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Daily Skills Practice Templates
This daily skills practice templates are completely adaptable to meet the
current needs of your learners. These are meant to serve as quick and simple review practice for skills that need daily attention, or to help teach skills that can be worked on 5-to 10 minutes at a time.
Over the past month or two, I’ve been stepping up my game a bit on the daily work front.
To be honest, I’m not a big fan of worksheets.
I like conversations about questions that are relevant and interesting to my kids in the moment.
I like reading living books that get them fascinated about topics and then spiral off into informal unit studies.
I like diving deep into Math and learning the HOW and the WHY through hands-on activities.
But … I decided to do a little experiment recently.
We were going deep into subjects, but were lacking fluency – for instance, my son could explain how he knew the answer to 13 + 7, but he had to rethink through the process every time.
He would write all kinds of things in the course of games he made up and played with his brother, but always asked me how to spell every word.
So I decided to put together some templates that we could use to fit in 5-10 minutes practice every day on certain subjects.
I made them completely open-ended so they could be used for any skill level and with any curriculum (or free-style!).
I also added in a section on U.S. Geography since now that we had a bit of structure to our mornings, it was easy to add in a “State-A-Day” study for an additional 5 minutes.
You can find a link to these templates at the end of this post – feel free to use these or make your own based on this idea.
You can use all these templates with multiple kids at different levels simultaneously! Enjoy!
Math
For the Math Facts page, I suggest:
Put together a stack of flash cards focused on the current Math skill your child is learning. Each day they will write answers for 12 cards.
This is only meant to supplement and reinforce your regular Math curriculum, not to replace deep learning.
Another fun, interactive way to help kids practice their Math facts is with these wrap-ups – it’s a self-correcting activity so it makes your job as a review-master that much easier 🙂
Spelling
For the Spelling Practice pages, I suggest:
- Work on a certain skill each day, depending on what your child can handle. For example, you can work on words with “th” or “ch” or words that end in “ing” or “ed.”
- Alternate pages. First give them a list of words and let them spell according to their best guess, then tell them how to spell it the right way if needed.
- The next day, use the following page to focus on writing their misspelled words correctly 5 times each.
- You can make up word lists as you go or use any spelling curriculum with these practice pages.
U.S. Geography
For the “One State A Day” page:
- Use any book that teaches kids about the 50 states (in the United States of America – or adapt this for other countries)
- Read about one state a day and have them fill in the blanks. Depending on their writing ability, they can either write it themselves or dictate their answers to you.
- Use this as a quick intro or review of the states. Try to spend no more than 5-to 10 minutes a day on this activity.
These books are great for doing a state-a-day study:
Handwriting
There are so many resources already developed for handwriting practice that I have not created my own version of this resource.
However, if you are looking for a creative, unique way to teach preschoolers how to write, I’d recommend this Playground Alphabet that I created for my own kids.
My kids learned to write using the techniques here in a fun, intuitive way without any formal practice on worksheets. Now that they’re getting older, though, I’ve begun supplementing some handwriting worksheets to help them refine their letters.
Would you like your own set of these?
You can get a copy of these daily skills practice templates from my store here, print as many copies as you need, and use them however best fits your own kids’ needs! Enjoy!
I’d love to hear from you! Do you work in daily skill practice for certain subjects? If you don’t use a curriculum set that builds in spiral review, how do you incorporate it in your homeschool?
Related Posts
This post is part of a series of posts on homeschool organization. You can read the other posts here:
- Organize Digital and Paper Homeschooling Files
- Homeschool Room Tour
- How to make a homeschool planner board command center (coming soon!) (In the meantime, here’s a facebook live I did on the topic.)
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