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Helpful Files and Links for Parents
Alphabet Flashcards
Mix up the cards after each use. If the cards remain in the same order, the child has a tendency to "memorize" them after a while.
Ask your child to sort the letters into piles of uppercase and lowercase letters.
Ask your child to sort the letters according to whether or not they have a circle forming part of the letter or whether they don't.
Have your child pick out all the letters that have a tall line forming part of the letter (many uppercase letters and lowercase letters such as "d," "b," and "t."
Ask your child what sound a certain letter makes. (We will add to our sound knowledge with our Open Court phonics program.)
Can your child put letters together to form small words? Use this game especially after we have been doing Open Court for a month or so.
Have your child pick a letter and try to think of something that starts with the sound that letter makes. Or try to find an object in your house that starts with that sound.
Alphabet Cards
Number Flashcards
As with the ABC cards, mix up the cards after each use. If the cards remain in the same order, the child has a tendancy to "memorize" them after a while.
Have your child try to put the numbers in order from 0-20.
Have your child pick a number and then count out that many beans, pennies, or other objects.
Have your child choose a number and practice writing that number neatly.
Number Cards
100 Chart
Use the 100 chart to practice counting by ones (kindergarteners are expected to count to 50 by the end of the school year, but most will learn to count to 100), count by 5's, and count by 10's.
Call out a number between 0 and 20 (or higher) and see if your child can point to it on the 100 chart.
Use a bean or a penny to cover up a number on the chart (start with a number between 0 and 20 and work up) and see if your child can look at the numbers before and after the hidden number to tell you the mystery number.
100 Chart
Links about Kindergarten and Reading
Developmental Guidelines for Children
Strengthening Children's Hand Muscles article
Email Newsletter for Parents of Kindergarteners
Articles for Parents
Make Your Own Handwriting Papers
Parent Resources from the International Reading Association
Helping Your Child Learn to Read
A Child Becomes a Reader
Partnership for Reading Free Downloadable Information
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