Kindergarten after school: Before & After School Programs for Grades K-6

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Is it possible to leave a child in a kindergarten until the age of eight 2023

The situation is as follows: my twin children, they are 6 years old (turned in April) go to a municipal kindergarten.
At birth there were VERY many health problems: one had 7 manipulations (including two operations) under general anesthesia under the age of 4, the other had 11 (including 9 operations). In the first year of life after the maternity hospital, we spent 4 months in the hospital, then two more, and almost two more a year. Plus a month of prematurity.
Bottom line: one had a breathing disability up to 4.5 years old, after that they removed it – thank God, the problems went away. But the children neither physically nor mentally correspond to their passport age, and the doctors who treated us think that this is normal, because in general we spent more than a year in the hospital, and so much general anesthesia + complex treatment – we have the right to be late. And this is not ZPR, just the first year was not living, but survival.
At the beginning of this school year (we moved to the senior group), we were offered to stay in the middle group in the kindergarten in order to improve our fine motor skills (we draw, cut, sculpt badly), and to go to school at 8 years 4 months. And now the headmaster says that we have not grown at all in a year (the psychologist in the kindergarten fundamentally disagrees with this, however, she will not go against the headmaster).
So, the head teacher offers a choice – either to go to a correctional kindergarten (and she says that we won’t be the last there, some children don’t speak at all there!) more in the senior we were not.
We abandoned the correctional garden (children chatting and thinking, however, are shy – in the kindergarten they even say “hello” more quietly than when they come to the center.
What we did We visited a neurologist of the city hospital, she wrote a conclusion that she recommends including continuing education in the senior group, avoiding stress, like a change of team, to school from the age of 8. We went to the head, wrote a statement with a request to transfer us from the middle group to the senior group in accordance with the clause of the contract (there is a clause that the child is transferred on September 1 to the next age group, and she violates it. )
Please help – what can be done
I want to know how it is possible to legally leave children in the kindergarten in this group (I mean the teacher and the environment) in order to graduate in two years.

Best answer

You need a medical and pedagogical commission.
State everything there, they will conduct a couple of tests with the children.
will be examined by a doctor and based on all of the above, your children will be left for another year in the kindergarten.

Other responses

You were very wrong to refuse a correctional kindergarten. We have been queuing for years to get into it. In correctional gardens, as a rule, there is a primary school – and this is not bad at all.

In an ordinary school, even after 8 years, there can be problems. Think.

Completely agree with Tanya. In correctional kindergartens, there are no more than 15 children in a group. The lessons are very serious. Physically educators are able to pay much more attention to children than in a mass kindergarten.

Don’t refuse. Children will be much more comfortable there.

And I agree that more attention will be paid to children in the correctional garden, and by a variety of specialists (psychologist, defectologist, speech therapist, etc.). I understand your concern that the children are accustomed to the teacher, but … they and you will still have to adapt to many things, to communicate with different people. After all, you want the children to be in the kindergarten, and there is also a kindergarten, and only the conclusion of specialists can decide what to do with the children when they turn 7 years old. Listen not to your convenience, but to what experienced people say. If you want to listen only to a neurologist, then why ask us.

I think you will make the right decision after all.

At one time I also stayed in a kindergarten until the age of 8 due to health problems. And in the correction! Probably, now the situation has improved, but in my time it did not bring any benefit, even at the age of 8 I was not very ready for the school team.

Grandmother thinks it was a mistake that they sent me to that garden, because he didn’t bring me anything. Yes, and there were no psychologists-defectologists in my memory, but it was at the end of 1980s. Or was it just that I didn’t need them?

Is it possible to leave a child in a kindergarten until the age of eight

Can a child be left in a kindergarten until the age of eight? Will he be admitted to first grade if he turns eight years and three months on September 1st?

Sergey Agapov
Consultations: 222

Note that on the basis of Part 1 of Art. 67 of the Federal Law of December 29, 2012 No. 273-FZ “On Education in the Russian Federation”, preschool education in educational organizations can begin when children reach the age of two months, and the upper age limit for a child’s stay in a preschool educational organization is not established.

