Soon your child will enter elementary school
What do the first graders do?

The contents are different depending on theschool, but in April, we reduce the level differencewith the life of nursery school and kindergarten.

I'm worried about school lunch
because my child has food allergy.
My child is not interested inhiragana. Should I teach him before
he enters elementary school?

At school, we deal with it by making amanual, so please tell the teacher aboutallergens and the degree of allergy.

Children learn letters after entering elementary school. Before entering elementaryschool, please read books to your children and show them hiragana. It is better tolet him practice writing his name in Hiragana before entering elementary school.
Parents

English version
For parents of children before entering elementary school tochildren who are in their fourth year of elementary school.

Parents Learn byRaising Children

CloverTeachers
せんせい先生◆

Major events atelementary school

Home Education Links◆★Enjoy elementary school life with your children.★
◆Entrance Ceremony◆◆Class Visits and Meetings◆

A ceremony to celebrate
entrance to a school

Opportunity to see
your child at school☆Please look forward toit with your child.
☆Parents can also participate
in the ceremony.
☆Please wear a suit toparticipate.
☆Please participate quietly.
☆When you take pictures ormovies, be careful not todisturb other people.
☆Please turn off
your smartphonewhen participate.

☆Look at your child's
effort and praise him.
☆Please watch the classquietly.
☆The parents' meetingis a opportunity togather information.

Try something new!

★ Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology

Be proud ofwhat you did!

Everyone becomes a parent when a・ School Attendance Guidebook for Foreign Students
・ A collection of links to support studies
for children with foreign rootschild born.
Parents grow up by being brought★ Ibaraki Prefectural Board of Education

up "to be a parent" by their children.

・ Entering Nursery and School Support Leaflet(6 languages version)

Parents also learn while raising★ Ibaraki NPO Center Commons

their children.

・ Consultations on school attendance and advancementof students with overseas roots Others★ Ibaraki International Association
・ Living Information for foreign people
・ Counseling Center for Foreigners Others◆Sports Day◆

◆Home Education Classes◆

Exercise presentation

Opportunity for parents tolearn about parenting☆Parents can also see it.
☆Children run and dance.
☆Look at your child's
effort and praise him.
☆For lunch, children eat
lunch box made at homewith their family.

To grow up as a person
and a parent

You can access the following
sites from the link collectionof Ibaraki Prefecture's Home
Education Support Navi
"Sukusuku Sodate Ibarakikko"

Take it for granted
that you will fail!

☆Parents can get useful
information for parenting
and solve problems.
☆There are lectures and workshops.
☆Please actively communicateand increase your acquaintances.

★ Aichi University of Education, Foreign
Students Support Resource Room・ Before Entering Japanese Elementary Schoolfor International Families (life version)
・ Elementary school guidebook
・ Junior high school guidebook Others

Publish : February ２０２１
Edit : Lifelong Learning Division, General
Affairs and Planning Department,Ibaraki Prefectural Office of Education
Preschool and Family Education Promotion Office〒310-8588 978-6 Kasaharacho, Mito-city, Ibaraki
TEL 029-301-5132★ About the leaflet ★
○This leaflet is based on the "Parenting Advice Book Clover"(Published August 2019).
○You can access Home Education Support Navi "Sukusuku
Sodate Ibarakikko" from the QR code on the right, and see
detailed information on the mobile version.

いばらきけん

き ょうい くいいんかい茨城県教育委員会
Ibaraki Prefectural Board of Education

Home Education
Support Navigation

Do your own work

A mind that follows rules

Early to bed,early to rise,
breakfast

Self-esteem

No one can't do anything well rightaway. If you believe in your child's
growth and wait, the things he can dowill increase little by little.
Parents shouldn't get rid of thedifficulties their children have toovercome on their own.
In addition to giving advice to yourchild, you should also wait until yourchild shows his or her opinion.

Children learn and acquire rules
through recognition, praise andscolding from their parents.
Decide the rules you want tofollow with your child, and if he
can't follow them, think about thereason together.
And when your child follows therules, please praise him well.

Being exposed to morning light andactive during the day produces thehormone melatonin at night, whichhelps people sleep well.
Children who eat breakfast every day
tend to have higher academic ability
and physical strength.
First of all, please adjust yourlifestyle from the habit of getting up
early.

Please consider your child as"individuality" including his
advantages and disadvantages.
Adults should recognize that there
are various values.
Please praise and acknowledge
good points in various situations.
Not only children but also parents
themselves should foster "a sense ofself-affirmation".

Self-determined mind

Communication

Media Usage

Discipline and abuse

Parents should learn about media
such as the Internet with theirchildren.
Please discuss and decide the rules
to use media devices well at home andfollow them with your family.
Also, parents should be a good
example to use the media in abalanced manner.

It takes time to train. There is nochild who can do anything from thebeginning.
Discipline and abuse are different.
Child abuse is "Physical, psychologic,
and sexual violence and neglect".
If you are likely to abuse your child,please leave the place or ask forhelp.

Good morning !

The ability to make decisions isthe ability to judge anddetermine.
People who are more selfdetermined tend to be happier.
Make a chance for your child tochoose and make a decision byhimself, even if it's a small thing.

Children develop cooperative nature bywatching parents cooperate with eachother. Show examples of how parents
engage and develop relationships withother people.
Some children cannot enter the groupby themselves. It is also necessary tostay close to children's feelings andwait without forcing them.

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