Let’s Get Ready with Cedar Valley Publishing

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?

Introducing basic early childhood skills at home will encourage a child to have positive learning habits necessary to succeed in Kindergarten. Incorporating basic skills will prepare a child for a successful school experience because he/she will ultimately develop a natural love for learning.

Prepared below is a list of early childhood skills that can be introduced and practiced at home and school:

• Share by taking turns.
• Listen quietly.
• Wait patiently.
• Use words to communicate.
• Recognize and know your full name.
• Know your parents and/or caregiver’s first and last name.
• Use toilet by yourself.
• Dress yourself.
• Know how to zip, snap, tie, button and fasten your clothing.
• Recite and recognize alphabet letters.
• Recognize your left hand from your right hand.
• Know basic colors, shapes and numbers 0-20.
• Recognize a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and dollar bill.
• Use positional words (over, under, up, down).
• Print your first name, uppercase for first letter only.
• Know your address and phone number.
• Know how to use a pencil, crayons, glue and scissors.

Copyright 2008 – Stacey Kannenberg, Author of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!

Is your child ready?  What F-U-N things are you doing to get him/her prepared?