Things to prepare for kindergarten
Bright Horizons | Getting Ready for Kindergarten: How to Prepare & What to Expect
In many cases, this means not only a classroom change but a transition to a new school as well. As exciting as this change may be, it can also bring anxiety.
Tips on Preparing for Kindergarten
- Plan a kindergarten visit. Visiting the new classroom or school with your child will help make preparing for kindergarten easier for him/her. Make sure you include a visit to the cafeteria, gym, playground, etc. If possible, meet with your child’s new kindergarten teacher. Some of these may be included in an orientation that the new class or school provides. But, if not, try to arrange a school visit on your own. If a visit doesn’t work with your schedule, maybe a relative or neighbor whose child attends the same school can take your child.
- Keep informed of school happenings. If you child is leaving an early childhood education program, you may find that your child’s kindergarten experience may be less personalized than your experience in child care.
You will have to act as your child’s advocate in some situations. Keep informed. Read everything that comes home. Occasionally visit the school or kindergarten classroom if your work situation allows you. Knowing the school secretary, nurse, principal, etc. and introducing yourself and your child to them may also help prepare your child for kindergarten.
- Establish bedtime routines. Resume the regular bedtime routines about a month before school starts to help ease the kindergarten transition. If you let your child stay up a little later during the summer, for example, gradually get back to the bedtime you will expect when kindergarten starts. Talk to your child about why you are doing this and how it will help his/her back-to-school transition.
- Establish a morning routine. Do a “dry run” of the new morning routine, whether it is walking to the bus stop with your child, driving to the new school, walking together to the new classroom, etc.
to see how much time it will take. Remember, school preparation almost always takes more time than you think, especially when the unexpected happens (you have to go back for homework, sneakers for gym, etc.). - Plan time for breakfast. Your child may have been used to eating breakfast at preschool. If your child is transitioning to kindergarten, breakfast will not be available in many schools. Having a good breakfast before leaving for school is important. Be sure to adjust your morning schedule to account for the extra time for your child to enjoy breakfast.
- Create a lunch plan. If your child will take lunch to school, "rehearse" packing lunches in the morning. That way you will know how much extra time it will take and what lunch and snack foods you will need to have on hand. If your child will buy school lunch, begin collecting dollar bills and change. Find out how much it will cost and practice together counting out lunch money.
- Decrease or phase out naps.
For preschoolers who still take a nap, begin decreasing nap time so that he/she will be ready for a full day by the time kindergarten starts. - Make a plan for before- and after-school. Make sure you and your child know the routine for before- and after-school care if that applies. Discuss where he/she will go, how he/she will get between school and child care, how he/she will get home, etc. Have a back-up plan for what to do in case you are late. You probably had a plan for your current early childhood center, but be sure that your emergency pick-up people know where the new school or after-school program is located and what the pick-up routine is there. Better to prepare ahead of time than wait for an emergency.
- Develop a homework routine. Create a homework space where your child can do kindergarten worksheets and other homework, store papers from school, keep school supplies handy, etc. This could be an individual desk, a place in the kitchen or dining room, etc.
Set an after-school or nightly schedule that includes a homework routine as well as play or “chill out” time. - Connect with your child's teacher. Once the school year starts, it is important to give yourself and your child a chance to “bond” with the new teacher. This important part of the school transition process won’t happen instantly. In some cases, we almost need to “grieve” leaving the relationship we developed with our child’s last teacher. The new teacher may do things a little differently than your child’s former teacher. Give time for the new relationship to develop between you, your child, and the new teacher as you all adjust to a different style.
- Go shopping together for school supplies. While you may have a list that the kindergarten teacher provided, let your child choose colors or styles. There is nothing like brand new school supplies when getting ready for kindergarten!
Children's Books about Starting Kindergarten
Children's books about going to school and starting kindergarten may help prepare your child for the school transition.
