Families play an important role in preparing children for their transition into school. What are some strategies that prepare children to enter school or to transition from one program to the next?



Preparation, Use of transition objects, transition songs, social stories, transition activities, visual schedule and Consistency

Explanation:

Transition means changing from one condition, position or state to the other.

Strategies are plans, policies, methods or action to achieve a long term aim.

As a family, we must come up with strategies that will prepare children for schools or transition from one program to the other because this will make them adapt to the new environment very fast.

Kindly find below transition strategies that prepare children to enter school or to transition from one program to the other.

1. Preparation: Explain to the children what to expect from the transition. Explain things to do and not, how to interact with others and also warn them of things not to do.

2. Use of transition objects: Get them things that would remember that the transition doesn't mean they are no longer part of the family. Example: Toys or doll should be given to children when they start school because this will remind them that they still have part of their household with them at school.

3. Transition songs: Songs keep the brain in the mood. You can come up with your own song and teach them the songs. Let the song be about the transition. Transition songs help to keep children from one activity to the other.

4. Social Stories: Give them stories that will benefit them. For example, giving stories of successful people that went to school will prepare their minds toward school.

5. Transition activities: These are things done between two things. For example, dancing and watching cartoons. Give them time.

6. Visual Schedule: Using the visual schedule will make them ready for the task ahead. Things that are visible are hard to forget, it could be shown to them from charts.

7. Consistency: Constant using of the strategies will be more effective than using them occasionally.

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)

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