Be a Kindergarten Star - Social and Emotional



	Do you know your daily routines? (What time is bedtime? What do you do in the morning to get ready for school?) Books to read: Good for Me and You by Mercer Mayer (P) Time to Get Up, Time to Go by David Milgrim (P) It’s Too Soon by Nigel McMullen (P) Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear by Nancy White Carlstrom (P) Bunny Day by Rick Walton (P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Video/DVD) J 372.218 GET Getting Ready for School (Video) J 372.21 GET Links to click: http://backtoschool.about.com/od/parentsplace/tp/gettingkidsup.htm Tips to try: Establish a routine for getting up and going to bed – sing songs, make a chart, whatever works for your child. Ask your child to help you get dinner ready. Asking your child a question as simple as “Now what is it time for?” will draw his/her attention to everyday routines. Small sticky notes on clock. Pictures of activities mounted next to hours on clock. Pictures of activities with small clock pictures next to them showing the time for that activity. Do you know how to share and wait your turn when you play with other kids? Do you know what to do when someone makes you mad? Books to read: A Busy Week by Sue Graves (F) Ryan Respects by Virginia Kroll (P) Mine! By Kevin Luthardt (P) Who Shares by Ewa Lipniacka (P) Just Not the Same by Addie Lacoe (P) Little Bear and the Big fight by Jutta Langreuter (P) I Was So Mad by Mecer Mayer (P) Just a Little Different by Gina & Mercer Mayer (P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs: Mickey’s Reading and Math Fun (DVD) J 372.21 REA My Turn, Your Turn (CD) J 372.8 BOL Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Video/DVD) J 372.218 GET Stanley. Hop To It (DVD) J Feature Film Links to click: Sharing All About Sharing Tips to try: Play simple board and card games together; encourage good sportsmanship Do you have good manners? (Do you know how to ask nicely?) Books to read: Just Say Please by Gina and Mercer Mayer (P) I’m Sorry by Mercer Mayer (P) Monster Manners by Roberts, Bethany (P) I’m Sorry by Sam McBratney (P) Oops! Excuse Me Please: and Other Mannerly Tales by McGrath, Bob (P) The Well-Mannered Monster by Marcy Brown & Dennis Haley (F) Time to Say “PLEASE”! by Mo Willems (P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVS, and CDs: Mind Your Manners (DVD) J 395 MIN Minding Your Manners at School (DVD) J 395 MIN It's Time for Manners (DVD) J 395 TIM Politekids 101 (DVD) J 395.122 POL Look Mom I Have Good Manners (DVD) J 395 LOO The Berenstain Bears: Bears Mind Their Manners (Video) J Feature Film The Book of Pooh: Fun With Manners (Video) J Feature Film Stanley. Hop To It (DVD) J Feature Film Where the Wild Things Are: and Other Maurice Sendak Stories (DVD/Video) J Feature Film Links to click: Manners Game Manners Activities Helping Children with Manners Tips to try: When you go out to dinner (even to a fast food or casual restaurant), talk about manners/expectations before you leave and have your kids help you come up with list of good or bad manners. Practice manners with role play while having pretend meals together (play food, pretend to be a waiter, etc.) Do you know how to follow directions? Books to read: The M & M’s Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGarth (P-123) Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert (P) Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle (P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs: Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Video/DVD) J 372.218 GET Physical Ed (DVD) J 613.7 PHY Episode: Pandora's Box on Between the Lions. Shooting Stars (DVD) J 372.4 BET Dance with the Animals (DVD) J 793.3 DAN The All New Captain Kangaroo: Good Advice Captain (Juvenile Feature Film) Ready to Learn by Cathy Bollinger (CD) J 372 BOL Song: Follow Directions on Little Superman (CD) J 782.42 STE Song: Peanut Butter and Jelly on Fun and Games (CD) J 782.42 FUN Links to click: How Kids Learn to Follow Directions Tips to try: Let your child help set the table Let your child help with recipes/cooking Learn to do something new together. Build a model, learn a new game; read the directions together and refer back to them together to show the importance of following directions. Have a scavenger hunt - only by following the directions correctly will they find the prize at the end! Do you know how to follow direction with more than one part? Books to read: Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle (P) How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman (P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, CDs: Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (DVD) J 372.218 GET Things That Go (DVD) J 372.86 THI Go, Go Animals (DVD) J 613.7 MON Tips to try: Play Simon Says with multipart instructions (Simon Says touch your nose then your toes!) Have your child help you with a task (Take your clean clothes to your room and then bring me your backpack.) Do you know how to communicate with other people? (Can you speak clearly and have a conversation with someone else?) Books to read: Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester (P) Louder, Lili by Gennifer Choldenko (P) Sebastian's Roller Skates by Joan de Deu Prats (P) Gerald McBoing Boing by Dr. Seuss (P) My Grandma is Coming to Town by Anna Grossnickle Hines (P) Quiet, Wyatt! by Bill Maynard (P) I Can Speak Up (J 158.2 LEV) Wonderful Words selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins (J 811.008 WON) Are You Shy? (PRNT J 155.232 ROC) Basghetti Spaghetti by Susanne Vettiger (PRNT P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs: Dance with the Animals (DVD) J 793.3 DAN Speechercise (CD) J 371.9 SPE Phonics (CD) J 372.4 PHO Links to click: American Speech and Hearing Association Tips to try: Let your child order his/her own food at a restaurant Let your child have a few minutes to talk on the phone to relatives. Emphasize complete sentences (example when in the library: "May I please use the computers?") Gently correct pronoun (I, you, he, him, her, etc.) vocabulary and pronunciation errors. When you answer correct the error in your response (ex: Child: Him hit me! Adult: Can you tell me why he hit you?) Do you know how to sit and listen to a story? Books to read: I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel (P) Listen Buddy by Helen Lester (P) Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss (P) Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs: Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (DVD) J 372.218 GET Leaping Literacy (CD) J 372.4 LEA Ready to Learn by Cathy Bollinger (CD) J 372 BOL Links to click: http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp Tips to try: Have a designated Story Time in your daily routine. Let your child choose the book, find a cozy spot and spend just a few minutes reading together. This also lets children see that reading is important in the home.

