Your child is ready to make the leap from Kindergarten to First Grade! This is a big,
exciting transition, and we’re here to help. Below are resources, links, and tools you can
use to help make sure your child is set up for success as a First Grader.
● Clean your own personal space (learn by helping around the house!).
● Use the restroom and fasten all clothing items independently.
● Pack your backpack, open all lunch containers (juice boxes, etc) independently.
● Put papers into a folder and put the folder into your backpack independently.
● How To: Tie Your Shoes.
● Follow the social rules of conversation by listening and taking turns talking.
● Participate in shared reading and writing activities (for example, the teacher
reads a big picture book aloud and students take turns sharing ideas about it).
● be willing to receive feedback and then try to adjust for improvement.
● participate in games with partners or small groups without much prompting
(playing catch, jumping rope, imaginative games).
● In many situations, demonstrate a willingness to adjust behavior to resolve
conflicts prior to asking for help from an adult.
● Read regularly with your child.
● Discuss story elements such as plot, character, events, and setting.
● Recall the sequence of events in oral and written stories, and retell a story.
● Recognize all 26 letters and the sounds they make.
● Sight Words- recognize these 100 words on sight.
○ Play games and use flashcards.
● Understand basic punctuation (capitalize first letter of a sentence, use periods
and question marks, etc.).
● Builds simple words and sentences using the sounds made by letters to “sound
spell”.
● Write and recognize all 26 letters.
● Recognize and write numbers up to 100.
● “Skip Count” by fives and 10s to 100.
● Recognize that addition means putting two groups together and that subtraction
means taking away from one group.
● Mentally add numbers to 10.
● Add and subtract within 20 using objects or drawings.
● Recognize shapes .
● Identify, describe, and reproduce patterns with numbers, shapes, colors, movements, or
words.
● Outline a shape/image with precision.
● Cut a shape with precision.
● Print all letters clearly.
● Demonstrate correct pencil grip.
● Run, hop, jump, leap, slide, gallop, and skip.
● Combine two locomotor movements to form a pattern (skip, skip, jump, jump,
repeat).
● Perform kicking, striking, throwing and catching patterns in a simple fluid
environment (a throwing and catching game or a kicking game).
● Put together simple tumbling patterns that involve weight shift, rolling, and flight
(hop, hop, hop, somersault, run and leap).
● Move to a simple rhythmic beat while recognizing the pattern.
