Mariner Update Parent Edition
Volume 12 Issue 26
Message to families
Mariner Family,
Thank you for your ongoing work with your student. I will focus on reading for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year, in my parent messages to our parents. It is essential to work together to give our children the gift of reading. Reading is how we are expected to communicate within our society for much of what we do in our day to day life.. Reading to your child, reading with your child, listening to your child read each day, will show your child that reading is important to you, the parent. Children love their parents and if you build a regular reading time with your child, it is a practice that can continue to grow with each generation in your family..
Each year we have a number of students who are reading when they begin Kindergarten. When learning from parents, we find that the practice of reading to their children on a regular basis, daily, helped the parent to grow a strong relationship with their child and the child would often ask the parent to read to them and also ask for their parent to teach them to read and to listen to them read.
I encourage you to start now, at whatever age your child is at, and have fun with reading in your family each day. Reading for thirty minutes a day with your child can grow into something special within your family and set your child on a journey that can impact their learning and help them to catch their dreams. I encourage you to get a public library card for yourself and your children, if you don’t already have one. Take regular trips to the library as a family and grow the learning.
Remember that reading is writing. When a student reads on a regular basis, they not only develop their reading fluency and reading comprehension, they are developing their writing skills. They are able to recall the words that they read and grow their vocabulary, which helps them to develop their thinking skills and helps them tremendously in the writing process.
Remember that reading is also listening and speaking. Your student is developing their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, and thinking skills, when you read together on a regular basis. Ask your child throughout the story what they think is going to happen next. A good follow up question is, “Why do you think that is going to happen next?”
Playing with words activity: Research shows that singing with your child helps them to learn how to read or improve their reading skills. Reading/decoding has a cadence to it. Music has a cadence to it. Sing familiar songs with your student and write out the words of the song so that they can develop their reading and writing skills. You can stretch the activity by developing a song, with different words, to the same beat or rhythm of the song you are working with. Same music, different words. I listed an example for you below.
When I was in college and learned that music was connected to learning how to read, I developed a series of songs with my daughter, Andi G.G. Candelaria. She is almost 25 years old now, and we started doing these fun activities when she was about 4 years old. Singing songs to her and talking to her began before she was born, but the writing began about 4 years old. And she loved the writing so much that she would make us wait for her to write out her own grocery list before we left to the grocery store. She would say things like, “Mom, dad, how do you spell milk?”
One of the children songs that I used was, “I had a Little Turtle.”
The song lyrics go like this: I had a little turtle, his name is Tiny Tim, I put him in the bathtub to see if he could swim. He drank up all the water, and ate a bar of soap, and now he’s in his bed, with bubbles in his throat…” Look the song up on Google for the rest of the lyrics. G.G. and I would sing the song and she would practice writing out the words to the song and then we changed the words and she would sing the new words and write the new words.
The new words were: “I know a little girly, her name is Andi G., I gave her a big kiss, and then she kissed me. I gave her lots of kisses, and lots of huggies too, I bought her a Tweety Bird ice cream and she dropped it on my shoe. Andi Andi G.G., Andi Andi G., Andi Andi G.G., Andi Candelaria.
Play with words and have fun, as you help your student to develop the gift of reading, writing, listening, speaking and thinking.
In Partnership,
Andrew Candelaria, Principal
Innovative Horizons Charter School
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Resources to Remember
INNOVATIVE HORIZONS CHARTER SCHOOL
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Location: 1461 North A Street, Perris, CA, USA
Phone: (951) 657-0728
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