Do you know your daily routines?

(What time is bedtime? What do you do in the morning to get ready for school?)

Books to read:

Good for Me and You by Mercer Mayer (P)

Time to Get Up, Time to Go by David Milgrim (P)

It’s Too Soon by Nigel McMullen (P)

Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear by Nancy White Carlstrom (P)

Bunny Day by Rick Walton (P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs

Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Video/DVD) J 372.218 GET

Getting Ready for School (Video) J 372.21 GET

Links to click:

http://backtoschool.about.com/od/parentsplace/tp/gettingkidsup.htm

Tips to try:

Establish a routine for getting up and going to bed –

sing songs, make a chart, whatever works for your child.

Ask your child to help you get dinner ready.

Asking your child a question as simple as

“Now what is it time for?” will draw his/her attention to everyday routines.

Small sticky notes on clock.

Pictures of activities mounted next to hours on clock.

Pictures of activities with small clock pictures next to them showing the time for that activity.

Do you know how to share and wait your turn when

you play with other kids? Do you know what to do when

someone makes you mad?

Books to read:

A Busy Week by Sue Graves (F)

Ryan Respects by Virginia Kroll (P)

Mine! By Kevin Luthardt (P)

Who Shares by Ewa Lipniacka (P)

Just Not the Same by Addie Lacoe (P)

Little Bear and the Big fight by Jutta Langreuter (P)

I Was So Mad by Mecer Mayer (P)

Just a Little Different by Gina & Mercer Mayer (P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs:

Mickey’s Reading and Math Fun (DVD) J 372.21 REA

My Turn, Your Turn (CD) J 372.8 BOL

Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Video/DVD) J 372.218 GET

Stanley. Hop To It (DVD) J Feature Film

Links to click:

Sharing

All About Sharing

Tips to try:

Play simple board and card games together; encourage good sportsmanship

Do you have good manners?

(Do you know how to ask nicely?)

