Dear parents,
It was an exciting day in Salle 211! We are beginning our Borrow-a-book (J'emprunte un livre) routine. I posted some information about this before the blog went out-of-service, and students have brought an explanation home today along with their tracking log and first book. We went over the procedure for exchanging books today at length. Students know that they are responsible for exchanging and caring for their books (I do not check that students are exchanging regularly because everyone will advance at a different rate), but by all means, if you notice that your student is forgetting to exchange books, let me know and I will remind them at school.
This is a routine that I would have explained in person at a curriculum night, had we had one. I would have emphasized that this initiative depends completely on your participation and that it really does make a significant difference in our students' reading journey. It doesn't have to take a lot of your time each day and should be fun for both you and your child. Don't forget - you are the teacher at home and get to decide when to sign-off on each book. Your child should really master each one before exchanging. It is important for beginning readers to spend time reading texts that they find easy, rather than challenging themselves to read texts that are too difficult. It is not a race.
Please let me know if you have questions about borrow-a-book and thanks in advance for being the at-home teacher!
Enjoy!
Tamara