Preparing For School
The skills that typically help children transition easily into a school setting include:
Here are some tips on how you can support your child in developing these skills:
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Check out these fantastic resources to see what else you can do to prepare your child for school.
BBC parenting: Starting School
Practical tips to make the transition to school less stressful for both parents and children.
Going to School: Starting School
Handy step-by-step advice for parents, from preparation and the first days of school, to settling in and dealing with parental-separation pangs.
School readiness
A practical analysis of what school readiness means, including examples of children’s social and emotional maturity.
Starting School
A helpful list of things for parents to do with their children just prior to starting school and during the first few weeks.
Starting School with a Smile
- The ability to pay attention for extended periods and focus on tasks
- The ability to adapt to a new environment and new rules
- The ability to work independently.
Here are some tips on how you can support your child in developing these skills:
- Reading is a great way of increasing your child’s attention span. Take cues from your child as to how long they can pay attention to one thing. As a guide, teachers may expect in the beginning that children will attend a group activity for about 20 minutes. Towards the end of the 1st year, the expectation maybe up to 30 to 40 minutes
- Introduce your child to new experiences – attend a children’s play, visit your local museum, give guidelines on the rules – when it is appropriate to talk, when you have to wait your turn
- Give your child responsibilities at home. Start assigning chores for your child to complete independently such as setting the table, helping with the laundry, unloading safe items from the dishwasher
- Practice Writing – invite your child to write new words, copy letters and numbers and draw pictures
- Make sure your child is comfortable introducing themselves and reciting their name, address and phone number
- Help by reinforcing skills and participate in counting and measuring activities; practice using computers
- Build your child’s co-operation skills, play games that involve taking turns
- Play act being at school
- Encourage your child to talk about experiences with you
http://www.careforkids.com.au/articlesv2/article.asp?ID=48
Check out these fantastic resources to see what else you can do to prepare your child for school.
BBC parenting: Starting School
Practical tips to make the transition to school less stressful for both parents and children.
Going to School: Starting School
Handy step-by-step advice for parents, from preparation and the first days of school, to settling in and dealing with parental-separation pangs.
School readiness
A practical analysis of what school readiness means, including examples of children’s social and emotional maturity.
Starting School
A helpful list of things for parents to do with their children just prior to starting school and during the first few weeks.
Starting School with a Smile
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