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At
School the Children will: |
At
Home prepare your child: |
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Make a variety of
choices (choosing activities, materials to
use...). |
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Help your
child make choices at home. |
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Share materials
and toys with other children. |
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Give
opportunities for your child to learn to share, wait, and
take turns. |
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Dress himself or
herself to go home and outside to play. |
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Encourage your
child to practice putting on a jacket and tying sneakers
independently. |
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Communicate needs
to other children and adults. |
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Help your child
to use language to make needs known and to solve problems.
(going to the bathroom, asking for help...) |
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Participate in
writing and reading activities. |
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Involve your
child in writing and drawing. Talk about your child's name,
the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. |
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Learn about
numbers, shapes, sorting, estimating, graphing, measuring,
and talk about their observations. |
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Talk about shapes
and patterns in their environment. Do sorting
activities with toys or clothes. Play games with your
child that involve counting, matching, or patterning. |
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Listen to
stories, poems and rhymes and non-fiction texts. |
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Tell stories and
read poems together. Read with your child and talk
about the pictures, and the words and letters. |
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The # 1
thing you can do to help your child succeed
in
school is to "READ-READ-READ" with,
and to
your child everyday!
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