Mrs. Melton

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<DIV><STRONG>First Nine Weeks Report Card Skills</STRONG> <EM>(ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)</EM> 
<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT style="COLOR: #0000ff" color=#000000><STRONG>Second Nine Weeks Report Card Skills </STRONG><EM>(ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000><STRONG>Third Nine Weeks Report Card Skills </STRONG><EM>(ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>Fourth Nine Weeks Report Card </STRONG><EM>(ideas to help you practice these skills at home are in italics)</EM></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<P><STRONG>Language Arts/Reading</STRONG></P>
<P>- Spells own first name, both orally and written. <EM>(Have your child practice writing his/her name and spelling it aloud to you.)</EM></P>
<P>- Sequences events in a story (e.g. using books, videos, films) <EM>(After reading a story, ask your child what happened first, next, last.)</EM></P>
<P>- Recites poems, stories and songs from memory. <EM>(Be sure your child learns the poem of the week every week.)</EM></P>
<P>- Names all uppercase letters. <EM>(Use flashcards to play a speed game or have the student see if they can beat you in naming letters.)</EM></P>
<P>- Names all lowercase letters. <EM>(Same as above.)</EM></P>
<P>- Builds vocabulary by participating in whole-class shared reading and discussions. <EM>(Reading a nightly bedtime story will add to your child's vocabulary.)</EM></P>
<DIV>- Follows simple two-step oral directions to develop listening skills. <EM>(Give your child two-step directions and see if they can follow them. e.g.- Put on your coat and get your bag.)</EM></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff>- Speaks clearly, properly, politely and recognizes the difference between formal and informal language. <EM>(Always correct your child when they speak incorrectly. Baby talk is no longer cute.)</EM> </FONT></DIV>
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<P>-<FONT color=#0000ff> Uses appropriate capitalization when writing names.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">-<EM> </EM>Recognizes and produces rhyming words. <EM>(Ask your child if two words rhyme or not. Read Dr. Suess books and pick out the rhyming words.)</EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Uses sound stretching of one syllable words to identify each phoneme or sound ( cat, /c/ /a/ /t/). <EM>(Give your child some words, such as bat, pig, mom, wet, and sun and ask them to stretch them.)</EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><EM>- </EM>Uses sound blending of each separately spoken phoneme or sound to make meaningful words (/m/ /o/ /m/, mom). <EM>(Give your child some sounds and ask them to guess the word, for example /d/ /o/ /g/, /g/ /e/ /t/, /n/ /a/ /p/.)</EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Recognizes words that have the same beginning sounds. <EM>(Give your child three words, ask them which two start with the same sound.)</EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Produces letter sounds in correspondence with appropriate letters.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008000>- Recognizes the need for capitalization at the beginning of the sentences. <EM>(Use the take-home books to find capitals and ask why they have a capital letter there.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008000>- Spells own last name, both orally and written.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Uses discussions and illustrations to preview text, make predictions and to comprehend basic story elements (main idea, character, setting, plot).<EM>( Before reading a bedtime story, ask your child to look at the cover and predict what the story is going to be about. After reading the story, ask your child who the characters in the book were, where the story happened, and what happened.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Recognizes words that have the same ending sounds. (<EM>ask your child to listen to three words, and tell you which two words start with the same sound; ex. cat, wet, van)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000><EM>- </EM>Uses letter-sound matches to decode simple words. <EM>(have your child practice reading words such as the following by making the sounds for each letter, and then putting those sounds together: ex. dog, cat, jet)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000><EM>- </EM>Makes new words using common word families (e.g. p-at, b-at, c-at). <EM>(Show your child how to change the word "rat" to "mat" and then to "sat".)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Reads 25 of the 100 most frequent sight words with ease <EM>(Have you been doing your rainbow words!)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Reads simple text . <EM>(Be sure to let your child read their take-home book to you every night!)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000><EM>-</EM> Recognizes the need for punctuation marks at the end of statements (periods) , questions (question marks), and emotions (exclamation marks).<EM> (Look for these in the books you read. Ask your child why it is there?)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>- Spells simple words using phonetic knowledge of letters and sounds. <EM>(Practice spelling words such as: cat, mop, jet, pig, etc.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000>- Demonstrates that words are made up of one or more syllables. (<EM>Practice clapping the parts of a word, ex.- butt-er-fly)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT style="COLOR: #0000ff" color=#000000></FONT><STRONG>Writing</STRONG></P>
