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by looking at the outside of our unique
DC7 kindergarten classroom, you’ll see that we are far from the
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| The Land of the Letter People makes language come alive with just the right blend of reality and imagination, allowing the children to interact with the Letter People in whole-group and small-group settings. Literature, songs, read-along tapes, games, poems, art posters, maps, PREdecodable and Decodable Books, and take-home books are just a few of the ways children experience print awareness, phonological and phonemic instruction, alphabetic word recognition, vocabulary development and reading fluency and comprehension. Writing often emerges naturally as children incorporate it into their pretend play. Learning centers equipped with journals for non-directed writing, provide the opportunity for children to apply their increasing knowledge of sound-letter relationships. Sometimes children are even mentors to the Letter People, helping them and interacting as problem solvers, while building conflict resolution and social skills as well as oral language. |
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"Rollin
became a fine young boy, in large part, due to your kind and competent
care. With eager anticipation, Rollin now enters the next phase of his
life, confident, and prepared, certain to never forget where he started." - Patty White Congratulations…you must be doing something right. I graduated from your kindergarten program in 1975. Now I have a preschooler and wish that I lived closer to you. I must tell you, I have wonderful memories of the airplane and still have all the pictures, too! - Donalee Peters, Westminster, CO |
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