Summer Bridging

Self Help Skills

Your beginning kindergartener should be able to:

• Use the restroom independently. This includes independently removing and then refastening necessary clothing, wiping, flushing and hand washing.
• Blow his/her nose independently. This includes using a tissue, blowing, depositing the tissue in the garbage and washing hands.
• Zip and unzip his/her backpack. Children should also be able to take and remove items from a backpack.

Learning Skills

Your beginning kindergartener should be able to:

• Sit and listen to a story or lesson for ten minutes.
• Hold a pencil with the proper grip. (See Reading and Writing Resources for more details.) Pencil grip is a difficult thing to correct in the classroom with 25 students. We work hard on this in kindergarten, but it is best to start practicing and reinforcing a good pencil grip at home!

Academic Skills

• Letters and Sounds Please practice letters and sounds (see Reading and Writing Resources). The majority of students come in recognizing many letters and some sounds.
• Write first name.
• Number Sense Practice counting to 20. Practice counting groups of objects to ten.

Language Arts (See Reading and Writing Resources for more information and activities.)

• Read daily. Incoming first graders should be able to read and comprehend a level D text.
• Practice sight words. (Kindergarten and first grade words available.)
• Writing Keep a summer journal or write letters to a family member. Your child should practice writing multiple sentences on a topic several times each week.

Math

• EUREKA is the math curriculum that is used in grades 1-5. Bellow is a link to assist you in getting support with this curriculum. http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_Math
• Practice composing and decomposing numbers to 10. (Find math games under Math Activities tab.)
• Review reading and writing numbers to 20. When this skill is mastered, your child can begin to work on numbers to 100.