Homework in Kindergarten: is it a good idea and how you should do it to make it valuable to your students and their families? Take a look at this monthly homework for kindergarten printable and editable calendars.
Giving homework in kindergarten can be hard. You need parental involvement, and it can be difficult for some families to find time to complete it. One of my co-workers wanted a monthly calendar that students could do with their families. I created these editable monthly homework challenges so that families can complete the activities on their own time. They won’t need a lot of materials, and they can easily be done in a few minutes.
Keep reading to see what these are all about!
Homework for Kindergarten Printable Calendars
There are 16 challenges to complete every month. Some of them involve writing, some of the activities are hands-on. There is a mix of literacy, math and science challenges. You only print and send home 1 page per month, no more worrying about photocopying a whole packet for each student.
They are editable!
I have made them editable so that you can change up the challenges to match up with what you are teaching that month. It is editable in PowerPoint, and all you have to do is type in the activity you want your students to complete.
Most asked questions:
Is this mandatory homework for your students? No. We don’t enforce homework for our students, if parents want something to work on at home, they can do these activities. I don’t believe in punishing kindergarten students for not doing their homework – that’s something out of their control.
What do you do when students bring back the completed homework calendar? We celebrate! We highlight their work to the rest of the class, I put a sticker on it and write an encouraging note and send it back home.
Try It Free
I am offering the Summer Challenges page as a FREEBIE! Send it home to families at the end of the year so that students can keep practicing skills that they learned over the summer months.
There is an editable version of this page included in the paid product. If you would like to change out the activities to match the needs of your students, you can adapt it to fit your needs.
Find this free download in my Resource Library!
Get students reading too
Encouraging students to read at home with their families is also very important. I have always sent home some leveled readers with students, on top of these calendars. Read about how I use Reading Log bookmarks to support home reading.
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Do you have these available in Spanish also? I send my homework home in both English and Spanish.
I do not, but they are editable so you can change the activities to Spanish if you would like to use it!
I love this idea and I do want to try it in my classroom. I’m just curious on how you track it to see if they have been doing the things on the calendar. Honor system? Not much parent involvement in my school area. Just seeing how to get my parents and the student show me what they have done the work at home.
I don’t check to make sure all students do it. We do not have mandatory homework in kindergarten, so this is just for families that need ideas for home.
I used these and they were amazing. Parents who wanted more homework liked the challenge. Thanks.
That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing!