This is a gentle reminder that your child's Weekend Journal will be coming home this weekend. The question for the kindergarteners to answer is "What do you like to do outside?"
Please remember that when you are helping your child write, it is important to guide them into hearing the sounds in words rather than spelling things for them. At this stage in their developing writing, they do not need to be spelling everything correctly, but sounding words out to hear the different parts.
Also, we have not yet gone over phonetic rules such as what ch/sh/wh/ph/th (digraphs), silent "e," or the difference between hard and soft c/g. These are things that will happen during the second half of kindergarten and into 1st grade. Do not worry about making sure that your child spells "Christmas" with a "k" at this point of the year. The sound of a "k" is at the beginning of the word, and they are using the strategies they have been taught to sound out the word on their own.
My best suggestion is to sit with your child as they write, and guide them when needed without doing it for them. Oh, one more thing - don't forget the spaces and periods :)
Good luck!
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