Help Your Child Get Ready For Kindergarten
| Kindle excitement about Kindergarten. Visit your school and meet your child's teacher. |
| Invite new school friends home to play and help your child build strong friendships. |
| Never forget safety. Teach your child rules. |
| Discuss what your child will be learning in school, colors, numbers, shapes, and letters and words. Plus topics like school friends, bats, spiders, dinosaurs, birds, insects, animals and plants and seeds. |
| Explore your neighborhood together. Talk about the world we live in. |
| Review the good behavior expected of your child, such as making good choices and following the rules. |
| Get involved at your child's school. Join the Home and School Association. Volunteer in the classroom. |
| Answer your child's questions about school. Reassure your child that school is fun! |
| Read to your child every day. Visit the library together. |
| Turn every day into a learning experience. Let your child help with everyday choices. |
| Encourage your child to eat well, get enough sleep, bathe daily and brush teeth 2 times every day. |
| Notice the new things your child is learning to do. Reinforce your child's progress with praise. Way to Go! |