This page is designed for all Kindergarteners and upcoming Kindergarteners.  Feel free to use this information to enhance your child's learning.  These websites may be fun for you and your child to visit and may give you information about how to help them learn at home:

General Learning Activities

• http://beritsbest.com
• www.seussville.com
• www.lego.com
• www.pbskids.org
• Magnets in the World Power Point

Phonics
www.starfall.com
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/


Math
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/index.shtml
www.billybear4kids.com/games/mapedit/mapedit.htm
Telling Time with Professor Sasha Power Point


Writing
Third Quarter Tips for Writing with your Kindergartener
Activities for Learning Sight Words with the Pre-primer sight word list

The following lists are sight words that we use when reading and writing.  Help your child learn and practice these words.  When they master a list, have them move on and learn the next list.

• Preprimer
• Primer
• First Grade

Other Tips:

• New Tip!  Have your child keep a daily journal of what they do at school.  It doesn't have to be long (2 or 3 sentences) and can be incorporated into your child's daily homework routine.  Also, think about what a fun thing it would be for them to have when they are older.
• Remember to read and have your child read to you every night.  This is the best way to increase your child's reading level.  Have them read their baggie book to you.  Remember when you read to your child, read a book is at least two grade levels above what they can read now.  This will help increase your child's vocabulary.
• If your child is reading or beginning to read, use the five finger rule to pick a book that is at the right level for your child to read.  Have your child read two pages in a book.  Have them hold up a finger for every word they don't know (except proper names).  If they have five fingers held up by the end of the two pages, the book is too hard.  If they have no fingers up, the book is too easy.
• Write, write, write.  Have your child write.  The more they practice the better they will get.  Make writing fun.  Use different tools to write (feathers, paint brushes, chalk).  Also, remember that coloring and drawing will help your child gain the fine motor skills needed for writing.
  
• The best way to help your child with math is to look for it in every day life.  Have your child help you cook, count change, or look and find numbers out in the real world.
• Play!  We learn by playing, so limit the amount of homework your child does to 15 minutes a night.

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