Further, as follows from the same norm, primary general education in educational institutions begins when children reach the age of six years and six months in the absence of contraindications for health reasons, but no later than when they reach the age of eight years.

At the request of the parents (legal representatives) of the children, the founder of the educational organization has the right to allow the admission of children to the educational organization for training in educational programs of primary general education at an earlier or later age.

Thus, based on the situation under consideration, we can conclude that there are no regulatory prohibitions for a child to stay in a preschool educational institution until he reaches the age of eight years.

As for the admission of a child to school at the age of eight years and three months, there are also no direct prohibitions and restrictions, and this issue can be resolved by the administration of the educational organization at the request of the parents.

Can I leave my child in kindergarten until the age of 8?

According to the rules for admission of children to the first grades:
All children who have reached the age of at least 6 years 6 months by September 1 of the current year in the absence of contraindications for health reasons, but no later than they reach the age of 8 years are admitted to the first grade
September? If more than 8 years (even a month) problems may arise.
They will, but it makes sense now (or rather, closer to the point) to get recommendations from some specialist, for example, a psychologist (in principle, they can ask for the conclusion of the PMPK, the school needs a piece of paper justifying why it is so late). And be sure to find out in the department of education and see how you can sign up (electronic registration will not let you through).
And in your case, you need to read the Charter of the garden you go to. It is unlikely that the age of up to 8 years is prescribed there (I judge by the Charters of familiar gardens).
And at school, upon reaching the age of 18, they will let me finish my studies. there will also be a delay for admission to the university. But if the exam does not pass, then they will be taken into the army immediately!

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and at school until 25? 🙂
If a boy goes to school late, they may not even let him finish his studies, take him into the army when he reaches 18.

Is it possible to leave a child in kindergarten at the age of 8?

Hello. My child is 8 years old in September. I would like to send him to school in a year.

But they do not leave him in the garden, referring to the law on education. They say that they will be left in the garden only for the medical aspects of not being ready for school. Can you tell me how you can legally leave your child in kindergarten?

Is it obligatory to pass PMPK?

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Alekseev Dmitry Nikolaevich Lawyer

Part 1 Art. 67 of the Law on Education:

Getting preschool education in educational organizations can begin when children reach the age of two months. Obtaining primary general education in educational institutions begins when children reach the age of six years and six months in the absence of contraindications for health reasons, but no later than they reach the age of eight years. At the request of the parents (legal representatives) of the children, the founder of the educational organization has the right to allow the admission of children to the educational organization for training in educational programs of primary general education at an earlier or later age.

Please, is it possible to leave a child in kindergarten if he is 6.9 years old on September 1st and leave him in the senior group?

Answers to the question:

Lawyer • St. Petersburg

Yes, you can leave your child in kindergarten for one more year.

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Extension of pre-school education

Good afternoon! I need your help, I am faced with such a situation that my child is denied a stay in kindergarten until the age of 8. Due to the fact that there are special developed programs for such children with developmental disabilities, we are directly forced to go to school from the age of 7, although according to the Federal Law on Education, the maximum limit for enrolling in school is 8 years.

Now my son is 6 years old, he will be 7 in July. My child is not ready for school, we have a diagnosis of atypical autism. There is a certificate from a psychiatrist that training is recommended from the age of 8, but this is not an argument for the commission to leave the child for another 1 year in kindergarten. Tell me what should I do in this situation? What “levers” do you need to put pressure on in order to take a deferment for another year? The PMPK insists on attending school from the age of 7 under the 8.3 program, they don’t want to hear about our desire to take a deferral of up to 8 years, they threaten us with guardianship authorities, due to the fact that the child is not attached to any educational institution.

Tell me, in such a situation, are our rights infringed or do they operate within the law?

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Nadezhda (administrator) . 11:44, 04/05/2020.

Lawyer Anna Basova answers : According to the current legislation, a child’s primary general education begins at the age of 6.5, provided there are no contraindications for health reasons, but no later than the age of 8. Pre-school education is carried out from the age of 2 months until the termination of educational relations. Terms of receiving preschool education can be extended, however, due to the lack of clear legal regulation, this practice varies greatly depending on one or another educational institution.

