Welcome to your School Readiness Kit’s digital resources!

 

Singing, reading, talking, and playing with your child strengthen the skills needed to succeed at school. On this bilingual site, you’ll find songs and everyday activities you can do to help your child develop skills at home.

Song Videos

When you sing together, your child is actively learning! Here are some of the ways songs help your child learn:

 

1.     Rhymes help children recognize matching sounds.

2.     Animal sounds help children practice distinguishing between different sounds.

3.     Many songs also incorporate movements, which help develop your child’s motor skills.

 

Try out the ideas in these videos to make the most of this skill-building experience.

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The following songs are fun to sing, and they stretch your child’s language skills, cognitive skills, social skills, and counting skills.

 

Try singing these popular favorites:

 

•    Old MacDonald Had a Farm

•    The Wheels on the Bus

•    If You’re Happy and You Know It

•    Mr. Sun

•    Down by the Bay

•    Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

•    Ten in the Bed

•    The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

•    Pat-a-Cake

 

You can find many examples of these songs and any hand motions or
movements online—or make up your own if you’d like!

The following songs are fun to sing, and they stretch your child’s language skills, cognitive skills, social skills, and counting skills.

 

Try singing these popular favorites:

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

The Wheels on the Bus

If You’re Happy and You Know It

Mr. Sun

Down by the Bay

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Ten in the Bed

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

Pat-a-Cake

 

 

You can find many examples of these songs and any hand motions or movements online—or make up your own if you’d like!

Learning Activities

In your printed Family Guide, you received 80 activities organized in easy-to-use sets. For easy browsing, we’ve reorganized the activities by subject area. If you would like to help your child practice skills in a specific subject area, select the subject area of interest and download the activities.