Reading readiness includes developing the foundational skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to begin learning how to read.
Letter Names
Letter Sounds
Expanding vocabulary
Self Expression
Interest in Books
Encouraging reading readiness involves activities like reading aloud, playing phonics sound games, singing songs about letters, and providing opportunities for children to explore books and letters in a fun, pressure-free environment.
Fine motor skills refer to the small, precise movements involving the hands, fingers, and wrists, essential for writing, buttoning, & manipulating objects.
Holding objects like a pencil
Cutting lines & shapes
Manipulating small objects
Tracing / copying
Coloring
Encouraging reading readiness involves activities like reading aloud, playing phonics sound games, singing songs about letters, and providing opportunities for children to explore books and letters in a fun, pressure-free environment.
Math readiness includes developing the foundational skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to begin problem solving and working with numbers.
Recognizing Numbers
Counting Forward & Backward
Understanding Patterns
Recognizing Shapes
Comparing Quantities
​Encouraging math readiness involves activities like counting games, writing numerals in sand trays, matching shapes, and providing opportunities for children to explore adding and subtracting with manipulatives before written equations.