{"id":500,"date":"2017-09-19T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/?p=500"},"modified":"2017-09-19T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:50:47","slug":"from-the-desk-of-the-kindergarten-teachers-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/2017\/09\/19\/from-the-desk-of-the-kindergarten-teachers-7\/","title":{"rendered":"From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1706\/2017\/01\/kg2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-433\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1706\/2017\/01\/kg2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to\u00a0<em>excellence<\/em>, Kindergarten teachers\u2019 believe it can be best defined in the results. True excellence will be seen in motivated, engaged children with empowering memories of learning to read and write and the stamina for independent acts of literacy. These are the children who meet high Common Core Standards in literacy and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Excellence in kindergarten literacy is the vital foundation for bridging the achievement gap and building schools of ambitious, self-regulated readers and writers.\u00a0 Experiences in the educational arts engage children\u2019s multiple ways of learning while promoting creative and higher-order thinking; they take advantage of how the young child\u2019s brain learns best. Developing social-emotional intelligence supports children in being successful in school . . . and in life. Yes, we are preparing our children for the 21st century!!!<\/p>\n<p>Writing is the key that unlocks the alphabetic code.\u00a0 So, collaboratively the Kindergarten teachers\u2019 definition of excellence includes cooperative learning, rich experiences in the arts, science exploration, respectful and supportive parent connections, a language-intensive \u201cwriting-to-read\u201d environment, systematic phonemic awareness through songs, and an explicit multisensory ABC and phonics immersion program within a comprehensive literacy framework.\u00a0 So please continue to work with your child on their new literacy work at home through reading their mini-books and reading to them each and every day!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers When it comes to\u00a0excellence, Kindergarten teachers\u2019 believe it can be best defined in the results. True excellence will be seen in motivated, engaged children with empowering memories of learning to read and write and the stamina for independent acts of literacy. These are the children who meet high <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/2017\/09\/19\/from-the-desk-of-the-kindergarten-teachers-7\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1021"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}