To date, the legislation does not define what exactly is the basis for the extension of preschool education. Based on the meaning of Part 2 of Article 64 of the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation”, by the age of starting school education, a child must reach a level of development necessary and sufficient for him to successfully master educational programs. At the same time, the criteria for the level of such development are not established in regulatory legal acts.

As an option, you can use the targets at the stage of completion of preschool education, established by the federal state educational standard for preschool education (approved by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated October 17, 2013 N 1155), which are approximate social and normative age characteristics of the child’s achievements at the stage of completion of the level preschool education. Thus, if a child’s developmental level is lower than the so-called pre-school achievement characteristics, pre-school education can and should be continued.

Unfortunately, the legislation also does not contain a list of documents necessary and sufficient for the extension of primary education – this remains at the discretion of the educational organization. If you do not agree with the conclusion of the PMPK, and there is every reason to believe that the development of the child does not reach the criteria for preschool development, I recommend that you appeal this conclusion with a certificate from a psychiatrist and other documents indicating the real level of development. This can be done both in the central PMPK and in court.

In addition, I also recommend that you inquire about the procedure for extending education and the necessary documents in the kindergarten itself and / or write a request to the education department of the region of residence, which is obliged to send you a written response within 30 days – perhaps certificates from specialists will be enough to A decision was made to extend pre-school education. If, however, a decision is made to study at school, during the next passage of the PMPK, you can express in writing a wish for the appointment of program 8.4, and at the school demand the development of a special individual development program (SIPR). This program allows you to be included in the educational environment gradually and dosed.

Remember that even if the conclusion of the PMPK does not indicate the extension of education in the preschool, this can be done by the decision of the founder of the educational organization.

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How to stay in a kindergarten until the age of 8 and go to school at 8?

My son has SMA, dysarthria, onr level 2. We go to nursery school with specialists, we often get sick (we fell ill for the first half of this academic year, fell ill again without having time to go to nursery school). We go to school in a year. All experts in the garden say we go to school early at 7, because we have a big developmental lag, and I myself see that it’s early, even though we work in the garden and at home, but you can’t jump above your head.

We will be 7 years old on 01.09.2019. Share your experience, whose children went to school not from the age of 7, but from the age of 8, how did you do it, what is the algorithm of actions? In general, this is real now, because everyone tells me that over the past 2 years no one has succeeded in this?

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May I ask? How did you do that? It’s just that we’re 7 years old and it’s too early for school (ZPRR), an extra year would be very useful.

Hooray! We succeeded without tspmk! I am happy that my son has another year to mature before school and pull himself up a little more to the age norm.

Congratulations! Olga, what is the difference between tspmk and mpk? We have the same problem.

Did you stay in the garden? (I didn’t understand why you went to school, or were you enrolled in school like in the “zero” class?

There are no zero classes for a long time). Either school or kindergarten, but we were left in the garden for another year
Very rarely, the PMPK allows this and, as a rule, due to general health problems (surgery, etc.).

I will try, to be honest, at the moment I am even ready to sue to protect the rights of my child

I don’t understand the reason for such strictness at all. Give an extra year to a weak child. It is easier for them to offer 8 types.

So I don’t understand why injure the child and torment the teacher and parents.

Hello! Tell me, how did you solve the situation? We have a similar problem, in the summer dr and I want to give my child to the garden at 8.2.

Soon pmpk, how to force them to give an extension of childhood.

The CPMPC does not have the authority to decide such issues, they only determine the program, and the issue of extension is decided by the department. I wrote an appeal to the department on the website, attached all the certificates and conclusions with recommendations to extend the kindergarten. The department sent it to the school, the school sent the answer to the department and then to me.

They gave the go-ahead, you need to write a refusal from the 1st grade and show the original certificates and “talk” with the deputy director of preschool education at the school.

And did you pass the CPMPC first, and then wrote to the department? And from whom did you get recommendations?

Pass PMPK. You will be given a conclusion there for health reasons, on the basis of which you have every right to extend the gardening time.

Yes, the whole point is that the PMPK prescribes an adapted school curriculum for everyone, but in fact there are no such classes, everything is in a common pot. And what is the adaptive program in the general class!?

