A CALENDAR OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES - SEPTEMBER 2021-AUGUST 2022 - Carlisle United Way
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One of the most exciting days for you and your child is the first We know that children have their own time clock for growing and day of kindergarten. This calendar of activities was developed learning which means some children will be ready to learn more by Success By 6, United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland quickly than others. Your child does not need to master County, Cumberland County’s public school districts and the every item on this list to be ready for kindergarten. In fact, Cumberland County Library System to help you and your child get some children will do better in some areas than in others. ready for that special day. Personalize the Calendar The School Readiness Calendar is filled with a year’s A “Draw a Picture” section allows children to express worth of ideas and activities. themselves creatively. The caption under each picture frame As a parent, represents some aspect of this month’s topic. Suggest a new topic • focus on spending special time with your child. if this one is too hard for your child to draw. • do these activities together at home or in the community. The “Answer a Question” section allows children to express • give your child the skills needed for kindergarten. themselves in words. Read the question to your child and write • use materials found in your home that cost little or no money. his or her response below. Place your finger under each word and read what is written back to your child. Discuss your child’s How to Use the School Readiness Calendar response as it relates to the question. The School Readiness Calendar runs from September through August. Each month focuses on a different learning topic with Kindergarten Registration Information suggested daily activities you and your child can do together. This General information needed to register your child for kindergarten, calendar is for 4 and 5 year olds preparing to enter as well as, a list of the Cumberland County School Districts and kindergarten. Each month also includes additional ideas, a list of elementary schools can be found on the last pages of the children’s books and web sites you can visit. Add your own calendar. creative ideas to those presented in the calendar. It is important to be flexible while using this calendar. If your child is Have a wonderful year not interested in a suggested activity, move on to something else. together as you and your Since children learn through repetition, allow - even encourage - your child to repeat activities. child get ready for the A Special Report Card to Track Your Child’s Progress Big Day – Going To School readiness is not just knowing the alphabet, numbers and Kindergarten! identifying colors or shapes. It is a complex combination of age, individual growth and experience. Children who are ready for kindergarten also have good social, self-help and physical skills and are developing a love for learning. At the end of the calendar you will find a Kindergarten Readiness Checklist that has been specifically designed for 4 and 5 year olds. This checklist will help you prepare your child for school by helping you track your child’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.
Programs and reading recommendations: Parents: www.cumberlandcountylibraries.org/Parents Children: www.cumberlandcountylibraries.org/Children Bosler Memorial Library New Cumberland Public Library 158 West High Street 1 Benjamin Plaza Carlisle, PA 17013-2988 New Cumberland, PA 17070-1597 Phone: (717) 243-4642 Phone: (717) 774-7820 www.boslerlibrary.org www.newcumberlandlibrary.org Cleve J. Fredricksen Library Shippensburg Public Library 100 North 19th Street 73 West King Street Camp Hill, PA 17011-2998 Shippensburg, PA 17257-1224 Phone: (717) 761-3900 Phone: (717) 532-4508 www.shippensburglibrary.org Cumberland County Library www.fredricksenlibrary.org System Administrative Office 400 Bent Creek Road, Suite 150 East Pennsboro Branch Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 98 South Enola Drive Phone: (717) 240-6175 Enola, PA 17025-2796 Phone: (717) 732-4274 (888) 532-7286, Ext. 6175 www.eastpennsborobranch.org (Shippensburg) John Graham Public Library (888) 697-0371, Ext. 6175 (West Shore) 9 Parsonage Street Newville, PA 17241-1313 www.cumberlandcountylibraries.org Phone: (717) 776-5900 www.johngrahamlibrary.org Amelia S. Givin Library Joseph T. Simpson Public Library 114 North Baltimore Avenue 16 North Walnut Street Mount Holly Springs, PA 17065-1236 Mechanicsburg, PA 17055-3362 Phone: (717) 486-3688 Phone: (717) 766-0171 www.ameliagivinlibrary.org www.simpsonlibrary.org
• Draw a Picture! • Create a reading area for your child. Draw a picture of you reading with someone. • Give your child a variety of books for reading. • Set aside a special time each day to read with your child. • Let your child participate in book reading. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Take along a book bag containing some of your child’s favorite books when you leave home. Your child can read in the car, on the bus, at the laundromat or at the doctor’s office. You can read with your child as you wait together. Web Site www.scholastic.com/parents • Answer a Question! What is your favorite story? Why?
