Name Writing & Kindergarten Readiness

Series Summary

Kindergarten is the first step in a child's journey of learning. Usually attended between the ages of 3-6 years old, it is where they learn to play, communicate and interact with others for the first time. It serves the purpose of training the child to be away from the parents as well as enforces ideas of friendship and camaraderie. It also allows the parents to return to their jobs during the day while their children are at school. In these free video clips you will learn several useful tips and techniques on how to prepare your child for kindergarten from months before up until the very moment you drop him or her off. You will learn what your child will go through mentally while trying to adjust to his or her new environment and ideas to help alleviate the stress on you as well as him or her on their first day.

Video Transcript

" Hello! This is Ann Neyer, I am here to talk to you about the readiness that is needed for kindergarten. Kindergarten is a very important grade level and it is something that parents and family needs to know what to do, how to prepare your student for the coming school year. One of the topics that I will mention at this point in time is name writing. Students attempt first and last names. This is part of an exam that is given in the beginning of the year in kindergarten and what teachers are looking for when the children are writing their names if they are going from top to bottom when they are writing the letters, they are having proper spacing between the first and the last name, that you are going and staying within the lines of the paper, all these are the things that teachers look for in the beginning of the school year for kindergarten. Again it is important that you practice ahead of time to go over names, to correspond sound with letter when you are doing the names of your students or your children at home."