Excellent adapted program. This depends on the teacher. I’ve been looking for a long time. Go to the teacher.

We have an ordinary teacher, but with a great desire to help the child. I honestly told before admission that with us, I brought the child and we talked in an informal setting on the street while walking. In the end, she herself said let’s come to me, I want to try. We have sma onr almost 3 levels. But he’s good at math so far. Reading is a problem.

They went to school without reading. Spoke at 5.5. There are many gaps, but !! We must pay tribute to my son, as long as he really wants to be no worse than everyone else.

Better. He is very vain. This is in his case only +. Now we read in syllables. We solve large control problems with a maximum of 1 error.

Although they didn’t count before school. Here is the problem with writing. Phonemic hearing is impaired, because of this, the letter suffers. As he hears and write, he hears crookedly and writes the same way. In September, we found a speech pathologist-defectologist, an oligophrenic teacher.

All her life she worked in the correction of the 8th type, she takes it privately. She pulled up hard. Write to me if you have any questions. And further! Do not be offended, jump above your head, the bar is a little lower.

And everything will be fine. The main thing is not to get hung up and do your job, help your son. Give private training. Find a teacher, agree to study, it’s not so expensive. We went from February to June 2 times a week for 700 rubles per lesson.

Just an elementary teacher. She pulled him hard. And look for family-type schools if you can afford it financially. It’s not exactly private. It is the parents themselves who hire teachers and open classes at the beginning.

General education program. Discipline, lessons, everything is like in a regular school, but there are 7-8 children in the class. There are many such schools in Moscow. There is a whole community of such schools.

You don’t have to go. In a mass school, and this year go to one, and if in a year he does not pull out the 1st grade, then at 8 you will simply go to a comprehensive school in the 1st grade. Only this year he will not be pricelessly spent in the garden.

And information will appear in the head and + nowhere according to the documents it will be like a repeater.

The manager’s refusal to leave us in the garden for another year

Good afternoon! Recently, I posted doubts here whether they will leave us for a year or not (we will be 6.6 years old on September 1, but the child is not ready for school psychologically and speech therapy). Everyone unanimously assured me that they would leave.

As a result, the manager REFUSED me, she said that legally we can already go to school, since we will be full 6.6 years old. To all my objections that the child is not ready – zero emotions. She wants new admissions, that’s understandable)

Who found themselves in a situation like ours (when your age already allowed you to go to school) — how did you manage to leave you? Commissions, money.

I wrote a request to the Department of Education of Moscow, I’m waiting for an answer. While I want to listen to moms. Thank you!

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At the end of the year, a psychologist must test a schoolchild for readiness for school, and if the child is not ready and the age allows him to stay in the kindergarten, then he must leave and provide a place in the preparatory group again. At the eldest, about 5 classmates did not go to school on September 1, but remained in the garden.

our psychologist will be testing in October and maybe again, towards the end of the academic year, I don’t know for sure. let’s see what he says.

went to a psychiatrist, they wrote us a certificate that we needed kindergarten classes. brought a certificate and an application to the garden – they left it by age.

how old were you at that moment? did the psychiatrist so easily take and write at your request?

we just have a correctional garden. We were 6 years and 7 months old in May. we are October. now it will be 7 – still in the garden) the doctor said that if we were born in September, we would not pass by age. but in general, I wrote a statement to the garden “by age”.

understandable. we don’t have a reason to go to a psychiatrist, it’s just that the child has not matured mentally to school loads. it is unlikely that a psychiatrist will go forward and come up with something. psychologist – yes, maybe.

I am also expecting this. In connection with the move, we transferred from the secondary immediately to the preparatory. And I want and believe that the child will not be ready to go to school next autumn.

He will be 6.8 At the meeting, the manager hinted that she would kick us in the ass. But we agreed with her that we would discuss this issue in December.

We also have December. As a result, she came to the teachers and announced that NO
Damn.

Let’s see what we have.

