Fundations

Fundations January 2024

Dear Families,

Starting next week, we will begin the second half of our Fundations curriculum. Students have now been exposed to upper case letters, lower case letters and their sounds. We will continue to practice and reinforce these skills. Moving forward, the curriculum focuses on writing lowercase letters.

We focus on lowercase letter writing because this is the majority of what students will be writing as well as what they are most likely to see in printed materials. We will be working individually with students on the uppercase initial in their first and last name.

Every week I will send home a worksheet with the letter or letters of the week on it. Please “rainbow write” with your child at home each week to practice and reinforce that letter. I will send home an example of rainbow writing as well. It is when a student picks 3-4 different colors and traces over the letter with each color. They can trace over the printed example and then try to write it themselves. I will also be sending home the appropriate letter formation so that you can reinforce this at home. Students are learning the different line types (“sky line”, “plane line”, “grass line” and “worm line”). Please use this language at home when practicing.

 Thanks for all your continued hard work and support!