Ready for School - Building Blocks for Kindergarten
A, B, C and 1, 2, 3! The fourth Building Block for Kindergarten is Early Learning. Let's have fun!
Children learn every single day through their play and daily activities and routines. During their kindergarten year, children take big steps in learning to read, write, add and subtract.
You can help your child get ready to become a student by playing games. Help them to see the numbers, letters, shapes and colors in their everyday life.
This summer, try a few of these fun games to learn about letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and rhymes:
- Look for shapes. The windows are rectangles, tracing a penny makes a circle.
- Count the items in the shopping cart. Ask your child if you can go to the checkout for less than eight or do we have more than that?
- Point out letters and numbers in everyday places like cereal boxes, store signs, and books.
- Help your child learn to sort, match, and compare. Talk about colors, textures, and sizes by matching socks while folding laundry together.
- Teach your child to count at home and while you are out and about. How many seats at the table? How many steps to the store? How many kinds of flowers in the garden?
Give you child lots of encouragement. This increases self-confidence. Children who are self-confident learn to read and write more easily. And remember to make time to read to your child everyday. Visit your local library and join the 2015 summer program "Read to the Rhythm" for kids of all ages.
