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Nightly Learning
Nightly Learning
Please set up a nightly 'homework' routine with your child. It should be no longer that 15-20 minutes and could include reading the small books that your child is bringing home in the mail bag, reviewing high frequency words (listed below) and completing some of the review activities listed below. There are many options for variety and to help keep it fun! Your child will have a R.E.D. (Read Every Day) folder to record their reading activities. There will also be important weekly phonological activities included in this folder. Folders will be collected every Monday morning.
📚 Literacy
📚 Literacy
High-Frequency Words
High-Frequency Words
You may find it helpful to record these words on dollar store recipe cards or square note pad paper to review often as part of your nightly reading routine.
You may find it helpful to record these words on dollar store recipe cards or square note pad paper to review often as part of your nightly reading routine.
High-frequency words are words that students will encounter often when reading and writing. These words often, but not always, have irregular or uncommon spelling patterns making some of the sounds. Over the next few weeks, we will be reviewing some of the most common words that students probably worked on in Kindergarten.
Flash Words - Words that have regular spelling patterns and can be sounded out, but are so common that it is valuable for students to know them on sight.
Heart Words = Words that have irregular or uncommon parts that students need to remember. Often, some parts of these words are regular and students just have to remember the "tricky part."
Temporary Heart Words - Words where the tricky parts are only tricky because students have not yet learned or mastered those phonics patterns.
Learn more about heart words here: https://www.reallygreatreading.com/heart-word-magic
Enjoy these videos to review our high frequency words. Click on the underlined blue words for related Boom! card activities.
a - Temporary Heart Word
Temporary tricky part = this word is often pronounced "uh", which can be made by any vowel (a in this word)
at - Flash Word
Both a and t are saying their expected sounds, so this word can be sounded out
look - Temporary Heart Word Temporary tricky part = "oo" says the /oo/ sound like in book.
We have been reading these high frequency word poems in class. Read them at home too. Be sure to have your child point to each word as it is being read. This is called tracking and it helps your child focus on the words.
We have been reading these high frequency word poems in class. Read them at home too. Be sure to have your child point to each word as it is being read. This is called tracking and it helps your child focus on the words.
Phonics and Word Work
Phonics and Word Work
We have begun to review consonant letters and sounds. We will try to review four letters over two days. The activities below can help students learn the letters as well as recognize their sounds in words.
Monday - Review of Last Week
Tuesday/Wednesday
Thursday/Friday
🔢 Math
🔢 Math
We have been rote counting and playing counting games. Please practice your oral counting skills at home. Listen closely to ensure your child is pronouncing the teen numbers correctly. (i.e., fifteen is often referred to as fifty by mistake). We have been using 5 frames to make comparisons using greater than and less than symbols (< >).
You can practice these comparison skills at home with a deck of cards. To play at home, use a deck of cards, flip 2 at a time and you can use post its to draw a greater than > symbol, less Than < symbol, and an equals = (same as ) symbol. The correct symbol can go between the 2 cards. Then start again by flipping 2 new cards.
In class, we used Popsicle sticks to make the symbols. You could do the same or even use toothpicks. See the example picture below.
For example, 3 is less than 5 because there are 2 empty boxes. We write it as 3 < 5.
We have been subitizing (trying to identify the correct number quickly) and describing how we saw the arrangement of dots.
We are working on solving simple problems to discover all the ways to make the number 5.
🌎 Social Studies
🌎 Social Studies
We have been learning about the 'Golden Rule' or showing respect. We have learned that we are following the golden rule or showing respect if we treat others the way we want to be treated.
One way to show respect is to be a good listener and we are examining what good listening involves. We know that we need to listen with our whole bodies.
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