Kindergarten
The 10 Best Ways to Help Your
Kindergartner Succeed in School
A parent's to-do list.
Encourage reading in any way you can.
Treat your child as though he's/she’s an author.
Make math part of his/her everyday life.
1. Encourage reading in any way you can.
There is no way to overestimate the importance of reading. It not only enhances learning in all of the other subject areas, it exposes children to a wealth of information and experiences they might not otherwise enjoy. It stimulates the imagination, nourishes emotional growth, builds verbal skills, and influences analyzing and thinking. Every teacher should agree, reading to or with your child every day is the single most important thing you can do.
2. Treat your child as though he's/she’s an author.
He/She doesn't have to be Hemingway or Shakespeare. All he/she has to do is grow up thinking that he/she can put thoughts and words onto paper. The sooner he/she starts, the better.
How to help:
• Provide lots of materials (paper, markers, crayons, paints, chalk, etc.) and time for drawing.
• Ask your child to tell you about the pictures he/she draws, and label the objects as she points them out.
• Ask your child to dictate stories or poems to go with the pictures he/she draws, and write them down for him. Then, read his/her work aloud, exactly as he/she dictated it.
3. Make math part of his/her everyday life.
Leave the flash cards, workbooks, and other skill-and-drill stuff to the teacher. At home, the best way to help your child learn to love math is to play with numbers, and to frequently point out the various ways in which math makes our lives easier. By working with tangible objects, and counting, sorting, estimating, measuring, looking for patterns, and solving real-life problems, children learn to think in mathematical terms, without worrying whether or not they're "smart enough" to do math.
Working together,
Lincoln Kindergarten Team!
Third Grade December News
The third graders at Lincoln will be combining holiday festivities with academic activities. Let's take a look at our individual classes.
Mrs. Wagonfield's math students have more on their plates than Christmas turkey. In spite of all of our digital data, children still need to learn to tell time on the clock using the hour and minute hands. Recording and reading data on various types of graphs will also be an area of study in the math classroom. Remember to keep working on those addition and subtraction facts.
Mrs. Albert is planning some MAMMOTH SIZED FUN on Dec. 1 & 2 as the third graders participate in an Outreach Program that will visit Lincoln. In the science classroom students will be studying Adaptation Traits that help animals survive. Parents and children may enjoy discussing some of these amazing ways animals have adapted themselves in order to survive. Following this interesting area of study, students will be examining the ever popular investigation of fossils and Earth Science.
Mrs. Kowalk & Mrs. Blum continue to work on reading and writing. The more we read, the better readers we become. Also, the more we read, the better writers we become. The two are intricately related. As we work on parts of speech and how they are used in our spoken language, we will begin to incorporate our knowledge into our writing. Look for some longer and most impressive writing pieces to be coming home soon. Learning to use words that appeal to our senses will be a focus in the upcoming weeks. As we all anxiously await that wonderful day in December, everyone will continue to work, learn, and enjoy each day of this holiday season.
We will have an author study on Jan Brett. Our focus skill will be on the plot of stories. Our homeowork club will also be an intervention club. Monday will be homework support and Thursday will be with 3 teachers, one teacher focusing on homework, 2 teachers focusing on intervention strategies in small groups.
Computer Lab
We have been very busy in the Computer lab so far this year. The 1st grade classes are working on a program called Success Maker or CCC. CCC’s educational software is designed to improve student’s learning with comprehensive and interactive learning experiences. This is done through the use of multimedia instruction, activities, and tools. 2nd grade does CCC along with Fast Math. Fast Math is a program that assesses individual students’ fluency with basic math facts and then provides instruction and practice to fill in the gaps. Students start to develop automatic recall of basic math facts. 3rd -6th work on CCC, Fast Math and Pro-Ohio. Pro-Ohio is a diagnostic tool to help teachers prepare students for success on the Ohio Achievement tests.
Very big Congratulations to Brandon Pendergrass who was the first student this year to complete the Fast Math program. Way to go Brandon!!
