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Before Your Child
Begins School |
- Children look to their
parents for ideas about school – what to expect and how to
view the learning process. Before school begins, you can
help your child develop an attitude that learning is fun.
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- Have a count down with
your kid. Make a paper chain – one link for every day leading up to
school and each day that you are closer to the beginning of school,
remove one link. Or have a calendar with a full month leading up to
the start of school and every day let them mark the calendar with a
sticker leading up to the big day. Make it a fun time and your child
will begin the best years of their lives with anticipation,
eagerness and a fond liking of school.
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- Read with your child.
This gets your child in the habit of sitting still through story
time and also helps you establish study time together long before
the school year begins. You may even want to call it homework so
they can feel important as they learn to take responsibility of
spending time each day learning.
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- The library is a good
place to get books, most allow you to borrow books for a small fee
or sometimes free and gives you lots of reading options without
paying for expensive books.
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Play games together. There are lots of fun educational games on the
market like Candy Land, High-Ho-Cheerios, Twister and UNO that focus
on colors, counting and following simple instructions. It is
important for kids to learn to play with someone else, and
also take turns. Your child will learn through playing fun
games that learning is fun.
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You might even have one special evening a week that you call
game night where you play several games together, or if you
have the time, you may want to play one game each night
before bedtime.
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Write poems together. Find words that rhyme and make up simple
limericks or poems together. This is endless fun, and helps
your child recognize words by sound.
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because when you're well...everyone wins!