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 G o outside with your S elect a shelf or basket M ake a sock puppet A sk your child to tell child and kick a ball to keep library books. with a marker for eyes, a story. back and forth. nose, and mouth. 5 Labor Day 6 osh Hashanah R begins at 7 Rosh Hashanah 8 Library Day 9 10 11 Create a special place sundown Help your child write W rite a note together to Visit a playground and T ogether, look for for your child to read. Talk about your family his/her name using a special older person. help your child with words beginning with tree. Y ellow week, look for sidewalk chalk. climbing activities. the same first letter. things that are yellow this week. Grandparent’s Day 12 13 14 Show your child how to read from 15 Y om Kippur 16 17 18 Tell a favorite story o for a walk with your G left to right, how to Together, find pictures R ead to your child every L ook at pictures of you Play a board game or with family members. child and play follow the turn pages when of animals that begin day! Visit your local or grandparents as a card game with your leader (skipping, reading, and how to with the same letter. library today! children. Point out child. hopping, running, etc.) read a book from front changes in clothes. to back. 19 20 21 First Day of Fall 22 L ibrary Day 23 24 25 Pick a new book and Read your child a story Collect some leaves and Celebrate Fall! R ead a story. Have your C elebrate with a walk C ount the different encourage your child to and have him/her act it count them together. child retell it in his or outside. trees around your guess what the story out using a sock puppet. her own words. neighborhood. will be about by looking at the cover. 26 27 28 29 30 Make a book bag out of Together, look at the a set of magnetic Buy T ake your child to the an old tote bag. pictures in a book before Talk with your child numbers and letters for public library and get a reading it. Predict what about how to care for your child. library card for each of the book is about. books. you. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric Litwin Roar! A Noisy Counting Book by Pamela Edwards Corduroy by Don Freeman Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star by Jane Cabrera
• Draw a Picture! • Answer a Question! Draw a triangle, circle and square. Count and color each one. What is something you can count in your house? Tell me about it. • Collect materials your child may use for counting and learning about numbers. • Use number words and point out written numerals as you and your child do things together. • Involve your child in number and counting activities. • Read, tell stories, sing songs and say nursery rhymes about numbers and counting with your child. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Ask your child to look for numbers in your home. Your child may see an apartment number, time on a microwave, phone, or laptop. Play “I Spy Numbers” as you and your child go places by car or take a walk in your neighborhood. Your child may see numbers on auto license plates, mailboxes, house numbers, and signs with gasoline prices. Web Site www.readyrosie.com
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 T each your child how to Make a schedule of hold a pair of children’s activities for the day and scissors. Cut strips of discuss them together. paper. Fire Prevention Week 3 4 5 6 Library Day 7 8 9 Help your child choose Using junk mail or Read your child’s Help your child write Play counting games Ask your child to make two or three play newspaper, have your favorite book to him/her. Have your child practice numbers with their with your child like a castle with his/her activities to do today child circle numbers counting to 10 and fingers in shaving cream “How many windows building blocks. and encourage asking between 1 and 5. higher. on a tray or plate. are in this room?” for help if needed. 10 Columbus Day 11 12 13 14 15 16 Have your child pick a Cut the tops off whole Talk about fall and have Recite nursery rhymes With your child, make Together, string Fruity Help your child make favorite topic and make carrots and help your your child draw a picture with your child. a list of his/her three Cheerios™ on yarn to his/her favorite a list of words that child put them into water of a tree. favorite books. Count the make a colorful necklace sandwich. describe the topic. and watch them grow. titles. with a pattern. Count the Count the words. Cheerios in each pattern. 17 18 19 20 Library Day 21 22 23 Take your child for a Ask your child to tell you Play “I Spy Numbers” Using junk mail or Have your child count all Play a matching or walk and collect fall a story. with your child. newspaper, have your Together, point out the the doors and windows memory game today. leaves. child circle numbers letter “C” in print. Look in your house. between 6 and 10. for things that begin with the letter “C”. Have your child turn the pages as 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 you read a story. With your child sing Sing the nursery rhyme, Take your child to visit Together, match plastic Together, count groups Act out a favorite part of some of your child’s “One Two, Buckle My a friend at work and talk containers and lids. of ten pennies. How a story using puppets, Halloween 31 favorite songs like Shoe”. about what they do. many groups? dolls or animals with “Ten on the Bed”. Read books about what your child. people do at work. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Fish Eyes- A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! by Todd Tarpley Your Hand in My Hand by Mark Sperring & Britta Teckentrup Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh Count by Denise Fleming
• Collect materials which focus on rhyming and • Draw a Picture! beginning sounds. Draw a picture of something that rhymes with hat. • Read rhymes with your child. • Play with rhyming sounds. • Help your child match letters to objects or pictures. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Involve your child in creating an alphabet book over several weeks. Write one letter in upper and lower case at the top of a piece of paper - for example, write Pp. Provide a magazine or catalog for your child to cut out one or more pictures that begin with that letter: example, a picture of pizza and a pig. Begin with the letters that your child recognizes. When your child has glued and completed as many pages as he or she can, put the pages in alphabetical order. Staple or tie the pages together. Encourage your child to name the pictures representing the letters on each page. Web Site www.readyrosie.com • Answer a Question! What is your favorite nursery rhyme? What rhyming words can you name?
