Kindergarten is a big step for both child and parent. Taking a few strategic actions will help ease the transition and help you best prepare your preschooler for “the big K.” 1. Teach concepts. While ...

Already a pro at reading phonetic words such as “cat,” she has spent seven weeks learning about the silent “e,” letter combinations such as “sh” and other more advanced reading skills. She’s been ...

The 4- and 5-year-old students in teacher Sarah Odom’s class are loudly chiming out numbers as she shows them the numerals on a series of flash cards. The children can recognize figures as high as 27 ...

Lori Kraut, an Adams Elementary School kindergarten teacher, talks with Marin Tarnowski, 4, about what she's most looking to in kindergarten. Tarnowski is one of Kraut's 44 students whose home she ...

North Carolina's Office of Early Learning released a new guide to support families and caregivers preparing children for kindergarten.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A milestone moment: As kids get ready to enter kindergarten, experts answer parents’ most common questions. (Credit: ...

School is quickly approaching, and for many 5- and 6-year-olds it’s a whole new world — kindergarten. The big enchilada, real school, homework, larger classes, longer days, and crowded hallways. Many ...

When other kids their age started kindergarten last month, 5-year-old Caitlin and Jackson Pilisuk just waited on the sidelines. The Oakland twins were eligible, but their parents and preschool ...

Roxana Perez fretted about her painfully shy daughter Jocelyn and how difficult the 4-year-old might find kindergarten this year. So the 30-year-old Santa Ana homemaker, who lives in an affordable ...