstrate persistence.

    Activity 1: Get the Wiggles Out

    Play the music video “Wiggle It” by Koo Koo Kanga Roo.  Have your child dance and interpret the music.

    Activity 2: Read/listen to “The Little Engine that Could,” by Watty Piper 

    The Little Engine that Could-  Discuss the problems in the story and what happens at the end.  Ask your child why it is important to not give up.

    Activity 3: Tower Building

    Using various materials from around the house (cardboard tubes, plastic bottles, scrap paper, tape, cereal boxes, etc.), have your child build a tower as tall as possible.

    Activity 4: Hand Clapping

    Play a hand-clapping game such as “Miss Mary Mack.”

    Demonstrate fine motor skills.

    Activity 1: Puzzles

    Have your child put together puzzles.

    Activity 2: Button, Snap, Zip

    Using a pair of pants/shorts, have your child practice buttoning, snapping and zipping.

    Activity 3: Scrunching

    Have your child scrunch up a piece of paper with one hand, and then have them scrunch up another piece of paper with the other hand.

    Activity 4: Tweezers

    Using tweezers, have your child pick up small objects (beans, beads, cereal, etc).
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