Rising Kindergarten
Welcome to Kindergarten!
The Douglas County School System invites parents to help their rising kindergarten students prepare for a successful school year. Please explore the resources on this page to help your child keep learning over the summer.
This resource provides a list of learning activities that fit into your everyday life and a suggested calendar of activities to keep your child learning all summer!
Georgia Home Classroom
Georgia Home Classroom is a collaboration between GPB Education and Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) to support at-home learning for students in Pre-K through 12th grade, including digital learning resources and an instructional broadcast schedule. Click the image on the left for suggestions of skills families might explore together to keep learning over the summer and prepare for the upcoming school year.
Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds. It is the first step in learning to read. Use the topics/videos below to help build your child's pre-reading skills.
This website provides teaching activities, techniques, and materials to help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. Rising kindergartners should focus on phonemic awareness activities.
The Georgia Department of Education Content Integration Specialists have developed integrated choice board mini tasks aligned to the Georgia Standards of Excellence for English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies. Each grade level includes integrated low tech or no tech tasks and activities meant to engage students and families in purposeful integration of the content.
