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• Preparation for school
• Get to know your school
• Establish a routine
• Establish a healthy diet
• Attend ALL orientation sessions and parent
  meetings

• Preparation for school
• Get to know your school
• Establish a routine
• Establish a healthy diet
• Attend ALL orientation sessions and parent
  meetings

Ready For School!
Ready For School!
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• Preparation for school
• Get to know your school
• Establish a routine
• Establish a healthy diet
• Attend ALL orientation sessions and parent
  meetings

• Preparation for school
• Get to know your school
• Establish a routine
• Establish a healthy diet
• Attend ALL orientation sessions and parent
  meetings

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• School readiness how to know if your child is
  ready
• Independence
• Responsibility for own belongings
• Age/maturity
• Social skills
• Concentration
• Communication skills
• Other opinions
• talking to preschool teacher/ daycare worker is
  important
• Weigh up all the options
• Social emotional effects of your child starting
  too early

• School readiness how to know if your child is
  ready
• Independence
• Responsibility for own belongings
• Age/maturity
• Social skills
• Concentration
• Communication skills
• Other opinions
• talking to preschool teacher/ daycare worker is
  important
• Weigh up all the options
• Social emotional effects of your child starting
  too early

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• School readiness how to know if your child is
  ready
• Independence
• Responsibility for own belongings
• Age/maturity
• Social skills
• Concentration
• Communication skills
• Other opinions
• talking to preschool teacher/ daycare worker is
  important
• Weigh up all the options
• Social emotional effects of your child starting
  too early

• School readiness how to know if your child is
  ready
• Independence
• Responsibility for own belongings
• Age/maturity
• Social skills
• Concentration
• Communication skills
• Other opinions
• talking to preschool teacher/ daycare worker is
  important
• Weigh up all the options
• Social emotional effects of your child starting
  too early

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• Physical development
• Gross motor activities
• Jumping, running, climbing
• Fine motor activities
• Cutting, drawing, writing, painting etc.
• Dress themselves
• Turning pages of book carefully correctly
• Gross motor skills generally appear before fine
  motor skills

• Physical development
• Gross motor activities
• Jumping, running, climbing
• Fine motor activities
• Cutting, drawing, writing, painting etc.
• Dress themselves
• Turning pages of book carefully correctly
• Gross motor skills generally appear before fine
  motor skills

Ready For School!
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pre/school name
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pre/school name

• Physical development
• Gross motor activities
• Jumping, running, climbing
• Fine motor activities
• Cutting, drawing, writing, painting etc.
• Dress themselves
• Turning pages of book carefully correctly
• Gross motor skills generally appear before fine
  motor skills

• Physical development
• Gross motor activities
• Jumping, running, climbing
• Fine motor activities
• Cutting, drawing, writing, painting etc.
• Dress themselves
• Turning pages of book carefully correctly
• Gross motor skills generally appear before fine
  motor skills

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• Tips for helping your childs physical
  development
• Getting away from the TV!!
• Playing with others
• Encourage outdoor play
• Climbing, ball games

• Tips for helping your childs physical
  development
• Getting away from the TV!!
• Playing with others
• Encourage outdoor play
• Climbing, ball games

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• Tips for helping your childs physical
  development
• Getting away from the TV!!
• Playing with others
• Encourage outdoor play
• Climbing, ball games

• Tips for helping your childs physical
  development
• Getting away from the TV!!
• Playing with others
• Encourage outdoor play
• Climbing, ball games

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• Why is reading important?
• Provides opportunities for children to learn
  about books
• Builds vocabulary
• Helps the children to identify sounds and letters
• Builds general knowledge and knowledge about the
  world
• Helps prepare children for other types of print

• Why is reading important?
• Provides opportunities for children to learn
  about books
• Builds vocabulary
• Helps the children to identify sounds and letters
• Builds general knowledge and knowledge about the
  world
• Helps prepare children for other types of print

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pre/school name
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pre/school name

• Why is reading important?
• Provides opportunities for children to learn
  about books
• Builds vocabulary
• Helps the children to identify sounds and letters
• Builds general knowledge and knowledge about the
  world
• Helps prepare children for other types of print

• Why is reading important?
• Provides opportunities for children to learn
  about books
• Builds vocabulary
• Helps the children to identify sounds and letters
• Builds general knowledge and knowledge about the
  world
• Helps prepare children for other types of print

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• Tips for reading with your child
• Get really excited about books
• Be dramatic, animated, look excited and use
  different voices for the characters
• Talk to your child about the books you liked to
  read when you were a child
• Let the child join in
• Slide your finger under the words as you read
• Teaching your child to read
• Reading aloud to children helps them learn to
  read
• Children learn to read by listening to other
  people read
• As the childs writing skills develop their
  reading ability improves

• Tips for reading with your child
• Get really excited about books
• Be dramatic, animated, look excited and use
  different voices for the characters
• Talk to your child about the books you liked to
  read when you were a child
• Let the child join in
• Slide your finger under the words as you read
• Teaching your child to read
• Reading aloud to children helps them learn to
  read
• Children learn to read by listening to other
  people read
• As the childs writing skills develop their
  reading ability improves

