Beyond The Backpack | Preparing Your Child For Kindergarten
Nick Jr. invites you to be part of a great adventure: Beyond the Backpack, a nationwide initiative to promote overall kindergarten readiness for preschoolers. Start this journey by completing the readiness check-in to receive a customized learning plan for your child.
About Beyond The Backpack
Beyond the Backpack complements Nick Jr.’s curriculum-based preschool programming by providing parents and caregivers with tips, activities, and resources focusing on five pillars: Family Engagement, Health & Wellness, Literacy Skills, Social & Emotional Skills, and STEM Skills (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math).
Activities - Beyond The Backpack
Nick Jr. Beyond the Backpack is here to help you get your little one ready for kindergarten. Fill out the quick 3-minute check-in to customize a learning plan for your child.
Is Your Child Ready For School? | Beyond The Backpack
Complete all questions by choosing the answers below that best describe your preschooler’s abilities. We will email you a custom learning plan filled with activities to do with your child. Get Started!
Gil & Molly’s ABC Letter Tracing | Beyond The Backpack
Kids can practice writing their ABCs—from A to Z—with some help from Molly & Gil. Sharpen those pencils and get your preschooler started on 5 FIN-tastic pages of learning and tracing letters.
Exploring Emotions - Beyond The Backpack
Feeling Meter–Because preschoolers may have difficulty expressing how they feel, using a feeling meter can make it a little easier. Cut out a long strip of paper, and then help your child draw five simple faces that express different feelings (e.g. happy, sad, okay, angry, scared).
Nick Jr.| Kids Shows | Full Episodes & Video Clips
Find all your favorite shows on Nickjr.com! Watch full episodes and video clips of Paw Patrol, Blues Clues and You!, Bubble Guppies, Peppa Pig, and many more, all right here!
Read with your Nick Jr. Friends | Beyond The Backpack
Read with your Nick Jr. Friends. Print / Download. Get kids excited to read every day! Sticker rewards from Blaze, Shimmer and Shine, Bubble Guppies, and PAW Patrol will motivate kids and help them track their progress every week.
Rhyming Time | Beyond The Backpack
Rhyming Time. Playing with rhyming words can be fun, but rhyming also helps children learn about sound and letter patterns. Children learn that words can sound almost the same (bat/cat) and that by simply changing an initial letter or two, they can …
Paw Patrol Potty Training Chart | Beyond The Backpack
Download this chart to help track your little one’s potty progress! | Beyond The Backpack.