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Preschool is the perfect time to teach skills that students will use the rest of their lives. These skills include:

• learning how to be a friend
• how to play with others
• how to talk and communicate with others
• how to persevere through challenges
• how to bounce back after a set back
• build working memory
• how to focus attention to tasks
• how to regulate one’s own behavior
• allows children to be curious
• ask questions about themselves, others, and their environments
• and so much more.

For more information, please refer to the Early Learning Standards: Ages 3 to 5.

There are several books to choose from.  Below is a list of resources that provide a summary of the book.  Select a book that applies to your child(ren).

• Mind in the Making
• Center on the Developing Child- Topic: Executive Function
• Center on the Developing Child: InBrief: Executive Function
• Tools of the Mind
• Promoting Executive Function Skills in Preschoolers Using a Play-Based Program