Here are a few of our favorite titles:
- "Curious George Goes to School" by M. Rey & H.A. Rey
- "First Day Jitters" by J. Danneberg
- "I am absolutely too small for school" by L. Child
- "I love school!" by P. Sturges & S. Halpern
- "Leo the Late Bloomer" by R. Kraus
- "Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten" by J. Slate
- "Mr. George Baker" by A. Hest & J.J. Muth
- "The Kissing Hand" by A. Penn
- "Will I Have a Friend?" by M. Cohen
With a little bit of advance preparation, the transition to kindergarten can be a very positive one for parents and children. Enjoy this next stage in your child’s life and in your life as a parent. Find more tips on school readiness on the Family Room blog.
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- Will she make friends? Have enough time to eat? Read how one mom survived the transition to kindergarten.
- Our bloggershave weathered the back-to-school mania for many years. Get some of their back-to-school tips and ideas, including: first day of school traditions to start, tips for adjusting to a school schedule, school organization ideas, and more.
How to Get Your Child Ready for the First Day of Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a major step for young children — their first day of “big kid” school. As exciting as this time may be for some, many kindergarteners struggle initially with the long days, challenging curriculum and time spent away from loved ones.
To get your student ready to learn, child psychologist Amie Bettencourt from the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers helpful tips.
What can parents do to help prepare?
Establish strong routines at home.
Routines help children learn, make them feel safe and in control of their world, and foster their self-confidence and sense of belonging within the family. Some key family routines that will help children feel ready for kindergarten include:
Bedtime Routines
Bedtime routines ensure kids get a good night’s sleep and will be ready for the next day’s adventures. Some important parts of a bedtime routine include a consistent bedtime and a predictable order of activities (e.g., take a bath, put on pajamas, brush teeth, read favorite story or sing favorite song, get a goodnight hug or kiss from their caregiver).
Reading Routines
Parents are encouraged to read with their children for at least 20 minutes a day to build language and literacy skills. This reading routine can be part of the bedtime routine or at another time convenient for you and your child. A good way to make this time child-centered (and increase your child’s enjoyment and engagement in this time together) is by letting your child pick out the book.
Family Mealtime Routines
Having a family mealtime routine is not only an opportunity to teach your children about healthy eating habits, but is also a chance to spend quality time talking with your children, which builds their language and strengthens their relationship with you. You can also build in routines around mealtime that will be useful to your children in school, such as washing your hands before dinner or teaching them how to clear dishes from the table.
Stay up to date with vaccinations.
Take your child to the pediatrician for a checkup, and make sure all immunizations needed for kindergarten are up to date.
Tell your child what to expect.
Talk to your child about what kindergarten will be like to help them start preparing for this big transition. Children often have lots of questions about kindergarten, particularly if they are starting at a new school.
- Spend time talking with your child about what kindergarten will be like (e.
g., who will be the teacher, what will the daily school routine look like, etc.). - Involve him or her in picking out their school materials (e.g., backpack, clothes, etc.).
- You can also talk about what going to kindergarten was like for you as a way to model how your child can share feelings about kindergarten.
Once school begins, what are some conversation starters parents can use to get their child talking about school?
Ideally, talking with your child about school should be part of your family’s daily routine. Talking with your children not only gives you an opportunity to learn what they are doing in school and how they feel about school, but also provides an opportunity for you to communicate that school is important.
But getting conversations started with your young child about school is not always easy, as some children provide very little detail in response to the question, “How was school today?”
So here are a few other ways that you can get the conversation started with your children about school:
- Ask your children to tell you one new thing they did or learned about in school that day.
- Ask your children to tell you one thing they liked and one thing that was difficult about school that day.
- Ask your children about who they played with in school and what games they played.
- Create a family routine around talking about your day. For example, during mealtime or another time when you are spending time with your children, you can model how to talk about your day by sharing one or two things that you did that day and then asking your children to share one or two things about their day.
What specific aspects of kindergarten do new students struggle with?
Kindergarten is much more rigorous today than when most parents were growing up. In fact, children spend much more time engaged in structured reading and math activities than time spent in socialization and play-based learning. As a result, there is a mismatch between a child’s developmental stage and the academic skills he or she is required to master. Below are some of the issues that new kindergarteners may struggle with:
- A longer school day .
Many children transition to kindergarten from half-day preschool programs, so spending a full day of school engaged in structured activities can be a difficult adjustment for them. - Transitions . Transitioning from one activity to another is challenging for most young children, particularly when they have to stop a preferred activity (e.g., playing) to engage in something challenging (e.g., learning to read), and a typical kindergarten school day is full of these transitions.
