School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”
If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools. Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years. Read more
School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”
If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools. Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years. Read more
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Check out these fun educational games for your kindergartner!
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Awareness of Distance: climbing, reaching, going for a walk, counting steps, crawling, pushing toys, throwing balls
Awareness of Weight: putting away groceries, using plastic vs. metal toys, carrying rocks, putting away toys, climbing
Awareness of Patterns: setting the table, playing with Legos, planting a garden, climbing, stairs, coloring, cutting, drawing, crafts, music, skipping
Awareness of Frequency: taking turns, listening to music, counting marbles, cars, steps, houses, etc.
Awareness of Time: waiting for dinner time, waiting for mom to get off the phone, noticing the position of the sun, watching seasons change, counting down the days to a holiday/special event, playing music, reading books
Equations
*playing teeter-totter, playing with sand or water, building with blocks or Legos, balancing on a balance board or beam, trading with your sibling, serving food, sharing portions
1. LETTER PLAY: Encourage children to play with the magnetic letters on the refrigerator or on a table. Playing with letters allows children to learn more about how they look.
2. MAKING NAMES: A child’s name is the most important word. Have children make their names several times, mixing up the letters, making, making their names, and checking them with their names on a card.
3. LETTER MATCH: Invite children to find other letters that look exactly the same as a letter in their name (for example, place an “m” on the refrigerator and have the child find all the letters that look like it). They don’t need to know the letter name.
4. NAME GAME: Have children make names of friends or family. Have them make the name, mix the letters, and make the names several times.
5. MAKING WORDS: Make a simple word like mom, dad or sun and have your child make the same word by matching each letter below the model (sun–s-u-n).
6. ALPHABET TRAIN: Have your child put the lower case magnetic letter in the order of the alphabet. Then they can point to them and sing the alphabet song. Have them repeat the process with uppercase letters.
7. CONSONANT/VOWEL SORT: Have children sort the consonant letters and the vowel letters.
8. FEATURE SORT: Have children sort letters in a variety of ways-for example, letters with long sticks and letters with short sticks, letters with circles and letters with no circles, letters with tunnels and letters with dots, letters with slanted sticks, and letters with straight sticks.
9. COLOR SORT: Have children sort all the red, blue, green, yellow letters.
10. UPPERCASE/LOWERCASE MATCH: Have children match the uppercase letters with the lowercase form.
11. WRITING LETTERS: Have children select ten different letters and write each letter on a paper. They can use the magnetic letter as a model.
12. WRITING WORDS: Have children make five simple words (such as dog, fun, big, hat, like, sit) and then write them on a sheet of paper.
13. MAKING FOOD WORDS: Make some words that identify food-for example, bun, corn, rice. Have children draw pictures of each, mix the letters, and make the words again.
14. MAKING COLOR WORDS: Give children a list of color words with an item made in that color as a picture support (for example, a red ball). Have children made the color word with magnetic letters using the model, mix the letters, and make it again several times.
15. LETTER NAMES: Specify a color and have children take one colored letter at a time and say the letter name.
16. MAKING NUMBER WORDS: Give children a list of numerals with the number word next to each. Have children make the word and mix the letters two or three times.
17. MAGAZINE MATCH: Look through a magazine or newspaper with children, cutting out some large-print simple words (such as man, box, boy). Glue them on a sheet of paper with plenty of space below each. Have children make each word below the printed one.
18. FIND THE LETTER: Make a set of alphabet letters, upper-or lowercase, on a set of index cards. Shuffle the “deck” and take turns drawing a card and finding the magnetic letter that corresponds to it.
19. LETTER N THE CIRCLE: Draw two circles and place and h in one and an o in the other. Have children put letters in the h circle and say how they are like the h. Do the same with o. This activity will help children learn to look at features of letters. Vary the letters in the circles; accept their explanations about what they are noticing.
20. CHANGE THE WORD: Build several simple words and show the children how to change, add, or take away a letter to make a new words. Examples are: me, he, we; me, my; at, hat, sat. After the demonstration put the needed letters in a special place in an empty container for them to practice.
21. ALPHABET SEQUENCE: Place the letter a on the table and have the child find the next letter (b) and put it next to it. Place the letter c next to the b and have the child look for the n ext letter (d). Continue through the alphabet with lowercase letters. Repeat with uppercase letters.
22. LETTER SORT: Place a pile of magnetic letters on the table for the child to spread out. Have the child put all letters that are the same together in a pile. Then if appropriate, have the child five the letter name for each pile.
23. LETTER CHAINS: Make a five-letter chain (for example, pfrmo). Have children find the same letters and make the same chain below your model. Then have the children make a chain that you copy.
24. LETTER BINGO: Make two cards with a grid of three boxes across and three down. Trace one lowercase letter in each box. Put pile of magnetic letters that are representing the letters on the cards and some that are not in a plastic bowl. Play a Letter Bingo game. Take turns taking a letter, saying its name, and then placing the letter in the box if there is a match. If there is not match, put the letter back in the bowl. The first to fill three boxes across, down, or diagonally says, “Bingo” and wins the game. Play the same game with uppercase letters.
25. RHYMING PAIRS: Use a magnetic cookie sheet. Make a simple three letter word such as dog, bug, at, fan,can, hot, man, net, pan, rat, sit. Say the word and then say a second word that rhymes (dog-log, bug-mug, cat-fat, fan-man). Ask the child to make the rhyming word below each.
ABSOLUTELY! Teachers depend on written work to measure how well a child is learning.
*Learning to correctly write the manuscript alphabet enhances letter recognition.
*Letter recognition leads to comprehension:
1. The child focuses on the order of the letters in words and which letters are commonly associated with each other. Good readers have this skill; poor readers do not.
2. The child is able to learn common spelling patterns and develop the ability to translate spelling into meaning automatically.
3. The child is able to break words into syllables more easily which makes it possible to read longer words.
4. The child is free to focus on extracting meaning from print because the recognition of words is automatic.
5. The ability to recognize letters automatically is essential to reading development.
6. Learning to form and write letters correctly is a natural way to reinforce letter recogntion.
7. Being able to reproduce letters automatically not only benefits written expression because it frees the student to focus on words, sentences and ideas, but it benefits reading as well.
Not only that, students who write legibly receive the highest scores even on state proficiency tests scored by trained scorers AND AND AND learning to write provides a motivation to read!
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