This will be the year in which school encourages parents to play an active role in helping their kids to learn to read. Many schools provide the students with book bags to take home and read with their parents. Teachers spend time reading to the kids and playing rhyming and word association games to build on their vocabulary and help them in their reading skills.
Math in kindergarten is all about the basics. They will learn how to count, recognize numbers up to 10 and sort objects. Using concrete props, they will learn the concepts of more and less, ordinal numbers, basic addition and subtraction, creating patterns. Teachers often start the day by having a student come up to the board to pin the calendar day, the day in the week and the weather on that day.
By the end of kindergarten, students should know the components of a calendar and how to build on them — days, weeks, months, and some basic time — on the hour, half hour segments - — recognize numbers up to and count to , and some basic single-digit addition and subtraction. Science is all about starting to make sense of the world around them.
Use any board game. Have the markers advance as many steps as a die or dice show. The child will need to count the dots on the die or dice, and then count steps to move his marker. Lay a bunch of dominoes face down on the table.
A child picks one, you pick one. The person with a higher "dot-count" gets both dominoes. Lay a bunch of dominoes face UP on the table. A child picks one and places it on the table to start the "train". The next person picks one so that its end matches one end of a domino already laid. Play with marbles or blocks or similar objects.
Then it's the child's turn to take some, and you need to take the same amount plus one more. From counting you can go on to simple addition and subtraction with small numbers. The idea is to teach the child the CONCEPTS of addition and subtraction, and not to worry about memorizing addition and subtraction facts those come in 1st and 2nd grades.
You can for example use this simple bus activity where people come in or go out of the bus on different bus stops to illustrate the meanings of addition and subtraction. A bead abacus One extremely helpful manipulative to buy is a basic bead abacus 10 racks, 10 beads in each. Number recognition It is helpful to have concrete numbers plastic or foam that the children can touch.
You pick one, hold it up high and call out loud its name, such as "Number five! Play all kids' favorite card game: UNO.
That'll motivate children to learn to recognize numbers quickly. Students are learning to count objects and understand a one-to-one correspondence.
They are also starting to compare different sets of objects and use appropriate language. Encourage your child to:. This is the very early stage of adding and subtracting.
Young children are beginning to describe and compare their physical world. Students need to be able to physically count objects one at a time, assigning one number to each object as they count. This is a skill called one-to-one correspondence. In kindergarten, children start to develop an understanding of addition and subtraction within Kindergartners start by solving problems involving physical objects, and as the year goes on, students learn to draw pictures to represent addition and subtraction problems.
They will even begin to solve simple word problems. Though it may seem quite advanced, your kindergartner will begin to understand the concept of place value and that position makes some numbers bigger than others - ie get to grips with the idea that 21 is bigger than Kindergartners will learn about 2D and 3D shapes.
They should be able to name different shapes while describing their features. Kindergartners love to recognize shapes in the real world! Give your child an opportunity to teach you by sharing what he or she has learned.
Get ready for a fun year in kindergarten! Found this useful?
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