Turtle Rock Kindergarten

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Kindergarten homework is meant to reinforce concepts that have already been 
taught in the classroom.

Here are a few homework reminders:

~Children need to use a pencil whenever they are writing letters or numbers.

~Colored pages need to be done with crayons or colored pencils (no pen or
markers, please)

~Follow all of the directions on each page.

~Remember that the journal page is your child's practice at stretching words 
and writing the sounds that he/she hears.

~Remind your child to hand his/her homework (in their homework folder) to the 
teacher as he/she is walking in the door. We will not know that your child 
did not turn in his/her homework until we are grading it over the weekend.

~Please check previous homework for notes and remove older work from the folder.

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We want to emphasize AGAIN;

*****  PLEASE DON'T SPELL THE WORDS FOR YOUR CHILD'S HOMEWORK.  *****

There is a sequential progression of writing and stages that your child needs
to go through before they will be a proficient writer.  We need to know your
child's developmental stage so we can advance them to the next level.  With
you spelling the words, you may actually be delaying this process.  Please
help them of course, but you should be asking them to break the word apart by
stretching it.  Ask, "How many sounds do you hear?"  "What letter makes that 
sound?" "What sound is the last one?"  "Any sounds you hear in the middle?"

If they ask you if the sound is a C or K, yes, by all means tell them what is 
correct.  It is alright to help them with tricky sounds such as double oo in 
book or sh/ch/th.  Helping with a sound is completely different than words 
such as haunted/mountain/restaurant spelled correctly.

Please understand, we are not expecting the homework to be spelled correctly.
That is not the purpose of journal writing for kindergartners.  (The expert
words should be spelled correctly).  If they are only able to get the first
sound, great.  If you think we won't be able to read what they wrote, write
what it says underneath their writing.  Please trust us and you will be
surprised how quickly your child is able to write those tricky words.  It must
make sense to your child or they are not able to take ownership in their writing.

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Turtle Rock Kindergarten

Homework