08/27/2026
📚✨ BOOK SHOUT OUT: Books for Back to School ✨📚
Starting school can bring lots of BIG feelings and these three books are great for helping children talk about and work through them! 💛
🐾 The Kissing Hand
Follow Chester Raccoon as he navigates his first day of school. This story is great for talking about feelings, coping strategies, sequencing, story retell, WH-questions, and inferencing.
🍎 First Day Jitters
Sarah is very nervous about her first day of school! The surprise ending makes this book perfect for practicing predictions, inferencing, perspective-taking, emotional vocabulary, and WH-questions.
🦙 Llama Llama Misses Mama
Llama Llama experiences those familiar first-day feelings when he misses Mama at school. This book is great for emotional vocabulary, school routines, sequencing, story retell, predicting, and WH-questions.
💬 Try asking:
• How is the character feeling?
• What do you think will happen next?
• What helped them feel better?
• Have you ever felt this way?
📖 Books are a simple way to build language, social-emotional skills, and school readiness while spending time together! 💕