Getting School Ready!®
is a statewide eort o the Foundation or Early Learning and its partners to support parents and caregivers as their children’srst teachers. A team including parents, early learning experts, community-base organizations, public health and school representatives created andupdated this guide.For school readiness news, resources, and inormation about the history o this project visit Foundation or Early Learning at
earlylearning.org
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For More Information:
Visit
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to nd your child’s school inormation.Research schools at
www.schoolmatters.com
or
reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us
.Call the WithinReach hotline at
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or amily health inormation and reerrals. Ask your librarian or books, music, videos, and other resources. Librariesalso have programs, such as story times, that can help your child prepareor school.Printed guides are available in Cambodian, Chinese, English, Korean,Russian, Somali, Spanish, agalog, and Vietnamese. o download print-ready pd les visit
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.Photos courtesy o Child Care Resources, alaris Research Institute, ErinOkuno, and Peter Huisenga. A special thanks to Te Boeing Company orgenerously printing the booklets.
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ENGLISH / 2010
A Guide for: Parents and Family Members of Children Birth to Age Five, Caregivers, Early Childhood Educators, Kindergarten Teachers,Communities, Schools, And Everyone Who Touches a Child’s Life
“How can kindergarten be ready or me?”“I want to be ready or kindergarten.”
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Te original contents o this brochure come out o 41community conversations with more than 300 parents,early childhood educators, kindergarten teachers,school principals, and community members. Led by parent acilitators, the conversations took place in sevenlangagues: Cambodian, English, Oromo, Russian,Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Tey were held in 17o King County’s 19 school districts.
Authors:
Lead – Debra Sullivan (Praxis Institute orEarly Childhood Education) and Cheri Steani (PugetSound Educational Service District); Members – SusanBarkan (Public Health – Seattle and King County),Ellen Broeske (Puget Sound Educational ServiceDistrict), Rujuta Gaonkar (Public Health – Seattle andKing County), Bea Kelleigh (Project Lit-O), DianeKroll (Puget Sound Educational Service District),Deborah Lee (City o Seattle – ECEAP), Gail anaka(Comprehensive Health Education Foundation), Laura Wells (Child Care Resources); Copy editor – RhondaPeterson (Project Lit-O).
Editorial Board:
Linda Averill (Shoreline Schools),Bridgett Chandler (alaris Research Institute), eriCliord (Puget Sound Educational Service District),om Drummond (North Seattle Community College), Julie Ezenwoye (early childhood educator), Karen Forys(North Shore School District), John Gottman (ProessorEmeritus, University o Washington), Maryann Johnston(Early Childhood Education consultant), Garrison Kurtz(Foundation or Early Learning), Wei Li-Chen (Asian/Pacic Islander Child Care ask Force), Teresa Lourde(parent acilitator or community conversations), KrisLowe (Child Care Resources), MAK Mitchell (SeattlePublic Schools), Carol Mizoguchi (parent acilitator orcommunity conversations), John Nimmo (Pacic OaksCollege Northwest), Sally Porter (King County Library System), Wendy Roedell (Puget Sound EducationalService District), Sue Schmitt (Seattle University), JillSells (American Academy o Pediatrics), Michael Silver(ukwila School District), Debra Williams-Appleton(Oce o the Superintendent o Public Instruction),Ed Yonamine (Washington State Department o Community, rade and Economic Development).Pages 12-18 were created in response to surveysconducted by the Washington State Departmento Health Immunization Program CHILD Prole.Special thanks to people who have been involved atvarious stages o the revision process: Bridgett Chandler(Works o Heart), Laura Hutchinson and DeniseFarrand (CHILD Prole – Seattle King County PublicHealth Department), Cheri Steani and Diane Kroll(Puget Sound ESD), Deb Williams-Appleton, ElaineVon Rosenstiel and Marcia Riggers (Oce o theSuperintendent o Public Instruction), Linda Averill(Shoreline School District), Kimberlee Archie and GuilleMorn (ormerly o the King County SOAR Initiative)Karen Howell Clark (United Way o King County), BeaKelleigh (the Early Care and Education Coalition) andMelissa Jennings, Patty urnberg, Jeanne Anderson andGarrison Kurtz (Foundation or Early Learning).
What do children need to beready or kindergarten?
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What do schools need to beready or entering children?
I children could tell us,here’s what they might say:
“I need adults to work together to helpme get school ready.”How are you already helping?Read on to see what else you can do!
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I need to get along with others.
You can:
Show me ways to make new riends.
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Help me understand how I can be riends with children who
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are dierent rom me.each me what to do when someone hurts my eelings.
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I need to know how to talk with others andto listen.
You can:
alk with me about things I’m interested in.
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each me how to know when it’s my turn to speak and when
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I need to listen.each me words to describe my eelings and needs, and when
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to use them.
My Social andEmotional Skills
I need to eel excited and comortable aboutstarting kindergarten.
You can:
Let me know you’re excited about me starting kindergarten.
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Give me a chance to visit my school beore I start.
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Listen to my thoughts and ideas about school.
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Play a game with me to pretend I’m in school already.
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I need to know what kindergarten will be like.
You can:
each me to ollow directions by giving me simple steps.
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Help me learn how to share with other children, stand in line,
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wait my turn, and sit in a circle.
I need to eel good about mysel.
You can:
Pay attention to me and listen to my ideas.
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Help me eel good about all the things I can do.
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Praise me or my strengths.
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Be patient and let me develop at my own pace.
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each me that all my eelings are okay, but not all my actions
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are okay. For example, it’s okay to be upset, but it’s not okay to hit others.each me ways to calm mysel down when I get rustrated.
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