P.S. P.S.

238
1633 E. 8th Street

238
Brooklyn, NY 11223

December

Kindergarten Kids: December

Welcome back Ready to Read
It was truly a pleasure to meet all of To ensure success in reading, as always
the parents of the children we work we encourage parents’ active
with every day on the first parent- participation. Parents pay an important
teacher conference. We look role in early development and ongoing
forward to the upcoming progress academic success of their child. It is
your children will be making. We therefore extremely important for
also want to welcome everyone back parents to expose their children to
from the Thanksgiving holiday, and literacy as early as possible and in as
wish everyone happy holidays during many ways as possible. Please read to
our winter recess. School will be your child, have your child read to you,
closed from December 24 through and visit the library often.
January 2. School reopens on
January 5, 2009. Reader’s Workshop
We are currently working on the letter of the
week. Our guided reading groups are producing
great results in your child’s reading abilities. Be
Writer’s Workshop sure to read the daily sight word homework along
with your child. Also, you will be receiving a list
We are finishing up our last pieces of
of sight words your child has already learned.
our writing genre personal Please review all material daily to help reinforce
narratives. The children learned the literacy lessons taught.
how their personal experiences and
memories can be transformed into
stories that are expressed through
the written language. They also
learned how to share their stories
with classmates and while doing so, Mathematics
they have learned various lessons in We are pleased to see the children are
friendship, love, consideration, grasping number sense and identification,
sharing and giving, and overall how patterns, measurement, volume and many of
the various concepts taught through the use
we are all similar and different in of manipulatives during the varied hands-on
many ways. activities.
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Reminders to Parents Upcoming Events

Please make sure you go On Monday January 21, 2008 we

over your children’s will celebrate Martin Luther King
Jr. Birthday. School will be
homework daily, and closed.
reinforce the importance
of reading nightly stories
and word lists. Also
provide new supplies as
needed.