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Music News
Greetings from Lincoln’s Music Room!
It is with mixed feelings that I begin this school year knowing it will be our last together at Lincoln. I have taught music at Lincoln since 1982 and have come to love the old building and its families. However, I am equally excited about starting the next school year in a brand new facility. I’m sure we will never look back. Change is scary, but change is also good.
We actually have a double celebration this year because, not only is this the final year for Lincoln Elementary School, it is Lincoln’s 100th year. We have activities planned throughout the year, many of which will include music.
On September 19th our students and parents will march in the HHS Homecoming parade while singing the school song and a special song created for Lincoln’s 100th year.
October 3 will be “Lincoln Night” at the HHS football game. All Lincoln students, alumni, staff and former staff are encouraged to go to the game dressed in their Lincoln attire or orange and black. A group of Lincoln alumni will be singing the National Anthem at the beginning of the game.
On November 11, our annual Veterans Day program will have a special focus on Lincoln alumni and staff. If you know of any Lincoln alumni who are veterans, please invite them to our program and encourage them to send us a picture so they can be featured during one of our songs. More details will come later.
Our traditional time of singing around the Christmas tree will take place on December 16, 17, and 18. Again alumni and former staff members are encouraged to join us.
February 12 is Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday which makes it a great day to celebrate the man and the school. One of the events will be the presentation of a musical play “Tall, Tall Abe” by our 5th and 6th grade chorus.
Sunday, April 19 from 1:00 – 4:00 is the date for our community Open House. All of the students will be involved in performances throughout the day. Each grade level 1-6 will focus on one or two decades of music from 1909 – 2009.
On June 4, the last day of school, please join us on the front lawn for a final group singing of our school song.
A few important notes:
4th Grade: Be sure to pay your $5.00 fee for a recorder. If your child already has a recorder at home that he/she will be using in class it must be turned in before Sept. 26.
5th and 6th Grade: Get involved in chorus! Watch for permission/commitment slips.
Grades 2 – 6: Bring 2 AA batteries for our keyboards.
Art News!
Our theme for this year is “Reconstructing the Past, Building the Future!”
Lincoln artists have a very busy year ahead of them. They will be very actively engaged in two Art Fundraisers which will help raise funds to offset the price of publishing the Lincoln Commemorative book called “The Lincoln Legacy”. Intermediate art students have been busy interviewing, researching and writing for this book since last year and they will continue with this project this fall with the book being targeted for release Spring 2009. All Lincoln artists will participate in Kids’ Art Fair and Original Works fundraiser projects.
In the upcoming months Lincoln artists will be studying:
6th grade – one and two point perspective
5th grade 4th grade – recycling sculpture - This project is a required project. I haven’t received word from the environmental services for due dates. Because of the nature of the project most of the work will be done at home. Any object can be used but food! We ask when using food containers they use be washed completely prior to gluing and/or painting. The maximum dimensions of these works is 2’ x 4’. Consult with your child in the next week or two for a memo I’ll send home as soon as I hear from Environmental Services.
While in class, 4th and 5th graders will be studying form. They will also be working on artworks for Original Works fundraiser and Kid’s Art Fair!
3rd grade – will be studying Lincoln Elementary’s architecture. They will be doing drawings and building models of what Lincoln looked like when it was first built.
2nd grade – will dive into a study of color. In first grade they learned the primary and secondary colors. They will enhance their learning of color by studying value.
1st grade – will begin their study of color. They will use their knowledge to create works for the Kids’ Art Fair and Original Works. These artists will also be studying the fashions of students in 1909 compared to students of today.
Kindergarten – will study the properties of line. We will practice their knowledge and skills in creating underwater seascapes. These works will be used in the fundraisers scheduled.
Lincoln artist are off to a running start! It looks to be a very promising year!
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Alumni Central
The Public is invited to hear Dr. Hal Urban speak on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 7:00pm at Parrish Auditorium at Miami Hamilton.
Hal Urban's message is about one thing:
GOOD CHARACTER
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