Kindergarten Readiness Week 5

Here is another addition of Kindergarten Readiness!  We are counting down the days until school starts and are so excited to get started!  This week we will focus on rhyming words and numbers.

Rhyming plays a huge role in developing your child’s oral language or talking skills.  It is an SOL that will be graded most of the year.  Rhyming words are words that have the same ending sounds like;

cat-bat, cake-bake, pet-vet…..

Here are some ideas to help work on rhyming at home:

You say 3 words to your child, 2 that rhyme one that doesn’t and have them pick the ODDBALL, as we like to call it, the one that doesn’t rhyme.

You say a word and they say a word that rhymes.  ****At this early stage, nonsense words or words that are not really words, are okay.  We want to know if they can hear the rhyme!*****

Play I Spy with objects in your house…I see an object that rhymes with table, can say cable, bable, mable, or any other word that rhymes!

Math:  Focus on numbers from 1-5 this week.  Here are some ideas for working on this:

Have your child count objects, ONLY 5, noodles, chairs, windows, tiles anything you have around house.  You do not need to buy anything for this.

Write the numbers from 1-5 on paper, sidewalk, shaving cream, etc. 

You can write the number and have your child trace it using multiple colors.

Write the numbers and then have your child put out that specific number of objects.  For example:  you write the number 4 and they put out 4 beans, counting them as they do.