Parents of all future first-graders want their children to feel good at school. What does it mean? To make new friends in the classroom, communication with which is fun. For the child to go to school in a good mood, and he would like to study and learn something new every day. It is not enough to teach a preschooler writing, reading and counting. Psychological preparation is also very important, because a school is a completely new life, a new world. To remain in the status of a student will be for many years. It is necessary that the child was comfortable in it.
Create a positive school image
For the child to want to go to school, he waited on September 1 with joy and impatience, parents must create a positive image of the institution.
You can talk about school only in a positive way, and not only in conversations with the child. A preschooler should not hear adult conversations that teachers are now bad, children at school are ill-educated monsters, and too many homework assignments. It is completely unacceptable to intimidate a child with school, which, unfortunately, some parents sin. “You will get some deuces”, “Here a teacher at school will show you for such behavior,” - the preschooler should not hear anything like this from the lips of his parents.
The child must be sure that he will like it at school, the teacher will be friendly and welcoming, and friends will appear among classmates. It is important not to deceive the child, not to tell that school is a continuous holiday, because it is not. You can read children's stories about schoolchildren, watch feature films about them. Those who go to school with a positive attitude will most likely be good at it.
Motivation must be right.
It is necessary to form the motivation for learning in a child correctly. Some preschoolers seem to have an interest in going to school, but it is external. Such children want to try on a new student status, walk with a beautiful backpack, use brand-new stationery, and be like older sisters or brothers. It is important to form a child’s desire, passion, interest in cognitive activity, to tell that study is a mass of new information. Be sure to tell the preschooler what lessons will be in the first grade, what they learn.
What skills do a first grader need?
Patience, self-discipline, the ability to listen without interruption, perseverance - all this will be needed in school. Psychologists believe that all of the above skills work very well in the process of joint games. Especially useful among them are those where there are clearly defined rules: checkers and chess, “walkers”, everything else that requires following the rules. Another, no less useful game is a children's school. Let the child have the opportunity to try himself as a student and to be a teacher.
The skill of self-care is very important for a preschooler. Children in the school will have to change clothes and change their shoes in the wardrobe, put on and take off their physical education uniforms, deftly manage the contents of the school backpack - get out and put out the necessary things. Those who do this too slowly worry and get nervous, seeing more nimble classmates. Therefore, the child’s self-care must be taught.
Communication and friendship skills are very important!
Which of the children is easier to adapt in an unusual school environment? After all, school is not only lessons, but also extracurricular activities, sporting events, team communication. Those who easily find a common language with classmates and know how to be friends. Children love and are valued in peers for benevolence, responsiveness, the ability not to be offended by trifles, not to conflict. Another important quality is the ability to seek and find compromises in different situations. Children at school with the above-mentioned skills feel more comfortable. The task of parents is to instill their child. The earlier the better.
It can be especially difficult for those children who did not attend kindergarten, do not have sufficient experience in communication in groups, are shy by nature, with low self-esteem. Adults should help children join the company, teach them to communicate and make friends.
Get to know the school in advance
For a preschooler, a school is something completely new and incomprehensible. Most children with anxiety and fear relate to everything unfamiliar. Children who have already been to the walls of her building, imagine how the classrooms look from the inside, go much calmer to the school. Now many educational institutions offer future students something like preparatory courses. If parents have the opportunity to drive their child there, it is worth taking advantage of it. Perhaps the child will not receive any fundamentally new knowledge in the courses. But he learns in practice how classes are held at school, how to behave during school, how to respond to a teacher.
During breaks, it is worth taking a walk along the corridors, showing the child where the dining room, gym, toilet, wardrobe are located. When the newly-made student crosses the threshold of the school on September 1, he will feel much more confident.