Practice telling time to the hour, reading color words, and number words one - ten, and reading at least one starfall book or any other books we have made each day!
Practice personal information such as: phone number, address (example 1315 Knoxville Hwy Wartburg Tn), and birthday.
Recognizeing and writing numbers 0-25 out of order.
Recognize all letters out of order and their sounds.
There are plenty of thing you can do at home with your child in order to make this a successful year for him/her. Here is a list of simple activities you are encouraged to do to help in learning.
* Practice sight words/popcorn words daily! Make it fun. The words are on the back of the weekly folder so you make work ahead as your child is able.
* Have your child read any little books he/she brings home. Have a special area ready to store all the books they make and bring home so they can get them out and practice reading at any time.
*Practice counting to 100! Our goal for the year is to count to 100 by 1's, 5's, 10's and to count to 20 by 2's.
*Work on tying shoes!!
*Writing your name the "Kindergarten way". Writing your name with 1 capital letter and the rest lowercase letters.
*Practice independent skills such as zipping, buttoning, and snapping.
*Holding and cutting with scissors.
*Holding a pencil the correct way.
*Read for 20 minutes a day! This can be anything, books, signs, cooking instructions, poems, etc.