Every day your child is acquiring skills needed for entry into the world beyond family and home‎.‎ Arrival at school brings both new learning experiences and novel applications of what your child already knows‎.‎ Math comprises a large part of the Kindergarten curriculum‎.‎ This book provides repeated practice of essential math skills your child will encounter in school‎.‎ Although some of the activities in this book may appear to be simplistic‎,‎ their mastery is essential for your child’s success in Kindergarten math‎.‎ In addition‎,‎ the tasks in this book are also designed to strengthen your child’s ability to problem‎-solve‎,‎ think critically‎,‎ and become familiar with the academic language commonly used in the school setting‎.‎

Upon your child‎'‎s completion of each activity‎,‎ use the provided incentive chart with stickers to track progress and celebrate your child’s success‎.‎

Whether students need extra practice with grade‎-level skills or a head start on next year‎,‎ Stick Kids® Workbooks offer engaging activities‎,‎ games‎,‎ and puzzles that help make learning lots of fun‎.‎ Each book features full‎-color activities‎,‎ a list of the skills‎,‎ and an explanation of why those skills are important for development‎.‎ Also included are helpful tips‎,‎ an answer key‎,‎ a handy tracking sheet‎,‎ and appearances by the lovable Stick Kids‎!‎

These skill practice workbooks are perfect for use at school‎,‎ or as entertaining activities on the go‎.‎ Great for school breaks‎,‎ vacations‎,‎ and year‎-long practice‎.‎

SKILLS

• Number recognition
• Skip counting
• Shape recognition
• Patterns
• One‎-to‎-one correspondence
• Simple addition
• Number sets
• Simple subtraction
• Counting order

HOW YOU CAN HELP SUPPORT LEARNING

• Create a calm‎,‎ quiet setting in which to complete the activities‎.‎
• Carefully read the directions aloud to your child‎.‎
• Provide manipulative‎,‎ such as paper clips‎,‎ beans‎,‎ coins‎,‎ and counting blocks‎,‎ to model problems and connect meaning to the written words and numbers‎.‎
• Practice counting aloud to increasingly higher numbers as your child becomes more fluent in number order‎.‎
• Encourage your child to identify and name shapes in his or her environment‎.‎