Listening and following rules are huge goals for 3-5 year olds :) When my preschoolers head off to kindergarten I hope to have helped prepare them in both areas...as a previous elementary school teacher I know that kids are expected to listen for long lengths of times in many kindergarten classrooms, and the list of school rules will be lengthy! Even more importantly, I hope to have helped them learn to be a good, and kind, friend. At my preschool I connect these together and instead of "school rules" we work together to create "friendship rules". I have done this the past four years and I find that it is wildly successful!