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Many of you have children will are getting ready for Kindergarten in the fall. Listed below are some skills that children will be working on during the first quarter of the new school year:

• Identifying words that rhyme
• Matching words that begin with the same sound (ball and bat)
• Saying the sound of the initial letter in the word
• Identifying the “first” and “last” letters in their name as well as identifying capital and lower case letters
• Pointing to each individual word in a sentence and counting the number of words (The dog can run) 4
• Sorting objects by shape, size and color
• Identifying and completing AB patterns (heart, square, heart, square)
• Putting objects in order from longest to shortest
• Understanding the concepts of many, few, none, more, fewer, same and different
• Identifying which group of objects has “one more than” or “one less than”
• Counting objects up to 10 using one-to-one correspondence (pointing to one object at a time)
• Representing numbers with the correct number of objects