Reading Boxes

One of the great things about kindergarten is working with early reading and writing skills.  Children at this age are so excited about words, sounds and stories.  Your child will be bringing home a variety of reading materials that they have been working on at school, and to which they have added their own personal artistic touch.  For this reason, we requested last week that you send in a shoebox with your child.

Here is the result:  The Reading Box.  As the year progresses, place any kindergarten sound and phonics books in this box, and encourage your child to return to it regularly to enjoy their work, and practice their reading skills.

Pick Up a Good Book...

You are going to hear a lot this year about the pre-reading skills your child is learning in kindergarten.  A lot of parents ask what they can do to help their child learn to read, and more importantly, learn to love to read.

On the left sidebar of this blog, we will keep up to date the sounds that we are working on at school, and encourage you to continue working with your child at home.  We will also list books that we highly recommend.  Check them out and let us know what you think!  In kindergarten, if it is a book we've read before, we call it an old favorite, and we love to return to them again and again.

Along with this, one of the best things you can do is to read to your child everyday for at least fifteen minutes.  Research shows that kids who are read to learn how to read.  This is a great opportunity as well for your child to spend quality time with older siblings, cousins, grandparents or any family member or good friend.