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Let your child 1 2 3 Library Day T alk about how 4 5 6 paint or draw a picture. Have your child lie on P ractice saying phone we get from one T ogether, point out the Together, begin to make Talk about the lines, his/her stomach as you number and address place to another. Look letter “F” in print. Look an alphabet book. colors, shapes, patterns, look at books together. with your child. at a map together and for things that begin with and designs your child make a map of the the letter “F”. included. inside of your house. Daylight Saving Time Ends 7 8 9 G ive your child a measuring cup, 10 Veterans’ Day 11 12 13 Using letters, have your Play a game with at turkey baster, egg L isten to a story on your B efore completing a Together, point out the Talk about clocks, time, child find items around least 3 family members beater and clean sponge phone or tablet with your story, ask your child “G” in print. Look for and changing the time. the house beginning with or friends. Talk about and have water play time child. what he/she thinks will things beginning with these letters. taking turns and waiting in the tub or in the sink. happen. the letter “G”. for your turn. 14 15 16 17 Library Day 18 19 20 Play with rhyming words Green week, look for Continue teaching your R ead two books today. ive your child props to G L et your child solve a Go outdoors and let your such as mouse/house things that are green child his/her phone Have your child tell you pretend to play “grocery problem independently child draw on the and cat/hat. this week. number and address. which is his/her favorite store” or “restaurant” today when possible sidewalk with chalk. and why. with a friend. and safe. 21 22 23 24 Thanksgiving Day 25 26 27 Together, practice Take your child to the Make an obstacle course H elp your child make a Have your child draw a Practice opposites with throwing and catching grocery store and have out of chairs to crawl picture or decoration for ollect some small items C picture or write a note to your child (up/down, a ball. him/her help pick items over, under, around. Thanksgiving. and ask your child to a family member about in/out, over/under). for Thanksgiving. tell you which group has something for which more/less. he/she is thankful. Hanukkah begins at sundown 28 29 30 Gym Day. Together, With your child cut out T ogether, point out the Invite your child to sing practice jumping, shapes and play a letter “H” in print. Look his/her favorite nursery hopping on one foot matching game. for things that begin rhymes over and over and throwing and w ith the letter “H”. again. catching a ball. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming Napping House by Audrey Wood The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie Number One Sam by Greg Pizzoli
• Draw a Picture! •H elp your child recognize his or her own first name in print. Draw a picture of yourself and write your name below. •H elp your child recognize the letters in his or her first name. • E ncourage your child to “read” familiar signs. •G ive your child opportunities to recognize and name letters of the alphabet. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Make a set of cards with the names of family members. Use upper and lower case letters as you did when writing your child’s name. Mix up the family name cards and encourage your child to find the name of each family member. These cards can also be used as place cards at the dining table. Web Site www.pbskids.org/lions/ • Answer a Question! Where do you see letters and words? Name all the places you can.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Library Day ead familiar signs with R Help your child trace T ogether, play stopping your child as you walk O rganize a toy shelf or and cut circles to make and starting games like or drive together. box together. Identify a snowman. Freeze Tag or Red Light - objects and the first Green Light. letter of the word. 5 Hanukkah ends 6 7 8 9 10 11 Help your child make Blue week, look for Have your child practice Have your child write S ing a favorite song Have your child name T ogether, make cookies a letter out of Play things that are blue tying his/her shoes or his/her name on a card together. five things that rhyme to share with your Dough™. this week. the shoes of someone and display it on the with “cat.” family or friends. else. bedroom door. 12 13 Take your child to the bank and talk 14 15 Library Day 16 17 18 Create a writing center Together, point out the about saving money. ave your child practice H H elp your child build G ive your child two for your child with letter “B” in print. Look Make a piggy bank saying the letters of L ook at baby pictures his/her name using simple directions to notepaper, pens, for things that begin together out of a coffee his/her first name. together and talk about magnetic letters. follow; put your book on markers, and pencils. with the letter “B”. can and start saving how your child has the table and then brush coins. changed. your teeth. 19 20 First Day of 21 22 23 Christmas Eve 24 Christmas Day 25 Bake cookies together. Read a favorite winter Winter T ogether, write your H ave your child practice Count the number on book to your child. child’s full name using his/her phone number each tray. With your child practice upper and lower case and address. the “ABC” song. letters. Kwanzaa begins 26 27 28 29 Library Day 30 31 Help your child practice Play a matching game T alk together and ask Using a book cover, help Help your child practice zipping his/her coat and with your child. “why” questions about H elp your child find the your child find letters in writing the letters of his/ take an outdoor walk potentially dangerous first letter of his/her her/his first name. her first name. with a family member. situations in your home. name on billboards. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs LMNO Peas by Keith Baker 1 2 3 vs. A B C by Mike Boldt Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. Apple Pie A B C by Alison Murray Alpha Ooops! by Alethea Kontis
PARENT SURVEY • Answer a Question! • Draw a Picture! What are some things you will take to kindergarten? Draw a picture of a What will you use them for? crayon or marker. Use your favorite color to color it in. • Gather and organize materials for drawing, writing and cutting. • Encourage your child to explore with drawing materials. • Let your child see that written words are a part of daily life. • Support your child as he or she practices using scissors. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Outdoors, allow your child to draw and write with chalk on the sidewalk. Draw in dirt or sand with a stick. Use small brushes to draw with water on the sidewalk. Web Site Make large play dough pancakes. Encourage your child to write or draw www.crayola.com on the pancakes with pencils or with craft sticks.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday New Year’s Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Teach your child how to Together, look at the Take your child to buy R ead your child a story ave your child practice H T ogether, plan and how your child how to S hold a pair of children’s pictures in a book writing and drawing and act it out using a zipping his/her coat or follow through with a write his/her name using scissors. Cut strips of before reading it to supplies for the shoe box. sock puppet. jacket before going to simple craft project. upper and lower case paper. your child. the library. letters. 