Happy Reading!
Kindergarten Summer Reading List
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The time will fly and so will the skills if you don't keep the mind challenged. Here are some things to do...
- Summer Reading list for students entering first grade, kindergarten, Spanish Form
- keyboarding skills - From Mrs. Hick's webpage
- kindergarten skills - From Mrs. Hick's webpage
- Memory games
- Box Puzzles
- Following directions – multiple steps.
- Critical thinking skills – have your child explain why/how
- Problem solving skills – what are different ways to solve a problem (for example if your child sees that an empty box is in his/her way hindering him/her from completing a task- have your child tell you different ways to solve the problem before conquering the task)
- Handwriting (have your child start a summer journal to write down what he/she did )
- Reading with fluency and comprehension- for beginning readers Margret Hillert are great sight word books to check out at the public library. They are great to help practice fluency.
- Addition: discourage the use of fingers unless they are using them to count up. I suggest start with the big number and count up to the smaller number. 5+4 would sound like 6 7 8 9. It is important for your child to understand when you are adding you are putting more. They should not only know the number facts but show or tell how they know 5+4=9, because four more than five is 9 is an acceptable response. When you practice you can make oral story problems like. Susie wants to have a sleep over. She invited 3 people then her mom said Susie’s cousin is coming to town. How many people will Susie have at her slumber party?
- Subtraction, see website for internet games.
