Moore Kids

08/12/2025

It’s the start of a new school year, which means it’s the perfect time to remember that teachers are human, too (and a few other back-to-school reminders).

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✏️ Teachers are working so hard for our kids . . . for next to nothing.

Believe me, no teacher is in this career for the money. They spend hundreds of their own dollars and hours of their own precious time planning and prepping so our children can learn important academic and life skills.

✏️ Progress isn’t always academic.

Learning how to work with others, how to listen, how to follow directions, how to do things independently—these are all huge achievements that can’t be pulled out of a folder or stuck on the fridge at the end of the day.

✏️ Teachers are incredibly creative.

They have devised some of the coolest, most innovative strategies for helping our children learn important concepts. They are constantly working to come up with new ideas and ways to teach, nurture, and engage.

✏️ Teachers are human, too.

They do the best they can to help each of their students, but it is impossible for them to be everything to everyone every single day. Sometimes they have off days, just like we all do. Sometimes they make mistakes. If they miss something, it’s not because they are lazy or negligent—they are just trying to juggle a busy classroom with a wide range of abilities and needs.

✏️ If at all possible, please please spend time at the school.

Be a substitute, volunteer to read, help with the book fair, go in and talk about your job or passion. Kids LOVE having parents there. And you will see firsthand how much teachers do every single day to care for, nurture, support, and teach our children. It will astound you. And exhaust you. You will want to give them each $1 million dollars.

✏️ If you can’t make it into the classroom, please try to give in other ways.

Buy cleaning or school supplies, donate to fundraisers, offer your services or time in other ways that benefit the school. Schools—and consequently, children—thrive from parental and community involvement.

✏️ A little bit of appreciation sure goes a long way.

Please remember to thank teachers for their selfless dedication to their kids. Because even though they may go home to us at the end of each day, teachers will always think of our kids as theirs, too. And that right there is why teachers are so dang special. ❤️

08/09/2025

POST FROM AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ABOUT PREPPING KIDS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HERE IT IS: 

A lot of parents want to know how to prepare their kids to start school for the first time. Skip the flash cards and teach them the below things:

Self-Help
- How to open and close containers. Specifically the kind you’ll put in their lunch boxes.
- How to put on a jacket so that the sleeves don’t get pulled through. How to fix the jacket if the sleeves do get pulled through. How to zip it up.
- How to zip and snap or button pants.
- Your child will be the holy grail of their class if they can tie their shoes.

Personal Care:
- TO GO TO THE BATHROOM WITH THE DOOR CLOSED. Lawd. Please teach them this. It may be no big deal at home, but it will be at school if they expose themselves to an entire classroom full of their friends.
- How to pump soap. How to properly wash their hands. To turn the sink off and dry their hands.

Social:
- How to wait and take turns.
- How to share. How to compromise.
- How to listen and follow 2 step directions. (First, take your jacket off. Then put it on the hanger) If you want to get crazy - try 3 step!

Language:
- Build vocabulary with them! Talk to them. Use big words. Explain what they mean. When they start to learn to read, it’ll be much easier for them to identify a word that is already in their vocabulary.
- Help them build their own language and memory by reflecting. Tell them what you need at the grocery store. When you get there, ask “What did we come to the store for?”
- Make them ask a question! Don’t let them say “I’m thirsty” and hand them a glass of water. You are being their problem solver, rather than having them find their own solutions. Teach them to ask for what they need. “Can I please have a glass of water?”

Coping Skills:
- Talk very intentionally about strategies to deal with emotions.
- “When you’re feeling scared, let’s try doing box breaths.”
- “If you’re feeling sad, what’s something happy that you could think about to cheer you up?”

Your child will be ready to learn if you can just work on these things. All the academic stuff will come! You don’t need to pound their tiny brains full of memorized facts. Just work with them in developing as a tiny human.

Via

08/01/2025

Her parents I’m going to try to make this a teaching platform for resources and things to help you. Here’s some books to read to your child before school starts back.

Parents: do you have a little one headed off to their first big day of school soon? Read one of these picture books to them the night before the big day and watch their jitters melt away!

Books to read before kids start school: http://to.pbs.org/2aAKDvs

08/22/2021

Reading to your child is very important.

03/04/2021

We are having so much fun this week with Dr. Seuss activities. We are sad it's going to end soon.

10/12/2020

2 more days until fall break. Does anyone have any fall break plans? ☺️

07/31/2020

Parents: do you have a little one headed off to their first big day of school soon? Read one of these picture books to them the night before the big day and watch their jitters melt away!

03/18/2019

Saw this poster at a preschool center in Auckland, New Zealand. Enjoy!

03/15/2019

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Herding Kats In Kindergarten

04/16/2018