How to Prepare Your Child for School
How to Prepare Your Child for School Without Preschool
1. Realize that you have been educating your child all along.
2. Discover how children learn.
3. Integrate learning into everyday life.
4. Read to your child
5. Nurture your child’s creativity
6. Allow time for imagination
7. Take advantage of your local library
8. Find one or two social outlets for your child
9. Keep a record of your child’s days
10. Enjoy your homeschooling journey
10 Ways to Prepare Your Child for School
1. Let your child know what his schedule will be like.
2. Ask your child about her feelings.
3. Visit the school with your child to see his new classroom and meet his new teacher before school officially starts.
4. Point out the positive aspects of starting school.
5. Let your child know that all kids are nervous about the first day of school.
6. Leave a note in your child's lunchbox that will remind him you're thinking of him while he's at school.
7. Reassure your child that if any problems arise at school, you will be there to help resolve them.
8. Try to have your child meet a classmate before the first day of school so she will already have a friend when school starts.
9. Arrange for your child to walk to school or ride together on the bus with another kid in the neighborhood.
10. Find out about after-school activities that your child can join.
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Tips from lifespy
- Browse through school books or research about the prescribed school curriculum.
- Make it very hands-on as possible.
- Give your child a scrapbook
- Let technology help you.
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