Are there any websites to help a kid get ready for kindergarden?

Question

My daughter starts kindergarden next year, and i want her to be ready so i want to work with her this year to learn her the ABC's and numbers, colors and so on.

Answer 1

Don't worry so much about teaching her academics. You don't want her to know the curriculum before she starts school or she will end up bored. It's like learning German before you take a German class.

What is most important is social and emotion development. Make sure she gets lots of experience with other children (one on one and in groups). Consider sending her to preschool not more than 3 days a week and no more than 3 hours (up a day when she turns 4 and than 5). If you can't do this, find other ways for her to be around other children. Children who have good social and emotional skills do well in school.

Help her to gain self confidence. Don't use extrinsic motivators ("Good job!", candy, stickers). Children who are extrinsically rewarded care more about what others think of them rather than how they feel about themselves. Use intrinsic motivators. Say things like "Look how high you can climb! You did that by yourself! You used so many colors on that painting!" These phrases are all great confidence builders.

These are some basic skills that your daughter should have before starting school: hold a pencil in an orthodox way, recognize her name, write her name (upper case first letter followed by lower case), know 8 basic colors, cut with scissors, dress herself, take care of bathroom needs. She should learn a few letter sounds and recognize numbers and quantities. You can play "I spy" to teach letter sounds "I spy something that starts with "mmmm." Show her the symbol of that letter. Play counting games. Count all the cars you pass or count out how many forks you will need for dinner. Keep it fun! Here is a link to some more readiness skills http://www.srvusd.k12.ca.us/schools/REGISTRATION_INFORMATION/KINDERGARTEN/Kindergarten_Readiness_Skills/

Also, check out http://www.enchantedlearning.com

Good luck!

Answer 2

You don't really need a website. Just sit down with her and show her first how to write the letters in her own name. A little at a time start showing her how to write the letters of the alphabet. You can get a box of crayola crayons with just the primary colors (she doesn't need the box of 64) and just make sure she knows each color. Show her the label and how it says, "Blue".

Just notice the numbers around you in your day-to-day life (like on digital clocks, your microwave oven, the prices at the gas pump) and mention them to her. My daughter used to look at the digital clock on the microwave oven and say, "Its 3 oh oh". If you point out the numbers in your day-to-day life and mention that when the gas pump sign has a big 3 and a 5 and 4 that means you have to pay 3.54 for every gallon of gas.

With words, too, notice the words around you. If you use an exit in a building, say, "E-X-I-T means exit. That's where we go out."
If you go to mail a letter say, "U -S -Mail - that's what we're looking for." Notice the "push" signs on doors to stores. Point out what the brand names of your kitchen appliances says. She sees those letters all the time. Say, "See this little sign? It says 'Whirlpool' because the refrigerator was made by Whirlpool".

She may already know the letters on her cereal box or toothpaste tube. Just incorporate comments about letter and numbers into your remarks through the course of a day.

Finally, one thing parents often don't think of is to teach their children that there are times in school when they will be expected to sit at a little table and do somethink like draw a picture. Make sure she has activities that will get her used to sitting at a table and doing some kind of "quiet" activity. Bring her to the children's section of your library, and tell her, "We're going to get some books, but while we're here you have to be very quiet." Get her used to the idea of having a place where if she is asked to sit for a while she is able to do that and if she's asked not to talk out of turn she's able to control any urge to pipe up whenever she feels like it.

Talk to her about how next year she'll be going to kindergarten and about how nice it is and how there'll be lots of other little children to be with, but talk, too, about what goes on there. Get her ready for the idea that children do things in group, sometimes do things by themselves, bring a healthy snack and eat it at school, etc. If you just mention this kind of stuff between now and then she'll start to feel like she already knows that kindergarten is.

Websites may be fine, but there's nothing they can offer that you can't as long as you take the time, talk, and have some very basic activities with numbers, letters and colors.

Answer 3

one thing i did with my daughter was i made memory cards with the abc on them and played memory but we had to say the letter on the card also you may want to get her knowing a few words like and it the a with simple words that are in every book in just about every sentence my daughter had to learn those words last year in kindergarden so good luck and don't push her to hard she will learn it as she goes just have her be able to write her name and put on her shoes as well as tie them if they need tied good luck

Answer 4

The best thing you can do is read to your child every day.
Ask her who was in the story
what was it about
where did it take place
what was her favorite part
ask her to retell the story
help her track the words
Read with meaning and make the words come to life and have her practice repeating it the way you did.

Count socks, cheerios, etc. and have her point to each item as she counts. teach her simple math...three cookies and one more is.............four.
Make number cards and have her place the right number of items on the cards
Don't use computers.......use you! You are her best teacher.

Answer 5

in the initiating there are one of those thoughts for preschool that are freed from cost. i ought to call your interior of sight college district and ask if there are any classes accessible (Headstart is u . s . huge). Secondly the ideal difficulty you ought to do is enable the toddler be a toddler. enable her hit upon, study books mutually with her, confer mutually with her, colour mutually, do simple crafts, play domicile, in basic terms have exciting. toddlers are compelled to reinforce up too early and they have such quite some years to do teachers. make sensible she is interacting with different toddlers, social skills are so important and do not get quite some concentration once examining writing and mathematics kick in. bypass to the park, bypass to a toddler's museum, in basic terms be mutually with her and paintings mutually mutually with her! Oh and did I say study to her and then study some more beneficial!! before going to college some issues she must have the capacity to do is call her colorings, count number to a minimum of 10, say her first and extremely last call, write her first call extremely nicely, and separate devoid of too a lot stress.

Answer 6

I'm not sure off the top of my head, but doing a simple google search for "interactive pre-k", or "interactive preschool" etc, would help.

or does she have favorite shows? Blues Clues, Dora, etc, have websites with learning games too.

Answer 7

try Hooked on Phonics worked for my kids

Answer 8

yes..... http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/readykindergarten.htm