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Educational Tips to Prepare for Prep
Educational Tips to Prepare for Prep
We have prepared some helpful ideas to help you prepare your child become ready for school. The tips below are packed with great educational resources for students and plenty of ideas to help create independent learners.
Learning the Alphabet
Learning the Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is an important first step in the process of learning how to read and write.
Here is the video we play daily in our classrooms to support your child to learn the letter names and sounds. Follow along with the cued articulation video with one of our prep teachers Miss Jade!
Alphabet Letters & Sounds w_ Cued Articulation.mp4Red Word List 1.mp4Reading
Reading
Read read read! We encourage you to read to your child as much as possible. Encourage your child to sit and listen to a story for a few minutes every day.
Children who enjoy books are more enthusiastic to learn to read on their own. Help your child to practice holding a book and turning the pages. You may like to point out the title, and ask your child questions about the story along the way.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are the ability to make movements using small muscles in the fingers, hands and forearms. We use our fine motor skills to hold a pencil, draw, use scissors and other tools. Read below to learn more.
Using playdough, follow along with this video to build your finger muscles!
Fine Motor.pdfHolding a Pencil
Holding a Pencil
Practice holding a pencil correctly. Watch the video to see how and follow along! The ability to hold a pencil correctly can affect a child's attitude to learning and school work, their academic achievement as well as their motor/joint development.
Practice forming the alphabet in the Victorian Pre Cursive font and number formation!
Alphabet and number tracing.pdfAlphabet trace VIC.pdfHandwriting
Handwriting
Students have been following along to the videos to support their formation of upper case and lower case letters. Students are encouraged to practice their lower case letters as they are used most throughout their writing. Play the video and have students copy the writing. Remind your child how to hold their pencil appropriately before they begin.
Handwriting uppercase letters.m4vHandwriting lowercase letter.m4vUsing scissors
Using scissors
Learning to cut using scissors develops your child's fine motor skills and coordination. Because they are developing muscles they haven't used in this way before, it requires lots and lots of practice.
Download and print these cutting practice sheets!
Cutting-Practice (1).pdfWriting Your Name
Writing Your Name
Encourage your child to practise writing their firs name, using a capital letter at the beginning and lower case letters for the remainder of their name - it can be difficult to "unteach" the use of capital letters for their whole name.
Click below to get your very own name tracing sheet! Practice recognising and writing your name in the Victorian Modern Cursive writing we learn at school.
Explore the site for more resources!
Counting to and from 20.mp4Counting
Counting
Practice simple counting. If your child is ready for it, practice counting backwards.
Give your child opportunities to practise identifying numerals from 1-10 and count out the corresponding amounts of objects.
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