9 10 11 12 L ibrary Day 13 14 15 Practice using scissors. Make a grocery Together, cut triangles R ead or tell a story to Continue teaching your Together, look at the Continue cutting strips shopping list together. and squares out of your child about real R ead your favorite child his/her home pictures in a book before of paper. paper. people who show children’s book to your address and parent reading it to your child. imagination and child. phone number. creativity. 16 Martin Luther 17 18 Look at a 19 20 21 22 King, Jr. Day magazine together Help your child find food Say a word to your child that has pictures of L et your child play on T ogether, cut shapes Help your child make items or animals that Have your child draw a and ask him/her to say people. Talk about what his/her own with puppets out of paper and make his/her name with begin with the same picture using a pencil, words that rhyme. they look like and how or stuffed animals. a picture. magnetic letters on the letter as your child’s first crayons or markers. they are similar and/or refrigerator. name. different from you. With your child write a note to a 23 Count backward from 10. 24 25 26 Library Day 27 Give your child a 28 29 relative or friend. Together, cut shapes With your child write the household job like Read a book about out of paper to make a names of family ead your child’s R setting the table or winter with your child. Tell a favorite 30 Play dress up 31 picture. members and help your favorite book to him/her. helping prepare a meal. story. together. child find the names. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats Stuck by Oliver Jeffers Animalia by Graeme Base Journey by Aaron Becker Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin Dr. Seuss’s ABC by Dr. Seuss
• Draw a Picture! • Take time each day to listen to and talk with Draw any picture you would like. Explain the picture to an adult. your child. • Involve your child in activities which require listening and following directions. • Use pictures to encourage your child to express ideas. • Read or tell stories which have characters of different sizes. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Go through your pictures with your child. Find pictures of recent events such as a block party, Halloween parade or family trip. Encourage your child to talk about the people who were there and the things that happened at the event. • Answer a Question! What do you like about winter? Why? Web Site www.kidsource.com
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Groundhog Day 2 3 4 5 Black History Month Tell a favorite winter W ith your child make Help your child zip up S tack paper cups or story. Together, read a book and send homemade his/her jacket, put on blocks together Dental Health Month about animals. Valentine’s Day cards. boots and take a walk matching each other’s together. towers. 6 7 8 9 L ibrary Day 10 11 L incoln’s B irthday 12 Play “Simon Says” with Red week, look for Put a puzzle together Trace and cut heart Show your child your child. things that are red this with your child. shapes together. P ick out books about pictures. Ask your child W hen driving or week. Presidents. to describe what’s walking, talk with happening. your child about taking turns left and right. 13 Valentine’s Day 14 15 16 17 18 19 Together, sing the Play a board game or Role-play a pretend argu- D o finger plays Help your child locate W ith your child string “ABC” song. Make a special card game with your ment with your child and together like “Where is pictures of objects in beads together to make breakfast together. child. discuss ways to solve it. Thumbkin?” and “Itsy two sizes. a necklace. Bitsy Spider.” 20 President’s Day 21 Washington’s Birthday 22 23 Library Day 24 25 A rrange a play date with one of 26 Give your child two-step Have your child count Read a story and ask your child’s friends. chores: take off your the number of steps Read a story to your Together, go outside W ith your child make a your child what his/her Let them play together coat and hang it on the from his/her bedroom child and then let your and look for shadows. paper bag puppet of a favorite part was and and be available to help hook. to the kitchen. child “read” it to you. character from a book. why. work out problems or conflicts if needed. 27 28 Read a book to your Together, point out the child. Have your child letter “D” in print. Look retell the story. for things that begin with the letter “D”. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Big Dog, Little Dog by P.D. Eastman The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown The Winter Visitors by Karel Hayes A Splendid Friend Indeed by Suzanne Bloom
PARENT SURVEY • Draw a Picture! • Collect safe toys and equipment to help your child Draw a picture with several trees of different shapes, sizes and colors. Tell an adult what is the same and what is develop large muscles. different about each tree. • Let your child spend time outdoors and have space and freedom to use large muscles. • Join your child in active play. • Give your child opportunities to use large muscles indoors. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Invite your child to move or dance to your favorite music. Try different children’s songs to find your child’s favorite. Join your child in moving and dancing to the music. Web Site www.pbskids.org • Answer a Question! What do you like to do when you are outside?
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 R A ead Across merica Day 2 3 4 5 National Women’s History Go outside and hop, ( Dr. Seuss Day) ave your child tell a H Steer and pedal a H ave your child invite a Nutrition Month Month skip and jump. story to a family member. tricycle. grandparent over or call R ead a Dr. Seuss book them on the phone. with your child 6 7 8 9 Library Day 10 11 12 Brown week, look for Put on some music and Exercise with your child. A sk your child to help Toss bean bags or rolled G o outside and do things that are brown dance with your child Count the number of set the table and count ead a story and ask R up socks into a basket. jumping jacks. Count this week. and other family arm circles or hops. the items. your child what his/her how many you can do members. favorite part was and without stopping. why. Daylight Savings 13 14 15 S t. Patrick’s Day 16 17 18 19 Time Begins Do small jumping jacks Together, move like an T ake a walk with your T each your child the Make a chart together to W ith your child recite/ Read a book about inside. animal such as a snake child and look for signs “ABC” song. record the weather each sing the days of the spring with your child. and wiggle on tummies of spring. day next month. week. on the floor. First Day of Spring 20 21 22 23 Library Day 24 Talk with your 25 26 Say a word to your child Have your child use the P lay hopscotch with child about what you are T each your child to Together, make a and ask him/her to say pictures in a book to tell your child. P lay toss and catch with going to do today and wash hands while miniature kite or draw words that rhyme with it. or retell a story in your child. as you go through the singing the ABC song. a picture of a kite. his/her own words. day ask your child what comes next. 27 28 29 30 31 Enjoy the day together. Have your child invite a friend over to play outside. Provide uninterrupted time for your child to play. T ogether, look for things that are similar but different (red apples and green apples). T ogether, find pictures of animals that begin with the same letter. CO O KI E BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Duck on a Bike by David Shannon It Looked like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw Croaky Pokey! by Ethan Long Wiggle by Doreen Cronin Katie’s Too Big Coat by Jane Stephens Dancing Feet by Lindsey Craig
