Off to School

Choosing and book, consistent with age-level, class room, and child temperament and pairing it with an school oriented coloring craft, we are able to introduce the children to the idea and concept of school; why we go to school, and more importantly pre-school (to get ready for big kid school).

I chose "Off to Kindergarten" to read to the children, pointing out all the silly things the children in the book think they need to bring to their first day of kindergarten (this was also a good place to interject that children should leave their own toys at home or in their cubby).

We talked about the school bus in the book, looked at the school bus in the parking lot, and described as much as we could about it - color, size, where we go, what happens on a school bus?

Children were then given their own outline of a school bus. Instructions were to color the school bus, a road, the sky, the bus driver, etc.