What Your Child Should Know By the End of Kindergarten
Every Skill Your Kindergartner Needs to Know by the End of the Year, Direct from Teachers
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Being able to clearly write their own full name is an important kindergarten milestone. It turns out that handwriting is about more than just repeated practice. Allison La Prelle, a Santa Paula Unified School District kindergarten teacher, told POPSUGAR that fine motor skills come before writing, and she suggested playing with play dough and doing pincer grasp activities like picking up and counting dry beans or cereal to support this development.