PK-K

Play the waiting game - Students are transitioning from home to a daycare, where they may be accustomed to having more attention than the typical classroom due to the teacher-student ratio. Not all requests can be handled timely. Have student wait and increase time in small increments. Provide specific verbal praise when they are waiting appropriately. 

Focus on increasing their time to sit and attend to a task. Start with something they like to do, present the task (puzzle, book, letter blocks, snack etc.) while seated at the table, and gradually increase the time on the task in small increments. Always provide specific verbal praise and high-5's/fist bumps for on-task behavior.

Play games incorporating items in the home using numbers and letters, e.g. treasure hunts using letter sounds "Find something that begins with the sound /b/", or use numbers, "Bring me 6 grapes"

Use visuals paired with words to increase vocabulary

Read with and to your child to increase familiarity and extend love for books

Allow your child to help with activities around the home such as creating a grocery list, locating items around the home or in the store, or reading simple recipes

Play games to teach turn-taking and appropriate social interactions.

Talk about emotions. Talk about how to identify those emotions (e.g.the physical responses in your body that help us know what we are feeling), give that emotion a name, identify triggers (environmental events that can trigger these emotions), and coping skills for negative emotions.

Review with students the expectations for early childhood classrooms to include: 1. Following adult directions 2. Remaining in area 3. Keeping hands and feet to self 4. Sharing Most classrooms will have some variation of these as classroom norms/rules/expectations