Dear Parents,

Happy New Year! I hope that the holidays and vacation time was special for you and your family. It is great to have time to stop the usual routines and reflect about what
is important in each of our lives.

As we welcome in the new year, we traditionally establish some new goals or resolutions. As parents, you want the best for your child. A New Year’s Resolution might be that you want to help your child be happy and successful. There are many things that you can do at home every day that will help your child be successful in school. The ideas suggested below will benefit both younger and older students:

• Talk with your child about school and everyday events. Emphasize the positive and reinforce their good choices and decisions.
• Read with your child, or encourage them to read for fun and discuss what they read. (Use who, what, where, when, why types of questions)
• Monitor your child’s television viewing, and talk with them about the programs they watch.
• Encourage exercise and good nutrition.
• Monitor homework, making sure your child has a place to work and that assignments are done.
• Reestablish a school-night bedtime.
• Communicate that education is important, and that you expect your child to do well in school. Your high expectations are vital to his/her success in school. Let them know that school is their job and you expect their best.

Please call your child’s teacher or me with questions, concerns, or how you can get involved at school. Here’s to a happy, healthy, and successful 2012!

Sincerely,
Miss Ginnetti