Maple Elementary School

Text Box: as your child learns new words. Listen to your child read. As they point to each word, give them time to think and sound out the words. New readers are a bit hesitant, but will get faster and more fluent as they read to you each night. Please be sure to sign or initial the back of each book read. Hooray! Our students have been counting the number of days in school and we are about to reach the 100th day of kindergarten. What a big number! They Text Box: will be going on a scavenger hunt to find one hundred items in the kindergarten pod. Kindergarteners will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a special snack and card exchange. Please watch your child’s agenda for upcoming information about the program, A Book is a Magic Carpet, which students will perform in on February 14, 2008. see page 3 Text Box: Notes and News All kindergarten parents have received their child’s second report card. You will receive your child’s mid year DIBELS reading readiness scores at the February 25 conference. Please check to see if your child’s teacher requested a conference and contact the school to set up a time. We have so many great things to share about your child’s progress. Kindergarten students are bringing home lots of little books to share. The sentences and stories in the books gradually become longer Text Box: Pre-Kindergarten News It is hard to believe that half of this fabulous year is over. The children have been working extremely hard and their hard work is paying off. All 17 of the morning students and 15 out of 19 afternoon students can zip their coats all by themselves. Twenty-eight out of thirty-six students can write their names with a model. I am proud of how well those students wrote their names without any help. Their papers look spectacular! The children are building a solid foundation for reading. They have learned 11 letters of the alphabet (a,f,o,p,s,t,u,w,x,y,z), the sounds that those letters make and how to write the upper and lower case of each. They are learning to be conscientious listeners and thinkers, so they can answer questions about the stories they hear. So far this year, we have read 166 stories, so they have had plenty of practice and are getting pretty good at it. In math, the children are working just as hard. Twenty-five of the thirty-six students can recognize the numbers 0-5 and many know up to 10. Thirty-one out of thirty-six students can count to ten or higher. However, two students are counting up a storm. Sauntie Simmons can count to 89 and Levi Neild can count to 101! What an accomplishment! See page 9 Text Box: Kindergarten News Text Box: Page #

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