If the child is now in the preparatory group, then next year, when all the children of this group go to school, the child will need to move to another group, which is now the eldest, and will become preparatory. You can refuse to leave the child in the garden only if this group (or groups) are overcrowded, i.e. there really is nowhere to take the child. But how can the manager know in October whether there will be places in these groups? After all, it happens that children from the older group go to school.

It will be clear in April-May, not earlier. In any case, if there are no places in your garden, you must be given a place in another garden without any queue. But this must be decided by the Department of Education.

Yes, I understand this logic.

I, on the contrary, when we went to the kindergarten, I was worried that we were going to school so late) like, can you let us out of the kindergarten a year earlier. to which the manager said where are you in a hurry, even better later. As a result, we still have to go to kindergarten this year and the next. This year we are the older group, and then the preparatory one. I didn’t even have a thought that we would be sent to school at 6.6

According to the law of the Russian Federation, a child has the right to visit the kindergarten from 2 months to 7 years inclusive. That is, at 7.11 he has the right to visit the garden. So the requirements of the head are her personal whim, which will be successfully rejected by your application to the Department.

can you give me a link to the law?

read here interesting There, in black and white, the age of the children who have the right to be brought up in the garden is written. 6.6 is not 7 years yet. So let the head move)

They have the right, but they must leave the kindergarten?

Of course, if you have the right, you must. The garden can only be rejected if there are no available places, and the Department of Education will look for another garden for this case. Just a child has the right to go to school at the age of 6 years and 6 months.

But he doesn’t have to go there right away at that age. The age period when the school is obliged to take the child to the 1st grade is 6.6-8 years

A friend had the same situation. According to the agreement with the kindergarten, the child could stay in the kindergarten only for 4 years. Naturally, when she signed the documents when she entered the kindergarten. did not pay attention to it. And here is the child at the end of the lesson. was completely unprepared to go to school. He was in a speech therapy group and spoke poorly by the time he graduated, there were communication problems, problems with learning to read, and he was thin, small. Mom perfectly understood that he was not ready, and the psychologist and speech therapist said that he would have a year more.

But according to all their reports, he was ready for school. But the manager did not take it, because in the city and in the microdistrict there are huge queues for the garden, so they decided it this way for 4 years and that’s it. She did not begin to understand and scandalize, tk. I was afraid that the youngest child would not be taken to the kindergarten.

I sat at home for a year, they were like preparing for school, a speech therapist and other developmental programs. The year gave him a lot. I went to school fully prepared.

She could easily challenge this in court. And the court would be on her side. Because no contract can contradict the basic law of the Russian Federation.

Consultation “First time in first class…”

Indeed, there will be no second time. The school will become your child’s “second home” for the next 10 years, or it won’t. And it depends largely on how preschool children are prepared for such serious changes as the beginning of school life.

Moms and dads of future first graders, have you already decided which school your child will go to? Or maybe you have already looked at the school uniform and accessories? All is ready? What about a child?

Modern reality poses a number of very difficult tasks for parents of future first-graders, which have to be solved long before the joyful first of September. Starting with the most “long-playing” issue as the choice of an educational institution and ending with the problem of choosing school supplies in the endless sea of goods currently offered. In addition, the little man will have the first lessons at the preparatory courses and the first exams even before the start of school, and this is an exciting moment for parents.

Yes, of course, the process of adaptation to school life should be easier for modern children. After all, the child attends preparatory courses, classes in which are built like school lessons. In addition, a preschool child undergoes entrance tests, the purpose of which is to assess the child’s capabilities, taking into account the specifics of the school, and to select the most suitable team for him in terms of development level. Professional teachers and psychologists deal with the future student.

But even the most qualified and interested teachers and psychologists will not be able to help the child in the way that parents can help. After all, only you know your child from the moment of birth, only you know all his hobbies, only he trusts you completely, you know all his strengths and weaknesses, and, finally, only you are most interested in his success.

We have tried to give specific recommendations that, in our opinion, may be useful to parents of preschool children. Of course, they are not new and there is no need to embody them all, but we hope that you can find something useful for your child.

WHEN SEPTEMBER 1 IS STILL FAR AWAY

Starting with … ourselves

Parents of the future first grader, oddly enough, also need to be prepared “for school”.