<P>- <FONT color=#008000>Forms legible upper and lower case letters, without the use of a model.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#008000>- Writes on a page using correct directionality (left to right and top to bottom).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#ff0000>- Uses creative spelling to write independently (e.g. SKL ES GRAT= School is great!)</FONT></P>
<P>- <STRONG>Math</STRONG></P>
<P>- Sorts objects and describes how they are sorted. <EM>(Sort things around the house like toys, laundry and dishes by color, size, shape and kind.)</EM></P>
<P>- Name, identifies and describes characteristics or attributes of shapes. (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon and trapezoid) <EM>(Look for shapes around town and around your house. Point them out and ask your child to name them. Practice drawing circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares. Discuss how many sides and corners (vertices).)</EM></P>
<P>- Identifies positional words. (e.g. right, left, over, under, on, inside, outside, above, below, between, forward, backward, top, middle, bottom, near and far)<EM> (Play a game where your child puts his/her favorite toy in different positions e.g. under, over, beside, between, on top, on bottom, left, and right.)</EM></P>
<P>- Names and creates patterns.<EM>(Make patterns with household items e.g. silverware, colored cereal pieces.)</EM></P>
<P>- Counts sets of objects to 25. <EM>(Count items around the house- e.g. food on your plate.)</EM></P>
<DIV>- Counts backwards from 10 to 1. <EM>(Practice while driving in car.)</EM></DIV>
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<P><EM>-</EM> Recognizes numbers 0-25<EM>. (Use flashcards and play games like you would with letters.)</EM></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="COLOR: #0000ff" color=#000000>- Matches quantities up to 25 with numerals. <EM>(Practice counting objects and then use number flash cards to select the number that shows how many you have.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<P>- Orders numbers 0 to 25. <EM>(Use flashcards to put numbers in order.)</EM></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff>- Identifies "equal to", "more than", and "less than" using 10 or fewer objects.</FONT></P></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Collects and counts data using a simple graph.</DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Name, identifies and describes characteristics or attributes of solid figures. (sphere, cube, cone and cylinder) <EM>(Look for solid figures around town and around your house. Point them out and ask your child to name them. Discuss what shapes make-up the sides. Discuss how many sides and corners (vertices).)</EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Uses words to describe time (e.g. day, night, morning, afternoon, yesterday, today and tomorrow). <EM>(Make a point of using these in conversation with your child and having him/her use them.)</EM> </DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Recognizes the calendar as a way to measure time.</DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff">- Applies the language of ordinal numbers from first to tenth.</DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Count by ones to 50. (<EM>Count in the car on the way to school or dinner.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Count by tens to 50. <EM>(Same as above.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000><EM>-</EM>Count by twos to 20.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Writes numbers to 25, without a model. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Tells time to the hour. <EM>(Let them use an old clock or watch to practice.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Names and identifies coins and their values. <EM>(Give them a small handful of various pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Tell them they can keep the ones that they can identify by name and value for their piggy banks.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Uses words to describe temperature (e.g. hot, cold, warm and cool) <EM>(Warm and cool are the hardest for them. Think fall=cool, spring=warm)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000><EM>- </EM>Recognizes thermometer as a way to measure temperature.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#008000>- Compares length, weight, temperature and capacity of two objects. <EM>(Take out two objects such as pencil/crayon, small picture frame/large picture frame, and small bag/large bag. Ask your child the appropriate corresponding questions: Which is longer/shorter? Which is heavier/lighter? Which holds more/less? Don't forget to compare things that are hotter and colder.)</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000>- Matches quantities zero-ten with written number words.<EM> <FONT color=#ff0000>(Practice counting objects and then use number word flash cards to select the number word that shows how many you have.)</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000>- Orders number words zero-ten. </FONT><EM><FONT color=#ff0000>(Use flashcards to put number words in order.)</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000>- Adds single digit numbers with sum between 0-10.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000>- Subtracts using numbers 10 or less.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="COLOR: #0000ff"><FONT color=#ff0000>-</FONT><FONT color=#ff0000>- Solves simple story problems involving numbers 0-10.</FONT></DIV>

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