Language Skills

• Practice one and two step oral directions.

• Ask your child to tell you or retell a story they just heard.

• Guide your child to express and describe feelings.

• Practice reciting common nursery rhymes or songs.

Reading Skills

• Look at books with your child.

• Notice signs and words together as you drive around town.

• Talk about and help your child recognize rhyming words.

• Practice letter and sound recognition using the charts below.

• Ask your child to recall events that happened in a story that was read to them in order, and identify the characters of the story.

Writing Skills

• Give lots of opportunities for your child to write, scribble or draw.

• Write your child's name (with uppercase and lowercase letters) and let them write it as well, to encourage recognition and practice.

• Use the letter formation alphabet "MAP" included to encourage proper letter formation as your child writes their name or practices writing letters.

• Write numbers 1-10 and let your child practice writing numbers as well.

• Help your child distinguish the difference between numbers and letters.

Math Skills

• Practice recognizing numbers 1-10 (or higher) out of order and put the numbers in order.

• Arranges objects in size order (big to small and small to big)

• Encourage your child to identify and draw basic shapes such as square, circle, triangle, rectangle, and oval.

• Give your child the opportunity to count objects with one-to-one correspondence and remember the final number counted, they may even practice writing that number.

Reasoning: Concept Development

• Help your child match or group objects according to size, shape or color.

• Help your child describe how objects are the same or different.

• Check for understanding of the concepts of in/out, under/over, on/off, front/back.

Interaction with Others

• Play well with others, take turns, share and consider others' feelings.

• Respects items belonging to others.

• Use manners and listen when others are speaking.

• Seek adult help during conflicts.

• Clean up after playing.

Motor Skills

• Hold and use crayons, markers, and pencils correctly. (If your child still does not have proper grip please practice this over the summer)

• Put a small puzzle together, build using blocks or Magna tiles.

• Bounce, kick, throw and catch a ball.