Guide to elementary school

Many parents feel that they need a parents guide to elementary school. Attending Elementary school is a very difficult transition for young children. Parents need to help their young children as they transition from preschool to elementary school. Here is the parent’s guide to elementary school:

1. Meet your child's teacher with your child before they go to their first day of elementary school. This will allow your child to be less afraid of their teacher and allow you to get to know your child's elementary school teacher.

2. Enclose a picture of your family in your child's lunch box. This will allow your child to feel a little more relaxed at school.



3. Keep track of your child's home work assignments and their due dates. You can send a note with your child to school so they can ask the teacher to send a list of weekly home work assignments and their due dates home to you.

4. Pack your child a nutritious lunch. Children need a balanced diet in order to be able to concentrate and perform well in school.

5. Help your child complete their home work assignments and special projects. This will encourage your child to perform well in school. Your child will be grateful for the one on one time with you. You will also benefit because you will be bonding and strengthening your parent-child relationship.

6. If your child is completing homework assignments, find them a quiet place to complete their assignments. Elementary school students are easily distracted. If you have other children make sure they are quiet and respectful of the fact that your child is doing their homework and needs peace and quiet in order to complete their homework assignments. Also make sure that the child is free of other distractions such as television, computers, video games, and cell phones.

7. Make sure that your child knows other children in their elementary school class before they start school. You can ask your child's teacher for a contact list and see if you can put together a meet and greet or pizza party so your child can make new friends and get to know their fellow classmates before they start school. This will reduce the anxiety that your child feels before they go to elementary school.

8. Make sure that your child gets enough sleep every night. Your child needs to have a reasonable bed time. Having enough sleep will allow children to have enough energy and focus in school. Children need at least eight hours of sleep each night in order to have good concentration and perform well on their schoolwork.



Hopefully, the parents guide to elementary school will help you and your child adjust to elementary school. Remind your children to be safe and never leave their school grounds without permission. Tell your children not to talk to strangers and to never leave their school grounds with someone they do not know or have prior knowledge that that person is supposed to be picking them up from elementary school.

Hopefully, you and your child will be able to bond further as your child goes through elementary school. The main ingredients for elementary school success are to love your child and to motivate them to succeed.