Kindergarten Readiness Archives

Identifying Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds in Words

Today is Tuesday of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series and on Tuesdays we explore phonemic awareness concepts. Identifying and isolating individual sounds in words can sometimes be difficult for beginning readers. This activity…

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71 Things Your Child Needs to Know Before Kindergarten

Wondering what your child needs to know before starting school? This list includes 71 things your child needs to know before kindergarten! What a Child Needs to Know Before Kindergarten Here is a list of kindergarten readiness skills based loosely…

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Kindergarten Readiness: 33 Ways to Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten

Is My Child Ready For Kindergarten? First published June 2012. A few months ago I shared a post called “71 Things a Child Needs to Know Before Kindergarten” based entirely on an end-of-the-year assessment given in the Pre-K program where…

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What Your Child Really Needs to Know Before Kindergarten

What Your Child Needs to Know Before Kindergarten

Kindergarten is a scary transition for kids and adults alike. Nearly every parent wonders, “Is my child ready?” I’m quite certain almost every parent has googled “what your child needs to know before kindergarten” at one time or another….

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Homeschool Preschool

Guest Post by Rachael of Nothing If Not Intentional In our state, kindergarten is not mandatory. Yet not only do most of my friend’s kids go to public kindergarten, but it also often seems as though preschool is no longer…

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Copying and Cutting

As a former first grade teacher, I can tell you that generally boys struggle much more with fine motor skills than girls. Holding a pencil correctly, cutting with scissors, and legible handwriting are all skills that prove more difficult for the…

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Clothespin Capital & Lowercase Matching Activity

This was a super-easy activity for Big Brother that combined fine motor skills and alphabet recognition. I was pleasantly surprised how much Big Brother took to this activity…he really enjoyed it and needed very little assistance. I just reused the…

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The One Thing I Want Parents to Know: A Kindergarten Teacher’s Reflection

Guest Post by Amanda of The Kindergarten Chick In honor of back to school time and sending my three year old to preschool, I wanted to blog about what I have just discovered upon reflection this week. This is my…

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Word Family Pull-Out Activity

After making the Toilet Paper Roll Books last week, I started thinking about ways that I could reuse my paper towel rolls too. After pondering for a while, I finally came up with a fun word family interactive activity…

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Teaching Your Child to Read, Part 3

*Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.* Word Families To put it simply, word families are words that rhyme. Teaching children word families is a phonemic awareness activity that helps children see patterns in…

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Teaching Your Child to Read, Part 2

*If you missed Part 1 of this series, you can find it here.* In the last post, we discussed the importance of reading to your child (beginning at infancy), asking questions during reading, and being an example by reading…

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Inventory of Pre-School Skills

I was going through some of my old notebooks from when I was student-teaching in Pre-K and found the “Inventory of Pre-school Skills” that was used as both a guiding document for the program as well as a way to…

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