Ready for Kindergarten

An Award-Winning Teacher's Plan to Prepare Your Child for School

Sharon Wilkins

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780310236597
• eBook ISBN: 9780310863700

You are the most important teacher your child will ever have. Filled with 156 fun activities designed to equip boys and girls for school success, this unique little book can show you how to help your child lay the foundation for developing healthy friendships and a love for God. In addition, it can help you give your child a giant head start in such core subjects as math, reading, science, art, and music! Through three simple, creative activities per week, you can laugh and play with your child while teaching important skills. Let an award-winning kindergarten teacher with twenty-four years of classroom experience show how exciting activities -- from making your initials out of Play Doh to building a cardboard train out of boxes -- can make your child Ready for Kindergarten!

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Table of Content
• Introduction
• Week One: What’s a Row?
• Week Two: My Name
• Week Three: Sticking To It
• Week Four: My Street and God’s Too
• Week Five: Leafy Ideas
• Week Six: Water Wonders
• Week Seven: For the Love of Books
• Week Eight: Measuring Up
• Week Nine: I’m Never Alone
• Week Ten: Showing Respect
• Week Eleven: Fun with Shapes
• Week Twelve: Thanks for Colors, God
• Week Thirteen: Building Character
• Week Fourteen: Listening Is Important
• Week Fifteen: Growing in Responsibility
• Week Sixteen: Making Music
• Week Seventeen: Come to Your Senses
• Week Eighteen: Me? Independent? Yes!
• Week Nineteen: God’s World
• Week Twenty: Books in the Making
• Week Twenty-One: A Blast at Bedtime
• Week Twenty-Two: Making Friends
• Week Twenty-Three: Scoop and Sort
• Week Twenty-Four: Getting Down to Basics
• Week Twenty-Five: Parts of the Puzzle
• Week Twenty-Six: Look, I Can!
• Week Twenty-Seven: I’m a Rock Hound
• Week Twenty-Eight: Building Your Child’s Self-Esteem
• Week Twenty-Nine: Recycled Treasures
• Week Thirty: The Sound of My First Letter
• Week Thirty-One: Shape Review
• Week Thirty-Two: Rice Is Nice
• Week Thirty-Three: I Know How to Lace
• Week Thirty-Four: Two Important Letters
• Week Thirty-Five: I Need Dirt
• Week Thirty-Six: Seeds Are Miracles
• Week Thirty-Seven: Listening to Directions
• Week Thirty-Eight: Learning My Whole Name
• Week Thirty-Nine: Math with Trash
• Week Forty: More Fun with Trash
• Week Forty-One: Friendship Is Sharing
• Week Forty-Two: Reading Readiness
• Week Forty-Three: Eating and Adding
• Week Forty-Four: Fun with Subtracting
• Week Forty-Five: Fun as a Family
• Week Forty-Six: Beginning with God
• Week Forty-Seven: Teaming Up
• Week Forty-Eight: Kindergarten Is Getting Close
• Week Forty-Nine: Two Weeks and Counting
• Week Fifty: One More Week, Great!
• Week Fifty-Two: My First Day of Kindergarten
• Delightful Books to Read to Your Child
• About the Author
• Ice Cream in a Bag!
• Kool-Aid® Playdough
• No-Cook Easy Flour Dough
• Family Fun on a Shoestring!
• Cleaning Is a Breeze When You Sing with Threes
• Time-In Reduces Time-Out
• Human Doing or Human Being?
• About the Publisher
• Share Your Thoughts