1. The most obvious thing is that with the transition of your preschool child to school life, his daily routine will also change significantly. Therefore, it is advisable for parents to think in advance how this will affect each of the family members. It is necessary to decide where and with whom the child will be after school. You may need to teach your child how to use household appliances, open locks, cook a simple dinner for himself, and, finally, follow “safety rules”. You will be much calmer if you finish preparing for an independent stay of a first-grader at home before September 1. Think about all the possible problems that the child may encounter and provide for emergency communication with parents. And the child will not have to experience additional stress during the difficult first school days from the start of an “independent” life at home for several hours.

2. Parents need to be prepared for the fact that the child may have difficulties. Every parent in the depths of his soul hopes that his child will be a successful student, a leader. And the very first failures, which, unfortunately, happen to all children, disappoint parents very much, and parents cannot hide their deceived illusions, greatly undermining the self-esteem of their child.

3. With admission to the first grade, your Baby becomes a Schoolboy and acquires new rights and new responsibilities. And your child will immediately begin to demonstrate his new social status and, above all, at home to you. Your patient and understanding attitude during this period is very important. In addition, you must be prepared for the fact that your child and those around you will be treated differently, more demandingly. And this applies not only to conductors in public transport.

4. Take the time to have a home “parents’ meeting” WITHOUT the fate of the child. Express all your fears and worries related to the forthcoming appearance of a schoolboy in your family, share your expectations, listen to other family members.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR :

Physical condition of the child

1. If your child has chronic diseases or health problems, then it is better to deal with them and prevent the health of the future first grader in advance. With the beginning of the school year, the physical and psychological stress on the child will increase and this may adversely affect his well-being.

2. In addition to the mandatory examination of the child, to collect data in the medical record of the first grader, experts recommend visiting an ophthalmologist if the child has a hereditary predisposition to the development of eye diseases or he already has a decrease in vision. A visit to the surgeon is highly desirable for those preschool children who have problems with posture and a predisposition to the development of scoliosis.

3. Also, parents should pay attention to the child’s fine motor skills and its development. Yes, yes, the same fine motor skills that all specialists in the development of babies stubbornly repeat, starting almost from birth. For a student, the level of development of fine motor skills is also important. With the beginning of studies, the child will have to master the skills of writing, and this will require considerable effort from the child, and the more developed the motor skills of the hand, the easier this skill will be given.

Drawing, sculpting, embroidering, sewing on buttons, stringing beads, cutting and appliqué – all of these activities will be very useful for the development of the hands of your preschooler. By the way, joint classes will not hurt adults either, especially since a 6-year-old child, unlike a baby, is not so easy to captivate.

A child (and parents too) before the start of the school year will not interfere with rest, a change of scenery. It is very good if the family manages to organize a vacation for themselves, which will end a week before September 1.

Day mode. If your child attended kindergarten, then the mode of getting up and going to bed will not be new for you, but if not, then parents should take care in advance that getting up early does not serve as an additional stressful factor for the child.

A few months before school starts, start putting your child to bed at a certain time. Of course, waking up a child every day at 7 am in the summer is unnecessarily too cruel an ordeal, but keep track of what time your child wakes up and try to bring this time closer to 8 – 9early in the morning maybe. This will make life much easier when the school year begins.

The daily routine of the child will change in the second half of the day. The child will need to allocate time for homework. In the first grade, homework is not officially assigned, but the teacher, as a rule, tries to gradually accustom the children to this.

If parents can organize a short 20-25 minute time for classes a few months before the start of school and regularly devote time to these activities, then homework will become a common thing for the student. This time can be devoted to activities for the development of memory and attention, fine motor skills, reading, counting. Get Double Benefit .

Self-confidence. It is important that the child does not feel insecure in an unfamiliar environment.

Make sure your child knows his/her first and last name, date of birth, and address by heart.

Give the prospective student the opportunity to place an order in a cafe or make a small purchase. This experience of communicating with unfamiliar adults will be useful to him.

Motivation. To the question “Do you want to go to school?” most preschoolers will answer “Yes!”. But, unfortunately, already after a week of training, the answer to the same question for a significant part of first-graders changes to “No!”.

