A healthy blend of excitement and nervousness in just the right balance is in their felt by children and parents alike. New avenues appear, milestones are set, doors to imagination open and opportunities galore.
The world as we know it has changed and normal has a different definition. Nonetheless, what we do best is adapt and continue to adjust to what is placed before us.
Soon things will go back to where we left them, and it will be time to press the play button.
Then, with the same excitement and nervousness—albeit in different proportions this time—we will send our kids on their way to the first day of school.
After months having them at home with us, sending our children back to school might give us an unsettled feeling as well, that same feeling we had when we sent them through the doors for their first day at school.
Fortunately, Qatar National Library’s online resources offer many ways to help your children deal with their first day of school. Talk About Starting School, from Ladybird books, is available through the Booki online library. Published in 1977, the illustrations will take you down nostalgia lane, but the text and the aim to prepare a child for school is still relevant today.
First Day of School, by Marilyn Kratz, subtly emphasizes how younger siblings cope with being at home when their older siblings are off at school.
Not every child fits the traditional mold, but, as Andy Cutbill shows in First Week at Cow School, sometimes children have surprising talents that make them stand out from the herd.
Children’s feelings of uncertainty of leaving a familiar grade level and the fear of moving to a new part of school with new teachers they’ve only heard about from others is highlighted in Back to School, by Meredith Badger, available in the Overdrive database provided by our Library.
Kindergarten Countdown, by Anna Jane Hays, Ninja Boy Goes Back to School, by N.D. Wilson, and Back to School, Weird Kids Rule, by Dan Gutman, all available on Overdrive, also deal with the big day of heading back to class.
For younger children, reading the same story increases vocabulary, and bright, colorful illustrations help children understand context and inspire visual thinking. B. Bear and Lolly: Off to School, by A.A. Livingston, is one such helpful picture book from our online database Tumble Book Library.
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