While you are having fun together with your kids under the summer sun, you might wish to think ahead. Take in note some ideas that will help you to get ready child for his or her first fantastic grade year. In spite of teachers who read lots in kindergarten continue to read books to your kid all summer. Don’t overweight your bag and download amazing tales and stories from www.Gobookee.net. Save them on iPad or Smartphone and have access to wonderful fairies any time you wish.  
Keep practicing letters and sounds over the summer, play memory games by matching the letter with a picture of things that start with that sound. Listen to the sounds with your kid and write letters. Help child to keep journal of his summer adventures, write postcards to family and friends, practice writing on lines using a capital letter and then lower case letters. Need more ideas and activities? Search for free ebooks dedicated to first grade summer readiness.
There are tasks for improving mathematical skills kid have learned already in kindergarten. For example, recognizing and counting numbers up to 100, writing numbers 0-25, practicing simple addition and subtraction, skipping count by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, writing and solving simple addition and subtraction sentences.
Some authors of free books are sure that the best way to learn mathematics with kids is to play with money. While playing with coins, child should be able to name a penny, dime, nickel, quarter and dollar. Count coins together, “spend” money and see how much left, try to make plan of simple shopping. 
Teacher or parents should always assess kids’ results. Check writing techniques child use to write numerals and letters and review level of readiness due to standards determined in free e-books.  
More materials and templates for practice and getting ready for first grade summer activities you can download in our online library.