Parental Involvement :
- Be number one in your child's life! Love and support them as they grow this year.
- Please check your child's backpack and blue homework folder each night.
- Read, read, and read some more... to and with your child!
- Ask your child about school daily. Discuss school topics and issues in a positive manner.
- Read the weekly classroom newsletter sent home entitled "Tadpole Tidbits".
- Help your child complete his/her weekly homework and make sure they are learning responsibility by returning it in a timely manner.
- Reinforce and support your child by reviewing concepts taught at school and in understanding any school topics that are challenging.
- Attend parent-teacher conferences, special school programs, and PTA meetings on a regular basis.
- Limit and monitor your child's viewing of television, playing video games, and using the computer.
- Sign up for Remind101 as a way to keep informed of classroom and school information.
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Skills and Concepts to Reinforce at Home:
recognizing all 26 letters of the alphabet and saying the sound associated with each letter (including short and long vowel sounds)
writing all 26 letters of the alphabet (both capital and lowercase) correctly shaping and spacing the letters
writing your child's first and last name using a capital letter at the beginning and lowercase letters for the rest of their name as well as properly spacing and forming the letters
writing consonant-vowel-consonant words independently (and correctly)
recognizing and naming a period, question mark, and exclamation mark
writing simple sentences using sight words and inventive spelling to "stretch out" unknown words
recognizing and reading the following color words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, pink, and white
recognizing, reading, and writing the following sight words: am, I, the, little, to, a, is, like, we, for, have, my, he, with, me, look, she, they, see, you, of, are, that, do, said, come, two, one, three, here, go, four, from, what, be, was, five, play, where, can, and, this, your, by, who, has, put, when, jump, all, find, or, went, over, there, down, live, new, make, know, many, eat
rhyming and syllable work
listening to simple words and telling the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in the words
adding or substituting sounds in words to make new words (i.e. changing the "r" in red to a "b" to make... bed)
identifying the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
identifying and understanding the role of the title, author, and illustrator of a book
understanding that reading goes from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page
understanding the difference between a letter, word, and sentence and that words are separated by spaces in print
retelling stories using vocabulary words and story elements (setting, characters, main events, and correct sequence)
orally counting to 100 by ones, fives, and tens
counting on from a given number (i.e. start counting at 3 and continue, etc.)
recognizing and writing numbers 0 to 20 properly spacing and forming the numbers
recognizing numbers 0 to 30
identifying greater than, less than, and equal to
representing addition and subtraction with objects, drawings, and/or equations
fluently adding and subtracting with sums and differences to 10
sorting items by different attributes (i.e. color, shape, size)
recognizing and naming the following 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, and hexagon
recognizing and naming the following 3D shapes: cube, cone, cylinder, sphere, pyramid
identifying positional words such as: above, below, beside, in front of, behind, under, and next to
recognizing all 26 letters of the alphabet and saying the sound associated with each letter (including short and long vowel sounds)
writing all 26 letters of the alphabet (both capital and lowercase) correctly shaping and spacing the letters
writing your child's first and last name using a capital letter at the beginning and lowercase letters for the rest of their name as well as properly spacing and forming the letters
writing consonant-vowel-consonant words independently (and correctly)
recognizing and naming a period, question mark, and exclamation mark
writing simple sentences using sight words and inventive spelling to "stretch out" unknown words
recognizing and reading the following color words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, pink, and white
recognizing, reading, and writing the following sight words: am, I, the, little, to, a, is, like, we, for, have, my, he, with, me, look, she, they, see, you, of, are, that, do, said, come, two, one, three, here, go, four, from, what, be, was, five, play, where, can, and, this, your, by, who, has, put, when, jump, all, find, or, went, over, there, down, live, new, make, know, many, eat
rhyming and syllable work
listening to simple words and telling the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in the words
adding or substituting sounds in words to make new words (i.e. changing the "r" in red to a "b" to make... bed)
identifying the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book
identifying and understanding the role of the title, author, and illustrator of a book
understanding that reading goes from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page
understanding the difference between a letter, word, and sentence and that words are separated by spaces in print
retelling stories using vocabulary words and story elements (setting, characters, main events, and correct sequence)
orally counting to 100 by ones, fives, and tens
counting on from a given number (i.e. start counting at 3 and continue, etc.)
recognizing and writing numbers 0 to 20 properly spacing and forming the numbers
recognizing numbers 0 to 30
identifying greater than, less than, and equal to
representing addition and subtraction with objects, drawings, and/or equations
fluently adding and subtracting with sums and differences to 10
sorting items by different attributes (i.e. color, shape, size)
recognizing and naming the following 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, and hexagon
recognizing and naming the following 3D shapes: cube, cone, cylinder, sphere, pyramid
identifying positional words such as: above, below, beside, in front of, behind, under, and next to