Class of 2031!
Please remember to check your child's Communication Binder daily and initial their behavior calendar. If you have not yet signed up for ClassDojo, please download the app and put in your child's code. This will be my main communication tool this year.
Please work with your child on:
*Reading daily:
Pre-Read: Children should hold the book correctly, discuss the author
and illustrator, take a "picture walk" through the book and predict what the
story is about.
During Reading: Look at picture, sound out words, find sight words, etc.
Post - Read: Have your child tell you what the story was about, ask questions
*Online sites - RAZ Kids (password required), Starfall.com
*Sight words
*Writing their name
*Counting by 1's to 100, 10's to 100
*Recognizing numbers
*One-to-one correspondence
Book Baggies are sent home on Monday and should come back to school on Friday. The books and recording sheet initialed by you, should be returned in the baggie. Poetry notebooks will be sent home about once per month. Please read them with your child and make comments on the parent comment log.
To make one year's growth in reading, kindergarten students are expected to be at an independent level "C" by the end of the school year. It is very important to have your child read daily and practice sight words as well as essential words. The Cuyahoga Falls Library and Scholastic Book Club are a terrific resource for many levels and genres of books.
Reading Strategies:
*Look at the picture to figure out an unknown word
*Get their mouth ready for the first sound, second sound, third sound, etc.
*Look for "chunks" in a word. (Word families like -at, -ab, op, ut, all, etc.)
*Look for digraphs and blends (th, sh, ch, wh, ck, fl, sl, etc.)
*Go back and reread to see if it makes sense
*Skip the word and go on to see if they can figure out the word (context clues)
For your child to receive an "AP" (Adequate Progress) at the end of the school year, they should be able to:
*Name and write all 26 uppercase and lowercase letters and sounds
*Read at an independent "C" level
*Recognize 80% of all kindergarten sight words (58)
*Isolate the beginning, middle, and ending sound of a word
*Rhyme (bat-cat, hog-log, dig-pig)
*Segment and Blend CVC words (hat, log, cat, etc.)
*Segment and Blend CVCe words (lake, dice, cute, etc.)
*Participate in reading groups by naming what the author and illustrator do, retell the story including beginning, middle, and end
*Write all letters in upper and lowercase, begin sentences with a capital letter
*Count by 1's to 100
*Count by 10's to 100
*Add and Subtract up to 5
*Show that some numbers (11-19), can be broken down into tens and ones
*Be able to name and write numbers 0-20
*Identify if two groups of objects are less than, greater than, or equal to
*Measure using non-standard units of measurement (cubes, paper clips, etc.)
*Name 2D and 3D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, cone, cube, cylinder, sphere, pyramid) and tell the attributes of each