How do I get my 4.5 year old ready for Kindergarten ~Recognizing letters and sounds?

You knew what need to be done, but seemed the problem is not your daughter but your busy schedule to spend time with her.

Solution: Either you should balance your time, hire someone to tutor, or let her sibling help her with one of those self-learning product.

I have a 4.5 y.o. and the only reason she knows her number, alphabet, math, etc is because i sit with her for at least an hour of study time (almost) everyday.Just like anything else, they need to practice practice practice.

My sister made a playful aplhabet cards and stick them around the house. For example put letter "C" on chair, and "T" for table. I thought that was a smart idea!

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There are so many ways you can help her. I know we all must read books to children and I do that a lot. To have them Trace their letters is bit harder and I want to congratulate you that you have started that already. Keep doing that. I have experienced that just a little bit of writing develops a great deal of interest in reading.

There is an amazing cassette ‘Letter Factory by Leap Frog’ try if you can rent it from Public Library. She will learn letters and sounds from this in no time.

Also , keep showing her a 5 year old class-work. If possible redo some easy work. That will also prepare her for school. When 5 year old is doing homework, You can sit with your 4.5 and 2 year old and read them a book. Try to involve your 2 year old and it will become easy.

Usually Public schools provides a list of things they need to know in Kindergarten. And/Or what they are going to learn in KG. You can get it from website or at the time of Kindergarten Orientation.

Why would you think she is autistic? Being unable to recognise letters has nothing to do with being autistic - many autistic kids are extremely advanced at reading. If she can recognise B then that's something. If I were you I'd back off a bit. Stop waving a whole alphabet at her, and see if you can teach her _one_ new letter - how about a, since it's the next letter in her name? Or take a look at what she does write - if it is what you say, she seems to have the idea that her name contains i, l and y. That's a lot better than nothing. Average five year olds can recognise more than one letter. However, half of all kids are below average intellectually. I know it's not PC to say so, but maybe your daughter is simply not very gifted academically. There were certainly 5 year olds in my kids' classes who didn't know all their letters and couldn't write their names.

It's so nice to see someone who wants to work on that stuff with there kid. A lot of parents feel that it's the teachers responsibility and they are so behind when they start school. Just buy a video games, u know the ones that hook up to the tv like v tech, leap frog, etc.

If she starts kindergarten knowing shapes, colors,numbers to 10, how to write her name, can draw a picture of herself including her body, knows most of her letters and sounds she should be fine. It sounds like ur doing a good job with her with the flash cards and tracing letters. Sounds like she will have good control of her pencil when she starts. Have the 5 year old help :)

don't panic! she sounds like is ready right now. I have seen children enter school at 5 or 6 years of age knowing only some shapes and colors and catch up really quickly and get placed on the gifted programs so you don't need to fret on top of homework, caring for household things and homework.

simple things that wont the both of you out is to get letter and number magnets and put them on your fridge and just play with them and spell words with them. another thing is to label things in your house with the kids and while your labeling you can talk about beginning letter sounds and stuff. letter and alphabet books are fun and you draw things or animals that start with letters and write the letter and when you have all of the alphabet you put it together and make a book. pringle cans decorated and filled with things that start with that letter is something we are doing right now and the kids love them along with the alphabet books.

but the most important thing is reading to all of them and talk about the authors and illustrators and you can do some letter recognitions and sounds from that too.

hope this helps, and the other poster that listed all of the books is good too.

I am in a similar boat. I too researched about what a kid should know before kindergarten, and here is what I found

*Able to speak in 5-6 word sentences

*Knowledge about shapes, colors and patterns

*Letter recognition and their sounds

*Able to write/recognise his/her name

*Number recognition and counting I guess till 20

*strong hold of pencil, crayon

*know some stories and rhymes

What I do with my 4 year old, I try to make him recognise his favorite characters with the first letter, like Clifford starts with a "C", Mickey Mouse with a "M", along with their sounds. Sometimes I even make him type their names on the computer for more practise. and ofcourse after which he can watch one of them. Letter factory DVD was very helpful for my son.

Hope this helps.

First off, a five-year old child doing homework? <aaack look> (I understand that if a teacher assigns work that it is expected that the child will do it, but what school is recommending this for a five-year old?!?) Consider that a rhetorical question since you aren't in charge. But I'm digressing.

One way to help all your kids simultaneously (and since they are all relatively close in age) is to read aloud to them. You can have cuddle-time on the couch while teaching them that reading (and all that goes with it) is a pleasure. It may be an adjustment, but if you stick with it in a low-key way, it should repay the effort.

Your daughter may not immediately pick up on letters and their sounds, but that may just be her. Time and development should 'cure' the seeming problem.

Reading suggestions to appeal to children from two to five might be:

-- Dr. Seuss's early reading books such as One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Hop on Pop, or Green Eggs and Ham

-- Each Peach Pear Plum

-- Noisy Norah

-- Roly Poly Olie

-- When We Were Very Young (by they author of Winnie the Pooh)

-- Nancy Shaw's "Sheep" series

The children's librarian at your local public library should be able to help you find rhythmical stories that will charm the little one but yet have enough 'story' to them for the older kids.

Another resource might be the Hap Palmer songs. Mr. Palmer was a teacher who used his own songs, played on his own guitar, to teach the children in his classes. The records were popular with primary school teachers (and may still be). :::searching::: <sighing deeply> The music records/casettes seem to be out of print ... but YouTube has Hap Palmer songs so you could listen to them, pick your favorites and perhaps buy them used at Amazon.

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I hope it helps