Kindergarten Reading Help

Archive for October, 2009

Our son just turned 6 and is entering kindergarten. He is reading some at home. He now can readily read through the beginner “Dick and Jane” reader we have at home with few mistakes. can you suggest websites he might like to read or books he might like to read next?

I’m in Indiana and the cut-off to start Kindergarten is August 1st. My daughter’s birthday is August 21st. The registration office is suppose to call me sometime this week to set up an assessment test to see if she’s ready. I’m in a pickle because I just can’t decide on if I should start her this year or wait until next?? She was in Pre-School this past year while she was 4 but in a 3 year old class because the go by the Indiana cut-off date. She seemed to like it but she was so far ahead of the other students. On the other hand, she was also in a 5 year old class when she was 4 for awhile and they all seemed more advanced than her. I’m skeptical about starting her next year because I’m afraid she’s again going to be ahead and everyone and might get bored with school, then again I don’t want her being behind the other kids and possibly suffer from teasing from not learning as quickly or knowing as much. She’s very smart, she knows how to write her full name, she knows her birthday, address, both mine and my husband’s phone numbers, colors, shapes, letters, numbers, and can count to 25. She can’t tie her shoes (mainly because we haven’t practiced with it being summer and her wearing sandals for months) or read but she does listen to direction from other adults without any trouble.
Edit- Just so everyone doesn’t have do sit and do the math her birthday is Aug 21st when she’ll be 5.. School starts on the 14th here and she’ll be 4 at that time. If I wait until next year she’ll 5 then a week later she’ll be 6.

spanish mortgage brokers

I have a 4 yr old son who would be starting kindergarten in September. i haven’t sent him to preschool because of some financial difficulties but i have homeschooled him so he knows to read and count etc. but he was never on a fixed schedule i.e. we never worked with a timetable. I would like to start now with a proper timetable to get him ready for kindergarten but I’m not sure if to use a kindergarten timetable or a prek timetable. Also, can someone suggest a proper one for me. We live in NY and I’m not familiar with US schools so I don’t even know if they have a special bathroom break or if they go when they need to during the day. I’ve been looking at many but I’m not sure which is best. Thank you.

A recent debate has occured in my household about when our son should start kindergarten. Hes about to turn 4, i think he should start kindergarten this year, but my husband thinks he should wait until next year after he turns 5. Mentally, i think he’s pretty on track with where he should be. My husband is mostly concerned because he still struggles with remembering the ABC’s, he’s not an expert scissor handler and though he can indeed hold a pencil correctly he doesnt quite grasp the concept of writing actual letters, and he hasn’t quite mastered wiping his own bottom yet either. But he can count, he tries really hard to read (its so cute), hes very curious and loves to learn, he can dress himself and do basic functions like that, he has a decent vocabulary and speaks in clear full sentences, and HE really wants to start going to school, he even made us buy him a backpack.
A major reason i’d like him to start early is because he doesn’t have the opportunity to interact socially with very many kids his age, its usually just me and his father and other adults who play with him. The only time hes really around children his age is for an hour every sunday at church. Im pretty concerned about this, i think he needs to have more social contact soon. I wouldnt want him to wait to start school and end up hating it because he doesnt know how to play with other kids and share and things like that. Im just concerned.
What do you guys think? Should we put him in kindergarten now or wait a year until hes more prepared? And would being slightly younger than everyone in his class be a big deal when he’s older?

Our son just turned 6 and is entering kindergarten. He is reading some at home. He now can readily read through the beginner “Dick and Jane” reader we have at home with few mistakes. can you suggest websites he might like to read or books he might like to read next?

My mom is a kindergarten teacher and is looking for unique, good children’s books to read during story time!
Does anyone have any suggestions???
Here are some of types of kid’s books I was looking for, but all kinds or ideas for book titles are welcome!!!
I was trying to find kid’s books with diverse characters from different nationalities or ones that feature animals.
Any books that are fun and interactive (singing, looking for hidden pictures…) are great too.
I also have had NO luck finding books that depicted children with exceptionalities (blindness, handicapped, Deafness…).
Thank you so much for your help!!! I really appreciate your ideas!!!

