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How to help Kindergarteners be successful
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Kindergarten
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- The Best Ways to Help Your Kindergartener Succeed in
School
- 3. Make sure your child is ready for school
- Has everything needed for school/ all materials labeled
- 4. Some things your child should know..
- To ask for help when needed
- How to clean up after self
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- Make the BIG day a happy one!
- 6. Encourage responsibility and independence
- Have them pick up own mess
- Have them play an active role in getting ready for school
- 7. Encourage reading in anyway you can
- 8. Treat child as though they are an author
- Encourage child to write notes or keep a journal
- Provide materials along with time for child to draw
- Always ask child about their drawings
- 9. Make math part of their everyday life
- Ask child to help with setting up table or to help you measure
something
- Have child compare things (heavy, light, tall, short)
- Give child problems to solve
- 10. Teach them how to listen
- Spend time with your child
- Model good listening behaviors
- Limit TV, computer, and video game time
- 11. Support your child's teacher and school rules
- Make appointments to visit with teacher
- Always be willing to listen to the teachers side
- 12. Tell the teacher everything!
- How your child feels about school
- How they feel about class mates
- 13. Spend time in your child's class room
- 14. Ask your child about school everyday
- Read everything the teacher sends home
- 15. Some things your child will be learning
- Constant-vowel-constant words
- How to write and recognize own name
- 16. and.
- Handwriting through tactile approaches
- How to hold a pencil correctly
- Learn to write left to right, top to bottom
- 17. also..
- Improve large and small motor skills
- Use senses to know if things are alike or different
- 18. Keep in mind
- Each child learns at their OWN
- 19. Did you know?
- The average five year old laughs 400 times a day, while the
average adult laughs 15 times a day..
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- Every activity and conversation you have with your child shows
the importance of love, literacy and learning
- 21. Children are the FUTURE