Why is this happening? Most often due to the fact that the school does not live up to the expectations of children.

For your preschooler, the school is presented as a kind of ideal image, formed on the basis of their own impressions of preparatory courses, watching movies and cartoons, adult stories, and even dreams.

How do you know what your child expects from school? How to make sure that he does not expect disappointment?

The only way to find out is to talk to your child.

Tell us about your school life and about your first grade. Share your impressions and memories with your child. Tell funny stories from your school past, tell about your friends – classmates. Have a family remembrance evening with photos of your high school days. Not only your future first-grader will receive pleasure and benefit, but also you yourself. This, moreover, is an occasion to learn more about the childhood of loved ones.

Set your child up for success in school, do not scare them with failures.

Try not to use phrases like “How are you going to study if you can’t even do that”, “You will get a deuce like that”, etc.

Give positive examples and praise your child.

Tell us about your own school successes, but don’t go too far. Do not tell the child that his mother (dad) were straight A students (especially if this is not entirely true). Tell us about the difficulties that you had at school and how you successfully overcame them.

Do not forget to convey to the child the idea that the main goal of going to school is not at all to use new beautiful school supplies, not to find new friends and not to get rid of kindergarten, but to study, to acquire knowledge. And this is his work for the near future. The work is exciting and much needed. After all, without studying it is impossible to become a professional in any field, but your baby really wants to become an astronaut (banker, programmer, doctors, actress).

Give an example of how many interesting things you can learn in the classroom at school. But do not embellish, because in the first grade, the child will certainly not be revealed all the secrets of the universe.

Tell us about something you learned in class that surprised you at the time. Or show a scientific “trick”. Dads usually have a stockpile of such physical and chemical “tricks” from their school days.

You can demonstrate the following: Ask the child to carefully observe your pupil, and close and open the other eye with the palm of your hand. Pupil diameter will change significantly. Briefly explain the mechanism of this phenomenon. And of course, do not forget to emphasize that you learned about this at school in biology lessons.

Attention and memory. Successes and failures in studies largely depend on the development of the child’s memory and attention. Fortunately, both memory and attention can be trained. When it comes to older preschoolers, the best way to develop their memory and improve attention is the game. Of course, a game specially organized by adults. The child himself is not yet able to engage in his development at this age.

The leading type of memory in a preschool child is involuntary memory, i.e. the child remembers without much effort that and only that which is interesting to him or made an impression. That which is memorized effortlessly through repeated repetitions (this is how children learn poetry).

The amount of attention is very small – the child is able to hold attention at the same time on 2-3 objects (in an adult from 4 to 7).

For the development of memory and attention, a lot of games and exercises have been developed that parents can use while working with their child. But there are useful games that can be used without special training and in which children take part with pleasure.

For example, children play the following games with great interest during a walk:

1. We consider foreign cars (if your child is able to distinguish a foreign car from a domestic car).

2. Remembering the number of the car (the game boils down to the fact that the child and the parent (s) remember the number of the agreed car, after 10 minutes a control is made and the winner is determined. The time from the beginning of the game to the end gradually increases).

3. We count cars (you need to count cars united by a common feature (number or letter in the number, color …)

4. In exactly the same way, you can count or remember anything: the number of women and men among passers-by, the number of people wearing clothes of a certain color, phone numbers from advertisements.

Going to the store is a good excuse to practice. Name the child a list of 3-4 items that need to be bought and provide the opportunity to collect them in a basket, gradually increase the complexity of the task.

A very good way to train your memory is to memorize poetry. A 6-7 year old child is not able to memorize poetry on his own, and even more so to do it regularly. But it is capable with the help and with the direct participation of parents. A prize in the competition who will remember faster and reproduce more accurately in the morning between parent and child is a good incentive. Don’t forget to lose to your child sometimes.

At home, the following games can be very useful for the development of memory and attention:

1. “Find the paired pictures” – the goal of the game is to collect all the pairs in the minimum number of turns. Pictures are placed face down. Each player has the right to open 2 pictures in one move, if they do not make a pair, then the pictures are turned over, the move goes to the next player, the game continues. The one who turned over the pictures that make up a pair continues the game until he makes a mistake. A set of cards for such a game can be purchased at the store.