• Draw a Picture! • Add to the materials you began collecting in Draw a picture of two objects. Show an adult. Then add one more. October - materials that can help your child learn more about math. • Use the materials you have collected to involve your child in addition and subtraction and “more” or “less” activities. • Include addition and subtraction words as you talk with your child. • Tell stories and read books that include math ideas, books in which characters are added or subtracted as the story progresses. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Help your child prepare a “math-on-the-go” bag or shoe box for travel. Let your child choose which materials to put in the bag; for example, the berry baskets and animals one time and • Answer a Question! the small boxes and cars the What is something you want more of? What is something you next. Your child can play with want less of? the materials in the car, on the bus or as you wait in the dentist’s office. Web Site www.ed.gov/pubs/ EarlyMath/activities1.html
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 eek of the W Young Child 2 Have your child name things that go together ive your child three G (cup/saucer, hammer/ simple directions to nail). follow. 3 National Library Week 4 5 6 L ibrary Day 7 pring Cleaning! S 8 9 Help your child learn Using a set of dominos, Read a story to your Together, pack away Go to the grocery store. to do a forward roll or Pink week, look for count the dots on each child and then have your T ake your child and a winter clothes. Arrange Pick out fruits and somersault. things that are pink this tile. child “read” the same friend to visit a “kid your child’s closet so vegetables and have week. story to you. friendly” museum. he/she can reach items your child name the and put them away. colors. 10 11 12 13 14 Good Friday 15 16 With your child, make a Look for special Have your child pick a T ogether, point out the W ork with your child on assover begins P ave your child zip up H bunny out of a paper children’s events at the favorite topic and make letter “L” in print. Look two puzzles. Have your at sundown his/her jacket. Take your bag, cotton balls and library this week. a list of words that for things beginning with child tell you which is child for a walk and look other things you have describe the topic. the letter “L”. his/her favorite and why. for spring flowers. around the house. Easter 17 18 19 Talk about ways 20 L ibrary Day 21 Earth Day 22 Passover ends 23 Together, sing Five Little Encourage your child to Play a card game we use the earth (water ith crayons, show your R W e-pot a house plant Monkeys. steer a bicycle through a together like War, for drinking, soil for T ogether, take a walk child how to “add to” together or plant seeds simple obstacle course. Go Fish, or Uno. planting food and trees). and look for signs of and “take away from the for a new plant. Have your child draw a spring. group. Count the totals. picture of the outdoors. 24 25 26 27 28 Arbor Day 29 30 Have your child practice Have your child pick a Have your child count T ogether, point out the S ing a song with your se several toys to U his/her phone number book about a farm. the trees in your yard letter “M” in print. Look child (“BINGO”, “Five T ell your child a story count, then “add to” and and address. or on your street. for things that begin Little Monkeys”). about trees. to “take away from” the with the letter “M”. group. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow I Went Walking by Pat Hutchins Have You Seen My Dragon by Steve Light The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Bear Counts by Karma Wilson
PARENT SURVEY • Draw a Picture! • Collect materials for learning games. Draw a picture of you playing a game with a friend or family member. • Involve your child in matching activities. • Have fun as you play color games with your child. • Play “shapes” and “sizes” games with your child. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Cut out a larger circle, square and triangle from paper grocery bags. Help your child cut out smaller circles, squares and triangles from construction paper. Suggest that your child paste all the small circles on the large circle, the small squares on the large square and the small triangles on the large triangle. Your child may want to add drawings to the creation. Web Site www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html • Answer a Question! What will you do this weekend? What do you think you will like best?
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday With your child 1 Teacher Appreciation 2 Teacher Appreciation 3 C ompare what 4 Library Day 5 6 7 change the words to a Week Day happened yesterday Read with your child H ave your child find familiar song and make and today and discuss ith your child create W “Brown Bear, Brown things around the house up a new one; write it Using Rainbow Play school with your things that are the same and deliver a thank you Bear, What Do You that are square, circular down and sing it again Goldfish™ help your child as the teacher. and different about the card for a teacher or See?” and rectangular. and again. child create patterns. two days. friend. Mother’s Day 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Give your child a ball and Have your child name S ing a favorite song or C heck out puzzles. Together, look through G o outside and help Together, point out the practice directions such words that rhyme with do a finger play together. old magazines and cut your child write his/her letter “N” in print. Look as “put the ball under “can.” out circles, squares and name using sidewalk for things that begin your chin.” rectangles. chalk. with the letter “N”. 15 16 17 18 Library Day 19 20 21 Have your child count Black week, look for Talk about things you P lay “I Spy” with colors After listening to a story, U se this calendar to talk from 1 to 10 or as high things that are black can do outdoors in and shapes. “I Spy L et your child solve a have your child tell you about what will happen as he/she can count. this week. spring and have your something red and problem independently what happened first, tomorrow or later this child tell you what round.” today when possible and next and last. week. his/her favorite is. safe. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Practice drawing Practice the “ABC” Visit a playground T ogether, point out the Play a game together Go outside with your W ith your child read and squares, triangles, and song with your child. and climb together. letter “P” in print. Look such as “Memory” or child and kick a ball act out a story like Five circles. for things that begin with “Go Fish.” back and forth. Little Monkeys Jumping the letter “P”. On the Bed. 29 Memorial Day 30 Take your child 31 Have your child use their outside and play “Simon fingers to count small Talk with your child Says.” Focus on items – like sunflower about Memorial Day. exercise activities seeds. (hopping, bending over, and touching toes). BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt Mouse Paint by Ellen Stohl Walsh You Are Not Small by Anna Kang Friendshape by Amy Rosenthal Spectacular Spots by Susan Stockdale Circle, Square, Moose by Kelly Bingham
