Kindergarten

Articles relating to kindergarten

  • Does Your Home Encourage Learning?

    The other day I was looking through my son’s school folder and came upon a great test to determine if your home gives your child both support and encouragement for school learning. Benjamin S. Bloom created a test to determine if your home encourages learning. Read the following statements and for each statement answer using…

  • Kindergarten: Is Your Child Ready?

    Every September, a new class of kindergarten students open the doors to classrooms that will start them on their journey of learning. These children are both excited at what lies ahead, and fearful about leaving parents for hours each day. Another emotion that touches the families of these young students is concern. Before most parents…

  • Kindergarten Readiness Skills

    Today’s kindergarten curriculum is significantly different than its intended purpose back in the 1830s. The original purpose was to socialize children but today most children are socialized prior to kindergarten due to attending daycare or preschool. Today, emphasis is placed on academics and cognitive learning skills. In addition, teachers assess the students in several key…

  • Kindergarten Activities – Letter Identification

    Prior to entering kindergarten, work with your child to ensure that she recognizes both the upper and lower case letters. The ability to recognize the letters will assist her in learning to read. In addition, the ability to quickly identify and write letters will aid in her writing development. In an earlier post, I recommended…

  • Making Playdough & Letters of the Alphabet

    My daughter will be entering kindergarten in a few months. At kindergarten orientation, my daughter received some fun activities to do over the summer to prepare for kindergarten. Two recipes for making play dough are noted below. After you make the play dough, use it to make both upper and lower case letters. As always…

  • Fun Phonics and Letter Identification Games

    At my daughter’s kindergarten orientation, she received index sized cards that contained: Upper- and lowercase letters, Word to emphasis the letter’s basic phonic sound, and Picture of the word. Click here to access a PDF file of both the letters and words. A fun activity to do with your child is to either draw pictures…