Family Newsletter 1-6-23

Please note that the parking spaces by the preschool playground are reserved for preschool parents for drop off and pick up.

 

When waiting in the car line for your K-6th grader(s), please attempt to keep the line to the far right by the woods/cars so that preschool parents can get by on the left.  As well, please attempt to leave an opening where the preschool parents park so that they can scoot past your cars and get to a spot for pick up.  Thank you so much!

To read an articled titled How To Deal With Tantrums in Public (Without Feeling Like A Fool, click here.

 

To learn about and register for a free virtual positive discipline class for parents, click here.

Please be sure to pay your lunch balances.  You can send money in to school or you can pay using PaySchools.  If you have questions about your child(ren)'s lunch balance, please email Mrs. Bailey at [email protected].

 

Supporting Reading Development at Home

Here are some suggested ways to incorporate learning into daily life. 

• It is important that children have many opportunities to practice oral language skills (listening and speaking) as a basis for their foundational literacy. 
• Allowing them to practice skills will help them develop their fluency as they read (so they read aloud smoothly and not robotic).
• Children benefit from hearing others read aloud fluently (e.g., with a fluent reader at home, in an audio book).
• For multilingual learners, It is important to foster literacy skills in a child’s first language.

What do you do when your child is reading and gets stuck on a “tricky” word?

1. Encourage them to look at all of the letters in the word.
2. Have your child point to the letters as they say the sounds and then blend them together to say the word.
3. Have your child reread the sentence with the word they read to see if it makes sense.
4. Enjoy the time with your child!

Have a great weekend!