• Always create a positive atmosphere when you read with your child. Cozy up side-by-side and ask your child to take a picture walk of the book.
• The pictures offer clues for harder to read words and increase comprehension.
• Then, read the title to your child. Now your child is ready to read the book to you.
• Help as needed, but avoid giving a word to your child. Instead, point out picture clues, try the first letter sound, last letter sound, and use picture clues to help.
• If it’s a hard-to-read work (sight words) still have him/her try the first letter sound and then help.
• Discuss the story afterwards to build comprehension.
• Reread books to build fluency, deepen comprehension, and increase your child’s confidence.
• Read every night, if possible, even if you only have a few minutes.

Yes! Read chapter books that are beyond your child’s reading level, but not their listening comprehension level. Story time is a wonderful way to increase vocabulary, comprehension, and expand your child’s experiences through stories.

In our class, we build a community based on care, compliments, and concerns. We learn to respect because we care. We compliment because we celebrate the achievements of our classmates. We discuss concerns because we learn how to communicate effectively.

Currently the first grade class will foray into Water as our first expedition. In the spring, we’ll study Structures.

The HERO Notebook is an acronym for: Have Everything Ready and Organized. Classroom newsletters and other important school information are filed in this notebook. Please check the HERO Notebook each night and clean out papers that need to stay home.
Teach your child how to pack the HERO Notebook each night so it’s ready to return to school each morning.