Comfort, play, teach: entering kindergarten.
Your child’s entry into kindergarten represents a significant change for him and you. The arrival of this new stage may inspire you with different emotions and require some changes to your daily habits.
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Here’s how the Comfort, Play and Teach approach can help your child during this transition. Also Read: Parrot Coloring Pages
Comfort
- It is usual for your child to need reassurance about their new teacher’s new environment. Prepare him for this change by talking to him about it as soon as he registers at school because the transition to school is prepared long before the day of the new school year.
Even though he is now at school, he keeps the house routines (mornings, after school, mealtimes, evenings, and weekends). They give him the impression that the future is predictable, and they secure him by allowing him to foresee the sequence of events. Talk with him about his new school routines.
- Encourage him to do some daily chores, like getting out the clothes he’ll be wearing the next day at school. This gives him some control over this new situation, which he needs.
- If possible, visit his new school and classroom, and meet his teacher*. This will teach him about the school and maybe get there more efficiently each day.
Player
- Even if your child’s days and yours are busy, take the time to have fun and relax together. You can, for example:
- – go to the library ;
- – play in the park ;
- – cooking together;
- – dance to lively music;
- – hugging each other and talking about the best part of your day.
- Give your child things they can “play at school” with their stuffed animals and dolls. He will enjoy showing them how to color, flip through books, sing the alphabet song, and write with big crayons. Role-playing what he experiences at school allows him to practice using what he learns and gives him self-confidence.
To teach
- Before you put your child to bed, relax and read books about sight words for kindergarten together. This will allow your child to ask questions and may help him overcome his fears if he has any.
- Accept good in what your kid realizes at the academy and display their drawings, crafts, and tracings of numbers and letters at home. Point out his successes when his teacher tells you about them and praise him if he tells you about his accomplishments. This will show her that you value her education.
- Share with your child some of your favorite memories from school. Show him pictures of you when you were in kindergarten and tell him stories about your friends and teacher. He will be able to find commonalities and differences between what you have experienced and what he is experiencing himself. Finally – and this is the most important thing – he will know that you, too, have already been a child and that you understand what he is going through.
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