| This week your child will be bringing home his/her Homework Notebook and Homework Folder. Your
child will receive a monthly "homework" activity calendar at the beginning of each month. Please have
your child complete at least 3 activities per week in the Homework Notebook provided and return it to
school every Friday.
Also today, your child will be bringing home his/her "Reading Log Folder". Please record the books you
read to your child or your child reads to you in the "Reading Log". We encourage you and your child to
read at least 25 books a month. Your child will earn a special trip to the "treasure box" for completing
and returning the Reading Log at the end of each month.
As your child begins to strengthen his or her fine motor skills, here are a
few fun suggestions to practice letter,words and number formations at home!
*Use clay or playdough to create letters, words and numbers.
*Fill a flat, shallow baking tray with sand or rice and have your child use
his/her "pointer finger" to write letters,words, and numbers or draw
pictures.
*Use dad's shaving cream to draw letters, words and numbers.
*Have fun painting or creating letters, words and numbers out of macaroni,
noodles or cereal!
RAINBOW WORD LIST
The following is a list of 40 Dolch Sight Words your child will be learning this year. We call these words
our RAINBOW WORDS in class…we have separated the words into 7 word groups according to the
colors of the rainbow. As the children master each set of words on the rainbow, he/she will get to
color a mastered word on his/her “Rainbow Recording” sheet kept at school!
At home, please enjoy reading to your child each night and going on a “Rainbow Word Hunt”. Happy
Reading!
RAINBOW WORDS:
RED-a, me, my, see, up
ORANGE-can, for, I, one, red, two
YELLOW-blue, go, it, look, the, three
GREEN-and, is, play, yellow, you, said
BLUE-big, come, in, little, run, we
INDIGO-find, funny, here, make, not, to
VIOLET-away, down, help, jump, where
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