• Answer a Question! • Draw a Picture! What pairs go together? sock, bat, fork, ball, shoe, spoon Draw a picture with a pattern. (Example: cookies in a red, yellow, green, red, yellow, green pattern). • Collect materials which encourage thinking and problem-solving. • Involve your child in discovering things that go together. • Play pattern games with your child. • Involve your child in putting pictures in order. Web Site www.freejigsawpuzzles.com ADDITIONAL IDEAS Make and purchase puzzles for your child to complete. Cut up greeting cards or the front of a cereal box in puzzle-like shapes. Give your child the cut-up pieces to fit back together.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 Library Day 2 3 4 S ing a favorite song or o outside and have G W ith your child plant ave your child talk do a finger play together. H your child practice a flower seeds in a pot or with grandparents about step-step-jump and a in the ground. what it was like when clap-clap-pat pattern. they were young. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 White week, look for Have your child talk Cut up an old greeting M ake a picnic lunch Together, “read” a Have your child help S tart a nursery rhyme things that are white about the steps in the card in puzzle-like with your child and eat picture book by making fold clothes and count and have your child this week. flower seeds planting shapes. Ask your child it outside. up a story to go along how many he/she finish it. project. to fit the pieces back with the pictures. folded. together. 12 13 Flag Day 14 15 Library Day 16 17 18 Read a story to your Go to the store and Have your child practice S ign up for your library’s Together, point out the T ogether, make a child, pointing to each name the fruits and his/her phone number summer reading Have your child practice letter “R” in print. Look collage of summer word as you read. vegetables. Have your and address. program. Teach your counting from 1 to 10. for things that begin pictures. child name the colors child how to ask for help with the letter “R”. too. to find a book. Father’s Day 19 20 First Summer Day of 21 22 23 24 25 Put pictures in order like M ake a new recipe/food A sk your child to find Play one of your favorite G o outside and repeat a Have a cook out or a baby, a toddler and a Have your child draw a together and encourage objects that go together songs and dance pattern activity like picnic dinner. girl. picture of fun things your child to try it. like a ball and a bat. together to the beat! step-step-jump. to do in the summer. 26 27 28 29 Library Day 30 Arrange a play date Go out to a restaurant, Read with your child T ogether, count groups with one of your child’s read over the children’s each day. of ten using cereal like Celebrate something friends. menu and let your child Cheerios™. your child has recently order what he/she would accomplished – make like to eat. it fun! BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff
• Draw a Picture! • Create with your child an “All About Me and My Draw a picture of your family. Label each picture with his or her name. Family” book. • Involve your child in adding personal information to the book. • Help your child add a family section to the book. • Create with your child a section of the book about your family’s favorite things. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Web Site www.behindthename.com Let your child share the “All About Me and My Family” book and the family tree with other family members and with neighbors. Suggest that he or she “read” what is • Answer a Question! written in the book What do you like to do with your family? and on the family tree. Your child may not be able to actually read all of the words. With your help he or she can recall what is written.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 sk your child what A W ith your child take might happen if it rains a walk and count the today. stars. 3 Independence 4 5 6 Library Day 7 8 9 Day Together, write a story H ave your child find T ogether, point out the P ractice reciting your H ave your child use your Show your child how and about the flower you things that are his/her letter “S” in print. Look child’s address and shoes to measure a when to dial 911. Have your child draw a planted last month. favorite color. for things that begin phone number. room. How many shoes picture using red, white with the letter “S”. across? and blue. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Together, act out a Create a list of four Have your child draw a H ave your child describe Play a card game ith your child pick two W H ave your child retell a familiar story and use/ tasks for your child to picture of your family her/his hair and eye together like War, books to read today. story or event in order make simple props complete today. and have your child say color. Go Fish, or Uno. (first, middle, last). to go with the story. the first and last names of each person. 17 Work together on 18 19 20 Library Day 21 22 T alk about how 23 Discuss what police a project or household Have your child fill in the H ave your child count Encourage your child to many family members officers and fire fighters job. Talk about how blanks. “I was born on pennies…count as high ave your child practice H dress himself/herself. you have – how many do to help our working together helps _____ and I am _____ as he/she can. writing his/her first and boys, how many girls, community. get things done faster years old.” last name. who is the oldest, and and is more fun. who is the youngest. Parent’s Day Do a favorite 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 activity with your child. Have your child name Have your child count T ell your child what an ith your child practice W T ogether, point out the T ogether, sort a handful things that rhyme with the number of steps elementary school identifying opposites letter “T” in print. Look of various coins. Tell your child 31 “pig.” from his/her bed to the principal does. (in-out, up-down, etc.). for things that begin what a teacher bathroom. with the letter “T”. does in school. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin Bark, George by Jules Feiffer Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang
• Draw a Picture! • Support your child’s independence. Draw a picture of you going to kindergarten. • Practice going to kindergarten. • Visit your child’s school and preview school activities. • Maintain predictable family routines. ADDITIONAL IDEAS Create a school prop box. Gather items that can be used to play school and put them in a special decorated box - such as a shoebox or clean laundry detergent box. Items for your school prop box might include paper, pencils, crayons, books, watercolor paints, glue, scissors, a ball, a lunch bag, or index cards with the names of family members and friends written on them. Use the school prop box when you and your child play school together. Web Site www.pbskids.org/rogers/ • Answer a Question! What do you think you will like most about kindergarten? Why?