- Sitting still and paying attention for long periods of time. The format of kindergarten has become much more structured and passive in nature, meaning young children are being required to sit still and pay attention to their teacher and to schoolwork for longer periods of time. This can be challenging for many kindergarteners who are still developing self-control and skills that help them sit still, focus and follow directions.
What are signs that a child isn’t adjusting well to kindergarten?
- The teacher reports that your child is having significant difficulty listening and following directions at school.
- Your child becomes verbally or physically aggressive toward peers or school staff.
- Your child has frequent temper tantrums at school.
- Your child expresses reluctance about getting ready for school in the morning. This may manifest as taking a long time to get ready in the morning, or saying things like “I don’t want to go to school” or “I don’t like school.”
- After a month or more of school, your child is still very tearful and clingy with you when you drop him or her off at school in the morning.
- Your child appears more sad, worried or irritable than before school started.
- Your child is having repeated daytime toileting accidents while at school.
At what point should parents consider seeking professional help?
- Your child is engaging in frequent disruptive behaviors at school (e.g., temper tantrums, verbal or physical aggression toward school staff or other children, destruction of classroom property, leaving the classroom without permission, etc.
). - Your child is frequently getting in trouble at school.
- Your child is displaying a lot of anxiety about school, which may take the form of expressed worries about teachers, peers or schoolwork and significant efforts to avoid going to school.
- Your child is more frequently tearful, sad or irritable and reports less interest in activities he or she typically enjoys since school started.
- Your child is having frequent toileting accidents at school despite being toilet trained for some time.
Published 2 May 2012
List of dishes that prepare in kindergarten
Dairy porridge (Pasteurized milk, whole milk; on condensed milk, in dry milk):
- Herculean
- Semolina
- Rice
- Millet
- Buckwheat
- Friendship (millet + rice or millet + buckwheat)
SOUPS:
- Borscht (with sour cream, without sour cream)
- Fresh cabbage soup (with sour cream, without sour cream)
- Potato soup
- with chicken broth
- with canned fish
- with canned meat
- Pea soup
- Beetroot (with sour cream, without sour cream)
- Vegetable soup (with sour cream, without sour cream)
- Rassolnik (with sour cream, without sour cream)
- Chicken noodle soup
- Pea soup with croutons
- Chicken broth with croutons
- Broth with meat and croutons
- Rice soup with chicken
- Vermicelli soup with chicken broth
- Peasant soup with sour cream
MEAT DISHES:
- Meat cutlet
- Meatballs
- Meatballs
- Baked meat soufflé
- Meat goulash
- Meat hedgehogs with rice
- Potato casserole with meat
- Pilaf with meat
- Choukrut with meat and butter
- Vermicelli casserole with meat
- Homemade roast with meat
- Goulash in tomato-sour cream sauce
- Meat Schnitzel
- Liver goulash
- Boiled chicken
- Braised cabbage with meat
- Vegetables stewed with meat
- Cabbage stewed with meat
- Lazy cabbage rolls
- Meat stew with vegetables
FISH DISHES (pollock, haddock, pink salmon):
- Fish cutlet
- Polish fish
- Fish soufflé
- Salted herring (with onion, without onion)
- Boiled fish
SIDE DISHES:
- Stewed vegetables with butter (cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes, onions, carrots, tomato paste, butter, salt)
- Braised cabbage
- Baked potatoes
- Mashed potatoes
- Vinaigrette
- Vegetable stew
- Stewed beets
- Boiled rice with butter
- Boiled horns (vermicelli) with butter
- Boiled buckwheat with butter
- Pea puree with butter
CAUSERS:
- Curd casserole with dried fruits and sour cream sauce
- Buckwheat with cottage cheese
- Curd-semolina pudding with condensed milk
- Curd-carrot casserole with marmalade
- Omelet with natural milk, milk powder
- Omelet with green peas
- Omelet with cauliflower
SALADS:
- Cabbage-carrot salad
- Carrot salad
- Beet salad with garlic
- Green pea salad
- Beet salad with apples
- Vegetable salad (fresh cucumber, pepper, tomato)
BEVERAGES:
- Dried fruit compote
- Dried apricot compote
- Lemon drink
- Fresh apple compote
- Fresh pear compote
- Kissel (jam, starch)
- Juice
- Sweet tea
- Cocoa with milk
- Coffee drink with milk
- Lemon drink
- Milk
BAKERY:
- Jam pie
- Cabbage and egg pie
- Bun "Sissy"
- Bun with raisins
- Homemade bun
- Bun
- Pie with dried apricots
- Scallops
- Cheesecake with cottage cheese or marmalade
- Green onion and egg patty
- Carrot and Egg Pie
- Kulebyaka with fish and onions
- Roll with marmalade or raisins
- Meat pie
- Liver pie
PASTRY:
- Biscuits
- Wafers
- Zephyr
- Marmalade
Fresh and salty vegetables
1.
