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August 24, 2009
Goals For School
School is on its way! My son starts preschool in less than a month, so we've been spending a lot of time talking about it. We made this little goal chart today after talking about things he should try to remember at school.
1. Gather your materials. You will need a black, white and various colors ( of your choosing) pieces of construction paper, crayons to match, glue , scissors and a marker.
2. Draw an outline of a crayon, and trace it on your white paper.
3. Have your child color each outline with a different color crayon.
4. While they do that cut out the wrappers for the crayons. Simply cut rectangles of the colored construction paper out.
5. With your child decide on goals, reminders or anything else they want to share about school.
6. Glue the goals on the matching crayon. I snuck in a matching lesson too!
7. Let dry , cut out and glue onto the black paper. Post it somewhere you and your child can refer to it to stay on track or use as a reminder after a rough day .
- Tags: Back-to-School, Arts and Crafts
Very cool! My oldest daughter started preschool a week and a half ago, and this will be a wonderful and concrete way to talk about what we hope will happen this year.
Yes that is what this came from, my son has been asking about what school will be like and then we've taken it to the next level of " When we read at school we..." "are gentle with books" all the little reminders that can really make school a happier place.
Thank you so much for this great idea! I did sometime similar with my daughter yesterday and it worked so well. Thank you, thank you, thank you! What a great, positive activity to do in order to get them ready for school. I hope you don't mind if I post about this, of course I'll give you props!!!