Back to school night!!

Wednesday August 31 from 6-8pm.  Come and visit us!  ECFE families are more than welcome to come and check things out!  If you haven't registered yet, you can bring your registration that night as well!  Hope to see you all there!!

Gearing up for a new year!!

Wow! I just looked at my calendar and realized that we only have 3 weeks until we get to have class together again!! This summer has gone by very quickly!! I have been to some great trainings this summer including a week long training institute for Reading Corps and a really fun training with Dr. Jean! You may not know her name, but anyone who has had a child go through preschool with us, she is the one who sings the Peanut Butter Song aka: underwear song. Through one of my jobs through the county, I will have access to a lot of Dr. Jean resources! So, thank you to Otter Tail county Caring connections for a great year with Dr. Jean!! I will be sending out registration forms soon! if you haven't registered yet, please do so soon! If you have registered, I will send out a reminder as to when you start and what class you signed up for. Please encourage any families that you may know of to join us for a great year of learning while playing!!

Book Orders!!

I have set up the parent ordering online for scholastic bookorders!  Just go to http://www.scholastic.com/ and click under parents.  Our code is GM9K3.  You will only need this code once and then you can order all the books you want.  Please note that when you order books online, the books will come to me at school.  Please make sure that you save a copy of the books you ordered just in case I make a mistake! :)  Order your books today!

Dr. Jean Concert!

Dr. Jean has sung many of the songs that we use in School Readiness and ECFE!!  She is giving a FREE concert on Wednesday August 17 at 6:30 pm at the Kennedy Secondary School in Fergus Falls!!  This is a great opportunity to see her and learn some of her awesome songs!  You may even recognize some of them!!
Hope to see you there!  Let me know if you have any questions!

Minnesota Reading Corps

I just returned from a fabulous 4 day training in the Minnesota Reading Corps!  Our district is lucky to have 3 MRC literacy tutors!  Two of us are in Pre-K, Deanna and Myself and Michelle Olson is our K-3 literacy tutor!  We learned a lot, had a lot of fun and are all excited to start a new year of literacy enrichment!  If you haven't heard or MRC, please look it up!  We are a group of almost 800 literacy tutors throughout the state of MN.  We have done some amazing things!   MRC in Pre-K has better prepared our students for Kindergarten!
In fall 2010 we had:
10% on target for Kindergarten in RHYMING
50% on target for Kindergarten in LETTER NAMING
25% on target for Kindergarten in PICTURE NAMING
27% on target for Kindergarten in ALLITERATION
10% on target for Kindergarten in LETTER SOUND

By Spring 2011 we had:
75% of Pre-K students on target in RHYMING
75% on target in LETTER NAMING
100% on target in PICTURE NAMING
60% on target in ALLITERATION
65 % on target in LETTER SOUND

This is a direct result of the hard work of our MRC tutors!  Parkers Prairie is one of a few sites in greater Minnesota with tutors in both Pre-K and K-3!

Ask us about more information on the Minnesota Reading Corps and come check us out online at
http://www.minnesotareadincorps.org/

Parade!!

We will have a float in the Parkers Prairie Parade on August 8th!  We will meet at the elementary school West parkinglot at 9:30am to get the trailer decorated!! Please come and help!  We are still waiting to hear the final time and place for the line-up.  As soon as I know, you will know!