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 purple 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.
- 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 PTO meetings on a regular basis.
- Limit and monitor your child's viewing of television, playing video games, and using the computer.
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, about, would, because, every, funny, again, under, away, good, please, soon, out, want, say, any, help, came, ride, too, our, saw, pretty, now, ate, after, must, could, found
- 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
- recognizing and reading number words from zero to ten
- 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