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Get Ready for School

photo of childSkills to Practice this Month

Encourage helpfulness, cooperation, sharing, and concern for others. Help your child to practice sharing toys, books, and other items. Talk to your child about what it means to be helpful and to cooperate with others.

Establish family rules for behaviors and make sure everyone follows them. Practice following directions. Talk to your child about what rules are and why it is important to follow them.

Activities

Teach your child how to work or play with others. Play games that need 2 or more people.

Play games where children must follow directions, such as board games, tag, “Follow the Leader,” or an obstacles course.

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Suggested Reading

Books for Children

When You Go to Kindergarten
by James Howe

How Kind!
by Mary Murphy

Anna Shares
by Barbara Baker

The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog
by Mo Willems

Slow Train to Oxmox
by Kurt Cyrus

The Lion and the Mouse
by Aesop

Books for Parents and Caregivers

Games for Learning: Ten Minutes a Day to Help Your Child Do Well in School- From Kindergarten to Third Grade
by Peggy Kaye

Ready, Start, School! : Nurturing and Guiding Your Child Through Preschool & Kindergarten
by Sandra F. Rief

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