{"id":1250,"date":"2016-10-31T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:14:50","slug":"kindergarten-book-pouches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/2016\/10\/31\/kindergarten-book-pouches\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Book Pouches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents,<\/p>\n<p>We have been working hard to become successful readers. We are well on our way to achieving this goal, but we know that practice makes perfect! Starting <strong>tomorrow<\/strong>, a Kindergarten Book Pouch will be sent home with your child every day. Please find a safe place to keep these book pouches in order to keep them in good condition for the years to come! Perhaps a special shelf or somewhere up high would be a good place to keep the book pouches, in order to keep them safe from younger siblings and pets.<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy the books that come home and return all materials <strong>EACH DAY <\/strong>with your child\u2019s green folder. We will use the book bags during reading time, so please make sure your child brings their pouch to school. New books will come home in the Book Pouches two times per week. These books can be used to fulfill the nightly reading log in the homework!<\/p>\n<p>The following can be used to extend your child\u2019s learning and help them read:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Check the pictures for clues<\/li>\n<li>Look for spelling words (sight words and word family words)<\/li>\n<li>Touch each word as they read (reading finger)<\/li>\n<li>Talk about the <strong>characters<\/strong> (who are they), the <strong>setting<\/strong> (where did the story take place), the <strong>problem<\/strong> (something bad that happens in the story), the <strong>solution<\/strong> (how the problem was resolved \u2013 in class we say, \u201cthe solution fixes the problem\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Retell (<strong>beginning\/middle\/end<\/strong>) the story.<\/li>\n<li>Write about the story<\/li>\n<li>Go back and reread! Good readers read the same book over and over again!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD KEEPS THEIR BOOKS IN THE GREEN &amp;YELLOW BAG AND BRINGS THE BAG TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if you have any questions and have fun reading!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, We have been working hard to become successful readers. We are well on our way to achieving this goal, but we know that practice makes perfect! Starting tomorrow, a Kindergarten Book Pouch will be sent home with your child every day. Please find a safe place to keep these book pouches in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/dimitriou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}