Parent Resources

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Academic Success for Preschoolers

Most learning is through repetition. Training preschoolers takes lots of patience. However, the process can be fun and rewarding. Below are a few examples of concrete concepts that parents can teach their preschoolers. Also included are ways parents can provide repetition in teaching these concepts through everyday activities.

Counting and Grouping

Have your child help you set the dinner table and put all the spoons together, then put all the cups together, and then put all the plates together. This helps to improve grouping skills. Then have your child count how many spoons, then count how many cups, then count how many plates. This will help to develop counting and language skills. Not to mention good quality parent-child interaction.

Download: Numbers 0 to 30

Colors

Have your child help you with the laundry. Let your child sort the clothing by pants, shirt, blouse, etc. This helps to develop sorting skills. Then have your child tell you the color of each piece of clothing. This activity will help your child recognize various color schemes.

Another activity is to have similar items of different colors. For example get 3 balls with colors red, green, and blue. Identify each ball by its color. When the child plays with the balls you can say something like "John has the blue ball", or "please give me the red ball".

Download: Colors

Shapes

Have your child describe each piece of food they eat, for example Cheerios are round like a circle, pizza has a triangle shape, egg has an oval shape, banana has a crescent shape like the moon, most doors shape like a rectangle, most food cans are shaped like a cylinder, and of course an ice cream cone has a cone shape. Some waffles have a square shape or a heart shape.

Download: Shapes

English Alphabet

Practice identifying the upper case letters and the lower case letters. When the child is able to identify them randomly then it is time to start practicing the phonetic sound.

Download: Upper & Lower Case , Upper Case, Lower Case

First Words

This is where we put it all together.

The word wall consists of common and some not so common three letter, one syllable words that can be pronounced phonetically.

The pre-school and kindergarten words are those that are of common everyday usage.  These consists of words that can be pronounced phonetically and other words regarded as sight words.

Download: Word wall, Pre-school words, Kindergarten words

Reading

Here at last.  Welcome to the class of 1900.  Here your pre-schooler or kindergartener will get lots of practice in reading using the McGuffey's Primer and First Reader.  Begin with the primer then go on to the First Reader.  We will give more information on this later.

Download:  McGuffey's Eclectic Primer, McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader

Bibles, Confessions, & Catechisms

This section contains documents handed down to us throughout the history of the church. More material will be added.

Westminster Confession (1647), Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism