Dear Parents,

Despite the seemingly never ending winter weather, we are determined to enjoy the upcoming lesson full of stories and activities that will transport us into a world of excitement and discovery.

With our newsletter, we hope to draw connections between your child's time at school and time at home. The New York Kids Club 3's curriculum strives to create an extremely language-rich environment.  Both child-initiated learning and teacher-directed learning models have been established to encourage children to describe what they see, hear, and do.  Teachers place an emphasis on talking with children and creating questions that challenge their thinking and you can enjoy continuing this learning at home.  Here are some great ways to engage children in conversation about school and the literary world around them:
 

• Encourage children to put their actions and ideas into words.
• Place an emphasis on open-ended questions rather than closed questions which only have one right answer (e.g. What color is this? or How many are there?)
• Foster discussion by allowing children to make predictions, weigh similarities and differences, apply knowledge to solve a problem, stretch thinking, consider consequences, and evaluate and assess their feelings

As always, every two weeks our curriculum is guided by a different story.  We will read the classic fables of