Welcome to Kindergarten

We’re off to a great start in kindergarten this year! We are enjoying all of our new students that are so excited about getting to school each day. We appreciate all the support you have given us by having your children arrive to school on time, returning folders and all the necessary forms we have sent home. Our first weeks of school are about learning the names of our classmates and the routines of school, and immersing them with letters, sounds, and writing.
 
One way you can support learning at home is to provide opportunities for your kindergartner to:
• Listen to you read daily
• Answer questions you ask.
• Sing songs and recite rhymes.
• Talk with you about letters and words around them (examples: menu at McDonald’s, food packaging at Kroger, displays at K-Mart, etc.).
• Draw and create with pencils, crayons, paper, and scissors.
• Practice writing his or her name correctly using an uppercase letter at the beginning and the rest of the letters lowercase.
• Watch you write (examples: grocery list, phone message).
• Play letter games (examples: magnetic letters on the refrigerator, find letter ‘C’ on a can of corn, etc.).