Winter Break Activities for Kindergarten | Take-Home Literacy & Math Booklet

Winter Break Activities for Kindergarten | Take-Home Literacy & Math Booklet

Send home an easy-to-prep Winter Break Activity Booklet for Kindergarten with optional reading, writing, and math practice, plus ideas for play and family activities!

The Winter Break Challenge includes two booklet versions so you can choose activities that match the skills your students have practised. Pick the pages you need and create a manageable booklet for each child.

 

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What’s Included:

Version 1: Reading, Writing & Math

• Booklet cover and family letter
• Reading tracker with mugs to colour each time or each day students read
• Comprehension questions for families to discuss together
• Uppercase and lowercase letter printing practice
• CVC word writing: cat, bug, and fox
• “I see a…” sentence completion
• Drawing and writing about winter break, with additional lined pages and an optional writing checklist
• Ordinal number activity
• 2D shape tracing and identification
• Number tracing from 1–10
• Drawing quantities in ten-frames

Version 2: Additional Pre-Writing Activities & Activity Bingo

• Booklet cover and family letter
• Reading tracker with mittens to colour and space to record a favourite book
• CVC word-to-picture matching
• Snowman drawing activity, line tracing, and a maze
• Uppercase and lowercase letter tracing
• CVC word writing: mug, bus, and hat
• Read, trace, and identify “fox”
• Two writing prompts: write about winter break or draw a picture and write a sentence about it
• Additional lined pages with or without a writing checklist
• Number tracing from 0–9 and space for independent number printing
• Drawing quantities in ten-frames
• Creating and naming colour patterns with sleds or buttons
• Activity Bingo with ideas such as building a fort, doing a puzzle, going for a winter walk, and doing something kind

EDITABLE FAMILY LETTER & ACTIVITY BINGO

Use the included PowerPoint file to customize the family letter and Bingo activities for your class. You can adjust the instructions, remove the prize reference, or choose activities that better suit your families.

Please note: Only the family letter text and Activity Bingo entries are editable. The student activity pages are provided as non-editable PDFs.

 

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Easy to prep!

Choose your pages, print and photocopy double-sided, cut in half, and staple to assemble your booklets. Each printable sheet contains two copies of the same half-page activity.

Use either version or combine selected pages from both to suit your students’ learning needs.

 

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Designed for optional winter break practice:

Offer families familiar activities they can choose to complete alongside time for rest, play, and connection. The booklet can also accompany a book sent home before winter break.

 

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Canadian and American spelling options are included for words such as colour/color and favourite/favorite.

 

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FILE FORMATS: Printable PDFs and an editable PowerPoint file for the family letters and Activity Bingo.

Please see the preview for a closer look at the included activities!