Starting on August 10th, your child will be learning 3 sight words a week at school. I will send home a sheet with the sight words on it. Please cut the sight words apart and use them as flashcards. Do not go over the whole sheet of sight words in one sitting. This will be too overwhelming for your child. If your child learns the three assigned sight words before the week is out, you may move on to other sight words that were sent home. This will place your child ahead.
August 10-14
I
like
my
August 17-21
the
red
zero
August 24-28
yellow
to
August 31-September 4
can
one
and
September 8-11
two
orange
play
September 14-18
green
see
September 21-25
Review all sight words we have learned up to this point.
September 28-October 2
three
four
me
October 5-9
want
for
at
October 12-16
am
is
October 19-23
five
six
white
October 26-30
purple
blue
brown
November 2-6
black
seven
Nov. 9-14 review
Nov. 16-20
eight
nine
ten
Nov. 30- Dec. 4
pink
it
you
Dec. 7-11
went
yellow
When you are showing your child the flashcards, change the order in which you show them to your child. Your child may memorize the order of the words and not the actual word itself. Your child may also be memorizing special marks or bends in the card that triggers the recognition of the word but may be unable to identify this word in a different setting.
I will assess each student on sight words on a regular basis. I will send the results home so you can see how well your child did. Once a child truly learns a sight word, he will be able to identify that word when requested. If he knows the word at home but not at school or knows the word one day but not another, he hasn't committed that word to memory. In essence, he hasn't genuinely learned the word. If this happens just continue to practice that particular word or words until your child can say it whenever he is asked.
It is important that you practice the sight words with your child every night until he/she learns them. Your child will need your help at home. If your child isn't picking up the sight words in class and isn't getting help at home, he/she will fall behind. Since we cover so many sight words in a month's time, if your child falls behind, it may be hard for him to catch up. It is important that this doesn't happen.
We will stop several times in the year and review. This will give students who may have fallen behind a chance to catch up. Please grab this opportunity if your child needs it. Additionally, I will be covering the assigned sight words each day with the students in class.
I will start giving spelling tests in January. The words on the
spelling tests will be a mixture of sight words and 3 letter words that can be sounded out. Ex: cat, mat, fat, rat.
Sight words for this week:
August 10-14
August 17-21
August 24-28
August 31-September 1
Sight word tips:
Sight words are words that should be recognized instantly without the child having to figure these words out. Many of them rarely follow any rules or guidelines. This means that many of them can’t be sounded out, they will need to be memorized. This will take lots of repetition and practice. I am listing some activities that can help your child with sight word identification below. Good luck!
-Word games such as matching, Concentration, and Bingo
- You can make two sets of the sight words and play Go Fish
- Word search games
- Flashcards
- Selection of emerging reader books with plenty of sight words
-Allow your child to use a dry erase board to practice the words
Listed below are songs I am using to teach your child the color words.
You can practice these songs at home with your child.
RED
(tune: are you sleeping)
• R-e-d red
• R-e-d red
• I can spell red.
• I can spell red.
• Fire trucks are red!
• Stop signs are red, too.
• R-e-d
• R-e-d
YELLOW
(tune: if you're happy & you know it)
• Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.
• Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.
• Like the early morning sun,
• When the day has just begun,
• Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.
• Daffodils and baby ducks are yellow.
• Lemonade and scrambled eggs are yellow.
• I like the smiley face that's yellow.
• He is such a happy fellow.
• Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.
BLUE
(tune: farmer in the dell)
• B-l-u-e spells blue.
• B-l-u-e spells blue.
• Hi! Ho! Did you know?
• B-l-u-e spells blue.
• The big sky is blue.
• The ocean is too.
• Hi! Ho! Did you know?
• B-l-u-e spells blue.
GREEN
(tune: row row row your boat)
• G-r-e-e-n
• G-r-e-e-n
• I know how to spell green.
• G-r-e-e-n
• Caterpillars are green,
• And grasshoppers too.
• I know how to spell green.
• G-r-e-e-n
White (Happy Birthday)
W-h-i-t-e, w-h-i-t-e, w-h-i-t-e that spells white!
Like a ghost in flight or the moon at night-
W-h-i-t-e that spells white!
Pink (Frere Jacques)
P-i-n-k, p-i-n-k, that spells pink, that spells pink,
Like some bubblegum or a piggy’s belly,
P-i-n-k, p-i-n-k.
Black (Bingo)
There was a class that learned to spell and this is what they sang-o,
B-l-a-c-k, b-l-a-c-k, b-l-a-c-k,
And that spells black!
Purple (This Old Man)
Pur-ple spells the color purple, see-
Like the grapes on a vine,
Or some plums on a tree.
Orange (The Wheels on the Bus)
The pumpkins in my garden are orange, orange, orange
O-r-a-n-g-e
The pumpkins in my garden are orange, orange orange
O-r-a-n-g-e.
Brown(Bingo)
There is a color we all know, can you guess what it is? B-r-o-w-n, B-r-o-w-n, B-r-o-w-n. That's how you spell brown.
Here are some number word songs. These are the songs I will use to teach your child when we cover the number words.
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O-N-E
Tune: This Old Man
O-N-E that spells one.
O-N-E spell number one.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
O-N-E, spell one again
T-W-O
Tune: The Muffin Man
T-W-O that spells two.
T-W-O spell number two.
Twins and pairs and doubles, too
These things come in twos.
T-H-R-E-E
Tune: Oats, Peas, Beans & Barley Grow
T-H-R-E-E spells three.
Three triangles I can see.
They have three sides and
Sail the sea.
F-O-U-R
Tune: Mulberry Bush
F-O-U-R that spells four.
F-O-U-R that spells four.
Clapping, snapping, tapping fours
Let's count 1, 2, 3, 4
F-I-V-E
Tune: Little Brown Jug
F-I-V-E that spells three.
F-I-V-E number five
Use five fingers and five toes,
That's the way the five jive goes.
S-I-X
Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
S-I-X that spells six.
S-I-X number six.
Six rabbits in a gat
I like magic tricks
S-E-V-E-N
Tune: If You're Happy and You Know It
S-E-V-E-N spells seven.
S-E-V-E-N spells seven.
Seven airplanes in the sky
Seven boats are floating by
Let's all shout "hip, hip hooray"
for number seven
E-I-G-H-T
Tune: Old MacDonald
E-I-G-H-T spells eight.
E-I-G-H-T
Eight birds sitting on a gate
E-I-G-H-T
With eight eggs here,
And eight nest there,
Here a house, there a house,
Everywhere a birdhouse.
E-I-G-H-T spells eight,
Number eight is great!
N-I-N-E
Tune: London Bridge
N-I-N-E that spells nine
Number nine
Anytime
Playing ball with friends of mine
N-I-N-E, nine
T-E-N
Tune: She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
T-E-N spells ten. T-E-N
T-E-N spells ten. T-E-N
I see smiles on every face.
This is such a happy place.
Turn around, jump up and down
For number ten!
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