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Library Day With your child, mark a Have your child practice P lay school with your Talk about or read a H ave your child put calendar designating the skipping, galloping and child. Take turns being ave your child write a H book about riding the magnetic numbers in first day of kindergarten. marching. the teacher. list of words that rhyme bus to school. order from 1 to 10. with “can.” 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Check your child’s Help your child “write” Read a book about going W ith your child, count ave your child find H Have your child practice H ave your child show school calendar and numbers with his/her to school and ask your the days remaining until objects around the house bouncing a ball and you what numbers plan to attend “back to finger in a container of child to retell the story. the first day of that are in the shape counting the number of he/she can write or school” events. uncooked rice. kindergarten. of a triangle, circle and bounces. copy. square. 14 15 16 17 Library Day 18 19 20 Use sidewalk chalk and Together, begin to After listening to a story, T alk with your child Together, pretend it is H ave your child put a draw a picture on the organize what your child have your child tell you about his/her feelings as T ogether, point out the the first day of school. puzzle together with a sidewalk or driveway will need for the first day what happened first, the school year begins. letter “V” in print. Look Practice ways to say friend. together. of school. next and last. for things that begin with goodbye. the letter “V”. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Together, pick out Have your child draw a Read your child’s H ave your child practice Practice the “ABC” song Have your child tell you P lay games with your clothes for the first days picture of his/her new favorite book to him/her. writing his/her name and with your child. about his/her favorite child and enjoy being of school. school. identifying each letter. part of their school day. together. 28 29 30 31 Together, recall and list Help your child find Have your child practice R ecite nursery rhymes the day’s events. words that rhyme with his/her phone number with your child. “me.” and address. BOOKS FOR FOUR & FIVE YEAR OLDS Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten by Hyewon Yum Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin Owen by Kevin Henkes Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn Dinotrux by Chris Gall
Not sure if your child is ready to tackle the world of kindergarten? This checklist has been developed to help you prepare your child for school. It is a GUIDE designed to help you look at your child’s physical, social, emotional and academic development. It is intended for four and five year olds. The criteria on the checklist should not be applied to children three years old or younger. I can do this I am making I can do this I am making consistently progress CRITERIA consistently progress CRITERIA Health, Wellness & Physical Development Language & Literacy Development continued Runs, jumps, hops, throws, kicks and bounces a ball Follows directions with at least two steps Rides a tricycle Asks “what if” and “how” questions about how things work Uses pencils, crayons and markers for drawing and writing; cuts with scissors; uses a glue stick Says or sings familiar songs and nursery rhymes Expresses ideas through pictures he or she draws: Follows set routine for preparing for bed, personal for example, a child draws a picture of 3 family hygiene and eating meals members and says who each one is Uses good habits: uses a spoon to eat, closes mouth Answers simple questions in complete sentences: when chewing, blows own nose, and washes hands who, what, where and when before eating Shows growing interest in reading and being read to Follows simple safety rules Holds and looks at books correctly turning pages Visits doctor and dentist regularly one at a time Tells first and last name After listening to story, tells what might happen next Knows his or her full address and parent phone number Retells simple story such as the Three Little Pigs after listening to it while looking at the pictures in the book Tells if she or he is a girl or boy Matches two pictures that are alike Social and Emotional Development Recognizes and names at least 8 colors Takes care of own needs such as toileting, washing hands, dressing and trying to tie his or her Tells things go together: a spoon and fork are for own shoes eating and a fish and a boat go in the water
Tells how old she or he is Mathematics & Science Counts from 1 to 10 in correct order Adjusts to new situations without family members being there Puts written numbers in order from 1 to 5: 1,2,3,4,5 Attempts new tasks knowing it’s okay to make Counts at least 5 objects such as 5 apples and 5 mistakes cookies Plays cooperatively with peers, taking turns, sharing Sees a number, from 1-5, such as 3 and understands and resolving problems this means 3 objects such as 3 cookies Respects the feelings, rights and belongings of Recognizes and names 3 shapes: circle, square and others triangle Uses “more” and “less” correctly Uses words to express feelings, “I’m angry”, “I’m happy” Repeats a pattern you start: for example, step, step, jump, step, step, jump Language & Literacy Development Puts three pictures in order: 1. Planting flower seeds Recognizes and names at least 10 letters of the 2. Flowers growing 3. Picking flowers alphabet, especially those in his/her name Copies a line, circle, square and triangle Matches beginning sounds with objects: matches the letter “b” with banana or ball Sorts groups of objects and says which are the same shape, color or size Hears rhyming words when spoken such as “cat” and “hat” Puts puzzles together Begins to write his or her own first name Remember that play is an Recognizes her or his own first name in print important part of learning. Your child learns best when he Shows “top” and “bottom”, “in” and “on”, and or she is spending time with “under” and “over” you and doing activities which Recognizes words or signs he or she sees often: are interesting and fun! McDonalds, Wal-Mart or stop signs and exit signs Speaks in complete sentences of 3 to 5 words continued...
