O.T. Homeschooling Parents

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Can anyone recommend a website or books to teach science to a kindergartener

with very limited language?

Thank You

Andree

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I suggest you buy the ABBLS-R, it is an assessment and a curriculum. It will

provide you with the basic skills that your child should learn. There is a lot

you can do without expensive curriculum. For example, I use plastic insects and

flash cards for teaching simple math. The ABBLS-R gives you the ideas and you

come up with the manipulatives to use. I do supplement my son (who is in 2nd

grade) with ABEKA curriculum - I love the readers - but if I had a little one,

the ABBLS-R would be plenty to keep him busy.

Liz

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> Can anyone recommend a website or books to teach science to a kindergartener

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For the situation you describe, I think projects (doing things) would be a good

approach. I googled " science projects for kindergarten " and came up with a

number of sites including:

http://www.educationaltoyfactory.com/kindergarten_science_projects.htm

Good luck with this.

Michele

http://www.healthgazelle.com

http://www.kidslikemine.com

http://www.solanorail.com

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> Can anyone recommend a science website or books to teach science to a

kindergartener with very limited language.

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> Thank You

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> Andree

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I would look into videos of " Mr. Wizard. " http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/

Your child will probably not get much if you read or just tell him things.

Show him. We teach science here by doing experiments. You can get ideas

for the experiments form the above or from Bill Nye the Science guy and the

like.

You can make an erupting volcano cake:

http://www.cookingcache.com/dessert/eruptingvolcanocake.shtml?rdid=rc1

Look up the TEKS from the TEA website for early grade science and choose

which objectives you want to teach your child. then find an experiment that

will " show " him, so that he can understand.

You might want to look at

474 Science Activities for Young Children (Early Childhood Education)

You can find it at Amazon.com.

[Guest guest]

You can start off with teaching about animals. My kinders loved learning about

them and there are all kinds of national geographic's on youtube. I taught them

the 7 continents first so we'd have an awareness of where the various animals

lived and got out the globe to orient them at the introduction of each new

animal. I'd even let them choose what anmial we were going to learn about next.

Then they can draw a picture of the animal and write it's name down. By the

middle of the year (about now), they were writing sentences about them. You can

have your child 'copy' yours if they aren't writing yet independently.

You can google or youtube many beginning science lessons for kids. I also

taught them the butterfly cycle (they could easily draw it from my drawing) and

we ordered caterpillars that turned into butterflies. We kept a journal of this

process where they made entries a few times a week along with a drawing. You

can order the 'butterfly kit' (just google it - or try ebay - got mine off

there). They really LOVED learning about them.

Best wishes, Rosegvr@aol/

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> Can anyone recommend a website or books to teach science to a kindergartener

with very limited language?

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> Andree

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> Can anyone recommend a science website or books to teach science to a

kindergartener with very limited language.

When my kids were in Kindergarten, I used books from the library.

Dana

[Guest guest]

Try time4learning.com.

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[Guest guest]

Thank you very much for all your great suggestions.

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