Fresh tomatoes
2. Fresh cucumbers
3. Salt cucumbers
4. Obbach caviar
5. Green peas
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1. apples
2. Pears
3. Bananas
4. Oranges
Dairy products
1. Ryazhenka
2. Kefir
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| Products | Nursery | Garden |
| MEAT | 61.5 | 67.8 |
| BIRD | 23 | 27 |
| SAUSAGES | 5 | 7 |
| FISH | 37 | 39 |
| BUTTER | 22 | 26 |
| VEGETABLE OIL | 9 | 11 |
| MILK | 390 | 450 |
| SOUR CREAM | 9 | 11 |
| cottage cheese | 30 | 40 |
| CHEESE | 4. 3 | 6.4 |
| EGG | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| WHEAT FLOUR | 25 | 29 |
| CEREALS, PULSES | 30 | 43 |
| POTATO FLOUR | 3 | 3 |
| PASTA | 8 | 12 |
| SUGAR | 37 | 47 |
| PASTRY | 7 | 20 |
| FRUIT, FRESH | 108 | 114 |
| DRY FRUITS | 9 | 11 |
| VEGETABLES OTHER | 256 | 325 |
| SOKI | 100 | 100 |
| POTATO | 160-200 | 187-234 |
| WHEAT BREAD | 70 | 100 |
| RYE BREAD | 40 | 50 |
| COFFEE | 1 | 1. 2 |
| COCOA | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| TEA | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| YEAST | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| SALT | 4 | 6 |
Sample menu for two days
| 1 day | 2 day | |
| Breakfast | Curd casserole with sour cream sauce Sweet cocoa with milk Wheat bread with butter and cheese | Vermicelli with sausage Coffee drink with milk Wheat bread with butter |
| 10 o'clock breakfast | Orange | Juice |
| Lunch | Cucumber and tomato salad Beetroot with sour cream Meat cutlet with mashed potatoes Dried apricot compote Rye bread | Green pea salad with vegetable oil and onion Chicken broth with croutons Pilaf with chicken Lemon drink Rye bread |
| Snack | Raisin roll Ryazhenka | Zephyr Cookies Milk |
| Dinner | Druzhba porridge with butter and milk Kisel Wheat bread
| Butter mashed potatoes Salted herring Sweet tea Wheat bread |
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150 dishes with step by step photos
Recipes according to GOST for children in kindergarten from 1 to 7 years. Proven recipes with step by step photos, calories and cooking time. Breakfasts for children, lunches, dinners
Breakfast like in kindergarten Porridge like in kindergarten Soups like in kindergarten Second courses like in kindergarten Side dishes like in kindergarten Kindergarten vegetable recipes Desserts and pastries like in kindergarten Salads like in kindergartenChildren are often reluctant to eat in kindergarten. The food is unusual, not homemade, “strange”.
But it often happens the other way around: “I want it to be like in a kindergarten!”. If this is your case, then this collection of kindergarten-style recipes is perfect for you and your child. Read more
With or without apples, with jam or sour cream, these pancakes are good for everyone.
Sauerkraut soup like in kindergarten is recommended for older children.
Kindergarten-style cheese omelette is a wonderful breakfast for the whole family. Due to the presence of cheese in the recipe, the omelet is not bland, so parents will also like it.
