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Bridge To Kindergarten Packet 2012

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Let’s Get Ready for

Kindergarten

Activity Packet
Winegard Elementary School
Summer 2012
Kindergarten Readiness Checklist
Self Help Skills
Can use the bathroom independently and complete accompanying hygiene tasks
Able to dress self (puts on coat, fastens snaps, buttons and zippers
States full name and age
Social/Emotional Skills
Separates from caregivers without excessive upset
Plays/shares with other children
Waits his turn
Attends to an adult-directed task for at least 5 minutes
Recognizes and responds to other people's feelings
Uses "please" and "thank you"
Language Skills (Expressive and Receptive)
Expresses needs and wants verbally
Speaks in complete sentences (5 to 6 words)
Is generally understood by adults
Uses words, not physical action, to express emotions such as anger or disappointment
Understands and follows two-step directions
Understands positional vocabulary (i.e. on top of, below, next to)
Fine Motor Skills
Holds pencil/crayon in a non-fisted grip
Able to control scissors to complete an intentional task
Traces lines and basic shapes
Copies basic figures such as a circle, square and a straight line
Gross Motor Skills
Runs and skips
Jumps with feet together and hops while balancing on one foot.
Climbs stairs with alternating feet
Walks backwards
Bounces a kickball
Attempts a two-handed catch of a kickball
Math Skills
Counts from 1 to 10
Recognizes/points to/identifies basic shapes (square, circle, triangle, rectangle)
Beginning to count with one-to-one correspondence
Can sort items by one or more attributes
Identifies, either verbally or by pointing to, the colors of crayons in the 8-count box (black, blue, brown,
green, orange, red, purple, yellow)
Literacy/Phonemic Awareness Skills
Enjoys being read to/listening to stories
Recognizes environmental print (familiar logos, signs and words)
Knows how to handle a book (i.e. holds book right side up, knows where it starts and ends)
Recites the alphabet
Identifies some letters and some of the sounds they make, either by sound to letter or letter to sound
Recognizes own name in print
Able to discern whether or not two words rhyme, may be able to provide a third rhyme for the words
Tries to write own name or other ideas by using symbols or letters
Can draw a picture to express an idea
I can write my name!
Practice
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I know my phone number!

Practice
dialing your
phone
number
Practice writing
your phone number

/ / / - / / / - / / / /
My Birthday is on:
_________________
I am ____ years old.

How old will you be on


your next birthday?
Draw the correct
number of candles on
the cake.
Summer Reading!
Websites for Fun & Learning!

http://www.starfall.com/ http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/

http://www.fisher-
price.com/en_US/GamesAndActivities/onlinega
http://www.seussville.com/ mes/index.html

http://www.funbrain.com/ http://pbskids.org/games/index.ht
ml

http://pbskids.org/sesame/ http://www.meddybemps.com/

http://funschool.kaboose.com/pres http://www.kindersite.org/Director
chool/games/index.html y/DirectoryFrame.htm
Color, cut out the cards, and play a rhyming match game!
Alphabet
Cards

Color the pictures


& practice the
sound for each
letter. Can you put
the letters in the
correct order?
Words to Know for Kindergarten

I see my

like a to

and go is
Words to Know for Kindergarten

here for have

said the play

she are he
Crabs on the Beach

Ten–Frame Grid Game


You Need:
Dice
Beans, cereal, pennies, or other objects for counters

Directions: Color the crabs. Roll the die & put that
number of objects on the grid. Clear the grid & roll a
new number.
•Ask your child to describe their number to you. (My number is
6. It’s 1 more than 5. It’s 4 away from 10.)
1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

10 11 12
Cut out the numbers and name them. Practice putting
them in order.

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