ECHO March 2020 20KRK017 March Newsletter | Page 4

Seuss-tastic Week Celebration!
March 2-6
New Raz-Kids.com Benefiting
Children and Families
TOGETHER
In our Blue Homework Folders we will be adding a new web-based activity to build your at
home library with us. We encourage the families to participate in reading for 20 minutes
each day as research as shown that this is critical to their acquisition of literacy, by
watching you model for them. So simple!
In addition to the home activities, utilize the new Raz-Kids website to enhance the reading
time with digital books and incentives to read.
Please look for your individual log in information to
use this special resource as you partner with us to
develop your child for school readiness. The part you
play in the home to school connection is to encourage
your child to take an interest in the learning fun
because you are too. The results will show in your
child capturing more opportunities to acquire new
knowledge because of the expectation that is founded
in the families commitment to homework and
participation in school events.
We’ll be reading Dr. Seuss classics all week, March 2-6.
See special family participation activities for the week.
Monday, March 2
Wear as many colors as you can! My Many Colored Days
Tuesday, March 3
Wear a pair of crazy socks! Fox in Socks
Wednesday, March 4
Wear your clothes mismatched and backwards. Wacky Wednesday
Thursday, March 5
Wear your favorite hat. Cat in the Hat
Friday, March 6
Seusstastic Parade
Dress up like a book character or bring a prop to carry in our school parade.
See characters at the front desk library if you need ideas.
Why Read These Silly Books By Dr. Seuss?
As we prepare and educate children to hold the skills that are necessary to be successful in
kindergarten and beyond, we are deliberate in lesson planning and meeting the standards for
each age appropriate classroom.
Among these standards are 3 key indicators that are linked to early reading success:
phonological awareness, letter knowledge, and print and book awareness. Research has shown
“Phonemic awareness is the key indicator of a child’s success in learning to read and central to
later spelling achievement.” Children who cannot hear or manipulate the sounds that make up
words will have severe difficulty connecting sounds to individual letter symbols and
combinations of letters.
We foster these activities with sounds in our environment each day from the infant rooms
through our AP Kindergarten, but a fun dress up day parade and special celebrations can make
this learning come to life!
Traditional nursery rhymes and rhythmic chants are important during this time to offer
experiences for the child to play with language and sounds. Dr. Seuss rhymes with silly
animals and ideas bring laughter with this very important skill just the same. We will celebrate
his books for this very reason and you can keep reading his books, and all kinds of rhyming
books at home to match the learning from school to home for your young learner.
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