This year I am sending home Reading and Math packets. Please realize each of these sheets will take 5-10 minutes of your time and they will reinforce basic skills your kindergartner is responsible to learn. The homework pages can be found in your child's take home folder stapled together. Please only complete one page a week unless your child gets ambitious. If s/he wants to do more encourage it, but please do not force it. I want him/her to enjoy learning and what it has to offer. You can complete the page anytime during the week. If you forget one week please feel free to catch up or keep moving on. I do not want to discourage you with paperwork which is why I chose basic pages that should not take too long. We will be working on predecodable books during the first half of the year. These books have picture rebuses. Your last bit of homework with your child will be to read, and reread the predecodable and eventually decodable books that will be sent home after they are read to me 3 times. The predecodable books focus on the sight words your child must know by time s/he leaves kindergarten because in first grade they will need to learn over 100 words. The decodable books will start coming in January and they focus on sounding words out. Keep these books in a safe place at home and pull them out throughout the year to review. It will only help your child learn to read more fluently.