Kindergarten students are like sponges. That's a good thing, because
the foundations for future learning are being laid during this year. In
Kindergarten, children are quite active and they are interested in
everything. They work towards mastering drawing, reading, writing,
counting... and mastering sports and playtime, too. They need lots of
support and encouragement, but they are also beginning to become
independent as they learn. They develop skills to express their
feelings, and they can identify feelings in other children.
Kindergarten children feel empathy and develop the ability to control
when and how they respond to their own strong emotions. They learn how
to be good members of the classroom community, and develop social
skills with peers. It's quite a year!
Bromwell students are some of the highest achievers in our district.
That's because their parents support them so well. Bromwell parents
feed their kids healthy meals, and make sure they get plenty of sleep.
They encourage their kids to play and get lots of exercise. Bromwell
parents are good role models for reading and writing, and all sorts of
other learning tasks. At our school, parents are encouraging and
positive. That's why our students are the best!
All I Really Needed to Know
I Learned in Kindergarten
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be
aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the
roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why,
but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And
then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned -
the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in
there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology
and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any one of those
items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to
your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds
true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we
all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the
afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all
governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they
found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no
matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to
hold hands and stick together.
From: "All I Really Need To
Know
I Learned In Kindergarten" by Robert Fulghum.
See his web site
at
http://www.robertfulghum.com/Contact Information
Contacting Ms. Bergner
Please contact me by calling the school office at 303/388-5969
or by e-mailing me at
dorsey_bergner@dpsk12.org
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Supplies
Make sure your student has all the right stuff by looking at
Kindergarten Supply List
