Memory Work: Throughout the kindergarten year students will memorize Bible
passages. The texts chosen will usually coordinate with the Bible lesson
for the week. Memory Work assignments will be printed in the Friday
newsletter, in the Religion letter sent home on Mondays, and on the homework
page of the kindergarten website. Students will be asked to recite the
Memory Work to Mrs. Cronauer every Friday. Assignments are given one week
before they are due. Extra credit is given for learning the book, chapter,
and verse # of the Bible that the passage came from.
There is no Memory Work for Nov. 23-24.
1) Practice directional words with your child such as above, below, over,
under, and especially left and right.
2) Save the following books in your child's book box:
Go Up
This Is the Way We Go to School
I Can Travel
I See Colors on the Farm
____________'s Farm
I Am
Apple Count
Backyard Camping
We Like School
Foods I Like
How Many Insects Are in the Web?
Bugs
Is It an Insect?
Buttons
I See
Fire-Safety Pups!
This Is Fall
My Book of Leaves
Fall Leaves
Halloween Party
I Like My Lunch
I Like My Family
What Do We Need?
Nat at Bat
In Went
Thanksgiving
Please Pass the Turkey
I Like Cake
A Vat
I Like My School
3) Please help your child to save the following words in his/her word box.
I will give the students two different tests to determine their word
recognition. One test will be over consonant-vowel-consonant words.
The other test will be over high frequency words. Continue to check the
high frequency list for additional words that will continue to be added
until the end of the school year.
Consonant-vowel-consonant Word list
at
cat
can
fat
fan
mat
man
rat
ran
bat
hat
not
High Frequency Word List
I
go
up
to
red
yellow
green
blue
orange
like
see
brown
black
gray
white
pink
purple
a
am
an
as
me
we
and
the
sees
is
it
in
not
yes
no
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
have
on
was
my
do
went
4) Don't forget to practice number recognition and counting with your
child if he/she is still struggling. While traveling, see how high
you can count with your child to help pass the time. If your child
asks, "Are we there yet?", count together to see how long it takes.
By the end of kindergarten all students should be able to count to
100 and visually recognize 0-31 as well. (Most students can recognize
the other numbers to 100 if they have figured out the pattern of numbers
0-31.) Show your child numbers on a one hundred chart. Cover up one
number and see if your child can guess which number is hiding. Play
number bingo with your child and card games like "war". Help your child
to compare sets and learn more or less. Remember when you were a child
and played "war" with a deck of cards? Each person lays down a card at
the same time. The person that has the card with the higher number gets
to take all the cards. The winner is the person with the most cards at
the end of the game. You can make your own deck of cards containing
numbers that your child needs to learn to recognize.
5) Practice printing the name using only an uppercase letter at the
beginning. The rest of the letters should all be lowercase. Please
refer to the example given at student orientation for correct form used
in kindergarten. We use the Zaner-Bloser printing style. (ball and
stick method)
6) Practice rhyming words together. Introduce them by reading favorite
Mother Goose nursery rhymes together or Dr. Seuss books. Give your
child a word and ask him/her to think of a word that rhymes.
7) Practice singing the abc song together and have your child touch the
lowercase abc letters as you sing the song. Stop at certain points
in the song and see if your child is touching the correct letter. Can
your child tell you the name of the letter? Ask your child to tell you
what letter comes next. What letter comes before the letter you stopped
on? Then read some ABC picture books together. Check out some ABC books
from the library. Make your own ABC books together thinking of a theme
for the book. What picture and word will go on each ABC page?
As the kindergarten year progresses the students will be building their
sight word vocabulary. Emergent reading books will be sent home to help
students learn these words. It is important to practice reading these books
regularly each week. The books build on each other and inconsistent
practice will not help your child become a fluent reader. The students will
be tested on words taken from these books. Save these books in a plastic
box and label it with your child's name. (i.e. ____________'s Book Box)
Most books will have a little pocket inside the front cover that contains a
little pointer stick that your child may use to point to the words. You
will notice that your child printed some words on the lines in the books.
These are sight words that your child should practice. Put each of these
sight words on an index card that you keep in a card file box. Review these
words with your child to make sure that they know these words. You will
also notice some words have been underlined by your child or you will
notice some of the other words on the pages are repeated often. You may
include these in the file box as well. I will be asking the students to
tell me these words each quarter and I encourage them to practice at home.
To be a fluent reader, a student needs to practice decoding some words
phonetically as well as some through sight. Some words can't be sounded
out. It helps comprehension skills if students don't have to sound every
word out as they read a story.
Throughout the newsletter that is sent home in the Friday Folder, I will
also make suggestions about activities that you may do with your child.
Involving your child in these activities at home will enhance your child's
learning experience and help him or her to reach their potential.
