For parents of 1st grade students

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Mom! Dad! I want to be a student, what do you say?

Willingness to start schooling is manifested in the child's willingness and enthusiasm to take on new responsibilities and new challenges. This joy is related primarily to the transition to a higher level of education, i.e. in the opinion of a preschooler, there will be a transformation into an important, "adult" student.

"Mom, dad, help me do it myself ..."

Already today, we teachers and parents should make sure that children do not face difficult situations, resulting not from the lack of their own abilities or potential, but from the neglect of us adults. Let us support our children, let us help them prepare for school, being with them, providing them with various activities. But by developing their skills and abilities, let us allow such an important thing as independence.

I WANT TO BE WISE!

• Ask me every day what we did at school, what happened? Not only if I ate everything.

• Talk to me on a variety of topics whenever the opportunity arises! It develops my language, broadens my vocabulary.

• Watch TV with me, explain incomprehensible things to me. Today's fairy tales and children's programs are not always good for us!

• Read books to me every day and talk to me about what I have learned.

• When we cross the street, make me a habit of doing this properly - soon I will be going to school alone!

• Watch books, albums and educational videos with me on topics that interest me! This is how my interests develop and my knowledge broadens. I'm starting to be interested in letters

• and reading, help me, name the letters I am asking.

• Play board games with me, they develop my brain very well!

• Check if I count items correctly, because I do it a lot. Make up tasks for me!

• Organize trips for me. They don't have to be distant, but spend your time with me like that.

• Show me and explain different phenomena, it is very interesting for me.

I WANT TO BE INDEPENDENT!

• Don't take care of me during self-service activities, even when we are in a hurry, let me do it myself! Nobody can help me at school, it will be bad for everyone else to undress and put on their own clothes, and I will not be able to.

• Help me learn how to tie shoelaces by myself. I will need this skill, especially in the locker room and during gymnastics lessons at school.

• Let me help you with housekeeping at home! Even if I don't do it as well as you do, I'll do it better every time.

• Give me a responsible task every now and then!

• Praise me when I have fulfilled them well.

I WANT TO BE EFFICIENT!

• Let me run, overcome obstacles, climb and use a ladder. This will strengthen my spine, which will soon be carrying a heavy school bag to school.

• Play soccer with me! It develops my reflexes, throwing and gripping efficiency, and each of these games supports the work of the eye and hand. This is so important in preparing to learn to write and read!

• Teach me to ride a bike! Organize family cycling trips. Make health paths for me, let's walk them together. He'll do it right for you and me.

• Let me dress and undress myself. I know I have been doing this for a long time, but I will get better every day.

• Help me lace my shoes myself.

• Work out the whole body with me, including your hands and fingers. Learning to write is ahead of me. Pay attention to whether I hold the crayon, pencil correctly.

• Pay attention to whether you maintain the correct posture when sitting in front of the TV, computer or at the table! This is very important for my spine. He'll have to keep my back in the bench properly.

• Check if I spend too much time in front of the computer or TV!

• Remember that you are my role model….

I WANT TO HAVE FUNCTIONING HANDS!

• Make me a corner at home where I will develop manual skills. Sometimes I litter it a bit, but it's important that I have good hands before I start writing.

• Buy me scissors, plasticine, crayons, paints, a pencil.

• Equip my corner with paper and newspapers. Play cutting with me. We can cut everything out of old newspapers! It develops my hands, but also my imagination.

• Let me stick with plasticine even though it sticks to the floor sometimes. Plasticine wonderfully develops the work of the fingers.

• Let me paint with paints on old papers, newspapers. You can paint anything on them.

• Ask me to draw lines!

• Remember about the large lines and their degree of difficulty.

I WANT TO WRITE BEAUTIFULLY!

• Let me be active in the manual corner at home, so that I can cut, stick, paint and draw at will. I know I'm going to get dirty, but it's important for my development right now. Make sure I clean up later and praise me for it.

• Motivate me to draw lines and other patterns. Even though they won't work out right away, praise me for making the slightest progress.

• First, give me large sheets of paper and let me draw irregular lines, fill the spaces with color or paint. Then I can try to draw straight lines with a pencil or a crayon, from left to right, vice versa, top down, bottom up.

• The next step in preparing me to learn to write is drawing straight lines in the ruler. It cannot be a notebook! It must be a large page with wide lines. I'll be drawing straight lines from left to right. Then I can start drawing zigzags and waves. When I master them, more patterns. Finally, I learn to draw loop patterns that resemble letters. However, I still draw patterns in wide lines.

• Before going to school, with well-mastered patterns, you can gradually reduce the lines for me. Throughout these exercises, check that I am seated correctly at the table, that I have a well-arranged sheet of paper, and that I am holding the writing instrument properly.

I WANT TO READ WELL!

• Read newspapers and books with me - remember that I learn by imitation.

• Read me books every day.

• Help me learn directions, that is, distinguish right from left.

• Play with me in coding pictures and reading codes - these are already elements of reading!

• Solve rebuses and puzzles with me, make puzzles - they develop my perceptiveness.

• Let's have a race, who will find more details or differences in the picture?

• Check if I have a good understanding of the page of the book and can I point to e.g. its bottom right corner?

• Have fun spelling with me so that I break a word into syllables, count syllables in a word, combine syllables into new words.

• Help me learn how to vote! It is quite difficult and takes a lot of time. I have to develop the ability to distinguish sounds in a word, combine sounds into words, define the first, middle and last. Let's visit the library, for now I'm looking at pictures, but I'll be reading the first words soon.

• Praise me always for that.

I WANT TO SPEAK CLEARLY

• Ask me to tell you poems, sing songs that I learned at school.

• Explain incomprehensible words to me.

• If my speech is incorrect, let's visit a speech therapist - he will definitely help me.

• I will have no problems at school later.

I WANT TO COUNT WELL!

• Check if I'm counting correctly!

• Let me count on my fingers, or point to the items to be converted. Up to 100!

• Play with me adding and subtracting items. But only to 10 for now, because I can't still.

• Check if I can distinguish between the terms: on, under, behind, before, etc.

• Make sure that I am listing the days of the week, the seasons and the months of the month in the correct order.

• Let's organize races, see if I can determine who came to the finish line first, second or third?

• Solve math puzzles with me.

• See if I rank items correctly - e.g. from largest to smallest.

• Arrange rhythmic compositions with me - it's fun! Make a game with me, let's come up with the rules and play with the whole family!

I WANT FRIENDS!

• Pay attention to my behavior at home and in the yard - towards colleagues, siblings, the elderly.

• If I am faced with a difficult situation, talk to me and explain what I did wrong, and praise me whenever I do something right.

• Emphasize the importance of camaraderie and friendship often, give me good examples - I will try to follow them. Talk to me about my colleagues.

• Don't criticize others in front of me - I'll do the same.

• Make sure that I do not hurt animals, someday I might hurt a man.

• Be consistent in what you say and do - if you promise something, keep your word. Even if it's supposed to be a punishment.