Summer 2026

Getting Kindergarten Ready

The following are skills helpful for your child to already be successful with when entering Kindergarten:

• Able to use the restroom independently

• Can follow simple directions: First...Next...Then...

• Can listen without interrupting

• Can pay attention for a short period of time

• Can express feelings with words

• Can share with others

• Can hold a pencil correctly

• Can hold scissors and cut paper (practice straight lines, curves, and zigzags)

• Can begin coloring inside the lines

Students learn the following in Kindergarten, but it is helpful if they get a jump with these skills this summer:

• Can write their name with a capital at the beginning and the rest lowercase (help your child break the habit of writing their letters with all capital letters)

• Can recite and sing the alphabet

• Can recognize capital and lowercase letters (the more they know entering Kindergarten, the better)

• Can recognize and count numbers to at least 10 (to 20 is a bonus!)

• Know one to one correspondence to 10 (you can do this with counting blocks, toys, etc)

• Can sort objects into groups by common attributes (for example: by color, by size, or by type)

• Know text directionality, reading left to right and how to turn pages in a book (you can demonstrate this by moving your finger as you read, so they understand which way the words are read and having them help turn the pages)

• Can answer simple questions about a story read to them: who, what, when, where

Additional Ways to Prepare

• Bring students to the Greenhills campus and allow them to become familiar with the school

  • Play on the playground

  • Show them where the bathrooms and drinking fountans are

  • Walk them by the office where the principal, office staff, and nurse's offices are in

• If your child has difficulty with separating from you, practice this over the summer and leave them with a trusted family member or friend for a short increment of time while you go to the store or run an errand, so your child gets used to temporary separation

  • Watch videos and read books about grown-ups coming back, Daniel Tiger is a favorite of mine for teaching such important life skills to students!

Important Links & Information

2026/2027 School Year Calendar

Greenhills Parent Teacher Club

Transportation Website - Kindergartners can only ride the bus home on Wednesdays, any collaboration days when the entire school is out at 1:05, and minimum days.  All other days, Kindergartners must be picked up at 1:05 in front of the school, unless they are enrolled in the STAR after-school program.

Meal Application/Free and Reduced Lunch

Imagineer's Class Wish List

Kindergarten Supply List

• 12 Elmer’s glue sticks 

• 1 box chubby Crayola markers 

• 1 box Crayola colored pencils 

• 1 2 pack of black “FLAIR” pens 

• 1 box MY FIRST Ticonderoga pencils 

• 2 black Sharpie pens 

• 4 black Expo dry erase markers (skinny)

• 1 package of fragrance free wipes

• 1 box of tissue