Kindergarten Skills for Success

• Print first name (capitalize first letter only)
• Once first name is mastered, practice printing last name

• Recognize and identify colors

• Recognize and identify numbers 0-10
• Count aloud to 25
• Count groups of objects (up to 10 items in group)

• Recognize and identify circle, square, rectangle and triangle

• Identify capital letters
• Begin to identify lowercase letters

Help develop your child's fine motor skills by providing them with opportunities to practice the following activities:

• Cutting with scissors 
• Zippering  
• Buttoning
• Dressing themselves
• Coloring with crayons
• Drawing with a pencil (encourage correct pencil grip)

• Say a word and ask your child to name the first (beginning) sound they hear in the word.  The beginning sound in ball is /b/. 
• Example: You say “football.”  Your child should respond with the /f/ sound.
• Example: You say “spin.”  Your child should respond with the /s/ sound.

• Explain to your child words that rhyme sound the same at the end.  Say, “Fan and ran rhyme because they sound the same at the end.”
• Say 2 words and ask if they rhyme ~ (jet/let – yes) (wish/dog – no)
• Say 3 words and ask which words rhyme ~ (pig, big, fog) (pig and big rhyme)
• Say a word and ask your child to say a word that rhymes with it ~ silly/nonsense words are okay
• Example: You say “sit.” Your child could a say “vit.”

Say the word’s parts.  Ask your child to blend the pieces together to say the word.

• /tr/…/uck/ = truck          
• /r/…/at/ = rat                  
• /fl/…/at/ = flat

• Say a two syllable word.  Ask your child to say one of the word’s parts.
• Example: You say “mailbox.”  Your child could say “mail” or “box.”
• Example: You say “kitten.”  Your child could say “kit” or “ten.”