Scholastic Book Orders Now Available Online!

Scholastic now offers parents the option to order books online. When you do this, not only do you get a great bargain and earn books for our classroom!!

Ordering online is fairly simple:

1. Go to the parent sign in at Scholastic.com
2. *Click "Don't have a User Name and Password?"
   
3. *Click "If you have a 5-digit code from your child’s teacher,
   click here to register."
4. *Enter "1FBVH" for the 5-digit code
5. *Create your account, click submit
   
6. Browse the available catalogs by clicking on the "place an order" button for the catalog you want to view.
   
7. Once you find a book you would like to order, change 0 to 1 (or how ever many) then click the "Update Qty." button
8. When you are finished shopping, click the "checkout" button at the top of the page.
9. Once you've entered your payment information, the books will be ordered and then shipped directly to our classroom. Once I receive the books, I will give them to your child(or put them in his/her backpack).
10. Yeah! You've now helped build our classroom library(by earning points for our class) at the same time you added to yours at home :) THANK YOU!!

*These steps are for the first time you log on only

Separation Anxiety in Preschoolers

I would like to know if your child is having anxiety about going to school and how are you helping him/her cope. CJ, my four year old son, was adamant that he was not going back to school because he doesn't want a new teacher nor does he want to meet the new kids in his class. That was until I started talking to him about the neat things he was going to learn about in PreK - things like space, cowboys, Indians and dinosaurs. I told him I felt a little sorry for the girls in his class because it seemed like they would be learning mostly "boy" things. Apparently, that is what he needed to hear! Suddenly, he became very interested in his new class and wanted know all about it. Of course, he did tell me that he is not coming into my classroom since there will be new kids in there too. One baby step at a time I guess ;)

• Are you talking with your child about what s/he can expect in school?
• Will your child met with his/her teacher(me) in advance?
• Does your child have any ways to cope with meeting new people and being separated from you?
• Does s/he know what s/he can do when feeling scared or overwhelmed?
  
• Are you reading any books about school? (Such as "The Kissing Hand")
  
• Are you practicing/pretending what it will be like at school? This helped my son a lot last year. I would pretend to be his teacher and we would practice meeting each other for the first time. We also practiced saying good-bye and I told him "mommy goes away, but mommy will always come back!"