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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Dylan and Matthew Goode bounded into the Score Educational Center in Alameda, Dylan, 6, asked for a turn with the ladybug-shaped computer mouse. And Matthew, 4, wanted to know when he could shoot ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past few weeks, incoming kindergartners have been spending time at Green Valley Elementary learning lessons that will help them when school starts in two weeks: how to open their own cartons ...