My 4 year old is starting preschool is there anything i need to do before he starts. i am trying to get him to focus on his whole alphbet and stuff he can count to 30 and spell his name but thats it he knows his abcs but for someone who isnt around him like i am they wont understand that he can say his abcs. is there anything i am doing wrong i am trying to teach him to write but hes just not focusing and no he doesnt not have add or adhd or anything like that he is fine.
I would get flash cards as well with the shapes, sight words and phonics.
This will help him learn to sound the words out as well.
You can get the activity books per age/grade at the dollar trees along with the beginners paper that have the lower/upper case abcs on the inside and the numbers 1-10 on the back.
It sounds like you are doing a fine job. The 4 yr old classes/prek classes prepare them all year before Kindg. Just work with him as well when you can.
Good Luck.
Stop trying to overdo things. He doesn't need to learn how to write. In school they will do the Alaphabet a great number of times. Focus on how much fun learning is and all of the things he is going to learn. Focus on the friends he will be making. You're trying to push the education part which gets tiring for a child and they get bored thinking that all they are going to do is recite the alphabet and say they names all day like little robots. There is singing, there is coloring, there are crafts and there is playing outside.
i focus on everything because school will turn kids away if they are not ready ina certain way my son loves learning and loves that i teach him if it was a problem i obviously wouldnt be doing so much but i dont push so much at once he is 4 i taught him this through the years my son is very smart i think i am doing a good job in focusing on him being so inteligent in this era. he will be making friends and is excited about everything having to do with school. i am not trying to over do anything obviously school are diff than when i went to school schools expect quite a bit in kids right now. my son will be going to the school i did and it has a high academic. im lucky i made learning so fun for him he loves practicing his letters and his numbers he loves learning and me reading to him. sorry i dont think im over doing it i am simply making sure he will be able to stay in preschool and it sounds like he will be.
Quoting CoeyG:Stop trying to overdo things. He doesn't need to learn how to write. In school they will do the Alaphabet a great number of times. Focus on how much fun learning is and all of the things he is going to learn. Focus on the friends he will be making. You're trying to push the education part which gets tiring for a child and they get bored thinking that all they are going to do is recite the alphabet and say they names all day like little robots. There is singing, there is coloring, there are crafts and there is playing outside.
Quoting Mommy2justone:I would start preparing him for when you have to leave. He will learn all of that in preschool so you don't need to push anything on him. Just start getting him excited about him being a big boy and staying at Preschool without mommy.
Also we used flashcards and workbooks.
He'll get there. Just being in prek will make a big differenve but yes there's stuff you can do at home too. :)
Quoting Mommy2justone:
I would start preparing him for when you have to leave. He will learn all of that in preschool so you don't need to push anything on him. Just start getting him excited about him being a big boy and staying at Preschool without mommy.
I agree with this. My DD is starting preschool in the fall too and sometimes I catch myself trying to push the educational stuff on her so I have to remind myself there's so much more to preschool than learning the ABC's and stuff.
If you do all this before he goes, he's going to be very bored when he gets there to 'learn the same thing again.'
It's unusual for 4yos, particularly 4yo boys, to have any interest in that kind of work at all --and earlier is not better.
By the time they're all 16, it is impossible to tell the kids who learned to read at 3 from the ones who didn't learn until they were 11.
There are lots of things you can do that will help him get off to a good start in literacy and numeracy. For example, building his phonological awareness...ie showing him how to step out the words in a spoken sentence (ie take one step per word), building his ability to listen for the first sound (not letter) he hears when you say a word, building his ability to listen to find out if two words rhyme etc. Phonological awareness is all about spoken language and it's vital for pre-readers and early readers - along with building simple comprehension skills. And there are tons of numeracy activities you can do besides counting. I was teaching kindy kids last year and these are the things that make the difference! You might find my literacy & numeracy sites helpful. There's a blog post here on teaching comprehension skills at home to the pre-reader: www.readingcomprehension.com.au/blog
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- armywife418
on Aug. 7, 2012 at 5:52 PM