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    Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness
    Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness
    Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness
    Ebook142 pages1 hour

    Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness

    By Alison Pepper

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    Teachers of children ages 4-5
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGryphon House Inc.
    Release dateOct 1, 2017
    ISBN9780876597361
    Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness
    Author

    Alison Pepper

    Alison Pepper is an early childhood consultant in the areas of project development, quality improvement, program design, leadership, family engagement, accreditation, and training. She writes articles for Young Children and Child Care Information Exchange and is a trainer for the Connect4Learning pre-K curriculum. She holds a master of science degree in education, early childhood supervision, and administration from Bank Street College of Education.

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      Kick-Start Kindergarten Readiness - Alison Pepper

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      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Labeling At Home

      On The Street—Finding Words Everywhere

      I Spy

      Doing Household Chores Together

      Museum Visit

      Singing Family Songs Together

      Let’s Learn About Our Neighborhood

      Learning Nursery Rhymes

      Chapter 3

      Oral Storytelling

      Read Books Aloud To Your Child

      Family Library Visit

      Name Recognition

      Magazine Search And Find

      Book Knowledge

      Drawing

      Write On Rice

      Child’s Monthly Calendar

      Chapter 4

      Making A Family Book

      Learning About Our Family Traditions

      Museum Visit

      Visiting The New School

      Sharing With Others

      Self-Help Tasks

      Learning Personal Contact Information

      Recognizing Emotions

      Self-Regulation And Calming Techniques

      Chapter 5

      Fruit Salad

      Measuring Things At Home

      Setting The Table

      Playing-Card Math

      Simple Sorting

      Snack-Time Counting Fun

      Sorting Buttons By Size

      Shape Walk

      Counting Jar

      Chapter 6

      Exploring Outdoors: Insects And Creatures Search

      Where Is That Place?

      Cooking Together

      Where Does Our Food Come From?

      Planting At Home

      Growing Plants From Plants

      Learning Body Parts Through Simon Says

      Water And Ice Experiments

      Chapter 7

      Making Playdough

      Exploring Playdough

      Exercise Together

      Puzzles

      Dancing Together

      Outdoors Time Together

      Take A Hike

      Learning To Write My Name

      Make An Obstacle Course

      References And Resources

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      ©2017 Gryphon House, Inc.

      Published by Gryphon House, Inc.

      P. O. Box 10, Lewisville, NC 27023

      800.638.0928; 877.638.7576 (fax)

      Visit us on the web at www.gryphonhouse.com.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or technical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. Printed in the United States. Every effort has been made to locate copyright and permission information.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      The cataloging-in-publication data is registered with the Library of Congress for ISBN 978-0-87659-735-4.

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      Gryphon House books are available for special premiums and sales promotions as well as for fund-raising use. Special editions or book excerpts also can be created to specifications. For details, call 800.638.0928.

      Disclaimer

      Gryphon House, Inc., cannot be held responsible for damage, mishap, or injury incurred during the use of or because of activities in this book. Appropriate and reasonable caution and adult supervision of children involved in activities and corresponding to the age and capability of each child involved are recommended at all times. Do not leave children unattended at any time. Observe safety and caution at all times.

      Introduction and How to Use This Book

      As teachers of four-year-old children, one of your primary considerations is how to best prepare the children in your classroom for their transition to kindergarten. Your school, your director, and local and federal licensing agencies all place a variety of requirements on you, so the activities and projects that you plan advance this readiness goal every day. Frequently, you may hear questions from families about how to best prepare their children for the next step into kindergarten. The pressure for the children’s success may feel like it rests on your shoulders, but you don’t have to do it alone. You have excellent allies—the children’s families! Families are your partners in their children’s education. In fact, they are their children’s first teachers. Honoring that fact is empowering and will help you build an effective home-school connection.

      This book is a tool to facilitate your efforts in engaging families and establishing the home-school connection. We know how busy you are! We offer you a variety of developmentally appropriate learning activities that you can send home to families each week so they can participate in their child’s learning and can reinforce concepts and skills you are introducing in school. Each activity has been designed to help adults at home spend time on a specific play-based activity with their children. Learning comes naturally to children—they are curious, notice detail, and love to ask questions. Each activity gives families ways to support that innate curiosity.

      How to Use This Book

      What do children need to be ready to learn in kindergarten? Each week, choose a letter and accompanying activity to send home to families that will support learning in the following areas:

      • Oral language and vocabulary

      • Emerging literacy

      • Social-emotional skills

      • Math explorations

      • Science investigations

      • Fine and gross-motor skills

      You can photocopy the letters and activities to send home with the children, or you can attach them to weekly emails or newsletters to families.

      Each letter explains the learning that is taking place and offers a short note about the research behind why the activity supports that learning. The activities themselves are simple to do and require just a few commonly found materials—or no materials at all. Simple, specific instructions guide families in engaging their children in developmentally appropriate ways.

      As families engage with their children at home, they can feel that they are directly contributing to their children’s learning and future academic success. They can support the development of their children’s independence and autonomy, emergent literacy, and cognitive and social-emotional skills and can advance children’s understanding of the world around them. By participating in their children’s learning using these guided activities, families will help prepare their children for an easy transition to kindergarten.

      CHAPTER 1

      Skills and Knowledge to

      Help Children Get Ready for Kindergarten

      Oral Language and Vocabulary

      The ability to fully express themselves verbally is an important skill for kindergarten children. They need to communicate with peers to ask to play, to negotiate play, and to develop social relationships. They need to be able to tell an adult when they are upset or hurt or sick. They need to be able to express needs, such as hunger or needing to go to the bathroom. When young children can communicate needs, wants, and thoughts to adults and peers, they are able to feel more comfortable in the classroom setting and to open up whole worlds of learning in that environment.

      Encourage family members to talk with and listen to their children. By simply naming objects and answering their children’s questions as best they can, they will encourage important vocabulary growth. They can narrate household activities and chores. They can talk about objects and features they notice in the home and in the environment. They can sing songs and tell stories—especially those that reflect the family’s culture. They can ask their children questions in a lighthearted way that encourages children to express their ideas and opinions. Simple encouragement and reinforcement at home will nurture children’s oral language skills and vocabulary development to help them be ready for kindergarten.

      Emerging Literacy

      Four-year-old children are beginning to make the connection between spoken language and written symbols. While the typical preschooler is not quite reading yet, many are beginning to learn the names for some letters and the sounds that go with certain letters. They are also beginning to recognize print that they commonly see in the environment. Families can support this natural curiosity about letters and writing with simple activities at home. One of the best ways to support emerging literacy is to simply

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