Library · First Day of School
starring the new kid: yours.
Saying goodbye at the door, finding the classroom, meeting the teacher, and knowing that pick-up is coming. Vivi turns that first morning into a narrated, animated story your child stars in.
Who it helps
For children starting preschool, kindergarten or a new school, and for children who find goodbyes, noise or new people hard. Parents of autistic and anxious children often start a social story like this a week or two before the first day.
Put in the real details: the teacher's name, the way to school, and who comes at pick-up.
Getting ready
The morning routine, the backpack, and the way to school.
Saying goodbye
A goodbye that is the same every day, and the promise of who comes back.
In the classroom
The teacher, a place to sit, other children, and what to do when they need help.
Pick-up
Who comes, when, and what you will do together after.
Yours, not ours. These are the moments a story like this usually walks through. You choose what goes into your child's, and read every page before it is animated.
Questions parents ask
About a week before school starts, then every day, including the morning of. The more familiar the sequence, the smaller the first morning feels.
Yes. Tell Vivi the teacher's name, how you get there and who picks your child up, and read every page before it is animated.
Visit if you can, and show the new day in order, with the same words each time. A social story about their own first day, with them as the main character, gives them that sequence to watch as often as they need.
Your first story is free in your first 30 days. After that you buy credits: 3 for $9, 10 for $26 or 30 for $66. A story is 1 credit, and a Fully Animated story is 10 more. Your first routine, Choose-Along and plan are free, then 1 credit each. Bought credits never expire.
Your first story is free. Set up your child, start from First Day of School, and watch it together before bed.
More moments: Getting a Haircut · Hearing the Fire Alarm · Flying on an Airplane · Using the Toilets · When I feel mad · all 30 stories →
Vivi Kids is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carol Gray or Team Social Stories.
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