This document provides helpful tips to prepare a child for kindergarten, including practicing responsibility, manners, social skills, name writing, reading books daily, developing fine motor skills, following directions, letter and number recognition, colors and shapes, rhyming words, and building self-esteem through praise.

1. Helpful Tips to Prepare Your Child for
Kindergarten
1. Helpyour child withresponsibility: dressing themselves,
cleaningup,using thebathroomand gettingown snacks.
2. Use goodmanners: “please”and“thankyou”.
3. Talkabout social skills: taking turns, sharing, usingpositive
words andhandlinganger.
4. Print firstname with onlythefirst letterbeinguppercase.
5. Readbooks withyour child everyday andtalkaboutwhat
happens in thestory.
6. Helpdevelopfinemotor skills: holdinga pencil, coloring with
crayons, using gluesticks and scissors.
7. Helpthemto followtwo stepdirections: “Pleasego get your
socks and put themon”.
8. Practice letterandsound recognition: sayletternamesand
sounds everyday andmatch upper andlowercase letters.
9. Practice number recognition: count objectsby touchingand
identifynumbers in print.
10. Practice colorsand shapes.
11. Practice rhyming funwords.
12. Helpbuild child’sself-esteemby praising themforallthe
good thingstheydo! Remind themhow much fun theywill
havein school!