Oranges are citrus fruits that we see on the shelves of shops all year round.
Fish baked in an omelette like in a kindergarten - a dish that is absolutely predictable in taste.
So many parents experience their children's dislike for vegetables, and this is often frustrating.
Adding another great soup to my kindergarten recipe box. Bean dishes are always hearty and healthy, and green peas, moreover, not only cook quickly, but also please with their beautiful green color.
After a year, the children's menu expands significantly and one of the first dishes that are introduced into the diet of babies is puree soups.
Pretty satisfying, thanks to potatoes, and fresh, thanks to cucumber, the salad will surely appeal to children.
In winter and spring, it is recommended to introduce dried fruits into the children's diet, since fresh fruits at this time of the year contain much less vitamins and nutrients.
Another salad in the piggy bank of recipes according to the kindergarten's technological maps.
From the age of about a year, fruits are introduced into the child's diet. Of course, if a child has few teeth and still cannot chew pieces, then we can only talk about fruit purees.
I would never have thought that rabbit meatballs like in kindergarten can be so tender and juicy!
Carrots stewed with rice and prunes, like in kindergarten - hearty, tasty, slightly sweet and, thanks to prunes, very fragrant dish.
Almost everyone remembers this pasta and cottage cheese casserole, it was a frequent guest on the tables in many kindergartens.
Boiled pasta baked with eggs, as in kindergarten, is suitable not only for a children's table, but can also be an interesting side dish for people on a diet (suitable for diets No. 3, No. 4c, diets No. 6, 7, 8, 10 , 11 and 15).
Soup-puree from zucchini, like in kindergarten, turns out to be very tender, calm, pleasant to the taste.
How many children love cauliflower? I don't know them :) Usually, the very smell of boiled cauliflower already drives the children out of the kitchen, but not in this case.
Fish patties with vegetables baked like in kindergarten - quite an interesting dish.
Delicious and fragrant garnish with a golden crust is potatoes baked in sour cream, like in a kindergarten.
Now even small children know that it is healthy to eat vegetables, but few people realize that the color of these vegetables is also of great importance.
Delicious, hearty and healthy chopped chicken fillet with scrambled eggs and vegetables, cooked like in a kindergarten, the whole family will like it.
Using the most common and familiar products in every kitchen, let's cook krupenik like in kindergarten.
Kindergarten-style juicy vegetables in a milky sauce are sure to please the smallest eaters.
You will not find anything tricky or unexpected in this salad of fresh vegetables with vegetable oil like in kindergarten.
Potato fritters with curd filling, prepared like in a kindergarten, are tender and satisfying.
Vegetarian borsch mashed like in kindergarten - a simple and good soup for the whole family, especially if you have small children.
Viscosity refers to a rather thick sticky porridge that is difficult to mix and does not spread on a plate.
I propose to bake apples stuffed with raisins, as in kindergarten. A very tasty combination of sour apple pulp with soft raisins and sugar will not leave indifferent neither children nor adults.
It is a pity that in those days when I visited the kindergarten, I could not appreciate the usefulness and deliciousness of the dishes that were prepared for us.
Kindergarten-style pumpkin puree is smooth and tender.
Perhaps, for someone, an apple is not the most familiar ingredient in a salad. But I add it very often and, as it turned out, kindergarten cooks do the same.
Fish dishes must be present on the menu of both children and adults.
Vegetables are a very important part of the nutrition of children, and adults too. But what if the child refuses them? One of the recommended ways is to prepare colorful salads.
“Health” cupcake, prepared like in a kindergarten, turns out to be very light, finely porous and moderately moist.
If you want to treat your family with Stroganoff cookies cooked in the same way as in kindergarten, then you will need to follow the technology of creating this dish, because it is prepared without frying.
Not always a child wants to eat vegetables, but this is so necessary for a growing organism.
Spinach soup with sour cream like in a kindergarten - with a slight sourness, dietary, with a fresh taste.
Personally, I don't remember any fruit salads on my kindergarten menu. But this does not change anything, fruit salad, like in kindergarten, is definitely provided there.
Children's diets are useful not only for children, but also for adults, especially for people who care about their figure or follow various diets.
