Fun Activities

Fun Activities to Prepare Your Child for 1st Grade!

•     Count money – nickels, dimes, pennies

(have a pretend yard sale)

•     Tell time to the hour and half hour

•     Say a word and have your child “chop it apart”.

(c-a-t     saying each letter sound)

•     Review letter names, and sounds.

•     Count by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s

•     Start spelling and reading short vowel words.

(cat, sit, pot, tub, pet)

•     Make up nonsense words and have them spell it.

    (tib, nez, rax)

•     Review Kindergarten sight words and make sentences with them.

•     Practice writing their first name and last with spaghetti noodles.

•     Write words in shaving cream.

•     Add and subtract using food.

•     Read signs while driving down the road.

•     Explore numbers and words in the grocery store.