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FIrst
Grade
Suggestions for New First
Graders
Behavior/Attention: The following are
ideas to help your child develop attention skills and behaviors
necessary to be successful in school. Help and expect your child to:
- Attend to directions (one, two, even
three step directions).
- Sit correctly in a chair for a
reasonable amount of time. Practice at meal times.
- Follow through
with requests made of them. Check to see that they complied.
- Use language to communicate their
needs. Don’t speak for them, allow them time to respond and use
their language skills.
- Develop a proper pencil grip (two
finger — thumb pinch grip), much like their grip on a fork and
utensils.
- Use their gross motor skills to
develop their fine motor skills. Encourage them to play outside,
use playground equipment, limit TV time and sedentary video games.
Academic Skills: The
following ideas are to reinforce and develop skills that will be
taught and expanded in the first grade.
- Read to and with your child.
- Go to the local library. Get a
library card if they don’t have one.
- Participate in a summer library
reading program.
- Review letters and sounds.
- Read a Children’s Bible and prayer
book / devotional daily.
- Combine letters and sounds to make
simple words and practice them.
- Bring “reading in their
environment” to their attention. (signs, names of stores,
etc...)
- Identify numbers in their
environment. (address, phone numbers...)
- Talk about daily number concepts.
(date, month, day...)
- Practice writing with chalk on the
sidewalk, coloring, using a pencil...
- Get a summer bridge book,
Kindergarten to first grade, and do a page a day (may purchase
from most bookstores)
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