Kindergarten Worksheets

There are many Kindergarten worksheets, charts, and calendars easily accessible and available in the web. Worksheets are great ! What a joy when you see your little preschooler deliver what he knows in writing or drawing.

Worksheets are more of a delight to teachers and parents (maybe some kids) to give them the assurance that the child is learning. Too much of it will turn the child away from the joy of learning and from exercising his God given creativity. This is the same with examinations and tests.

Do you realize that most kids are born with creativity ?
What happens to us adults ? Where have all that creativity gone to?Did we stifle it somewhere along the way in our growth ? Did our school system put us in that learning box that wiped out most of our creativity ?

I think a great head start is to focus generally on the overall child development rather than just their intellect.

How about giving a blank page to a child and let him or her doodle - then ask "What have you drawn?" then, "Tell me a story ...." This way, a child actually makes his own worksheets.

Sometimes, when you want a child to express what's in his heart, or his experience of the day, you can ask him to draw his emotions like, "How do you feel today? Draw a smiling face if you are happy, a sad face if you are sad.... etc" or "What did you see when you woke up from bed this morning ?"

Don't worry about the clarity of the child's drawing. It may not mean a thing to us adults, but it makes a lot of sense to the little preschooler mind.

Remember that a preschooler's mind is like a sponge, soaking in lots and lots of information from his surrounding. Without being stifled, a child is naturally creative and enjoys unstructured worksheets.

WHEN TO USE WORKSHEETS?

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