2. “What is missing?”. The driver lays out 10 items and lets the participant look at them for a minute, then out of 10 items 1 hides. The player’s task is to name the missing item. As success increases, the number of items increases. You can start with a smaller amount, depending on the success of the child.

3. Puzzles and puzzles designed for children aged 6-7 years.

4. Any board games appropriate for the child’s age.

It is important for parents to remember that the child will play all these games with interest only if he feels himself an equal participant in the process. Don’t give in all the time, but don’t be an invincible player either.

ATTENTION!!!

What a child should know and be able to do when entering Grade 1

1. Р a child entering the first grade must know his full name, surname and how old he is, the name and patronymic of his parents, his exact address.

2. U be able to correctly answer the questions asked, compose short stories from pictures, convey the content of simple stories and fairy tales, understand the content and be able to repeat the condition of a simple task.

3. In it is important that the child knows the correct name of the surrounding objects, for example, pieces of furniture, names of dishes, clothes, shoes; parts of your body, face, names of fingers.

4. At , listen silently and attentively to someone else’s speech.

ATTENTION!!!

Tips for parents of a future first grader

1. Before the start of classes, parents should go to school, get acquainted with the teacher who will teach and educate their child; with the conditions in which the child will study, etc.

2. Find out what manuals or other school supplies to buy for your child.

3. Clarify the question regarding the school uniform.

4. Talk with the teacher about how they, parents, can be useful to the school and the teacher in teaching and educating first graders.

PURCHASE:

Clothes for the future first-grader. If the school does not have a uniform uniform, then the choice of a suit for a student is the task of parents. It is desirable that your child takes a direct part in the choice of those things in which he will learn. Parents, of course, should take into account, in addition to the taste of their offspring and their own preferences, a few points: clothes should be “business”, as far as it is applicable to children’s clothes, the child should be able to take off and put on a suit without spending a lot of time and effort (dressing for physical education coming to the first grader at least twice a week). Teachers, as a rule, advise the parents of their future students to take into account the following when choosing: clothes should not be a brand, not very wrinkled, multi-variant (that is, under one suit it allows you to wear several options for blouses, shirts, depending on the air temperature, the solemnity of the moment, etc. .), not very bright and not rich in details (since such clothes can serve as a distraction not only for the owner, but also for all his neighbors).

Well, the most important point is that clothes and shoes should be comfortable, not restrict the movements of the child.

Satchel or briefcase. The choice of a satchel or briefcase can be entrusted to a child (under the control of parents, of course). It is the satchel that, most often, serves for the preschool child as a symbol of the beginning school life, therefore, children are especially reverent in choosing this subject. It is important to take into account only one point – for elementary school students, doctors recommend purchasing a briefcase with straps designed to be worn over the shoulders, and not over one shoulder.

School supplies. If the teacher has not formulated the requirements for notebooks, albums and diaries, then the choice of parents is unlimited. Shop counters are full of bright covers depicting cute animals and characters loved by children, pencil cases, pens of all conceivable colors. BUT when choosing notebooks and pens that your child will use at school, try to focus on the most calm options, without unnecessary details. It will be quite difficult for a child to sit intently for 40 minutes anyway, and if there is such a “distraction factor” on the desk as a bright notebook cover or a pen with a toy, it will be almost impossible to concentrate. In compensation, you can buy a child a bright album for drawing lessons and notebooks and pens of his choice for homework (but not for homework).

FIRST GRADE GIFT (OPTIONAL)

This point, of course, is entirely at the discretion of the parents.

As a rule, relatives tend to give their first-grader a memorable gift to emphasize the significance of his new social role (as already mentioned), give the child additional motivation, and just make him happy.

Often, modern parents choose watches as such gifts – they perfectly emphasize the onset of “adulthood” and “employment” of the child or a cell phone – this gift, in addition to obvious advantages (the ability to contact the child and control his movements), obvious disadvantages (a powerful distraction for busy people, dubious security, attractiveness for theft).

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