Doing a simple craft with your child can enable you to open a
conversation about starting school and help ease the transition.
Try making a book that describes the school day routine. This
could help with any fears that might arise and build excitement.
To begin the book you can take pictures, use coloring pages, or
draw pictures of different parts of the day, like eating
breakfast, brushing teeth, getting in the car, arriving at
school, etc. Next, take the different pictures and attach them
to pieces of paper. Have your child help you put them in the
correct order and then staple them into a book form. You can
write words to describe the pictures if you prefer or let your
child narrate the book themselves when they read it. Don’t
forget to give your book a title and author! Now you have a book
to read about your child’s day that can also build on narrative
skills by encouraging reading and writing with your child. This
article originally appeared in our Early Lit Bits eNewsletter.
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