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Read.Explore.Learn.- Back to School Worries

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Welcome to week four of the Read. Explore. Learn Summer Reading Challenge- August! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.

Remember each post you link up counts as an entry in the the August edition of the Summer Reading Challenge. One post linked up to Read.Explore.Learn during the month of August will selected to win a reusable bag and books.

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
JDaniel starts preschool next Tuesday. He walked right into his new Sunday school class last week without a tear. All summer he has had to be peeled off of me. We don’t know what will happen next week when he starts preschool. He could walk in and be ready to learn, play and explore or it could be traumatic.

This week I selected two books about characters that weren’t so sure about going to preschool to share with you.

The first book is called Llama Llama Misses Mama by Ann Dewdney. Llama Llama seems ready to start the school in the book. He gets all his morning things done. He doesn’t seem to worry until his mama gets ready to drop him off. Llama Llama feels shy when Mama goes away.

The newness of everything and the unknown make him hold back from joining the other children in play. His teacher tries to engage him in activities and he doesn’t want to read, play or eat snack.

What he really wants is Mama, but he decides to try to play and get to know the other kids when the teacher promises Mama is coming back.

By the time Mama comes to school to get him, Llama Llama has lots to show and tell her.

This story reaches into little ones fears and probably some Mamas. I love how it is honest about feelings that really plague children about starting school.

The second book is called Billy and the Big New School by Catherin and Laurence Anholt. Billy his mother decides is like a bird that doesn’t want to leave the nest, but wants to fly. He wants to go to school, but something in his belly makes him feel he wants to stay home.

Billy’s loves birds. He draws them, plays outside with them, and even talks to them about his feeling about school and his new shoes that are hard to tie.

One day while out in his yard Billy finds a bird that is hurt and being picked on by the other birds. Billy’s mother helps him bring in the bird and take care of it.

While Billy looked after the bird in a special box bed they made, Billy’s mother gets ready for the first day of school.

The night before school Billy dreams in his the injured bird being picked on. His mother has to come and give him a hug and tells him it is okay.

The next morning the little bird is ready to fly back into the outside world and Billy has to go to school.

Billy has a wonderful teacher that tours him around the room. Billy starts to feel better. He feels even better when he finds a book on birds in the classroom library. He reaaly feels better when he finds a friend.

That night Billy has a dream about flying freely with the bird towards his school and the dream isn’t scary.

Billy’s new found confidence and new friend really help him feel better about school.

I love this book. Billy learns that his feeling are real and have merit. He also learns that over time his feeling change and the way he views his world changes too.

What did we do?

Painting a Worry Stone

When I was visiting the Grand Canyon, they had worry stones in the gift shop. I thought they were the greatest thing. The directions that came with the rock suggested that you carry it in your pocket when you were going into a stressful situation. When you started to worry, you were to rub your thumb on the rock.

I thought it would be great for us to make one together and then put it into JDaniel’s backpack for school. He says he will rub it and send the worries to me.

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Comments

  3. Let’s hope JDaniel will be fine with preschool. I love the worry stone idea and wondered if it could have worked for my son last year when he found it so difficult to settle in to preschool. But thankfully, this year, he’s totally enjoying school. What a relief!

  4. Those books sound very interesting, and my kids painted the rocks last summer for fun.

  5. What a great idea! I would love doing something like this when my son gets a little older. We still have separation issues even though he has been in daycare for close to a year and a half now.

  7. My son starts preschool too in a little over a week. I’m taking the wait and see approach when it comes to anxiety. He’s never really shown any attachment issues when we’ve left him with friends but you never know. It’s really hard to know what to do because each child is so different. The worry stone is a cute idea.

  8. That’s the start of a new part of his life ! I remember my son was so happy to go to “school” that he almost forgot to say good bye ! Better that way so I could go home more light hearted !

  11. My boys love Llama Llama. I didn’t know about this one, but it’s perfect for Cubbie. He’s starting preschool too.

  12. I really like Llama Llama Mad at Mama. I don’t know that I want to read a sad book, though. 🙂

  17. I love the Llama Llama books, but my kids didn’t so much. I like the worry stone craft, I always thought worry stones and worry dolls were such a neat idea.

  18. How fun and so much smaller to carry around than a blanket. My girls are pretty good but at times it is all i can do to get them to leave the security blankets in the car.

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