We are introducing the letter Oo and the color Blue this next week. Our first popcorn (sight word) is AND. We will be adding new videos to support your child's learning at home on our video pages. You can find those at the top of the home page of our blog. These are great resources to help your child master letter recognition and letter sounds. These are the foundations of decoding and reading words so your support at home is critical to develop reading skills for your child. Please make sure to review the Letter Oo poem and the Color Blue poem in your child's Kindergarten Binder at home at least three times a week. Also, please have your child practice their popcorn words each day. These are words they need to memorize because they cannot be sounded out and these words are found in most of the early reader books they will be exposed to this year.
The nurse is in need of clothing donations for Kindergarten size pants and underwear. If you have any clothing your child has outgrown, or if you like to garage sale please keep this in mind. The nurse thanks you in advance for any donations you may send in.
We were lucky enough to receive 500 books per classroom to support our reading units. All of the books have to be marked and labeled with stickers and this is a REALLY BIG PROJECT! All of the teachers could use volunteers to help us with this project. If you are interested please contact your child's teacher if you have a few moments to spare to help us with this project. We really want to get those books into the hands of our young readers but need to have them labeled first so any volunteers would be greatly appreciated. We are also looking for parents who would like to head up our Fall Parties and those who could give a little time each week to make copies for the following week or help cut out materials for learning games and activities. We thank you in advance for supporting your child's education (and us as teachers) for donating a little time to help us with these projects. If you cannot come in, but could do something at home for us (like cutting or stapling booklets together) please let us know and we will organize and send those projects home. Your involvement helps us enrich our program for all of the children. Thank you for considering giving a little of your time.
Don't forget to send your child in appropriate shoes on PE days. Also, snacks are due on Mondays and Kindergarten Binders are due on Fridays. Thank you to all of our Mystery Readers and those who are sending in Letter of the Week bags. The students are LOVING these special activities that support literacy.
We all hope you have a great weekend. You can help your child as we start assessments this week by having them count to 25, practice writing their name (first letter upper case and the rest in lower case) and reviewing their letters and letter sounds. Please read 20 minutes a day with your child. Here is some important information to show you how important reading with your child each day is for literacy development.
