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Goals:

·   Provide parents with information on importance of school-readiness skills (academic, social and self-management)

·   Provide parents with materials and resources which promote school-readiness skills at home

·   Establish positive connection between parents of incoming kindergarten students and the public school

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·   Encourage early registration to kindergarten

·   Strengthen ties between pre-kinder providers and the public school—promote academic focus in PK

Session Agenda:

1.  Introduction

a.  Purpose of the session

b.  Identifying your family’s public school

c.  Five years old on August 31^st

d.  Kindergarten Registration dates, windows

e.  Kinder Orientations at individual schools

f.  We will provide Q&A at the end of our talk

 

2.  Preparing Your Child For Kindergarten

a.  Handout: Widely Held Expectations

b.  Handout: What Parents Can Do to Prepare Children for Public School

c.  Handouts:

i.  The Right Kind of Early Praise

ii.  Promoting Willpower

iii.  Web-based resources

 

3.  A Typical Day in Kindergarten

a.  What do students do, and what social/emotional skills are needed to function successfully in this environment

i.  Handout sample schedule

ii.  Arrival and routines

iii.  Stamina for academic success

iv.  Social interactions, problem solving skills, deferred gratification

 

4.   Questions and Answers

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