Kindergarten

Getting a great start in school will help your child get a great start in life. Children do better in school, and enjoy school more, when they enter kindergarten with a few basic skills.

Video Resources

• School Bus Basics (English)
• School Bus Basics (Spanish)

• Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten (English)
• Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten (Spanish)

• Kindergarten Readiness – CCTV Production (English)
• Kindergarten Readiness – CCTV Production (Spanish)

• Preparing for Kindergarten – SKPS Production (English)
• Preparing for Kindergarten – SKPS Production (Spanish)

Other Resources

• PDF: Getting Ready for Kindergarten Workbook (English)
• PDF: Getting Ready for Kindergarten Workbook (Spanish)

• PDF: Kindergarten Orientation Presentation (English)
• PDF: Kindergarten Orientation Presentation (Spanish)

• Web page: Salem-Keizer Bus & Transportation Basics
• Web site: Vroom Brain Building Activities

Parents can help their children get ready to start kindergarten by helping them:

• Hold and use a pencil, crayon and scissors correctly.
• Write their name with correct capital and lower case letters.
• Identify numbers, basic shapes, colors and patterns.
• Learn how to take turns and share with others.
• Follow simple rules, routines and directions.
• Identify the letters of the alphabet.

New state standards have elevated learning expectations for all students. Once considered a transitional year between home and school, kindergarten now represents a child’s first year of formal education.

If you have questions about how to help your child get ready for kindergarten, please contact your school principal.

All Salem-Keizer elementary schools are committed to helping each kindergarten student make as much social and academic progress as possible, while developing confidence and a love of learning. School principals and staff are here to help your student take this important first step into education.