Leaping into 1st Grade


While you're having fun in the sun this summer, you might want to think ahead! Here are some ideas that will help you get ready for a fantastic first grade year!

Read, read, read! I know that your kindergarten teacher read LOTS of great books to you! Have Mom or Dad continue to read to you all summer! Keep a list of books that you've read, and next to each title draw a happy face if you liked the book, a sad face if you didn't. You might even want to write a sentence about WHY you felt that way...


I bet you learned your letters and sounds in kindergarten! Keep practicing over the summer. Play games with your family, like thinking of things that begin with a certain letter. Play memory games, where you match the letter with a picture of something that begins with that sound. We'll review the letters and sounds in September, because they are SO important when you're learning to read!
I bet you did a lot of writing in kindergarten, too! Keep writing, listening to the sounds and writing the letters. Keep a journal of your summer adventures, or write letters and postcards to family and friends. If you write a story, bring it to your teacher in September -- she'd love to read it!

Writing in first grade is also about learning to write on LINES! You may want to practice a bit this summer, remembering to start writing from the top, and using the "OK Grip" you learned last year! Practice writing BOTH your first and last names, using a capital letter and then lower case letters.

You did a lot of counting and math work in kindergarten, too! Practice counting PAST twenty - can you make it to 100? Can you count by ten's to l00? Work on writing your numbers 0 through 10. Sometimes in kindergarten you might have made them "backwards" - can you write them all so that they face the right way?
At the end of kindergarten, you may have worked on simple number sentences, like 2+2. Can you do others?

Most of all, have fun this summer and relax! You'll do FINE in FIRST GRADE!

 
Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul. 07, 2009
 
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