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[quote=Anonymous]I feel for you OP. This sounds like a terrible PreK experience. There are ways to help prepare your daughter for kindergarten without forcing her to sit and do worksheets. And she can learn to focus on activities . .it just doesn't have to be tedious worksheets.

For writing: Have her practice writing on anything but a piece of paper! My daughter loved window markers and we would practice words and letters on our patio doors. Same with numbers. I would put simple equations for her to solve and she would write it on the window. Markers work great on magnatiles. You can have her put letters on the tiles and then she can build words by putting the tiles together. Have her write letters in a white oil pastel and then paint with watercolors to "reveal" them.

Reading: Don't ruin the experience of reading for her. Make sure you reserve time for you to read to her without any expectation of her to "learn." She is learning a lot from just that! Write letters or simple CVC words on post-its and plaster them around the room. Call out a letter or word and have her run around to find it. Write out a bunch of "b" words and "d" words and give her bandaids to sticks over the "b" words.

Numbers: Get pony beads and have her make bracelets or necklaces in patterns. Or get beads with letters and have her make friendship bracelets with friends' names. I taught her how to count by 10 and 5 by writing the numbers on green paper lily pads and had her frog leap to the next number. I drew out 10 window frames and had her stamp 10 spiders in each frame to help practice counting to 100. Put a long piece of painter's tape on the floor and make a pattern on one side with magntatiles. Try and have her make a mirror image on the other side.

All of these things should only take 10-15 min at a time. Just enough to keep her attention (although she may get into it and want to do it for longer).

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