Check your Backpack

Just like Dora's magical backpack, our own childrens' backpacks hold valuable tools that will foster a good school-to-home connections. School work, teacher/therapist notes, and school information is passed to you through your child's backpack. Make a habit of checking your student's back pack every day, and discussing teachers' notes and schoolwork. This is a valuable tool to finding out what your child is doing in school, if they have a worksheet or art project about bugs, odds are they are discussing bugs at school. And remember, this goes both ways, you can always send notes to school through the backpack to keep teachers updated on your child.

Back to School Month

The kids are slowly making their way to understanding routines and expectations of school.  This month in SPOT, we will be supporting that with language, music, movement and other activities.

We will be introducing the children to Spot, our mascot (stuffed animal) through a fun movement story about how he goes to school.  Basic concepts like stop/go will be incorporated using fun song, rhymes and activities.  Fine motor play and other prewriting skills will be incorporated with Tag Bags, fun fasteners tasks, playful worksheets completed in different ways and many other fun activities.

To help your child cope with the new routine, remember to encourage a healthy and consistent sleep pattern.  Try to get your child to go to bed around the same time each night so that he or she is ready to explore and play.  If you create your own special routine, your child will know what to expect and lessen anxiety.