Now that you know about how to help your son or daughter at home, this page discusses how you can cooperate with your child's school.
Talk to Teachers
Asking your pre-school teacher about what activities they find helpful for developing fine motor skills is a great way to learn new ways to help your child progress. Also, asking what activities they do at school can help you better determine what to do at home with your child-- you might try to do different activities at home than your child does at school to better supplement your child"s learning. Another important thing to check in with your child's pre-school teacher(s) about is whether or not they notice if your son or daughter is having any issues with their fine motor skills. Talk to Your Child Talking to your child about school can also be constructive. It is a great way for you to learn what is happening at school so that you can better help your child to learn while they are not at school, as well as to gauge your child"s comfort and confidence with different skills required of him or her at school. Also pay attention to what they are excited about (which may be many things) and try to do similar things at home with them every once in a while. Since there isn't any homework in pre-school, you can even use the activities from our activities page to introduce the idea of homework as working on school skills at home. Done with Pre-K! Now what? Now that your child has completed pre-school, they are moving on to kindergarten, which can be intimidating for both you and your child! Family Education provides a good resource for how you can prepare your child before and on the first day of kindergarten. You can find this information by clicking here. Sources:
Starting Kindergarten: How to Prepare Your Child. (2014, January 1). Retrieved June 16, 2014, from http://school.familyeducation.com/kindergarten/anxiety/51261.html?detoured=1 |