Quarter 3 Kindergarten Skills
Parents please continue to work on the following skills with your child for Reading:
Fluency with Letter names and letter sounds; (Your child should know the names of 52 letters upper/lower case along with 26 sounds).
Say it Fast: Please continue to work with segmenting a word that into it's phonemes so your child can blend it.
f-r-o-g b-e-d s-l-i-p t-r-a-y f-u-n r-o-t m-a-t s-k-i-d t-r-a-p d-i-d
Break it Down: Please continue to practice phoneme segmentation with your child. Give them the whole word and ask them to tell you the sounds they hear.
mad noon smell sent raft lid bed clap plan mask park mist plant
Ask your child to blend Green words from the Unit Stories I send home
Work on Say it, Spell it, Say it with RED words from the Unit Stories. Games you can play with sight words include BINGO or writing them on post-its for your child to find around the house on a scavenger hunt.
WRITING: Ask your child to dictate simple sentences found in their Unit Stories.
Remind your child to use the mid-line. If you notice your child has some reversal in their letters please refer to the homework folder for the how to form the letters. For example: down the long, long leg for /l/.
MATH: Your child should be able to recognize numbers 0-20 and fluently name them. If not, you may want to create a number bingo game with your child.
Please continue to work on the NUMBER rhymes from your child's homework folder. This will support your child and how they form their numerals, Ask your child to continue to create number sets up to 20 and order numbers up to 20 with the Paper Plate game I modeled for you during conferences. You can turn it into a game when you take a number away while their eyes are closed, See if they can tell you which number is missing without starting from one.
Please practice counting every day until your child is able to fluently count to 100.
Please continue to work on adding and subtracting numbers from 10, story problems and finger flashing numbers so your child feels comfortable showing a number representation using their fingers. Ask your child to show you different ways to create a number.
We will be increasing academic language at the end of the quarter with geometric shapes:
solid faces edges vertices prism triangular prism cylindar cone flat 2D 3D cube sphere thick attribute
Some great resources and tutorials online for refreshing your memory with geometry are at Khanacademy.com
As always if you have any questions or need other resources contact me at 545-3431
Thank you! Ms. Greene