Read and Write Questions: Email Ms. Edwards Dear Families, Thank you for a wonderful year
working with your children. Your support especially has
encouraged the success of your children at
school. We would like to offer you another
opportunity to support your child's continued success by
encouraging your children to read and write this summer. By
reading and writing throughout the summer break, you child
will continue using the skills learned this year and will
more easily begin the new year in the fall. Please join your children in reading
and writing almost every day, preferably for twenty minutes
each day. Read recipes, newspapers, magazines,
cereal boxes, road signs, comic books, directions to
computer games, letters, directions, etc. As you can see,
twenty minutes a day doesn't need to be all at once!
Write letters to relatives, new or
copied recipes, a journal or diary, short poems, notes to
each other, lists of favorite things (colors, sounds,
animals, movies, songs, musicians, recipes, places to visit,
things to do), directions for games (even ones you invent!)
or directions to a friend's house (make a map), "the best
day of summer," "the worst day of summer." One fun writing
project is "Truth and Lies." Write down three things about
yourself, two are false and one is the truth. Share them
with someone who must guess, by asking you yes/no questions,
which situation is the truth. We could have fun next fall
sharing these! Keep all your
writing in a folder along with the reading chart. Bring
them back to school in the fall and receive a Certificate of
Recognition from the Governor of Washington. In addition,
the top twenty students with neat and complete charts and
folders will receive a walkman CD player. The rest of the
students who return completed charts and folders will
receive a five-dollar gift certificate. You received a packet in the mail
with: the reading chart, pamphlets of reading information to
help parents and guardians, and a letter from the governor.
Extra copies are in the office at school. Want ideas for books for your
children to read? http://www.reading.org/resources/tools/choices.html Want ideas for helping your child
with reading? http://www.reading.org/resources/community/links_lit_tp.html Want Internet resources and fun
reading places? http://www.reading.org/resources/community/links_edu_tp.html Have questions? Email Ms. Edwards
at: eaglesread@mac.com Remember, our goal to help our
students continue success at reading and writing is to:
preferably 20
minutes per day during the summer
break. Thanks for your support, William (Bill) Higgins,
Superintendent and Principal Nespelem School
