Welcome back to Porter Library’s Kinder Club Kit blog. Each season, Mrs. K. and Ms. Jamie will put together a Kinder Club Kit containing a variety of early literacy activities that will help your child get ready to make the big leap into kindergarten.
Today’s kit highlights numbers/counting and the letters of the alphabet!
Numbers and Counting
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10!
Can you count to 10? 25? 50? How high can you count? Numbers are used in almost EVERYTHING that we do. We use numbers to make a phone call, follow a recipe, play board games and measure how tall we are or what size shoe we wear.
In celebration of the first day of fall (Monday, September 22), count along with this fun apple song. Do you have any apples at home? If so, how many? Have you ever gone apple picking? Do you remember how many apples you and your family picked? Mrs. K. included an apple and worm counting activity courtesy of Preschool Play and Learn in your Kinder Club Kit. Select an apple card, look at the number printed on the apple and use your green pom poms to add to your worm’s body. We know your apple activity cards only go up to the number 9, but can you make a worm using all 10 of your pom poms?
Also included in your Kinder Club Kit are Fall Counting Clip Cards courtesy of The Kindergarten Connection. Select a card, count the objects on your card and then use your clothespin to clip the correct number. In addition to being a fun counting activity, using the clothespin included in this activity will help strengthen those little muscles in your fingers that help you grasp your crayons and pencils.
Did you find a cube shaped object in your kit? Do you know what that thing is called? You use it when playing board games and sometimes for math activities like the one shown below…it’s a die! Did you know that the term die is used when you are only using one and dice is for two or more? Give your die a couple practice rolls before you start the next activity. Ok, now that you are warmed up and ready to roll…roll your die and color/trace the correct apples on the worksheets provided by Whimsical in Kindergarten.
Alphabet Letters
Look around the room. What letters do you see? Each letter has its own shape and sound. When we put letters together, we make words! Sing and clap along with The Kiboomers as they sing their alphabet song. Clap twice when you hear the letter that your name begins with.
Now that you’ve practiced singing the letters of the alphabet, look at the image below and see how many letters you recognize. The uppercase letter is the big letter and comes before the smaller or lowercase letter. Are any of the letters in your first name? Are any of the letters in your last name or the name of the street where you live? Practice writing your letters and numbers using the worksheets included in your Kinder Club practice packet.
If you are just beginning to learn your letters, Starfall is a great resource. The Starfall link will introduce each letter, the sound it makes and a picture of something that begins with that letter. Click on the link and then a letter of the alphabet to begin your session.
Included in your Kinder Club Kit are a sheet of red “apple” stickers and a green apple tree. Can you match the uppercase letters to their correct lowercase letters on the apple tree like in the image below? Remember the uppercase letters are the big letters and the lowercase letters are the smaller letters.
Also included in your Kinder Club Kit is a sheet of paper with fall leaves printed on it and some construction paper leaves. Write your first name on the sheet of paper. Count the letters in your name? How many letters are in your name? Next, count the paper leaves. How many leaves do you have? Now, use the paper leaves to spell out your name. Write one letter of your name on each leaf. Remember when writing our name, we use an uppercase letter for the first letter in our name and then we use lowercase letters for the rest of our name.
Looking for a challenge? Flip the leaves over and try spelling out your last name. Write one letter of your last name on each leaf. Did you have enough leaves to spell your last name?
Kindergarten Readiness Practice
Use the construction paper letters and numbers that are in your Kinder Club Kit to:
- Practice the name and order of alphabet letters
- Spell your name
- Spell CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words like CAT, BED, FUN
- Letter and/or number Hide and Seek – hide letters and numbers around the house and then ask your child to find certain letters/numbers
- Practice the name and order of numbers
- Learn your phone number and address
- Create basic math equations (2 + 1 = 3)
Thanks for visiting the Kinder Club Kit blog today! Our next kit will be available to pick up on February 16. Registration begins February 9 @ westlakelibrary.org/events or call the Youth Services Department @ 440-250-5471.