A good kindergarten teacher and a developmentally appropriate kindergarten program will take any child either with no skills or advanced skills (and everything in between) and differentiate his/her instruction. With that being said…it IS beneficial for your child to be able to:
-separate easily from parents/care-giver
-share
-wait patiently for a turn
-play cooperatively
-take care of personal belongings/clothing
-hold a pencil with correct pencil grip
-attend to stories
-follow two-step directions
-repeat nursery rhymes
-identify rhymes and generate new rhymes
-identify the first sound in a word (not by letter but by sound i.e. bat begins with the sound /b/)
-recognize his/her name in print
-write his/her first name clearly
-identify uppercase letters
-identify numerals to 20
-rote count by 1s to 30
-identify basic shapes and colors
It is most important that your child has been read to a LOT! This is the single most important thing any parent can do for a child. It is also important for children to discuss what they have read. They should make connections between the story and their own lives, or between other stories. Children should also have lots of exposure to different events and places. Spend the summer berry picking, going to a petting zoo, going on a nature walk, to the beach or pond. Visit the library and read about where you are going or where you have been. Attend a story hour at a bookstore or library. You can even create a journal with photos or drawings of your adventures. Your child can narrate the text or even try to write the words.
Be sure to take your child to his/her school before school starts to check out the playground, where the buses will drop him off and even his/her classroom if you know which one it will be. Sometimes walking those big halls with mom or dad before school starts makes it less threatening on the first day.
As you can see my this lengthy response, it’s not so much what your child “knows” going to school, but the learning environment that is created both at school and at home.
Check out your school’s website to see if they have an online tour of the building. Perhaps your child’s teacher has a website!
Good luck to both you and your child. Kindergarten is very exciting! And just to make you cry, here is a wonderful story of what it is like to send your child off to school for the first time. Get the tissues.
Thoughts at the Bottom of a Beanstalk
Author Unknown
Once upon a time there was a little boy named Jack who was about to climb his very first beanstalk. He had a fresh haircut and a brand-new book bag.
Even though his friends in the neighborhood had climbed this same beanstalk almost every day last year, this was Jack’s first day and he was a little nervous. So was his mother.
Early in the morning she brought him to the foot of the beanstalk. She talked encouragingly to Jack about all the fun he would have that day and how nice his giant would be. She reassured him that she would be back to pick him up at the end of the day.
For a moment they stood together, silently holding hands, gazing up at the beanstalk. To Jack it seemed much bigger than it had when his mother had pointed it out on the way to the store last week. His mother thought it looked big, too. She swallowed. Maybe she should have held Jack out a year…
Jack’s mother straightened his shirt one last time, patted his shoulder and smiled down at him. She promised to stay and wave while he started climbing. Jack didn’t say a word.
He walked forward, grabbed a low-growing stem and slowly pulled himself up to the first leaf. He balanced there for a moment and then climbed more eagerly to the second leaf, then to the third and soon he had vanished into a high tangle of leaves and stems with never a backward glance at his mother.
She stood alone at the bottom of the beanstalk, gazing up at the spot where Jack had disappeared. There was no rustle, no movement, no sound to indicate that he was anywhere inside.
“Sometimes,” she thought, “it’s harder to be the one who waves good-bye than it is to be the one who climbs the beanstalk.”
She wondered how Jack would do. Would he miss her? How would he behave? Did his giant understand that little boys sometimes acted silly when they felt unsure?
She fought down an urge to spring up the stalk after Jack and maybe duck behind a bean to take a peek at how he was doing.
“I’d better not. What if he saw me?” She knew Jack was really old enough to handle this on his own. She reminded herself that after all this was thought to be an excellent beanstalk and that everyone said his giant was not only kind but had outstanding qualifications.
“It’s not so much that I’m worried about him,” she thought, rubbing the back of her neck. “It’s just that he’s growing up and I’m going to miss him.”
Jack’s mother turned to leave. “Jack’s going to have lots of bigger beanstalks to climb in his life,” she told

My computer does not read this document at the following website:http://www.polarischristianacademy.com/h…
It is under “Quick Links- School Supply Lists”.
Could one of you open it on your computer and tell me the school supplies needed for kindergarten?
Thank you very much!

I think he goes to kindergarten and hes doesn’t want to leave his mom. It seems like it was a little golden book but I cant remember. I cant remember much about it other than my mom use to read it to me a lot. Its an older book. I know this isn’t much to go on…

My daughters birthday is August 16th. She will turn 4 this year. Will she be able to start Kindergarten next year, or will she have to wait until two year from now? I don’t know about next year, but this year school starts for them on the 12th. Will she be able to start Kindergarten when she is 4, less than a week from being 5, or will they make her wait until she is 5? I know all schools won’t let them start until she is five, but being less than a week from 5, will she be able to start Kindergarten? I have already enrolled her in a preschool for this year. She also did preschool last year (the preschool I send my kids to does 2-year preschool program, and they start when they are 3) So she would have had two years of preschool. What do you think? I don’t want her to have to do three years of preschool, and she is very smart for her age already. She is still only three and can say the entire alphabet, read certain words, count to 30 and count by 2′s and by 5′s and 10′s, small addition problems, knows her colors. Our preschool tests them at the end of the year, and she has the brain development of a 6 year old—-that is to say she is as smart as the average 6 year old. So if she has to wait another year, there is a good chance she will be skipping a grade, and I don’t want her to have to skip a grade, I would rather she be in it the whole time, so she doesn’t have to make friends and then have to leave them and make new friends. So do you think she will be able to start Kindergarten next year or not? Our district is very strict on the you-must-be-five-years-old-to-attend-Kin… rule by the way, my neighbors son also has a late birthday—August 26th—and he wasn’t allowed to start Kindergarten this year, he has to wait until next year, because he is only 4, even though he will be five less than two weeks from the start of school.