Parents, you can jump start your child’s educational experience by simply assuring your child has successfully learned some simple lessons. At the preschool age, make sure your child learns to count and recognize the numbers to twenty, know their colors, recognize shapes and can cut and paste. By age four, teach your child to write their name. Go online to one of the following sights and begin teaching your child to read and spell the words on the list. The sights are www.english_zone.com/reading/dolch.html (Dolch 220 Basic Sight Words) and http://estabrook.ci.lexington.ma.us/Curriculum/Sitton/Wordbank.html (Sitton Spelling Word Bank).
The Dolch 220 basic sight word list consists of 220 most commonly used words at the basic level in the United States. The Sitton list consists of 1000 words children must know between kindergarten and fifth grades.
As for math, the best thing parents can do after teaching their children to count and recognize numbers is to teach them basic addition facts and basic subtraction facts using numbers one through ten during their first grade level. At second grade level, increase the numbers to twenty and begin teaching the timetables through the threes. At third grade, increase the timetables to ten. Afterwards, there are only a few remaining to learn since the timetables repeat themselves. Children knowledgeable with the basic facts are armed with the ammunition they need to do well in school. In closing, I leave you with a few websites I recommend. I am not associated with any of the sites and do not have any gain financially or otherwise for submitting the recommendations. The sites are: coolmath.com; magickeys.com/books; sheppardsoftware.com; storyplace.org; storylineonline.net; and kinderwebgames.com.
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