Probably the simplest and most familiar salad is tomatoes with cucumber and onions.
This light vegetable soup is perfect for both children and adults who are tired of heavy meals.
For me, dried fruit compote is strongly associated with childhood and winter, or rather with Christmas, because my mother always cooked it for this particular holiday.
Is it possible to give a child fried food and from what age? Isn't yeast harmful? I am not particularly competent in this matter, I just prepared delicious pancakes for you according to a kindergarten recipe.
Kindergarten-style vegetable soup that will appeal to both children and adults.
I love simple and precise kindergarten recipes: you can always add your own flavors, seasonings, but the base... The base remains unshakable.
Fish is introduced into the diet of children quite early. It is prepared in different ways, including in the form of cutlets.
Dracena is a type of regular omelette.
But if the main ingredients in an omelette are eggs and milk, then in addition to the above, sour cream and flour are added to the drachen.
These Kindergarten cupcakes turn out golden beauties! The taste is simple, creamy and fragrant.
Children's menu - the most useful and safe, both for kids and adults.
For some reason I don't remember such porridge in childhood, although I went to kindergarten, it turns out that porridge is included in the diet of children's institutions.
Kindergarten meals are very often on my home menu.
Milk soups begin to be included in the children's diet very early. They are mainly made with cereals or pasta, but vegetable dairy products are much less common, but they are wonderful.
Delicate vegetable soufflé can be prepared for lunch as a second course for a baby or as a main course or a side dish for dinner.
I propose to cook sour cream sauce from the kindergarten menu. This sauce is in perfect harmony with vegetable casseroles, main courses, pancakes, pancakes.
I propose to cook liquid Hercules oatmeal from the kindergarten menu, which your kids and not only will surely like!
Surely, on the Internet, you have come across a lot of recipes for rice casseroles!
Very often I cook dishes from the kindergarten menu for my home. It's so delicious, tender and healthy.
Of course, everyone knows that mashed potatoes are the most delicious vegetable food, well, at least for me.
Beetroot salads appear quite often on my dinner table: beetroot is a healthy vegetable for both children and adults.
Beetroot caviar is a cold appetizer that can be prepared at any time of the year, since beetroot is a vegetable that is on the shelves of our stores all year round, and for a very small fee.
I met this salad a long time ago, but definitely not in kindergarten.
Pleased the family with another dish according to kindergarten recipes - beef patties like in kindergarten.
By and large, pancakes are loved by both young and old.
And these airy pancakes on kefir, like in kindergarten, will definitely not leave anyone indifferent.
Like all kindergarten soups, the one below is neither complex nor full of ingredients or seasonings.
This raisin rice porridge is claimed to be runny. But, in my opinion, it lacks at least 200 grams of milk, or even more, to liquid.
A side dish in a child's menu is very important, especially if it is made from vegetables.
Kissel as a child I loved: both the one that my grandmother cooked, berry, and the one that was sold dry in packs, remember? True, I don’t remember absolutely milk jelly from kindergarten, so many years have passed.
To be honest, I didn’t have any pleasant memories of kindergarten food, the more interesting it was for me to cook several children’s dishes according to the recipes of their technological maps for the Menu of the Week website.
In my practice there were sweet casseroles using pasta, vermicelli and lasagna plates, with the addition of cottage cheese, raisins, vanilla.
By and large, such a vegetable salad can be not only a side dish, but somewhere an independent dish.
Another salad for the kindergarten piggy bank. Simple ingredients, no complicated processes.
The name of the salad speaks for itself - "Sunny" - light, bright and cheerful!
Children are often reluctant to eat in kindergarten. The food is unusual, not homemade, “strange”.
But it often happens the other way around: “I want it like in a kindergarten!”. If this is your case, then this collection of kindergarten-style recipes is perfect for you and your child.
In addition, all the recipes from this collection are prepared according to technological maps for preschool institutions and are ideal for organizing baby food.
If your "Nehochuha" eats mostly pasta and refuses to eat anything else, you will find suitable options here to diversify your child's diet.
For example, if a child eats semolina in kindergarten but refuses to eat it at home, you can find here the recipe for semolina in the form in which the child eats it in kindergarten.
