First-Day Strategies: How to Get Your Teacher Ready by Jean Reagan

Teachers get first-day jitters, too!

You're ready for the first day of school.

But what about your teacher?

It's true. After all, there's only one teacher and lots of kids in her classroom.

YOU can hide behind your new notebook or the kid with big hair in front of you, but you can bet everyone is staring at your teacher!

With August comes an epidemic of school-days anxiety, and it may be time to revisit author Jean Reagan's and illustrator Lee Wildish's classic how-to manual for kids, How to Get Your Teacher Ready (How To...relationships) (Alfred A. Knopf. 2017) that should help banish butterflies in the tummy for teachers and students alike.

A great big smile is always a good beginning. But first things first....

Whisper, "I know where the bathroom is if you ever need to know."

Give your teacher a few hint or two about getting in good with the lunch ladies that'll encourage generous helpings.

Give her something special, but definitely not...
An ice sculpture for her desk...Or an already opened box of chocolates!

It's going to be a long year. To give the teacher something to look forward to, tell her about the good times to come--like Field Day (bring sunscreen), Zoo Day (don't forget the naked mole rats), and even the Last Day of School (with spontaneous hugs).

Artist Lee Wildish creates a classroom of cheerful moppets to keep the new teacher busy from the first day of school and right on through the year. Kids with first-day worries will be cheered by this classic by Jean Reagan, author of How to Babysit a Grandpa (How To...relationships) and How to Babysit a Grandma (How To...relationships).

Share this one with Julie Danneberg's best-selling tale of teacher anxieties, First Day Jitters (Mrs. Hartwell's Classroom Adventures) and the favorite Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten.