Kindergarten News                    Summertime Activities

Young children can lose skills over the summer. Practice 15 to 20 minutes a day. Many skills can be incorporated during play.

Math Skills
Terms:   greater, more, less, fewer, sets, as many as, equal, halves
Patterns
Comparing Items
Tally Lines
Identity numbers to 31    (Challenge – numbers to 50)
Ordinals (first to tenth)
Plane Shapes (circle, triangle, square. rectangle)
Solid Shapes (cube, cone, sphere, cylinder)
Money (penny, nickel, dime)      Challenge – quarter
Time: (Tell time to the hour)    Challenge – Half hour
Addition and Subtraction

Reading
Read to your child and let your child read to you everyday.

Skills:          Classify       Categorize             Reality
                   Fantasy        Summarize             Main Idea
                   Inferences   Cause & Effect       Compare & Contrast

High – Frequency Words

                   a        we      are     that    go

                   my      to       you     said    was

                   he      me      for     have   not

                   is       of      she     has     do

Challenge:       Children enjoy making books. Encourage this activity.
Teach your child to spell some vocabulary words.

Have a healthy and happy summer. Thank you for all your cooperation during this year.