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Kindergarten Readiness Skills

Kindergarten Readiness Skills

These resources have been selected to guide parents as they work with their children at home.  

• Demonstrate basic fine motor skills-The goal is for your child to hold a pencil correctly and use scissors appropriately.  It is important to build the muscles in your little one’s hands first.  These activities will help with that.
• Fine Motor Ideas from PreKinders
•  How to hold a pencil correctly 
• Scissors skills with The Virtual Therapist-watch until the end for some suggestions on good scissors to use 

• Recognize and Write name-Capital only at the beginning
• Name writing with The Virtual Therapist 
• Free Name Tracing printable  

• Know letter names-lowercase and capital
• Alphabet Songs for Preschool Kids to Sing and Dance Along To
• Create Letters with Duplos 
• DIY Tactile Letter Cards

• Number sense: Count to 20, name numbers to 5 count objects to 5
• Free Counting Playdough mats 
• DIY Math Counting Cards

• Recognize basic shapes-circle, square, triangle, rectangle
• Fostering Shape Recognition in Preschool 
• Gross Motor Shape Recognition Activity 

• Extend a pattern 2 steps (what comes next in the pattern?)
• 15 simple ways to teach patterns to preschoolers 
• Concepts of Print-find the front of a book, point to where you should read first, understand that print holds meaning, predict what a book will be about
• Silly Ways to Teach Print Awareness 
• Draw a self portrait with 9 or more parts
• Drawing Myself from Picklebums 
• Guided Drawing from Kindergarten Chaos 
• Self-help practices-zip jackets, buttoning pants, tying shoes, using the restroom on your own, open lunch items.
• Ways to Encourage Self-Help Skills in Children

This resource may provide  information and guidance in preparing your child for school