Cumberland County School District Information BIG SPRING SCHOOL DISTRICT CUMBERLAND VALLEY MECHANICSBURG AREA WEST SHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT 45 Mt. Rock Road, Newville 17241 SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOL DISTRICT 507 Fishing Creek Road, Phone: (717) 776-2000 6746 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg 17050 100 E. Elmwood Avenue, New Cumberland 17070 Phone: (717) 697-8261 Mechanicsburg 17055 Phone: (717) 938-9577 Mount Rock Elementary School Phone: (717) 691-4500 43 Mt. Rock Road, Newville Green Ridge Elementary School Fairview Elementary School Newville Elementary School 1 Green Ridge Road, Mechanicsburg Broad Street Elementary School 480 Lewisberry Road, New Cumberland 100 Steelstown Road, Newville 200 S. Broad Street, Mechanicsburg Fishing Creek Elementary School Hampden Elementary School Oak Flat Elementary School 441 Skyport Road, Mechanicsburg Elmwood Elementary School 510 Fishing Creek Road, Lewisberry 334 Centerville Road, Newville 100 E. Elmwood Avenue, Mechanicsburg Highland Elementary School Middlesex Elementary School 250 N. Middlesex Road, Carlisle Kindergarten Academy at Filbert Street 1325 Carlisle Road, Camp Hill CAMP HILL SCHOOL DISTRICT 505 S. Filbert Street, Mechancisburg Hillside Elementary School Monroe Elementary School 2627 Chestnut Street, Camp Hill 17011 1240 Boiling Springs Road, Boiling Springs Northside Elementary School 516 7th Street, New Cumberland Phone: (717) 901-2400 411 N. Walnut Street, Mechanicsburg Lower Allen/Rossmoyne Shaull Elementary School Eisenhower Elementary School 1 Shaull Drive, Enola Shepherdstown Elementary School Elementary Schools 340 N. 21st Street, Camp Hill 1849 S. York Street, Mechanicsburg 4100 Gettysburg Road, Camp Hill Silver Springs Elementary School Hoover Elementary School 6746 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg Upper Allen Elementary School Newberry Elementary School 420 South 24th Street, Camp Hill 1790 S. Market Street, Mechanicsburg 2055 Old Trail Road, Etters Sporting Hill Elementary School Red Mill Elementary School 210 S. Sporting Hill Road, Mechanicsburg CARLISLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT SHIPPENSBURG AREA 700 Red Mill Road, Etters 632 West Penn Street, Carlisle 17013 Winding Creek Elementary School SCHOOL DISTRICT Washington Heights Elementary School Phone: (717) 240-6800 34 Bali Hai Road, Mechanicsburg 317 N. Morris Street, Shippensburg 17257 531 Walnut Street, Lemoyne Bellaire Elementary School Phone: (717) 530-2700 899 Waggoner’s Gap Road, Carlisle EAST PENNSBORO AREA James Burd Elementary School Crestview Elementary School SCHOOL DISTRICT 600 Brad Street, Shippensburg 240 Long’s Gap Road, Carlisle 890 Valley Street, Enola 17025 Nancy Grayson Elementary School Phone: (717) 732-3601 Hamilton Elementary School 301 Lurgan Avenue, Shippensburg 735 Clay Street, Carlisle East Pennsboro Elementary School Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary 840 Panther Parkway, Enola University Campus, Shippensburg Letort Elementary School 110 East South Street, Carlisle West Creek Hills Elementary School 400 Erford Road, Camp Hill Mooreland Elementary School SOUTH MIDDLETON 329 Wilson Street, Carlisle SCHOOL DISTRICT 4 Forge Road, Boiling Springs 17007 Mt. Holly Springs Elementary School Phone: (717) 258-6484 110 Mooreland Avenue, Mt. Holly Springs W.G. Rice Elementary School North Dickinson Elementary School 805 Holly Pike, Mt. Holly Springs 151 N. Dickinson School Road, Carlisle
Getting Ready for Kindergarten! Contact your local school district to find out the dates for pre-registration. You may need to bring the following items to register your child for public school: ✔ Birth certificate ✔ Social Security card ✔ Current immunization record ✔ History form completed by parent or guardian (obtain from school at time of registration) ✔ Physical and dental exam performed by a health care professional ✔ Proof of residency (i.e. driver’s license, rental or mortgage agreement, etc.) ✔ Your child • Check with your local school district to see if additional information is required for registration.
The Getting Ready for Kindergarten 2021-2022 School Readiness Calendar is made available through Success By 6™, The Early Childhood Initiative of United Way PROJECT SPONSORS of Carlisle & Cumberland County. Success By 6™ is committed to improving the quality, availability and affordability of early childhood education in Cumberland County to ensure that our children enter school ready to succeed! Cumberland County school districts provided guidance and expertise in Carlisle the development of this calendar to ensure alignment to current academic standards. This project has been funded through the generous contributions of our Project Sponsors. SPECIAL THANKS This School Readiness Calendar is based on the “Getting Ready Club for Kindergarten” calendars produced by the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Child Care and Early Education through Federal Child Care Development Fund and the Arkansas Head Start – State Collaborative Project. Our special thanks for their willingness to share their work with us. Special thanks to author Laura Numeroff and HarperCollins Publishers for allowing us to use the images from her books: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie and If You Take A Mouse To School. These delightful images are sure to bring smiles to children and parents alike as they complete the activites in the 2021-2022 Getting Ready for Kindergarten Calendar. DESIGN & PRINT BY 717.795.8830 | wavelinedirect.com Success By 6TM, The Early Childhood Initiative Home of of United Way of Carlisle & Cumberland County 145 South Hanover Street • Carlisle, PA 17013 (717) 243-4805 • Fax (717) 243-8005 800.257.8830 | childcorepublishing.com uwcarlisle.org
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