Your child will be writing each letter (upper and lower case) as I introduce them during phonics
lessons. Every letter is formed by starting at the top and going down. I will focus on forming the
letters correctly, and also on helping your child hold the pencil the correct way. They are writing their
first and last name, sight words, family words, and short sentences on lined paper. We are also
journaling focussing on sentence structure, capitals, and punctuation. We are writing numbers 0-100.
We and learning simple addition with sums to ten. This includes addition vocabulary such as add, plus,
equals, sum, and addition number sentence. We are memorizing doubles (1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5).
We are learning simple subtraction with differences to ten. This includes subtraction vocabulary such
as subtract, left, minus, difference, subtraction number sentence. Understanding the connection of the
numbers 1-100 is so important to number sense, and we will work with the 100 board for several
weeks. They need to name and write numbers out of order, name numbers before and after, numbers
between, and recognize and write numbers by 2's, 5's, and 10's.
***INDEX CARDS used as flash cards are a great way to review recognition of letters, numbers, sight
words, and words we are sounding out.
**Listed below are skills that have been introduced
-numbers 0-100
-letters Mm Tt Hh Ff Nn Aa Pp Zz Bb Ii Ss Dd Uu Vv Ll Ww Oo Rr Gg Ee Jj Cc Kk Yy Xx Qq
***sight words (and, the, are, see, I, like, to, do, you, my, made, me, is, there, on, a, they,
when, go, stop, have, look, what, of, with, said, this, that, yes, no)
***color words red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, black, brown
***number words one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve
***words we are sounding out (at, mat, fat, hat, pat, bat, sat) (am, ham, bam, Pam, Sam, ram, jam)
pan, tan, ran, Jan) (map, tap, pap, nap, zap, sap, rap) (bit, hit, fit, pit, sit, lit) (tin, fin, win, pin, bin) (tip,
dip, zip, hip, lip) (had, pad, mad, sad, bad, dad, lad) (Tim, Jim, dim, him, rim) (did, bid, rid, lid, Sid)
(fun, bun, sun, run) (but, hut, nut) (bum, hum, mum) (wig, pig, dig, jig, rig) (win, tin, pin, bin) (hot, not,
got, lot, pot, rot, jot) (mop, pop, hop, lop) (get, wet, let, met, net, jet) (red, bed, Ted, Jed) (yes, yet, yam)
(ox, fox, box) (fix, mix) (ax, fax, wax, Max) (quit, quiz, quill,)
***as new letters are introduced we will add new words to sound out*
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