Fun activities, aligned with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards,
to help your child have a successful Kindergarten year. 
 

Each month, the Kindergarten, Here I Am newsletter will provide information you can use to help your kindergartner have a successful year at school. 

 

Activities: 

Each activity is linked to the PA Early Learning Standards for Kindergarten. These standards are being used in kindergarten classrooms across Pennsylvania. When you and your kindergartner do activities together, you build his knowledge and experience.

 

Books: 

The books each month will help support the activities and may help your kindergartner better understand a particular concept. Print the list of books, then visit your local library to find the books mentioned each month, or ask your librarian to help you find a similar book.


Tips and Resources: 

Each month you can find tips and resources to help your kindergartner build the skills she needs for Kindergarten. You can share your favorites with your friends and family!

 

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Try these activities to help prepare your child get ready for Kindergarten. Then visit your library to check out a book about it.

 

Do it! Language & Literacy Development

Play "I Spy." Say, "I spy something with my little eyes something that starts with 'h' or ends with an 'n'."

Read it!  

S Is for S'mores: A Camping Alphabet by Helen Foster James. Q Is for Duck: An Alphabet Guessing Game by Mary Elting 

 

Do it! Partnerships for Learning

Find a book at your local library that shows how to do magic tricks. (Or print this book list and take with you!) Have your Kindergartner learn a magic trick to perform for the whole family.

Read it!  

Magic Shapes by Patrick George. Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson.

   

Do it! Social Emotional Development

Make a food treat or make a card and take your Kindergartner to visit an elderly friend. Ask your child to describe to the adult how the treat or card was made.

Read it! 

The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau. Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth.  

 

Do it! Health, Wellness and Physical Development

Create an exercise routine you and your Kindergartner can do together. Use a calendar to keep track of how many minutes your Kindergartner exercises each day.   

Read it!   

Sofa Boy by Scott Langteau. One Two Three PULL! by Sophie Schmid and Sabine Praml.
 


 

 


 

Click here to print the book list! 

 

PA's Promise for Children has more activities and books to help your child learn!


 
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Family Recommendations: 

Great Books and Songs about Routines


Routines are a part of all of our lives, but are especially important for young children. 

 

Routines help children feel safe and secure andlearn important social skills like self-control and waiting your turn. Routines make transitions from one activity to the next easier too. 

A great way to teach children about routines is through books and songs - they are having so much fun they don't notice they are learning!

 

Share your favorite books and/or songs about routines at the PA's Promise for Children website or email [email protected].
 

 

Routines are important to children.

 

  

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