May Newsletter

Short notes

Routines for learning:  When parents get involved in learning, children are more successful.  Help your child get off to a good start in school by creating habits like these at home:

Remind your child of rules such as “reading before play or television”.  That shows them that learning is top priority.  Also, give them a comfortable place to read or draw without distractions.

Make time, next year, each day to look over school papers with your child.  Be on the look out for notes from their teachers, and mark important dates on the calendar.

Sharing at dinnertime is an activity that can go beyond passing the platter.  Ask your child to think  of one new thing they learned during the day.  It might spark an interesting conversation among everyone at the dinner table.

Be sure to go to the

Public Library this
summer!

Fun Activity.

Waiting Games

Waiting has become a part of our everyday lives.  The next time you hear, “how much longer?” try one of these ideas to occupy your children.

Play word games.  Start with a simple word like  “up”.  Take turns thinking of opposites (down).

Work on counting forward and backward.  For an extra challenge, have your child try counting from a number other than 1.  For instance, you say, “7” they would continue “8,9,10”

Try an alphabet search.  Look around the room and find the letter “A” on a sign or poster.  Take turns finding the letters in order until you reach “Z”.

Remember read to or with your child all summer!

Would you like to help people in need.  Become a 
Registered Nurse.
Requirements:

High School diploma or GED
College: Bachelor of Science
Wage:  $30,000-$80,000 a year

May 1-4 Teacher Appreciation Week
May 11 Early Release
May 17 Last day for Pre-K  Awards 10 & 2
May 18 LHS Graduation
May 21 Field Day K-2
May 22  Kinder Last day and Awards 2-3
May 23 Early Release  Awards 1st-2nd 11:30-12:30
May 24 Early Release  School Out for the Summer!  Be Safe and Read! 

March Newsletter

Short notes 

Writers Workshop:

Creative writing is usually taught in a workshop format.  In workshops students submit original work for peer critique. Students also format a writing method through the process of writing and re-writing. Teachers teach editing, structural techniques, and idea generating.

Writer's voice is the literary term used to describe the individual writing style of an author. Voice is generally considered to be a combination of a writers writer's use of punctuation and character development  within a given body of written text.  Voice can be thought of in terms of the uniqueness of a vocal voice machine. As a trumpet has a different voice than a tuba or a violin has a different voice than a cello, so the words of one author have a different sound than the words of another. One author may have a voice that is light and fast paced while another may have a dark voice.

Fun Activity.

Math: Number Sense!

We are going to decompose a given number!

Two bunnies sat on the grass.  Three more bunnies hopped there.  How many bunnies are on the grass now?

2 + 3 = ?

Two bunnies were sitting on the grass.  Some more bunnies hopped there.  Then there were five bunnies.  How many bunnies hopped over to the first two bunnies?

2 + ? = 5

Some bunnies were sitting on the grass.  Three more bunnies hopped there.  Then there were five bunnies.  How many bunnies were on the grass before?

? + 3 = 5

Would you like to entertain?

Become a Writer…...an author.

Requirements:

High School diploma or GED

College: Bachelor of Arts

Wage:  $10,000-$80,000 a year

 Special points of interest:

Mar. 9 End of second 9 weeks

Mar. 12-16 Spring Break

Mar. 23 Parent/Teacher Conf.

Mar. 28 Spring Pictures

February News

Short notes 
Skills for Reading:

When approaching a text, skilled readers are already reading the title and building ideas about what the text will say.  Teachers teach students the important habit of evoking their prior knowledge and information on a subject when they read to enhance comprehension.

Once a student has started reading a text, the reader should modify, or refine their idea about the main idea.

confirm, modify, or refine their idea about the main idea. They should identify the main idea.

Teachers  teach and provide significant practice in distinguishing the main idea in a paragraph or essay from supporting detail or other components.

Fun Activity.

Math: Number Sense!

A rich relational understanding of number, involves many different ideas, relationships and skills.  Number sense is having good intuition about numbers.

 Classifying numbers by use:

Rote counting—saying numbers in sequence

Rational counting– to count objects

Cardinal numbers– to name “how many” objects are in a set

Ordinal numbers– to name the relative positions of objects in sets

Measures– to name “how much” when we measure

Special points of interest:

       Feb. 17 Early Release

Feb. 20 Holiday No School

March 2 Child Find 9-2 at RVT

 CAREERS

Would you like to help find answers to questions?

Become a Researcher of cancer, diabetes, vitamins. etc..

 

Requirements:

High School diploma or GED

College: Bachelor of Science

Wage:  $45,000-$80,000 a year

Short notes 

Act it out!

Prep: Have your child pick out a book to read. (You can visit the library together or pick from books you already have at home.) Skim through the book on your own first to get an idea of the characters.

Play: Read the book aloud to your child, using a different voice for each character as you go along. For example, give an old man a deep gravely voice and a younggirl a high-pitched voice.  Change your tone and volume to show emotion.  Use your enthusiasm!

Get your child in on the action, too.  For example, have him or her act out something a character did, such as riding a horse by galloping around on a broom.  Don’t be afraid to join in and get a little silly. 

Laughter is fun for “children” of all ages!

   

Fun Activity.

Math is Fun!

Parents' attitudes toward mathematics have an impact on children's attitudes. Children whose parents show an interest in and enthusiasm for mathematics around the home will be more likely to develop that enthusiasm themselves.   

Special points of interest:

Jan. 16 Holiday

No school

Jan. 17  MAP

testing begins

Jan. 27  Early

Release

Feb. 3 In-service day.  No school for students.

   

Worth Quoting:

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
  

Reading to children is a treasured activity in many homes. What better way to integrate mathematics into the lives of children than to read them stories that bring mathematical ideas to life? Children's books related to mathematics can be separated into four categories: counting books, number books, storybooks, and concept books.

 

Would you like to predict weather?

Become a Weather Forecaster.

Requirements:

High School diploma or GED

College: Bachelor of Science

Wage:  $50,000-$90,000 a year