This newsletter from a kindergarten teacher provides information about the school's literacy program for the upcoming year. It discusses goals for supporting student development through engaging activities. It highlights areas like oral literacy, reading, writing, and media literacy that will be addressed. The teacher encourages parent participation and involvement to enrich student learning and help achieve the goal of ensuring school readiness.

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Welcome Back to School
dear parents, caregiver,
and community of Ryerson
kindergarten school.
This is not just a regular
new school year for us.
Instead it’s a new year of
essential experiences that
we will be introducing to
your precious children. To
learn and understand from
as they participate in our
program.
As a teacher of the
classroom I would like to
share with all of you our
goals regarding your
children learning in the
classroom.
Through the whole year I
will aim to implement
variety of activities that
support the children
development as a whole.
And engage them in
meaningful learning
experiences that will
enhance their learning.
In our classroom we will
ensure to provide the
children with equal
opportunities to practice
their knowledge and put it
into effect to encourage
children growth. The
activities we will
implement will encompass
all the developmental area
influenced by the children
diverse knowledge, skills,
culture to support their
optimal success in the
future. We can achieve that
by your involvement.
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We hope with your support
and your participation to
enrich our children
learning
Our literacy program
Our literacy program will
reflect the Full Day
Kindergarten program
curriculum to support the
children development as a
whole. Children will be
motivated to participate in
activities that embody all
of the developmental area
to support healthy
development and ensure
school readiness. We belief
rich environment that is
child centered can be very
beneficial to children
success. That’s why we
encourage parent’s
involvement to offer
children high quality
experiences when they are
learning their literacy.

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Oral literacy
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Children start possessing
this oral skills as they grow
and learn vocabulary to
express them self. In our
curriculum our aim is not
just for children to speak
but we want to improve
their skills to converse
efficiently. We can achieve
this by implementing
different activities that will
expand their vocabulary.
-Reading a book with
children and encouraging
them to retell the story.
-Show the pictures of the
book to the children and
support them to describe
what they see.
-Implement a dramatic
activity to motivate
children to go wild with
their imagination and retell
their favorite character
story by role playing.
By participating in all the
activities we will be
implementing, children
will have better oral skills.
As they will be able to
express them self in a
better way, maintain long
conversation, and use a lot
of vocabulary that will
enhance their
communication.
Reading
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Readying is one of the
important skills that build
on the children vocabulary,
listening, and writing.
Reading is one of the daily
activities that we
implement during circle
time in the morning.
After reading the book we
analyze it with the children
and identify the message
behind it.
This part is important as it
will help children to think
critically and encourage
them to extract meaning
from the images they see
or the story they hear and
retelling it in their own
words.
By engaging children in
different reading activities
though the whole program,
they will have a positive
association with reading.
- The benefit of reading
with children.
-They will be encouraged
to read independently or
with peers.
-They will be interested in
answering question about
books they read and tell the
story.

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-They will try to imitate
the teacher or their parent’s
way of reading.
-They will start following
text with their finger as
they read
Writing
In our curriculum we will
encourage children to
participate in writing
activities that will help
them to work on their fine
motor skills.
We will have activities so
children can practice
writing about their favorite
book, animation, event,
and experience by creating
a scrap book. They will
have time daily to add
some writing and artifact
that reflect what they are
writing about. For instance,
pictures they draw or
picture they took with their
family.
And by the end of each
week they can take it home
to share it with their
family.
These kind of activities not
only will work on their fin
motor skills but it will
strengthen their writing
skills and from sharing
with their family the work
they have done this will
assist and guide them
through their writing
process.
Media literacy
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Media is one of the types
of literacy that is
introduced to children by
everywhere they go; they
are bombarded by
advertisement. However in
class we can incorporate it
through listening to cd’s
stories, and music. We can
provide children with
computer access to view
and use any programs that
enhance children media
literacy. By exposing them
to such literacy programs
we hope they will have a
broader learning about the
world around them. Media
is a powerful and attractive
tool that can educate
children about culture,
environment, reading, and
writing as long it’s
developmentally
appropriate.

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In our class
In our classroom we
will ensure to reflect
multiculturalism and
diversity. By provide
books, music,
puzzles, food, and
creative activities for
children that promote
different cultures,
sex, race, and ability
to introduce the
children with our
similarities and
differences in society
Children favorite
books
These are some of the
books children are
interested in reading
in class. -
Kindergarten, here I
come! By: D.J.
Steinberg and Mark
Chambers
-The Other Side. By:
Jacqueline Woodson.
- Stephanie’s
Ponytail. By: Robert
Munsch
To contact us
Miss. Amna
Mohammed Nur
Ryerson Kindergarten
Ryerson University
350 Victoria street.
Toronto, Ontario.
M4h 135
Phone number: 416-
675-3436
Fax: 416-878-5432
Our literacy approach
We believe on our
approach to observe the
children, understand their
interest, and style of
learning. Then we try to
implement different
activities that support the
children learning and
ensure to incorporate all
the developmental domain.
It’s important that each
activity support the child
need and broaden their
knowledge.
Children will benefit from
our approach as long as all
the activities are
developmentally
appropriate and based on
their interest.
Home connection
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We encourage parents to
participate in the children
learning. Their
involvement will be a great
and positive asset to the
children learning. In
addition, your participation
will introduce children to
each child culture, food,
and language which is very
enriching for the children
environment. In the same
time parents will get the
chance to see how their
children are learning.
That’s why we welcome
all parents to join us
whenever their schedule
permits them and share
with us their knowledge.
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