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Getting Involved in Your child's Education When
parents are involved in their children's education, kids do better
in school. |
Back to (or Starting) School
 Wow! School!Wow! It is fall and time for school! Share Izzy's first day as she travels from her mountain home to gleefully experience the first day. A large format supports the bold, highly detailed illustrations where readers can find Izzy to share her excitement.  To
ease separation anxieties, In My
Heart by Molly Bang telegraphs
reassurance and love. A working mother
and her preschooler may not be together
during the day, but no matter what Mom
is doing (“. . . waiting for the
bus . . . reading the paper . . .”), she
tells her child: “You’re in my heart.”
The authentic, informal tone and warmly
colored illustrations emphasize the
richness of the parent’s and child’s
separate lives rather than the
difficulties of being apart. (2–4 years)
And don’t miss these classic first-day stories: Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner! by Amy Schwartz, Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes, and Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff.
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 Watch a video of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
For
children, sight word
recognition is an
important step to
being able to
efficiently learn to
read. If they don’t
have to stop and
consider what each
word is, they will
have the freedom to
comprehend the
meaning and context
of sentences and
paragraphs.
Consequently, it’s
critical for
parents,
babysitters,
guardians,
grandparents and
educators to help
beginning readers
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Three
books specifically address what
pre-kindergartners can expect on the
first day. In Kindergarten Rocks!
by Katie Davis, Dexter isn’t scared
about starting kindergarten — his
stuffed dog Rufus is the nervous one.
Older sister Jessie understands and
reassures Dexter that he’s going to have
a great time. The humorous art
resembling kids’ crayon drawings is just
right for this comforting story. Anne
Rockwell treads similar ground in Welcome to Kindergarten, when a
young boy
and
his mother tour his new classroom and
find it’s not so big and scary after
all. Rosemary Wells’s collection of
forty-five vignettes follows Emily, a
little rabbit-child, through a whole
year in My Kindergarten. Wells
draws on many iconic images of
kindergarten — first-day jitters,
library visits — as well as traditional
subjects such as numbers, letters, and
patterns. (all 3–5 years)