Dear Parents,
How fast the year did go! I can hardly believe we will say goodbye for the summer in a few short weeks. It has been a magical year filled with many opportunities for learning, growing and gaining self-confidence. I would like to take this moment to express how very much I have enjoyed working and learning with your children this year. They are bright, charming and quite endearing, to say the least!
Upcoming Kindergarten events to note…
• Tuesday, June 14th – Favorite Book Day presentations at 10 a.m.
As summer approaches, the children look forward to well-deserved playtime. However, we know that students often lose much of what they were taught during the year. Here are some things you may want to try to encourage out-of-school learning.
• Encourage your child to keep a journal of summer activities; draw pictures and write sentences.
• Reading has been called a keyhole skill; it opens the door to all academic endeavors. If you only have time to choose one thing from this list, make READING be your choice!
• Provide opportunities for number writing and counting.
• Bake a cake from scratch with your child. Let them help you follow the directions and measure out all of the ingredients.
• Spin a globe and pick a place to research. Help your child find interesting things about the place. For example, you might figure out how far away it is, what time it is there, and the language spoken there.
• Grow a vegetable garden. Keep an observation book to record what is happening in the garden as it grows.
• Plan a trip to a children’s museum, an art museum, or a science museum.
• Be a tourist for a day and visit historical places of interest in your area.
• Visit your public library. Find out about the reading program being offered this summer. Have your child get a library card.
Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.
~Author Unknown
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