Homework / Focus of Studies
As this year unfolds we will focus on your student learning, using and applying the following concepts:
1. Recognizing all upper case and lower case letters of the alphabet in random order
2. Orally producing all the letter sounds when given the letter to look at
3. Produce all the sounds verbally heard in a word. The student will be asked, “Tell me all the sounds you hear in the word sun,” and the student should say the sounds s – u – n (not name the letters but say the sounds)
4. Blend letters together to make a word, for example if given the letters wuj (though this is not a word) the student should be able to say the sounds w-u-j, then blend them together to form the word. ( For practice, a student can use any written text and just move their finger from the left to the right and say as many of the sounds as they can. ) They can use a book, newspaper, ad, junk mail, just anything with letters together where they can point and say the sounds.
5. Read sight word books with or without repeatable patterns, for example, My fish can swim. My fish can eat. My fish can play. Etc.
6. In math the student will need to be able to recognize and write the numbers 0-120 in the first semester.
7. Count and write to 120 by 1’s, 2's 5’s and 10’s for the year
8. Add and subtract within 20, drawing models to show work.
9. Know sums of 10 automatically (when given 8 + 2 =10, 1 + 4 = 5, 4 + 6 = 10 )
10. Know their shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, hexagon, cube, sphere, cylinder, cone) and discuss the attributes including how many sides, vertices, if they are 2 or 3 dimensional and lines of symmetry.
11. Understand the ideas of halves, 1/2, quarters or fourths, 1/4.
12. In Writing the students will need to be able to write all of their alphabet in both upper and lower case letters.
13. Blend and write words phonetically. This means that they should be able to write: I like petsu (I like pizza) while adding correctly written sight words.
14. Write complete sentences, including an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence, spacing between words, appropriately formed letters, correctly spelled sight words, punctuation, using a noun, verb and adjectives.
15. Respond in simple sentences and picture to a prompt after listening to a story.