Looking to prepare your child for kindergarten? 



Here are a few things you can do:

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​Read books to your child daily and talk about the stories

• Exposing your child to books will help them understand how books work.
• ​Reading and discussion also helps your child build language and vocabulary.  Research shows that students who are read to daily have a significantly bigger vocabulary than those who are not read to.  



Practice letter names and letter sounds

• Associate the letter names with an object that is relevant to your child.  (Eg. Aa—apple; Bb—ball; Cc—car; Dd—Dora, etc).  This will better prepare them to read and write. 



Give multi-step directions for your child to follow. 

• (Example: Go wash your hands and put the plates and cookies on the table.) 

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Practice social skills (sharing, taking turns, listening, working together, empathy, responsibility)





Identify numbers and count out items to match the number

• It’s often helpful for young children to push away an item after it has been counted

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Practice rhyming words

• Rhyming is an important start to literacy.  Kids are very self-centered and love anything to do with themselves.  Top it off by making it silly! 

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Practice writing their name



Identify basic colors. 



Pump your child up and get him/her excited for school! 

• A child’s attitude is so critical to his/her success

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Learning how a book works

• Reading comes so naturally for us as adults now that we forget that children need to explicitly be taught how a book works.  When you read to your child, use your finger to track the words.  Students need to be taught that words are read from left to right.  When you’ve reached the end of a line, you have to start at the left again on the next line.