The first weeks at school it not only fascinating experience for the new first grader, but also serious test, the real stress. Training of the child for school does not come down only to training in his skills of letter, account and reading. Psychological, physical and emotional readiness is very important.
Investigation on the area
Shortly before the beginning of academic year you go with the child to school. Show it where there is not only its class, but also a locker room, the dining room and, surely, a toilet. Of course, the teacher will explain everything to children in their first days at school, but the child can be lost in abundance of information. The problem with a toilet can develop into a real crash if the kid is ashamed to ask once again.
"But in the morning so there is a wish to sleep …"
Begin to accustom the kid to the school mode in advance. Of course, in the last days of summer there is a wish to luxuriate in a bed longer, but it is necessary to pay dearly for this pleasure at the beginning of academic year. Children will be also so rather physiological stress, you should not add to it sharp change of the mode. To parents of first graders also will be useful "to return to normal", there is nothing worse than when academic year begins at the child with hasty collecting, full nervous urgings on, or constant delay through your fault.
Mom, esteem
Read the kid of the book about first graders in whom children come up against different "school" situations and with honor pass through them. These stories and stories perfectly train the child for school, allow not only to discuss with parents read, but also to express the fears, to speak and overcome them. It can be:
- Evgeny Schwartz's "first grader";
- "Ella in the first class", Timo Parvela;
- "Bylina about furious first graders" of Grigory Oster;
- "Kysh, Dvaportfelya and whole week" Yuz Aleshkovsky, etc.
Will help to prepare the child for school also the book by Sayeeda Sakharova "Kalinkina school for first graders". In it, except the curious narration, there is a lot of practical advice about that how to behave at school how to collect a portfolio, to choose a simple pencil, most to make a day regimen.
Nice to meet you
At a meeting of parents of future first graders try to get acquainted with mothers whose children will study with yours in one class. It is good to agree with them about several joint walks. If in the first school day children do not appear in an environment of "strangers", it will be much easier to get used to school everyday life to them.
I will be near
Let know to the child that you will be near. Try to take a vacation for the first school weeks and let the kid know that you are ready to come to the rescue of it immediately. One feeling that mom or dad postponed all affairs and "insure" it, it is capable to instill confidence in your child. If your future first grader has no phone yet, buy it the simplest model and teach it to use. The thought that something happens should not torment him, and it will not be able to contact you.
"Tranquility, only tranquility!"
Talk to the child about what to worry before the first school day – normally. Let family members will share with it the school stories, will tell about the experience, will show photos. Prepare not only the child, but also his emotional relatives for school. Tell them that in the first "working" day of the kid it is not necessary to sob with happiness and pride, to overload the kid with the experiences and to disorient it. The barometer of family mood has to keep on a mark "quiet joyful", avoid a storm of emotions. Future first grader of the has enough them.