Sunday, October 21, 2012

BOBBEE BEE: WHAT CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW BEFORE ATTENDING KINDERGARTEN

According to BOBBEE BEE, Parents your child should know these things before beginning kindergarten?
Reading

1.Speak in five to six word sentences.
2.Tell stories.
3.Ask questions and remain on topic while talking about the answer.
4.Sing songs, and recite nursery rhymes.
 5.Match letters and name letters in own name.
6.Read own name, symbols, and signs.
7.Understand a reader looks at print, not pictures when reading, and that print is read from left to right and top to bottom.
8.Be familiar with several stories and/or books.

Writing
Use a mature grasp to hold a crayon, marker, or pencil.
Learn to copy or write readable letters or numbers, write or copy his/her own name, and draw simple recognizable people and pictures.
Pretend to write and read own writing in a left to right direction.
Dictate a story with detail to someone who writes it down.

Math
1.Make sense of numbers.
2.Learn about shape and space.
3.Learn about measurement concepts of same, less or more correctly
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4.Recognize, make and describe simple patterns, relations and functions.
5.Use data investigation to sort and classify common household objects, learn about problem investigation and make decisions.

6.Learn about the area of randomness.
7.Learn about structure as it relates to math concepts.


For safety, children should learn:
their full name, address and phone number
the name of their school
full name and place of work of parents or guardians
location of school either by walking or driving
the bus corner pick-up and drop-off (before school starts)
to look both ways and cross streets at safe corners
how to contact available, safe adults in case of emergency

To support health/nutrition, children should:
wash hands before and after meals, after using the toilet, and as often as needed
cover mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing, use arm not hand
make healthy food choices from the basic food groups

To develop responsibility, children can: 1. dress and undress without assistance
2. tie shoes and put on footwear
3. take care of things and put them away
4. share belongings
5. share in home duties and responsibilities
Other activities:
playing with other children in their own age group
using crayons, pencils, markers, scissors and paste


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