Kindergarten Readiness Week 6- Last installment

This will be the last Kindergarten Readiness email for the summer!  We hope that you and your child have benefited from these tips as the new school year approaches. 

This week we ask that you continue to work on Rhyming.  Please remember that at this stage nonsense words, words that are not real words, are fine to begin rhyming skills.  Oral/talking skills are one of the biggest SOLS to begin the year, so the more you talk and communicate with your child the better.  Here are some rhyming activities that you can do to practice at home:

1.  Play rhyming memory.  Cut index cards in half and write words or draw pictures of objects and have your child find a match.

2.  Play I spy with rhyming words.  I spy something that rhymes with car, star.

3.  Play oddball out, ask which does not belong, cat, hat, and ball???

4.  Open a book and point to objects in the pictures and ask your child to think of a word that rhymes with the picture.

5.  Say a word and have your child say a word that rhymes with it!

Please continue to work on writing your numbers from 1-5.  This week we want the focus to be on numbers from 6-10.

1.  Use a variety of writing tools, shaving cream, sidewalk chalk, paint, sand, and mud, to write the numbers 6-10.

2.  Play number memory with all the numbers from 1-10.

3.  Put out objects for your child to count to match each number you write, be sure that your child points to each object as they count.

Enjoy!