I’ve been teaching Pre-K for three years now, and take kindergarten readiness very seriously! Here are a few of my favorite tools for setting children up for success!
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Toys
This is the perfect way to build your child’s perseverance and fine motor skills as these blocks are slightly more challenging (but still age appropriate) to build with.
YHHYTOY 48 PCS Wooden Stacking Rocks Blocks
Melissa and Doug is one of my favorite brands! This set is great for teaching about both basic and complex shapes, and strengthening your child’s spatial awareness.
Melissa & Doug
I love the idea of combining a fun card game while building on letter identification!
Letter Matching
These lacing beads are perfect for helping your child strengthen their hand-eye coordination!
Lacing Beads for Kids
This set not only covers sorting, but is a great way to learn about different shapes and practice counting and adding with the activity cards!
Rainbow Sorting Set
I love incorporating these into the classroom to teach about cause and effect!
Gear Building Set
I use these boards in my classroom at least once a month. It’s a great way to show children that words are made up of individual letters with their own individual sounds.
See & Spell Boards
It is so important to let your child play freely! This set is a great way to discuss knife safety and fruits and veggies all while letting your child use these foods in their own creative ways!
Cutting Toys
Your child should be able to sort by at least one characteristic by the time they move on to kindergarten. Here’s a simple sorting set that supports them in sorting by color!
Sorting Toys
Puzzles are a great way to strengthen spatial awareness while supporting children in thinking logically as they match up puzzle pieces with the same colors or objects.
Puzzles
There are so many littles that are interested in dinosaurs! This dinosaur alphabet set is perfect for teaching about lowercase and uppercase letters!
Letter Matching Dinosaurs
Tools
If there is one thing I could ask you to have your child do, it would be getting comfortable using scissors. This skill is SO important to have!
Scissors
If your child finds it challenging to have that tripod grip on a pencil, try these!
Pencil Grips to Improve Handwriting & Control
This book goes hand-in-hand with those important scissor skills! It’s full of fun activities to help your child master this skill.
Scissor Skills Book
When all else fails, pull out the flash cards. This isn’t my favorite way to teach this concept, but I have found that sometimes this is what a child needs to nail down the letter identification.
