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As we move into our third trimester, I just want to spend a little time to stress the importance of making reading an enjoyable and fun experience with your child. On that note, how we model learning is more important than what we are learning. When dedicating 20-minutes each night to reading, it is important to remember that we want our children to experience success and, more importantly, enjoyment with the time they spend with us.
Yes, recognizing sight words, correctly pronouncing letter sounds and putting them all nicely together to decode a multisyllabic word is what we strive for in order to produce fluent readers. However, it is within this highly complex sequence that we most especially want to impart comprehension for the enjoyment and pleasure of reading.
When reading with your child take a few moments to scan the text and find words that you know they may find of a particular challenge. Be prepared mentally to provide wait-time (patience) to allow them the opportunity to decode (sound out) the word. If you find yourself in a situation where you need to provide assistance, take a moment to properly pronounce the individual and/or combination sounds. Let them hear you pronounce the word correctly and then ask them to pronounce it back to you. Upon completion, have them finish the sentence and ask them what they think that word means. If they are having difficulty with describing what the word means, please provide them with a context clue from the sentence and/or visual in the story. Please remember to follow up with your own explanation of the definition as well as share additional synonyms for that word. It is very important that you use rich and descriptive language while discussing any spoken or written language. The connections they make will astound you, as well as their own social and academic language usage.
However, as these learning moments connect you to your child, so to does your disposition. Remember, to share stories with them. Take turns reading, using plenty of intonation, developing character voices, pointing to pictures, and, most importantly, laughing. The most powerful encoding (learning) occurs when there is a positive emotion tied to it, whether it is love or laughter, and I know we all want to share both of these during every moment of our child’s life.
Also, thank you, once again, to our room parents for putting together such wonderful Valentine’s Day parties.
Also, if you could please take the Illinois 5 Essentials Survey to help with our school improvement efforts. We need at least 20% of our parents to complete the survey.
http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/
Have a Wonderful Weekend,
Your Eisenhower Family,
2nd Trimester Report Card Access:
Report cards for all students will be available in the PowerSchool Parent Portal (LINK) at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 1st. Please follow these directions (LINK) to access your child's report card on Friday, March 1st.
iPad Update
1/22 - NEW iPad update. All students SHOULD update their iPads to 17.3
Nominate a Staff Member for a Home Run!
If you would like to nominate a staff member who you feel is doing an outstanding job serving the students, families, community, and makes you #PROUD2BD23, we ask that you please click on the following for "Hitting a Home Run": LINK
PTO Reminder:
Parents! It is not too late to become members of the PTO and gain access to the District-wide directory! Simply visit the PTO website to create an account and sign-up (LINK) to get started! It takes a village to raise healthy and engaged children, and the PTO continues to be such a great partner and asset for us here in D23! Together, we are #PROUD2BD23! Any questions? Contact membershipd23@gmail.com!
School Database Information
In order to keep the most up-to-date communication information in our school database, we ask that families please let us know if your address, phone number, email or emergency contacts change.
Luke Lambatos, Ed.D., Ed.S.
Principal
Please remember, if you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me at
(847) 870-5040 or llambatos@d23.org
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