Ten Ways to Prepare
Your Child for Kindergarten
- Help your child recognize the letters
of the alphabet as well as numbers 1-10.
- Model and provide guided practice in
learning to write their name with the first letter of the name in upper
case letters and the remaining letters in lower case. Ex. Brad, Beth
- Help your child memorize their birth
date, address, and phone number.
- Practice self-help skills such as
tying shoes, blowing their nose, toilet habits, zipping, and buttoning.
- Practice fine motor skills such as
pencil grasp, butting and gluing.
- Model and reinforce social skills such
as sharing, taking turns, and responding with “please” and “thank you.”
- Instill and promote respect for
authority figures and routines.
- Encourage independence in all areas.
- Provide practice in following 1, 2,
and 3 step directions.
- READ to your child and have them
retell the story.