Kindergarten 2021

Kindergarten students for 2021

Useful activities to try in the lead-up to starting Kindergarten

Don’t forget

• Write down the date your child will start school: This will be Monday, 1st February 2021.

• Make sure your child can use the toilet independently – including urinals for boys – and practice good hand-washing techniques.

• Write your child’s name on all their school things and involve your child in organising them and recognising their name. 

• If you live close to school, practice crossing roads safely as you walk the route with your child.

Try this

• Set up a play date for your child to play with a friend.

• Check out the local library and let your child choose books to borrow.

• Take a ball to a park to throw, catch and kick together.

• Organise a picnic with a packed lunch and encourage your child to open it and eat the food by themselves.

• Read Daisy’s First Day together.  To read, click on the image below...

Join Daisy on her first day of school. Who will she meet? What will she learn? And will she have fun?  The book shows that school can be an exciting place where anything is possible. Enjoy reading this book with your child, looking at the pictures, and talking about school together.

Practise

• Help your child put on their school shoes and walk in them. 

• Let them try dressing in their school uniform.

• Encourage them to write the letters of the alphabet using lowercase letters.

• Let them practice drinking from the bubbler.

• Guide them to cut and paste pictures from a magazine and draw pictures.