Special Announcement
Family Fun Fair, Parent teacher conference, Doodle
Dear Parents,
Due to parent teacher conferences we will not be sending a newsletter this week. We hope to see you soon and discuss your child’s progress during our meeting. Below you will find some important reminders.
REMINDERS
Family Fun Fair Saturday, March 25th
Family Conference Forms will go home on Monday, March 27th (This is not a report card).
Parent Teacher Conferences will take place on March 29th and 30th. ( for Parents only) If you haven't set up your appointment, please check your e-mail or junk mail and click on the DOODLE LINK.
During these two days of parent teacher conferences, there will be no school for kids.
Please remember to send in any flowers, leaves and twigs that your child would like to share with us.
Please take time to read a story to your child each night.
SEE YOU SOON RACCOON!!
Here are some activities that you can do at home with your child
Emergent activity
Developing Activity
Challenging Activity
Advanced Activity
See you tomorrow at the family fun fair!
What is the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics?
Phonemic awareness is an understanding about spoken language. Children who are phonemically aware can hear the word (b – a – t) said in three separate sounds and tell you it is bat. They can tell you all the sounds in the spoken word dog. They can tell you that, if you take the last sound off cart, you would have car. Phonics, on the other hand, is knowing the relation between specific, printed letters (including combinations of letters) and specific, spoken sounds. You are asking children to show their phonics knowledge when you ask them which letter makes the first sound in bat or dog or the last sound in car or cart. Recent longitudinal studies on reading have demonstrated that the acquisition of phonemic awareness is highly predictive of success in learning to read, and to decode (i.e., sound out a word, blend it together to figure it out) in particular. If children understand that words can be divided into individual phonemes and that phonemes can be blended into words, they are able to use letter-sound knowledge to read and build words.