How to Prepare Your Child to Start Kindergarten
Research shows that early experiences lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning. During a child's first few years more than a million neural connections are forming every second. By the time a child turns five, 90% of the brain is developed. Providing engaging, interactive play-based learning opportunities for your child will set him/her up for a successful life.
With over thirty years of early childhood education experience, Cloud Edu Learning's goal is to help provide the highest quality of fun, high interest whole-child learning opportunities to set your child up on a path to success.
Motor Skills
Empower your child to be independent by developing and strengthening his/her motor skills. Motor skills enable your child to dress independently, feed him/herself, use the bathroom alone, draw, build, use scissors, and learn to write. Providing daily, high-quality opportunities for your youngster to develop these skills will set them on the path to success upon entering kindergarten and beyond.
Engaging your child in frequent, engaging, high-interest literacy activities is crucial to developing life long skills. Providing ample opportunities to participate in conversations, build vocabulary, learn letters and sounds, reading, writing, listening to stories, and playing word games are invaluable in the journey to learning to read and write. Click HERE for resources, activities, printables, and proven tips/tricks.
Numeracy and Math
Math can help children analyze problems, develop logical solutions, approach challenges in different ways, evaluate evidence, and make choices. Where do you start with teaching these skills to your child? Click HERE for resources, activities, and tips/tricks.
Are you tired of traditional worksheets? Making your own headband is so much more fun than another worksheet and requires NO PREP. Kids will learn all about the alphabet including letter identification, beginning sounds, and handwriting by making your own, unique headband. Your student will love creating this phonics headband and then showing it off to all he or she sees while explaining all about the letter and its sound. Students ready for a challenge can add additional pictures of their choice with the letter sound to make each headband even more meaningful and fun. For example for the letter Aa headband you could make it personal by adding a picture of Aunt Anna, the family pet Atlas, or the Apple Jacks you ate for breakfast.
CVC Short Vowel Word Puzzles for Decoding and Blending Centers
Your students will love decoding CVC words with these colorful, engaging CVC word puzzles. These word puzzles are self correcting with unique puzzles for each card so students can use them independently and know right away if they blended each word correctly. To get puzzles ready for your center, fast finisher, or partner practice, simply print the ready to go puzzles then cut along the dotted line. It is recommended to print pages on cardstock and laminate for added durability so puzzles can be used again and again for years to come.
· 75 total decodable CVC word puzzles including 15 puzzles for each vowel a, e, i, o, and u.
· 5 Bonus puzzles focusing on each short vowel to support students learning to correctly pronounce vowel sounds.
· Vowels on all cards are color coded to match short vowel letter sound puzzles for added support.
Decodable Word Puzzles Included:
Short A:
cat, map, hat, nap, jam, sad, mad, sax, yak, bat, fan, mat, gap, bag, and van
Short E:
pen, ten, jet, bed, fed, web, peg, leg, pet, red, net, vet, wet, den, and hen
Short I:
pig, dig, rib, six, fin, pin, lid, tip, zip, lip, win, bib, bin, kid, and tin
Short O:
dog, fox, mop, hop, dot, top, box, jot, hot, jog, pot, pod, hog, cob, and log
Short U:
cub, run, bun, cup, nut, bug, sun, cut, bud, mug, tub, rug, bus, hut, and sub
A-Z Alphabet Letter and Sound Books: Two Font Options
Have fun learning the letters and sounds with these printable, easy to read, predictable text letter/sound books.
Each book is 8 half sheet pages. Print is large and easy to read for early learners. Picture beginning with targeted letter sound and matching sentence on each page.
· 31 books with one book for each letter of the alphabet A-Z and two books for each vowel including A, E, I, O, and U. One book focuses on the short vowel sound. One book focusing on the long vowel sound.
· Two font options for each book. The first book set (31 books) includes an easy to read, early learner letter font. The second book set (31 books) includes a standard computer text font to help students learn “fancy letters” text. That makes for 62 total books in this set.
Targeted skills to work on with this book set:
· One to one correspondence.
· Left to right practice.
· Early reader font.
· Letter/sound correspondence.
· Handwriting practice.
· Create your own additional page for the book by drawing a picture of and phonetically spelling the word that begins with that letter sound.
· Circle and identify the target letter on each page.
· Small motor skills – color each page and add your own picture.
· Sight words: is and for
· Sentence structure that includes starting with a capital letter, spaces between words, and ending punctuation.
"Is my child ready to start preschool?" or Is my child ready to start kindergarten?" are questions asked frequently by parents. Preparing your child to start school begins in infancy. Learning starts at home! Starting with the goal of making learning enjoyable and engaging is crucial. This path begins by utilizing high interest, fun, and interactive educational activities from a young age.
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