Books to read:

Just Say Please by Gina and Mercer Mayer (P)

I’m Sorry by Mercer Mayer (P)

Monster Manners by Roberts, Bethany (P)

I’m Sorry by Sam McBratney (P)

Oops! Excuse Me Please: and Other Mannerly Tales by McGrath, Bob (P)

The Well-Mannered Monster by Marcy Brown & Dennis Haley (F)

Time to Say “PLEASE”! by Mo Willems (P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVS, and CDs:

Mind Your Manners (DVD) J 395 MIN

Minding Your Manners at School (DVD) J 395 MIN

It's Time for Manners (DVD) J 395 TIM

Politekids 101 (DVD) J 395.122 POL

Look Mom I Have Good Manners (DVD) J 395 LOO

The Berenstain Bears: Bears Mind Their Manners (Video) J Feature Film

The Book of Pooh: Fun With Manners (Video) J Feature Film

Stanley. Hop To It (DVD) J Feature Film

Where the Wild Things Are: and Other Maurice Sendak Stories (DVD/Video) J Feature Film

Links to click:

Manners Game

Manners Activities

Helping Children with Manners

Tips to try:

When you go out to dinner (even to a fast food or casual restaurant), talk about manners/expectations

before you leave and have your kids help you come up with list of good or bad manners.

Practice manners with role play while having pretend meals together

(play food, pretend to be a waiter, etc.)

Do you know how to follow directions?

Books to read:

The M & M’s Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGarth (P-123)

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert (P)

Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle (P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs:

Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (Video/DVD) J 372.218 GET

Physical Ed (DVD) J 613.7 PHY

Episode: Pandora's Box on Between the Lions. Shooting Stars (DVD) J 372.4 BET

Dance with the Animals (DVD) J 793.3 DAN

The All New Captain Kangaroo: Good Advice Captain (Juvenile Feature Film)

Ready to Learn by Cathy Bollinger (CD) J 372 BOL

Song: Follow Directions on Little Superman (CD) J 782.42 STE

Song: Peanut Butter and Jelly on Fun and Games (CD) J 782.42 FUN

Links to click:

How Kids Learn to Follow Directions

Tips to try:

Let your child help set the table

Let your child help with recipes/cooking

Learn to do something new together. Build a model, learn a new game; read the directions together and refer back to them together to show the importance of following directions.

Have a scavenger hunt - only by following the directions correctly will they find the prize at the end!

Do you know how to follow direction with more than one part?

Books to read:

Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle (P)

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman (P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, CDs:

Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (DVD) J 372.218 GET

Things That Go (DVD) J 372.86 THI

Go, Go Animals (DVD) J 613.7 MON

Tips to try:

Play Simon Says with multipart instructions (Simon Says touch your nose then your toes!)

Have your child help you with a task (Take your clean clothes to your room and

then bring me your backpack.)

Do you know how to communicate with other people?

(Can you speak clearly and have a conversation with someone else?)

Books to read:

Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester (P)

Louder, Lili by Gennifer Choldenko (P)

Sebastian's Roller Skates by Joan de Deu Prats (P)

Gerald McBoing Boing by Dr. Seuss (P)

My Grandma is Coming to Town by Anna Grossnickle Hines (P)

Quiet, Wyatt! by Bill Maynard (P)

I Can Speak Up (J 158.2 LEV)

Wonderful Words selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins (J 811.008 WON)

Are You Shy? (PRNT J 155.232 ROC)

Basghetti Spaghetti by Susanne Vettiger (PRNT P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs:

Dance with the Animals (DVD) J 793.3 DAN

Speechercise (CD) J 371.9 SPE

Phonics (CD) J 372.4 PHO

Links to click:

American Speech and Hearing Association

Tips to try:

Let your child order his/her own food at a restaurant

Let your child have a few minutes to talk on the phone to relatives.

Emphasize complete sentences (example when in the library: "May I please use the computers?")

Gently correct pronoun (I, you, he, him, her, etc.) vocabulary and pronunciation errors. When you answer correct the error in your response (ex: Child: Him hit me! Adult: Can you tell me why

he hit you?)

Do you know how to sit and listen to a story?

Books to read:

I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel (P)

Listen Buddy by Helen Lester (P)

Book! Book! Book! by Deborah Bruss (P)

Watch and listen on Videos, DVDs, and CDs:

Rock N Learn: Getting Ready for Kindergarten (DVD) J 372.218 GET

Leaping Literacy (CD) J 372.4 LEA

Ready to Learn by Cathy Bollinger (CD) J 372 BOL

Links to click:

http://www.storyplace.org/storyplace.asp

Tips to try:

Have a designated Story Time in your daily routine. Let your child choose the book, find a cozy spot and spend just a few minutes reading together.

This also lets children see that reading is important in the home.