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Back to School: 10 Tips for a Happy, Healthy Preschool Year
✨ Welcome Back!
We hope your summer was filled with rest, play, and adventure! As we prepare to welcome your child to the 2025–2026 preschool year, here are 10 practical tips to help your “Little Warrior” begin school happy, healthy, and ready to grow.
🌱 Physical Growth
🥗 Good Nutrition
Encourage healthy, balanced meals and snacks rich in protein, fruits, and vegetables. Let your child help in the kitchen — they’re more likely to try new foods if they’ve helped make them.
We hope your summer was filled with rest, play, and adventure! As we prepare to welcome your child to the 2025–2026 preschool year, here are 10 practical tips to help your “Little Warrior” begin school happy, healthy, and ready to grow.
🌱 Physical Growth
🥗 Good Nutrition
Encourage healthy, balanced meals and snacks rich in protein, fruits, and vegetables. Let your child help in the kitchen — they’re more likely to try new foods if they’ve helped make them.
💤 Plenty of Sleep
Preschoolers need 10–13 hours of sleep daily (including naps). Create a calm bedtime routine, and gradually adjust summer bedtimes to earlier hours at least a week before school starts.
Preschoolers need 10–13 hours of sleep daily (including naps). Create a calm bedtime routine, and gradually adjust summer bedtimes to earlier hours at least a week before school starts.
🏃♀️ Active Play
Outdoor play strengthens muscles and creativity. Both organized games and unstructured play are great ways to help your child grow physically and socially.
🧠 Cognitive Development
🔍 Spark Curiosity
Encourage your child’s questions, take neighborhood walks, and try simple experiments. Sensory-rich activities promote thinking and problem-solving.
Outdoor play strengthens muscles and creativity. Both organized games and unstructured play are great ways to help your child grow physically and socially.
🧠 Cognitive Development
🔍 Spark Curiosity
Encourage your child’s questions, take neighborhood walks, and try simple experiments. Sensory-rich activities promote thinking and problem-solving.
📺 Limit Screen Time
Keep screen time to 1 hour or less per day. Instead, offer toys, games, and books that inspire imagination and learning.
📖 Language & Literacy
🗣️ Talk & Listen
Use car rides and meals for conversations. Share stories, riddles, rhymes, and songs to develop language skills.
Keep screen time to 1 hour or less per day. Instead, offer toys, games, and books that inspire imagination and learning.
📖 Language & Literacy
🗣️ Talk & Listen
Use car rides and meals for conversations. Share stories, riddles, rhymes, and songs to develop language skills.
📚 Read, Read, Read
Even repeated readings help literacy. Choose books with rhymes, repetition, and rich illustrations.
Even repeated readings help literacy. Choose books with rhymes, repetition, and rich illustrations.
✍️ Encourage Writing
Provide paper, crayons, pencils, glue, and scissors so your child can practice writing and creating.
🤝 Social & Emotional Growth
👨👩👧👦 Build Relationships
Schedule regular family fun nights, practice taking turns, and arrange playdates. Friendships at this stage enrich the whole family.
Provide paper, crayons, pencils, glue, and scissors so your child can practice writing and creating.
🤝 Social & Emotional Growth
👨👩👧👦 Build Relationships
Schedule regular family fun nights, practice taking turns, and arrange playdates. Friendships at this stage enrich the whole family.
🌟 Foster Independence
Encourage your child to feed themselves, use the bathroom independently, and follow multi-step directions — confidence grows from doing things on their own.
📅 Important Dates
✅ Orientation: Thursday, August 7
✅ Preschool Preview Day: Friday, August 8
We’re praying for your family as you prepare for this exciting milestone. Let’s make this year a joyful and meaningful one — we can’t wait to see you soon!
Encourage your child to feed themselves, use the bathroom independently, and follow multi-step directions — confidence grows from doing things on their own.
📅 Important Dates
✅ Orientation: Thursday, August 7
✅ Preschool Preview Day: Friday, August 8
We’re praying for your family as you prepare for this exciting milestone. Let’s make this year a joyful and meaningful one — we can’t wait to see you soon!
Westminster Christian School, located in Palmetto Bay, Florida, is a private, college-preparatory school for children from preschool through twelfth grade.