Preparing your child for a successful start to school
Entering kindergarten ready to learn is essential to ensure that a child experiences a positive and academically successful kindergarten year.
Readiness skills at the start of kindergarten are shown to have important consequences for a child’s acquisition of knowledge and skills and are associated with positive educational outcomes in later years.
Kindergarten consultations, assessments, and preparation
Young children develop and mature at very different rates and in different ways. There are many factors that contribute to a child’s readiness for kindergarten. Consulting with the family, communicating with the preschool, and working with individual children to understand their strengths, challenges, and areas needing further development all facilitate the process of making an informed decision about kindergarten readiness.
Assessing children’s abilities in the dimensions of early learning and development are important in determining their preparedness for the expectations they will encounter in kindergarten. Areas of informal assessment include:
Language and communication skills
Emergent literacy abilities
Cognitive abilities (including mathematical understanding)
Physical and motor development (gross motor, fine motor, and graphomotor)
Social and emotional development
Approaches towards learning
Dr. Cappelloni provides the following services:
Consulting with families to discuss their child’s readiness for kindergarten
Meeting with the individual preschool-age child to assess the child’s readiness for kindergarten
Helping families in choosing a right fit kindergarten
Working with the individual child to strengthen specific readiness skills and abilities
Kindergarten readiness programs
To help facilitate a smooth and successful start to kindergarten, Dr. Cappelloni designs, directs, and teaches Kindergarten Readiness programs. The goal of these programs is to nurture all areas of early learning and development through exposure, exploration, and engagement. Children are introduced to many kindergarten routines, activities, and Kindergarten Common Core Content standards. These include:
Early literacy development
Vocabulary development
Comprehension
Listening and speaking skills
Fine motor skills and handwriting
Numeracy skills and mathematical reasoning
Social/Emotional components of cooperation, following directions, building self-confidence, task persistence, and independence
Activities are embedded in a developmentally appropriate curriculum encouraging creative play, exploration, discovery, and learning.
Student
“I like Dr. Nancy because she is very kind to me and helped me a lot.”
Parent
“Dr. Nancy has made learning very fun for our child and also helped build up his confidence in his skills.”
Schedule a consultation
To discuss your child’s individual needs, interests, and readiness for kindergarten as well as addressing your concerns, choices, and application processes.