Kindergarten Readiness Tips for Parents

Before a child goes off to Kindergarten, there is much you, as a parent, can do to help prepare your child for a good start.  Kids don’t learn all the skills and fine motor movements needed on their own.  It takes practice with a patient and encouraging parent to learn even basic skills like coloring… Read More

SuperHeros Sight Words Worksheets

  In order to start reading, both preschool kids and kindergarteners have to learn some of the most commonly used “sight words” also known as high frequency words. This fun Superhero themed sight words packet contains worksheets and activities to help get children reading and recognizing the first group of sight words.  Kids begin to… Read More

Fall Counting Preschool Worksheet

Fall counting worksheet

  A new preschool worksheet for Fall.  This Autumn counting worksheet will help with number recognition and it is a fun, seasonal worksheet for Kindergarten readiness. Print the Fall Counting Worksheet By learning | Filed under Educational Printables, Numbers | Tags: counting worksheets, educational worksheets, kindergarten readiness, number worksheet, numbers, pre-K worksheets, preschool learning |… Read More

Alphabet Letters Tracing Resource

  These alphabet tracing pages are both fun and original worksheets.  Featuring both lowercase letters and uppercase letters, they will help your child recognize letters and form their letters correctly.  Kids can trace the letters and then trace the portion of the fun drawing to help with fine motor skills.  These worksheets help with letter… Read More

Halloween Preschool Worksheet for Counting Practice

Kids love holiday printables and this cute Halloween worksheet is great for number practice.  Any activity or printable is always great for early math building. Print the Halloween worksheet using the link back to our ZiggityZoom.com site where there are tons of free educational resources for kindergarten readiness and preschool learning. By learning | Filed… Read More

Flash Cards and Kindergarten Readiness

Learn how using something as simple as flashcards can enhance your child’s early learning and better prepare him for kindergarten. As parents we all want to help our children learn and succeed. Teachers encourage extra at-home practice because it reinforces important academic skills such as number or letter recognition, letter sound identification, or even math… Read More

10 Ways to Increase Literary Development in Children

One of the best ways you can help your child develop a love of learning is to help them discover a love of reading.  For some children reading is a very difficult task in the beginning.  The letters and words just don’t seem to flow together as it does for other children who seem to… Read More

Halloween Letter Matching Worksheet

Print this fun Halloween themed worksheet for preschoolers.  Fun letter matching worksheet featuring a witch, pumpkin, bat, spider and cat.  Letters W, P, B, S and C.  After completing the worksheet, let the kids draw their own Halloween image using the drawings from the worksheet to help them visualize. Another fine motor skill exercise. Halloween… Read More

Fun Number Writing Activities

Playing games is often a fun way to help preschoolers learn basic concepts.  Rather than make it drudgery, make learning fun.  Both parents and teachers can help make learning fun when they think outside of the box and try some novel ideas to learning.  Kids will be much more receptive to learning new things when… Read More

Environmental Print: A Teaching Resource

Stop, enter, exit, slow, go, street, lane, 7-11, bank, police, dvd, play- doh, Candy Land, love, Dora, pbskids, Nick …Environmental print; the words that are most publically displayed in our surroundings; are everywhere. As a parent and a teacher, I am glad this is so. As a child’s cognition and understanding progresses, each day they… Read More