Get Set
Help get your PreKer ready for Kindergarten
Give your child a head start this year with our exclusive Get Set for Kindergarten program. Designed to boost confidence and academic readiness, our 31-week program ensures your child feels comfortable, confident, and prepared for kindergarten. Our curriculum focuses on essential academic and developmental skills, providing a well-rounded foundation for your child’s future success. Get Set for Kindergarten is included in all of our PreK classrooms at no additional cost to the families.
Benefits of “Getting Set” for Kindergarten
Our Program offers a unique opportunity for your child to gain essential skills in a fun and supportive setting. We ensure learning is interactive, keeping your child engaged and excited all year long. The perfect solution to help set your child up for success as they prepare to start elementary school the following year.
Program Highlights
Comprehensive Kindergarten Preparation
Fine Motor Skills
Daily activities promote the development and strengthening of fine motor skills. Children practice writing their names and letters each day, encouraging fine motor strength and development.
Pre-Reading Skills
Focuses on phonological awareness, the ability to listen to the sounds in words and sentences, that will build up to reading as the children develop.
Math Skills
Engaging games and activities to reinforce key math concepts. These concepts are reviewed and practiced through games and activities that repeat and build on themselves throughout the curriculum, ensuring mastery and confidence.
Tracking Each Child’s Learning
Teachers help track what the children learn throughout the year through 3 assessment periods, at the beginning, middle and end of the year. These assessments are meant to recognize where your child is at with the skills, and how their teacher can help them develop, grow, and learn throughout the year. This helps your child’s teacher individualize the learning, encouraging each child to develop at their own pace with support!
Family Connections
Each week, the families will have access to a digital family letter! This letter explain what their child learned throughout the Get Set curriculum this week, and what to look forward to next week. It also includes some ideas for families to do at home to continue the learning.
Reading Activity
Story Time
Gather your children on the carpet to read a story. This can be a curriculum book or any book of your choosing. While reading the story, ask the following questions to keep your children engaged:
- Where is this story taking place?
- What sounds do you think the characters may hear?
- What do you think this place might smell like
- Which of these characters are friends?
- Which character do you like the most and why?
- Have you met anyone that reminds you of this character?
Word Awareness Activity
Stomp It
Stomp It – Say a sentence and ask the children to repeat it. Model slowly stomping for each word in the sentence. Then, invite the children to join you for the remaining sentences:
- I have a kite.
- The moon is bright.
- We read a book.
- I have a big smile
Math Activity
Jump to the Number
Jump to the Number – Tape numbers 11-15 on the floor. Line up the children. One child at a time, call out a number, and have them jump to it. Repeat for all numbers, then rotate to the next child in line.
Letter Recognition Activity
Musical Letter Exchange
Display the letter cards for the week individually (A, T, M, S, F). Verbally identify each letter and encourage the children to do the same.
Distribute one letter card to each child and have them take turns naming their assigned letter, such as saying, “I have the letter A.” Then, instruct the children to exchange their letter cards with one another, repeating this process until every child has named all the letters for the week.
Letter Sound Activity
/M/ Sounds
Show the letter ‘M’ key word and sound card. Ask the children to say with you, ‘Mitten, /m/. Invite each child to take the card and point to the mitten saying ‘mitten’ and then pointing to the letter, saying the sound.
Handwriting Activity
Letter T
Explain that today they will learn how to write the letter ‘T.’ Model tracing the ‘T’ mini poster. While doing so, say, “Start at the top, pull straight down” Then, model how to write the letter ‘T’ as assigned below, verbalizing the stroke formation.
Encourage the children to mimic your movements and verbalize the same instructions as they practice writing the letter. Allow the children to have time to practice by tracing the letter T in cornstarch.
Why choose our pre-k summer program?
Your pre-K kid is ready to learn! And at Childcare Network, our Jumpstart Program offers a unique opportunity for your child to gain essential skills in a fun and supportive setting. We provide a safe and nurturing environment where children can thrive and prepare for their next big step into kindergarten.
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Prepare your Pre-K child for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Sign up now for Summer 2025 and give your child the best start for their kindergarten journey! For more details about JUMPSTART and to enroll your child, find your school and schedule a tour now.