Mrs. Abordo's Helpful Hint's

The Winning Edge

In a room filled with twenty children, why does one student excel while another falters? After 17 years in the classroom, several things special parents provide stand out as making a difference.

Talking together. The discussion might be about what to buy for cousin Suzy's birthday or how to divide the last of the cookies. You might talk about the Dodgers, the garden, or why the 68 Ford Mustang is still your dream car. The important thing is to talk with your child, not just talk at him or her.

Wondering and questioning. Why do Grandma's cookies always taste better than anyone else's does?  Do fish sleep? Where do butterflies go when it rains? You don't have to have all the answers (the Internet and library might help!). The important thing is to value your child's sense of wonder and not to allow your own sense of wonder to die.

Modeling reading skills. Read everything! Read everywhere you go! Read Street signs. Read menus. Read the comics. Read a cookbook. Read the labels in the grocery store. Read the dashboard of your car. Read baseball cards. Read that old favorite storybook just one more time please. The important thing is to make reading an important part of your child's daily life.

Saying no and standing by it. You child is counting on you to set limits that keep him or her safe. While every child tests those limits with whining, behavior, or fits of temper, deep down the child really wants to know that Mom and Dad mean exactly what they say.  The important thing is that your child knows your word is never broken. Your child knows by your actions that you never abdicate your parental responsibility.

Allowing your child to help. Let your child set the table, fill the dishwasher, or take out the trash.  Your child is old enough now to make the entire family a cereal breakfast or as peanut butter and jelly sandwich lunch. The important thing is that your child should fill that his or her actions contribute to the well being of the entire family.

Laughing, loving, and cuddling. The child who feels loved and valued is better adjusted and ready to learn. The most important thing you can ever give your child is your love!

Tardies

Please have your child on campus each morning by 7:45 a m. Class begins at 7:50 a m. Students who arrive late need to have their parent help them sign into the office. Arriving late is often very upseting to young children. Please support your child's efforts to start the day in a happy way.

Is it time to go home already?

Please help you child learn their bus number and a "Password" that any grownup picking them up has to know. Add any and all persons allowed to pick up your child from school to your child's emergency card. Instruct grown up's picking up your child to sign out through the school office before coming to the classroom.

Motiviation

The key that unlocks our potential

Expect the Best From Your child...And Get It!

Stressing the 2 "A's"

Achievement - "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow." Attitude - " Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by how we react to what happens to us, not by what life brings us, but the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst...a spark that creates extraordinary results."