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ONE TO ONE CORRESPONDENCE
    To practice this skill at home, you can use something so simple as 
beans.  Choose a number and have your child give you that amount of beans.  
In class, we have been practicing "touch and count."  "Touch and count" keeps 
students from counting the same object twice ensuring their success the first 
time.

RHYMING WORDS
   Give your child different pairs of words; some pairs should rhyme and some 
should not.  Have your chid decide if the words rhyme or not.  You can also 
give your child a word and have your child come up with a word that rhymes.

NUMBERS
   As we are learning numbers beyond 20, see if your child can make different 
numbers using the t.v. remote.  See what channel pops up!

PATTERNS
    Make patterns with your child with things found around the house or by 
using body movements.  Ask your child what is the pattern?  What is the 
repeating part?  Can they name the pattern?  Any pattern your child makes at 
home, your child can bring to school to share with the class.

SYLLABLE SEGMENTATION
    See if you and your child can "syllable jump" names of family members.

MORE/LESS
     Gather up items and seperate them into two piles.  Ask your child which 
set has more and which set has less.

PICK UP STICKS
     You start with ten straws.  (You can use anything as a substitution just
as long as it is ten of something.)  You can only pick up one straw or two
straws on your turn.  To win this game, the objective is to be the person who
picks up the last straw.  As you play this game, ask your child if he or she
has any strategy.  Is it better to go first or second? Is it better to pick up
one straw or two straws?  After you have played with ten straws, change it to
twenty straws.

INVENTIVE SPELLING
     Inventive spelling is the type of writing we promote in Kindergarten.  
Inventive Spelling is when your child writes down in sequence the letter of 
the sounds they hear.  When you make a grocery list, have your child make 
one with you of the things they would like from the store.  Have your child 
write the sounds they hear in sequence.  It will not be conventional 
spelling, and that is fine.

SIGHT WORDS
     Write the sight words on index cards.  Turn the sight words face down 
and line them up in a row.  You and your child can take turn choosing a 
sight word and reading it.  Once the word is read, it stays face up.  When 
you finish all the words, mix them up, line them up, and you are ready to 
play again!

Download the PowerPoint from "Document Downloads."  You can use the 
PowerPoint as  a review tool in helping your child learn the sight words.

WHEN YOUR CHILD COMES HOME FROM SCHOOL...
     You probably ask your child what did he or she learn new at school 
today.  Hopefully, your child does not answer "nothing" or "I don't know."  
Below are some specific questions that you can ask your child.
     - What color was the number on your calendar today?  Have you figured 
out the pattern?  (Each month our calendar has a different color pattern.  We
update our calendar everyday.)
     - Can you sing me the "Days of the Week" song?  
     - Can you show me the "Months of the Year" dance?

FINE MOTOR SKILLS
     Fine motor skills consists of skills that require to use of muscles in
our hands.  Every week, there is a planned activity to enhance the students'
fine motor skills.  Such activities are coloring, writing, playing with
playdough, manipulating small objects, cutting and pasting, and painting.  
     At home, your child can cut out coupons to practice his or her fine 
motor
skills.

WHEN READING BOOKS...
     Ask your child to point out to you the spine, front cover, back cover, 
title page.  Ask your child what does an author do?  illustrator?  Ask your 
child who were the characters in the story?

Newspapers
     You and your child can search the paper for the high frequency words 
that we have studied.  Also, you can search for letters, and words that start 
with the letters that we have studied.

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