This is a series on readiness skills and resources for preschoolers taking the next “Big Step” to kindergarten.
This week I want to look at mathematic concepts and science. Behind each skill is a website that has worksheets to print or online games to play. This is the last in the series. 🙂
Social Studies
- Recognizes basic traditions such as birthdays
- Understands that people live in different parts of the worlds and have different customs and traditions
- Explores simple maps and visual representations of neighborhoods or communities (Making a map)
Mathematics Concepts
- Compares the size of groups of objects using language such as “more,” “less” and “same as” (kidzone website is a great resource!)
- Arranges objects in size order (big to small, or small to big) (havefunteaching has answer keys for self checking if you want to set up a work station)
- Uses comparison words, like “bigger,” “smaller,” “heavier,” etc.
- Understands concepts of none, some and all and more than and less than
- Identifies and draws a square, circle and triangle (practice worksheets for shapes)
- Correctly counts four to ten objects (tlsbooks has a large variety of worksheets)
- Knows that the final number counted represents the total number of objects in a set
- Recognizes some numbers, 1 – 10 (FREE Number sense worksheets)
- Can distinguish numbers from letters, and understands that numbers relate to quantity
- Understands the effects of addition and subtraction
Science
- Shows interest and asks questions about objects and events observed in their environment (create a scavenger hunt list)
- Notices common properties and differences among objects and materials
- Knows some facts about common plants and animals, such as what they eat and baby names (Baby animal names online game)
- Recognizes some objects in the sky such as the sun, moon, clouds and lightning(Check out this adorable solar system lapbook)
Creative Arts & Music
- Recognizes and names basic colors (Colors and Shapes matching cards)
- Draws recognizable shapes and simple objects (see link above or Shapes and Colors worksheet)
- Tells a story with pictures
- Moves to a beat
- Explores with common musical instruments
- Enjoys improvising or copying musical patterns