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School Preparation

Preparing young children for school starts with their birth. The first three years are now thought to be the most important time for cognitive development in children. Parents play an important role as the first teachers to their children. Parents, from the beginning need to interact with children ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Living With Autism: Moving From Preschool to Kindergarten

Planning for starting school and new relationships Leaving preschool to enter a more formal educational system represents a major transition for every parent and child. The environment will be new, challenges will be different and new relationships will be formed. While parents of children on ...
Reference | Autism Society of America

Helping Your Preschool Child: Ready to Learn

How well children will learn and develop and how well they will do in school depends on a number of things, including the children's health and physical well-being, their social and emotional preparation and their language skills and general knowledge of the world. Good Health and ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Teachers' Ratings of Important Qualities for Kindergarten Readiness

Teachers completing the survey were asked how important each of 15 stated qualities was for a child to be ready for kindergarten (Table 2). After assigning a level of importance to each quality, teachers were asked to select the three qualities they felt were most essential for a ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten

This checklist, although not exhaustive, can help to guide you in preparing your child for school. It's best to look at the items included as goals toward which to aim. They should be done, as much as possible, through everyday life or by fun activities you've planned with your child. If ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Preschoolers Activities

Children 3 to 5 Years Old What to Expect Between their third and fourth birthdays, children Start to play with other children, instead of next to them; Are more likely to take turns and share and begin to understand that other people have feelings and rights; Are increasingly ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Helping Your Preschool Child: What About Kindergarten?

The activities in this book will help your child get ready for kindergarten. As the first day of school approaches, however, you may want to do a few more things to set your child on the path to school success. Find out if the school that your child will attend has a registration deadline. ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Activities I -- Helping Your Child Succeed in School: Ages 5 to 7

Activities I -- Helping Your Child Succeed in School What follows are activities that you can do with your child to help build the skills, attitudes and behaviors needed for school success. There is no one "right" way to do the activities. You should make changes and shorten or lengthen ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Activities II -- Helping Your Child Succeed in School

How Much Does It Weigh? For children ages 5 to 7 Build your child's interest in math and science by helping him to observe, estimate and weigh objects at home. Using simple bathroom and kitchen scales at home prepares children for using equipment in school to weigh and measure. What You ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Science - Developing Your Child's Scientific Understanding

Unifying Concepts and Processes Children can be introduced gradually to basic scientific concepts that will provide a framework for understanding and connecting many scientific facts and observations. In this booklet, we will focus on five concepts and processes taken from the National ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education