Kindergarten Readiness – Helping Children Say Thank You

When children go off to preschool and kindergarten they will become members of a group so social skills such as sharing, taking turns, and saying please and thank you are important for early learning and kindergarten readiness. These are also significant as life skills.

Helping children learn the strategy of saying thank you is like other learning, it needs real opportunities and practice. Usually, after Christmas there are several people that kids need to thank. And there are different ways to do that:

phonechristmas-10QQ2Your child  may want to phone someone to tell them thank you.

Help your child print a note. It may be actual words or a page of lines and stickers.

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Drawing a picture is another way of saying thank you.

 

Take a photo of your child with the gift to send along with the note.

 

Take a quick video of your child saying thank you. This video on Youtube sounds like it was especially made for the kids’ grandparents who probably treasure it.

We want kids to be truthful and sometimes they receive gifts that are not well-liked.  Instead, kids can say something simple like thank you for thinking of them. Taking the time and making the effort to help kids say thank you gives our children the message that we think saying thank you is important. There is no doubt that kids learn from what we do. Does this give you some ideas of how to help your child say thank you after Christmas?

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