Have you had a meeting at the school yet? Does your school do things like that?
Our kindergarten sent out a letter a month ago... and we had a meeting last week to let the parents know what was expected of our children in kindergarten and what we should "focus" on to help with the transition.
Dee and I both went.
It was a good meeting.
Some things seemed (to me) to be common sense. I did learn some things though.
I'm sure all school systems are different, however here are a few things that they told us to "work on".
#1 - Learning Upper AND Lower case letters.
They said that most kids can recognize upper case letters. But, they don't know the lower case letters.
#2 - when writing there name, the first letter is big, the rest is small. (Refer back to #1)
#3 - Make sure they can hold a pencil correctly.
#4 - Make sure they can hold and use scissors correctly.
#5 - Know how to hold a book. Do they know how to turn the pages in the right direction? Do they know that you are reading the words and not the pictures? Do they know the words read from left to right?
#6 - Have your child play on a playscape. Make sure they can go up and down the ladder by themselves. Make sure they aren't afraid to go down the slide. (She said that many kids have never been on a placescape and it's intimidating to do it for the first time in front of many children.)
#7 - Concept of money. (Not charge cards.
) Can they recognize a dime, nickel, quarter, penny?
Those were a few of the times that were discussed (that I can remember off the top of my head!)
Do you have anything else to add?
Our kindergarten sent out a letter a month ago... and we had a meeting last week to let the parents know what was expected of our children in kindergarten and what we should "focus" on to help with the transition.
Dee and I both went.
It was a good meeting.
Some things seemed (to me) to be common sense. I did learn some things though.
I'm sure all school systems are different, however here are a few things that they told us to "work on".
#1 - Learning Upper AND Lower case letters.
They said that most kids can recognize upper case letters. But, they don't know the lower case letters.
#2 - when writing there name, the first letter is big, the rest is small. (Refer back to #1)
#3 - Make sure they can hold a pencil correctly.
#4 - Make sure they can hold and use scissors correctly.
#5 - Know how to hold a book. Do they know how to turn the pages in the right direction? Do they know that you are reading the words and not the pictures? Do they know the words read from left to right?
#6 - Have your child play on a playscape. Make sure they can go up and down the ladder by themselves. Make sure they aren't afraid to go down the slide. (She said that many kids have never been on a placescape and it's intimidating to do it for the first time in front of many children.)
#7 - Concept of money. (Not charge cards.
) Can they recognize a dime, nickel, quarter, penny?Those were a few of the times that were discussed (that I can remember off the top of my head!)
Do you have anything else to add?
