Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Just a few ideas for your rising Kindergarten student:

Read everywhere you go … “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss

• Learn your name—make a chant/song with the letters in your child’s name, write it around the house to see it, and practice writing it
• Make an alphabet book. Use magazines to cut letters and pictures beginning with each letter
• Make alphabet cards. Play memory/match uppercase to lowercase, hide cards around the house and name them as they find each card
• Use shaving cream to practice writing their name, letters, numbers and shapes.
• Use playing cards to identify numbers and count.
• Practice counting items at home or the grocery store.
• Make letters, numbers, and shapes with Playdoh or wiki sticks
• Talk with your child and ask them questions; let them ask you questions---What color is this? How many do you have?
• Play I Spy to review colors, objects, letters--- ex. I spy a green truck.