Lesson #3 covers pages 18 to 21, your child will be able to comprehend Classroom or daycare environments where a child may be separated from their parents and in the care if other adults for a period of time, understand safety precautions and proper behavior, and who to trust if an incident occurs (such as a fire or injury.) Also built into the pictures are lessons of cooperation and the importance of learning.

Primary lessons in this picture:  Information and Understanding

• Preparing your child to attend a classroom environment where they may be separated from their parents for an extended period of time (pages 18-19)

  • Preparing a child for separation from parent.

  • Understanding respect of adults and authority.

  • Preparation for experiencing a social environment.

  • Preparation for following teacher/guardian when emergency/alarm/injury occur.

Plans of Action and Reaction:  Child and parent working together:

• Issue: Preparing a child for separation from parent.

  • Action: Using the book to facilitate an understanding of why daycare is a part of their life will help children contemplate being with other children and away from the parent/guardian prior to the actual experience.

  • Action: Take the child through the pages of Lesson #2 and #3 and help them understand preparing for and traveling to daycare.

  • Action: Role play a classroom at home.

• Issue: Understanding respect of adults and authority.

  • Action: Although you can only partially see the teacher in the scene, teaching your child to associate the teacher/guardian with parent’s authority is very important.

• Issue: Preparation for experiencing a social environment.

  • Action: Socializing with other children.

  • Action: Understanding sharing in and out of the home.

• Issue: Preparation for following teacher/guardian when emergency/alarm/injury occur.

  • Action: Using the pictures (pages 18-21) and explain Bonnie Sue’s reaction to the alarm and the exit sign.

  • Action: Explain the importance of following the teacher/guardian directions in emergency situations.

Supplemental Activities:

• The more role playing and repetition through the pictures you can do with the child prior to visiting daycare or a classroom, the better.  

Conclusion:

When you and your child have worked your way through Lesson #3 and then repeated it several times in a fun and communicative manner, you and your child will be fully prepared for most real-life classroom environments.