Monthly Archives: January 2010
Learning To Choose A Library Book
Choosing a book to check out from the library is a daunting task for a 5 year old. Everywhere they look there are books and the children don’t know where to begin their search. I encourage the children to limit … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Kindergarten, Library
Children’s Books On CD
Children love to have stories read to them. I find that reading stories at school instantly quiets and calms a noisy group of 5 year olds and I am sure that the same is true at your house. Kindergartners should … Continue reading
Filed under Beginning Readers, First Grade, Kindergarten, Reading
Read To Your Child In Your Home Language
I teach 52 Kindergartners a day and these children speak many different languages at home. (A few years ago I taught 2 classes that had 23 languages between them.) These Kindergartners are the children of parents who want their children … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Improving Reading Skills, Kindergarten, Reading
Sentence Starters
As the author of this blog, I am able to see what people type into a search engine to end up finding me. For the past 6 weeks, the top search has been people looking for Kindergarten sentence starters. This … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Kindergarten, Language Arts, Writing
Counting By 5′s
I wrote 4 days ago about teaching your child to learn to count by 10’s to 100. This skill will be very beneficial when learning to count money. Adding to that skill would be learning to count by 5’s to … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Kindergarten, Math
Valentine’s Day Cards In Kindergarten
Valentine’s Day is coming soon and if you haven’t heard about it from your child’s Kindergarten teacher, you will soon. Kindergarten children will have a chance to exchange Valentine’s Day cards with each other and they have so much fun … Continue reading
Filed under Beginning Readers, Kindergarten, Parents, Reading
Sight Word Search
Your child continues to learn more and more sight words every day. One way to review the sight words is to tear out a printed article from a magazine or a newspaper. Cut the article so that the measurements of … Continue reading
Recognizing Numbers From 1-100
Kindergartners are learning to count to 100 and are very good at it. Now that your child can count to 100, it is time to practice recognizing all of the numbers from 1-100. One way you can do this is … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Kindergarten, Math
Counting By 10′s
Now that your child is starting to learn about money, this is a great time to teach him/her counting by 10’s from 10 – 100. If your child can count from 1-10, you just have to explain that all you … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Kindergarten, Math
Learning About Money In Kindergarten
Children in Kindergarten are starting to be exposed to and learn about coins and money. This is a much harder skill than it was when I was in school. The reason for this is that most of today’s 5 and … Continue reading
Filed under First Grade, Kindergarten, Math
