Take home kits

Each week students in our kindergarten can take home activity kits. These kits include games, activity cards and a literature connection. How has your family enjoyed the kits? Was Monday to Friday  long enough to explore the kits? What activities did you like or dislike?

Any thoughts or questions?

One of the reasons this blog was created is to provide a place for parents and friends to ask questions and share thoughts on reading with children. Do you have any questions or thoughts to share with other parents? Post them here.

Fifth Grade Science Partners

Our students have a wonderful opportunity to work with a fifth grade science partner. The kindergartners have a fifth grade "teacher" who takes them through inquiry science activities. The partners then write up their observations. The fifth graders have their own blog spot

http://ddscienceisviral.blogspot.com

You can check it out and get their perspective. It is amazing to see both the fifth graders and the kindergarteners so engaged in learning.

Thanks for reading with your child

As a kindergarten teacher I am so thankful for all the parents who take the time to read with their children every night. Even before children read on their own, they develop many reading strategies while being read to. A few of them are predicting, questioning, using pictures and context to construct meaning. Because of such caring parents, children come to school familiar with books and print and ready to read.  Please share how reading with your child has encouraged your child to be a reader.