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• Tips for reading with your child
• Get really excited about books
• Be dramatic, animated, look excited and use
  different voices for the characters
• Talk to your child about the books you liked to
  read when you were a child
• Let the child join in
• Slide your finger under the words as you read
• Teaching your child to read
• Reading aloud to children helps them learn to
  read
• Children learn to read by listening to other
  people read
• As the childs writing skills develop their
  reading ability improves

• Tips for reading with your child
• Get really excited about books
• Be dramatic, animated, look excited and use
  different voices for the characters
• Talk to your child about the books you liked to
  read when you were a child
• Let the child join in
• Slide your finger under the words as you read
• Teaching your child to read
• Reading aloud to children helps them learn to
  read
• Children learn to read by listening to other
  people read
• As the childs writing skills develop their
  reading ability improves

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• Cognitive skills required for Kindergarten
• Alphabet
• Counting
• Write name
• Drawing
• Colouring
• Know body parts
• E.g. nose, ears etc.
• Listening
• Attention to detail
• Discuss stories that have been read to them
• Concentrate for longer periods
• Plan complete task with parent

• Cognitive skills required for Kindergarten
• Alphabet
• Counting
• Write name
• Drawing
• Colouring
• Know body parts
• E.g. nose, ears etc.
• Listening
• Attention to detail
• Discuss stories that have been read to them
• Concentrate for longer periods
• Plan complete task with parent

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pre/school name
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pre/school name

• Cognitive skills required for Kindergarten
• Alphabet
• Counting
• Write name
• Drawing
• Colouring
• Know body parts
• E.g. nose, ears etc.
• Listening
• Attention to detail
• Discuss stories that have been read to them
• Concentrate for longer periods
• Plan complete task with parent

• Cognitive skills required for Kindergarten
• Alphabet
• Counting
• Write name
• Drawing
• Colouring
• Know body parts
• E.g. nose, ears etc.
• Listening
• Attention to detail
• Discuss stories that have been read to them
• Concentrate for longer periods
• Plan complete task with parent

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• Tips for helping your childs cognitive
  development
• Encourage your child to draw colour/write
• Identify your childs name
• Capital letter for first letter in name and lower
  case for remaining letters. E.g. John
• Counting in everyday situations
• Identify colours shapes
• Involve your child in as many day-to-day
  activities as possible
• Read with your child

• Tips for helping your childs cognitive
  development
• Encourage your child to draw colour/write
• Identify your childs name
• Capital letter for first letter in name and lower
  case for remaining letters. E.g. John
• Counting in everyday situations
• Identify colours shapes
• Involve your child in as many day-to-day
  activities as possible
• Read with your child

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• Tips for helping your childs cognitive
  development
• Encourage your child to draw colour/write
• Identify your childs name
• Capital letter for first letter in name and lower
  case for remaining letters. E.g. John
• Counting in everyday situations
• Identify colours shapes
• Involve your child in as many day-to-day
  activities as possible
• Read with your child

• Tips for helping your childs cognitive
  development
• Encourage your child to draw colour/write
• Identify your childs name
• Capital letter for first letter in name and lower
  case for remaining letters. E.g. John
• Counting in everyday situations
• Identify colours shapes
• Involve your child in as many day-to-day
  activities as possible
• Read with your child

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• Social skills required for Kindergarten
• Children entering Kindergarten should be able to
• Wait their turn
• Share
• Express feelings appropriately
• Have some control over emotions
• Ask for help
• Ask basic questions
• Interact appropriately with other children

• Social skills required for Kindergarten
• Children entering Kindergarten should be able to
• Wait their turn
• Share
• Express feelings appropriately
• Have some control over emotions
• Ask for help
• Ask basic questions
• Interact appropriately with other children

Ready For School!
Ready For School!
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pre/school name
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pre/school name

• Social skills required for Kindergarten
• Children entering Kindergarten should be able to
• Wait their turn
• Share
• Express feelings appropriately
• Have some control over emotions
• Ask for help
• Ask basic questions
• Interact appropriately with other children

• Social skills required for Kindergarten
• Children entering Kindergarten should be able to
• Wait their turn
• Share
• Express feelings appropriately
• Have some control over emotions
• Ask for help
• Ask basic questions
• Interact appropriately with other children

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• Tips for improving your childs social skills
• Build a positive parent child relationship
• Increase their cooperation
• Set an example
• Play with your child
• Play with other children
• Prompt and praise
• Extra activities
• Learn skills through reading and television
• Make up stories about social situations

• Tips for improving your childs social skills
• Build a positive parent child relationship
• Increase their cooperation
• Set an example
• Play with your child
• Play with other children
• Prompt and praise
• Extra activities
• Learn skills through reading and television
• Make up stories about social situations

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• Tips for improving your childs social skills
• Build a positive parent child relationship
• Increase their cooperation
• Set an example
• Play with your child
• Play with other children
• Prompt and praise
• Extra activities
• Learn skills through reading and television
• Make up stories about social situations

• Tips for improving your childs social skills
• Build a positive parent child relationship
• Increase their cooperation
• Set an example
• Play with your child
• Play with other children
• Prompt and praise
• Extra activities
• Learn skills through reading and television
• Make up stories about social situations

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