Kindergarten Parent Night - TES - Treutlen County Schools

TES
Kindergarten
Parent Night
    2021

● Students MUST wear a mask if they ride the
  bus.
● Students arriving after 7:45 are marked
  tardy.
● Please have your child at school by 7:30 if
  they need to eat breakfast.
● Our day begins at 7:50. Students who arrive
  late miss instructional time.
● If you sign your child out early, please do so
  by 2:00.

● Check your child’s folder Monday
  through Thursday for homework.
● A newsletter will be sent home in the
  folder each week. Please review the
  letters, sounds and high frequency
  words listed on the newsletter daily.
● Please read with your child as often
  as possible.

Tips for Success in Kindergarten
● Healthy Habits - You can’t perform well when you
  don’t feel good. Make sure your child follows healthy
  routines at home. Choose a bedtime that will give your
  child plenty of sleep, encourage exercise, and limit the
  amount of time they spend watching TV or playing
  video games.
● Designated Spaces - It’s important to have a single
  place to put backpacks, jackets, and school materials.
  Designate a place where your child can keep these
  items to keep them organized. Then you’ll know right
  where to find everything during the morning rush. A
  designated homework space often makes it easier and
  more fun for children to complete assignments at
  home.

Tips - cont...
● Read, Read, Read - Try to sit down with your
  child to read a little bit every day, give them
  plenty of opportunities to read out loud to you, as
  well, and above all have fun. Children learn by
  example. Let your kids “catch” you reading.
● Review Daily - Review the completed work in your
  child’s folder daily. Reviewing allows us to transfer
  new knowledge and skills from short-term to long-
  term memory, and then keep it there.
● Keep in touch - Meet the teachers and stay in
  regular contact by phone, e-mail or DoJo so that
  you can discuss any concerns as they arise. Not
  only will it pave the way for you to ask questions,
  but it will also make the teachers more
  comfortable with calling you if they have concerns
  about your child.

Phonics & Phonemic Awareness:
         What does my child need to know?
● All letter names and sounds
  (capital and lowercase)
● Correctly print all capital and lowercase
  letters.
● Identify sounds within words. b-a-t
  (initial (first), medial (middle), final (last))
● Blend and segment sounds to read and write words.
● Identify and produce rhyming words.
● Count syllables in spoken words.
● Read high frequency words.

How to Help with Writing
● Provide a place in your home to write.
● Encourage your child to write phonetically
  using the sounds and words they know.
● Provide fun writing tools such as colored
  paper and pencils, gel pens, bathtub
  crayons, scented markers, themed
  journals or notebooks, etc...
● Encourage your child to draw and label
  pictures.
● Practice writing in shaving cream or sand.
● Encourage your child to draw or write
  about fun family experiences.

Reading Strategies for Home
     Your child is bringing home library books each
     week. These books are PERFECT for you to read
     aloud to them nightly.
      ● Have them look for high frequency words or
         letters that we are learning.
      ● Point out punctuation like capital letters,
         periods, question marks and exclamation
         marks.
      ● Model reading with inflection.
      ● Count the number of words in the sentences.
      ● Ask your child questions about the story for
         comprehension as well.
     You can also find awesome read alouds on Epic,
     Storyline Online and Youtube!

*Count to 100 every day.

* Have your child count out objects at
home.

* Practice writing numbers at home.

*Have your child group items that are
alike.

*Point out shapes and numbers in the
grocery store when shopping.

Helpful Websites
 ●   Pbskids.org
 ●   Coolmath4kids.com
 ●   Starfall.com
 ●   Learninggamesforkids.com
 ●   Abcya.com
 ●   Teachyourmonstertoread.com
 ●   Storylineonline.net
 ●   Getepic.com
 ●   Happynumbers.com

Behind every young child
who believes in himself is a
parent who believed first.

-Matthew Jacobson