Over the next two weeks in Kindergarten, your child will be learning about the importance of listening. Often, impulsive children lack listening skills and do not look at the person talking or pay attention to what is being communicated. When a child doesn’t listen, it hinders their ability to learn and to react in a caring way to the other person.
Your child will learn that the most important part of listening is thinking about the same thing the talker is talking about. (e.g. If you are reading a book about Polar bears, your child should be thinking about Polar bears).
Here are some suggestions for helping your child learn to listen:
1. Say to your child, “I will know you are listening to me when you are looking at me and thinking about what I am saying”.
2. Tell your child how it makes you feel when they are/aren’t listening to you. Use “I” messages to talk about your feelings.
3. Have your child repeat what they heard you say.
4. When your child is talking to you, make sure that you are looking at them and thinking about what they are saying.
In this world of cell phones, multi-tasking and full-time jobs, our children are often trying to talk to us and we are busy doing something else. Please…..take the time to stop what you are doing and give all the people you interact with your full attention. Your children are watching you!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Attendance Counts
The Jessamine Early Learning Village is dedicated to providing your child with a high-quality, child-centered environment that promotes success for all children.
Consistent attendance is important to your child’s success in school and
it is the law. Please make every attempt to have your child present and on time each day.
If your child has been absent, you will need to send a note from you, a physician or a court excusing the absence. The note must be received within 5 days upon you child returning to school. After 5 days, the absence will be recorded as unexcused.
Please bear in mind, we can only excuse a total of eight (8) days per school year with a parent note. This includes excuses for student illness not treated by a physician, family vacations, illness of a family member, family emergency, funeral, religious or holiday absences. After eight parent notes are received, additional absences must be recorded as unexcused unless they are excused by a physician or court.
As a reminder, if your child accumulates six unexcused absences, I will be contacting you by letter or phone to schedule a mediation to discuss the absences. If attendance problems cannot be resolved, we will refer the matter to the Director of Pupil Personnel to pursue mediation or court action, as stated in the Code of Conduct.
We love having your child here at the Village! The Jessamine Early Learning Village, as other public schools, receives continued funding based on our Average Daily Attendance. Please help us make an effort to improve our school attendance and your child’s academic performance by sending your child to school on days they are well, and by limiting the number of late arrivals and early dismissals.
Together, we can work to provide consistency for your student and the best education for all children!
Consistent attendance is important to your child’s success in school and
it is the law. Please make every attempt to have your child present and on time each day.
If your child has been absent, you will need to send a note from you, a physician or a court excusing the absence. The note must be received within 5 days upon you child returning to school. After 5 days, the absence will be recorded as unexcused.
Please bear in mind, we can only excuse a total of eight (8) days per school year with a parent note. This includes excuses for student illness not treated by a physician, family vacations, illness of a family member, family emergency, funeral, religious or holiday absences. After eight parent notes are received, additional absences must be recorded as unexcused unless they are excused by a physician or court.
As a reminder, if your child accumulates six unexcused absences, I will be contacting you by letter or phone to schedule a mediation to discuss the absences. If attendance problems cannot be resolved, we will refer the matter to the Director of Pupil Personnel to pursue mediation or court action, as stated in the Code of Conduct.
We love having your child here at the Village! The Jessamine Early Learning Village, as other public schools, receives continued funding based on our Average Daily Attendance. Please help us make an effort to improve our school attendance and your child’s academic performance by sending your child to school on days they are well, and by limiting the number of late arrivals and early dismissals.
Together, we can work to provide consistency for your student and the best education for all children!
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