March Bear Prints:
Happy I Love To READ Month Everyone! Educating your child is a partnership. As a parent, you are your child’s first and most important teacher and READING is one of the most important things you can do with your children at home. Here are a few reading tips and ideas to try at home this month and throughout the year.
READ a recipe together and make something with your child. Enjoy eating all the fun.
Take a family “field trip” to the local library or to a place you’ve READ about in a book.
Be a model reader yourself. Let your kids see you READING and how enjoyable it can be.
Listen to books in the car or go to the movies to view a movie about a book you’ve READ.
Have age-appropriate books available. Provide a READING rich home environment.
Play a board game together and READ the directions.
Turn devices & t.v. off one night and spend the evening READING together.
READ to your kids each night. Be creative and have fun reading in different areas of your home.
Our reading theme for this year's annual I love to read month is READING IS MAGIC! Our committee has been planning and preparing to make the month of March exciting and “magical” for our students! Our reading goal for the entire building is 500,000 minutes. If kids meet their goal, we have a magician scheduled to come and I’ve heard something may be done to me. Yikes!
READ, READ, READ. Take every opportunity you can to read to your child. Children who read at home on a regular basis do better in school and are more successful in life. READING can really take you places. Enjoy the journey!
I know it hasn’t felt like winter lately and March is here and spring is around the corner, but please ensure you are sending your students to school with all their winter gear! We do go outside when the air temperature is 0 degrees and above and the windchill is within -10 degrees. We’ve implemented a new practice of requiring students to have long sleeves and long pants when the air temperature is below 32 degrees. It should be assumed we will go outside every day and it is important that kids come prepared for the conditions as they need their winter gear to be in the snow and be warm.
Have the best day ever!
Abe Rodemeyer
BIS Principal
