Kindergarten Readiness
12 Ways to Help your Child Get Ready for Kindergarten
Language & Social Emotional Development
2. To help your child be more successful when learning English as a second language, continue to speak to the child in their home language.
3. Listen to your child and help them identify and express their feelings, thoughts and emotions.
4. Teach children social emotional and problem-solving skills by teaching them how to respond to their emotions.
5. Help children learn from their mistakes as they are opportunities to grow and learn.
Literacy
7. Take every opportunity to read aloud to your child.
Math & Numbers
9. Help children recognize patterns in the world around them (music, sound, language and objects).
10. Encourage children to be problem solvers and figure things out on their own.
Physical Development
11. Ensure your child gets at least 1 hour of physical play everyday.
Preparing to send your child to TK or Kindergarten?
Community Resources
Adventist Health Children’s Mobile Immunizations Program
2-1-1 Kern County
For more information, please visit their website at www.211kerncounty.org.
Kern Regional Center
If your child is under 3 and you have concerns about your child's development, contact the Kern Regional Center to guide you in next steps.
For more information, please visit their website at https://kernrc.org/.
Kern County Search & Serve
If your child is over the age of 3 and you have concerns about your child's development, contact Search & Serve to guide you in next steps.
For more information, please visit their website at https://kern.org/selpa/search-and-serve/.