Ready, Set, Kindergarten!
Ready, Set, Kindergarten! is a program Arlington Community Schools created to help prepare families of rising kindergartners. Preparing for kindergarten can be overwhelming and challenging. It's a new world for many parents, and many of us want our children to have a head start! Whether your child is entering school in the fall or has a year or two to go, this page is full of resources to help you!
Check out the resources and videos below to ensure your child is Kindergarten Ready!
Kindergarten Readiness Videos
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It is very important for children to count every day. Repeated oral counting helps them hear what numbers sound like and to learn their order.
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Fine motor skills are activities in which you use the small muscles in your hands and wrists to make precise movements, such as cutting with scissors.
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Ideally, children will write their first names from left to right with a capital first letter and the rest lower case by kindergarten. Learn more!
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In Kindergarten, students are expected to follow certain tasks throughout the day, such as hanging their backpack, getting out their pencils, standing in line, etc.
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Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
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Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write and identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language.