As a teacher I always used to send home weekly homework packets. This sounds a little intimidating for Kindergarten but basically it just had a few fun activities to do during the week such as “Writing Wednesday” or “Math Monday.” (Parents also read a leveled reader with their child each night and recorded it in the Reading Log.) 
Several years ago as the budgets all around the country started to get tight, our principal cut our paper supply by half for the remainder of the year. Although I didn’t use that much paper, I had to reevaluate the ways I had used paper in the past. The first thing I cut was the homework packets, which saved me about 80 pages a week. Instead I created Homework Activity calendars where students had different fun and educational things to do with their families each month. There are already a ton of homework and activity calendars on the internet so instead of reinventing the wheel I tried to pull my favorite pieces from each one. On the backside of each calendar I also included a focus book for the month with a short summary and some read aloud books that related to our themes for that month. Here is July’s!
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