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For many moms the idea of driving up to a big scary elementary school and dropping off their child for kindergarten can be pretty frightening. And in preparing for kindergarten, getting your child ready for that moment of separation can be one of the most difficult things to do. That is why a great option for a lot of moms is not to completely separate from the child in their first weeks of kindergarten but to be an active parent and get involved volunteering at the school even in the summer before kindergarten gets underway.Kindergarten teachers are notoriously under funded and often depend heavily on the help of parents both to get ready for the school year and during the year to serve as

By encouraging children to keep a journal they will benefit from writing down their emotions and what they have been doing all summer. They will also improve their writing skills and be ready for that assignment that is given out at the beginning of every school year - an essay on what they did for the summer break.The journal itself can be a store bought notebook, an actual journal or some loose-leaf paper bound together. The form isn