Aug 05 2008
Pre-First Grade Skills
Now that your child graduated from Kindergarten, you may be curious what can you do over the summer months to prepare him/her for First Grade.
Listed below are the basic Pre-First Grade skills most schools will assume your child will know as he/she walks through the doors in the Fall:
- Write full name and phone number.
- Know upper and lower case in/out of sequence.
- Know colors and shapes.
- Know numbers 1-30.
- Count to 100.
- Recognize patterns.
- Skip count by 5s and 10s to 100.
- Know money (coins and dollars) and its value.
- Read basic sentences.
- Know days of the week and months of the year.
- Understand weather concepts.
Copyright 2008 – Stacey Kannenberg, Author of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!
Do you have plans for integrating this list into your summer? What are your ideas?
