Friday News Flash!

Happy Friday! In class this week we have been going over the rules and procedures again as many students had a hard time remembering this week. We will continue this work next week to make our class run as smoothly as we can!

Thank You Cards 

Next week our cook Gail will be retiring and as a class we made her thank you notes. I was so impressed with how thoughtful the students were! They came up with many great ideas like "We should said that we will miss her" or "can I put love and my name so she remembers me?" They were truly beautiful sentiments, not to mention the beautiful writing and pictures that they drew! Here are a few examples of cards that students were working on:

A student draws a photo of the cook with the kitchen counter.

 

"Thank you Gail! We will miss you!"

Reading at Home

Reading at home is an integral part to helping your child's reading development. As we move toward first grade (I can't believe I am saying that already!) we are really working on students becoming independent in their reading. You can help support this at home by having students sound out unknown words and helping them blend the sounds together, having them guess at an unknown word based off of the picture and simply letting them try and ask them if it makes sense. By helping them practice these strategies they will in turn internalize these strategies so they can do them with their own independent reading. This is such an exciting time for your child's reading development and it is only going to keep getting better!

As I mentioned I spent all last Friday working on report cards and I have to say it was more fun than I thought it would be! It was fabulous getting to look over all your children's work and see how much they have grown. It made me even more proud of them! Thank you for sharing them with me and for your support on their journey through Kindergarten!

Smiles,

Miss Adams