Incoming Kindergarten Summer Work

Welcome to the Kindergarten Math Summer Site!

We created this page to give you a sneak peek at the upcoming school year and to provide helpful resources to support your child’s preparation.
Scroll down to explore activities and tips designed to get your child ready for Kindergarten math success.

We’re excited to partner with you this fall—see you soon!
– The WT Schools Math Department

What We Value and What To Expect: 

Maintaining a growth mindset ourselves, we continually refine our approach in order to foster a deep mathematical understanding in our students. Beyond just finding the correct answer, this year, students will engage deeply with mathematical concepts, using and exemplifying those ideas through the Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract (CPA) framework. Throughout this year, students will model and explain concepts with manipulatives, drawings, and mathematical expressions, making connections along the way.

To help achieve these goals, we will use Eureka Math² as our main resource. Eureka Math² is an interactive and highly regarded program designed to build lasting math knowledge. Families, click HERE for more information about Eureka Math². To best support students starting kindergarten, it is suggested that families work together to gain comfort with what we call the number core.

Preparing for Next Year:

Throughout the year, students will complete six modules (or chapters). To be best prepared, a broad range of early learning skills are helpful. Below is a list of these skills as well as some ideas families can use to help to prepare.  

How to Support the Number Core:

• Practice the number word list – Count verbally forward to 10 (even better, forward to 20 and backward from 5).

• Practice one-to-one correspondence – Count objects using one-to-one correspondence up to 10.

• Practice cardinality – Use the last number of a count to tell how many are in a group, up to 10.

• Practice written numerals – Represent a group of objects with a written numeral up to 5.

Skills:

• Taking turns

• Cooperation

• Introducing the idea of chance

• Accepting not being the winner/flexibility 

• Good sportsmanship

Play games to help with:

• 1-1 correspondence if you need to jump spaces

• Dice help with subitizing

• Numeral recognition

• Attributes- (Games like Uno)

• Greater/Less-than (Games like War)

For more ideas and summer math fun, please see our Families Fostering Mathematical Skills page.