READ
The most important thing you can do is read with your child every day.
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PLAY PLAY PLAY -
Free unstructured play is of utmost importance to the development of your Kindergartner. Play enhances language development, social competence, creativity, imagination, and thinking skills. When children play, they draw upon their past experiences, things they have done, seen others do, read about, or seen on television, and they use these experiences to build games, play scenarios, and engage in activities.They use fine and gross motor skills in their play. They react to each other socially. They think about what they are doing or going to do. They use language to talk to each other or to themselves and they very often respond emotionally to the play activity. The integration of these different types of behaviors is key to the cognitive development of young children. Because children's play draws upon all of these behaviors, it is a very effective vehicle for learning, so play, play, play!
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SIGHT WORDS
These are words which are commonly found in print and your child should be able to quickly recognize. Please continue to practice these with your child. We would like them to be able to master as many as they can by the completion of Kindergarten One of the best ways I have found to aid the students in remembering words is to place them around your home on familiar objects which have significance to the word (ex. The word "in" could be placed on a door - each time the child goes in the door, he/she touches the word and says "in").
- New words are sent home each Wednesday in your child's folder
​ - Color words - Number words - the
- of - and - to
- a - in - that
- is - was - he
- for - it - with
- as - his - on
- be - at - by
- I - this - had
- not - are - but
- from - or - have
- an - they - which
- one - you - were
- her - all - she
- there - would - their
- we - him - been
- has - when - who
- will - no - if
- out - so - said
- what - up - its
- about - into - them
- can - only - see
- new - some - could
- these - two - may
- then - do - first
- any - my - now
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BOOK EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Every night Monday through Thursday your child will bring home one emergent reader book. Please read this book with your child and return it to school the next day so we can continue rotating it through the classroom. At the beginning of the year, your child will probably need your help reading the book. As the year progresses, it is our goal to let the students take over and read the book to you. After reading the book, remember to ask your child to sequence the events, and ask some important comprehension questions, such as - Who were the characters?, What does this story make you think about?, and What did the author want us to learn?
