Notes for Parents MEET OUR
FEATURED FAMILY
Usually we recommend a specific book here for the many stages of
development in our community, but not this time. Let me make some
recommendations on maximizing your time reading to your little learner
with any book you pick up that may be of interest to them. The La Salvia’s
Literacy Feature
Mr. La Salvia and Mrs. Crousse have been a pleasure to
When you pick up a selection to read to your child who is beginning to talk, they need lots of
opportunities to learn new words and phrases, and lots of practice using those they already know in
different ways and situations.
Pictures in the book (all kinds, yet age appropriate) can stimulate discussions about what the
characters are doing, how they are feeling, and about the things around them. There are objects to
name and things to spot or count. My favorite is feelings to name. Expressions have names and are
relatable. This discussion help the children to activate their social emotional development to process
feelings as they learn what they are and what to do with them.
If you find your learner to be less interested in a longer text, shorten the time by taking a picture walk
and read pictures with your child aloud. This allows for predicting and problem solving together.
Young children have to learn that a book has a sequence, and that by starting at the beginning and
turning the pages one by one, they can follow this sequence to find out what happens next.
Older children, 3 – 5 years, will enjoy answering comprehension questions about the story and what
they think will happen next before you turn the page! The pictures in your book at home, whichever
one, will facilitate this important new skill for your child if you will just sit them in your lap and
invest the time.
Good job mom and dad!
work with as Ana has truly blossomed and is thriving
in the preschool classroom 400. We appreciate the
effort and time spent as they value the home to school
connections. Please read more from this family as they
share their experience together in their own words…
“Many Argentinean friends recommended us Kids R Kids, but unfortunately, when we arrived there
was no vacancy, so we enrolled Ana in another daycare. We would never imagine the bad experience
we were going to go through! But fortunately as soon as there was an available spot we could join
this wonderful place. We will be always grateful with Kids R Kids about the warm, sincere and caring
welcome they gave to all of us.
We love the blue folder, it help us to be involved with Ana’s leanings. We like the important place that
reading books have and it’s so nice to see Ana’s enthusiasm choosing what to take to the show and tell.
We are so happy and proud about how much Ana is learning! It’s so nice to see her recognizing in
the cereal box the letter of the week, hearing her singing songs in English and that she already counts
numbers in English and Spanish. But most of all we are so happy that Ana told us when we pick her
up the first week she was in Kids R Kid: “Mommy I enjoy in this daycare!””
Thank you La Salvia Family!
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