Buddy time!

From Kindergarten Buddies

Something we look forward to every Friday is the time we get to spend with our kindergarten buddies. Each fourth and fifth grader is matched with a kindergartener -- at the beginning of the year, we helped them get to know the cafeteria, and now we meet on Fridays to work on projects and to read books together. The pictures in our photo album are from two weeks ago when the students drew portraits of their buddies. The portraits are hanging in the hall downstairs. Yesterday we had our first reading time -- first the kindergarteners proudly read their first books to their buddies, then the older kids read aloud from more advanced picture books while the kinders followed along. It's fun to watch, and it benefits both children! Older students practice fluency and feel proud of themselves as readers, while the younger children get some one-on-one attention and an excellent role model not that much older than themselves. I'll try to take more pictures this week to add to the album.....in the meantime, ask your child to read aloud to you!