New Home Reading Schedule

Thank you to all those who attended the kindergarten literacy dialogue last week. I hope it was valuable and that we can do it again. Based on feedback I received during that session, coupled with our development as readers here in KG-B, we are going to have a small shift in when home-reading books are checked out and returned here in our classroom. Please expect these books to come home now on Tuesdays. They are then expected to be returned on Mondays. (We need one day between to manage the checking in and out.) Hopefully this will help not only in making things easier to remember (as library books are also due Mondays), but that it will also allow your child the opportunity to read them over the weekend as well.

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