Sight Word Games

1.  Treasure Hunt: Tape up words around the house and have kids "hunt" them. Students can read the words, write them down, and make sentences.

2. Go Fish: Requires two sets of flash cards. Play exactly like you would play normal Go Fish, just with the Sight Words. For Example: Do you have the word "like", no, Go Fish. Do you have the word "my", yes, give the card to that player. The player with the most matches at the end of the game wins. 

3. Concentration or Matching: Requires two sets of flash cards. Use 5 -10 pairs of words and face them upside down. Students flip a word over, reads it, and tries to find the matching word. If they turn over the wrong word, they read that word but flip both words back over to try and find the matching card. For example: Match the word "me" with "me."

4. Sentence Scramble: Choose sight words to use in a sentence. Write them down and cut the individual words out. Scramble them up and have your child put the words in order. Remember to use a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and a period at the end. Example: I see a dog. He is brown. I want to play with him. 

5. Build a Sight Word: Write a sight word on any kind of paper. Use manipulatives such as: play-doh, finger paint, beans, small candies, cereal, paper scraps, small toys, etc. to build the word. Use what you have at home and use what is going to engage your child the most. 

6. Hop Scotch or Tic-Tac-Toe: Write sight words in a Hop Scotch game outside. Each time your child hops into a new square, they read the sight word. For Tic-Tac-Toe, each player chooses one sight word to use in place of an X or an O. 

Trimester 1 Goals

English Language Arts

• • Identify all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet

  • Produce all 26 letter sounds (short vowels and consonants) 

  • Read 12/40 Sight Words

  • Write first name correctly.

Math

• Count by 1's to 100 (use your 100's chart to practice)

• Write numbers 0-20.

• Represent a number using objects (counters, cubes, and tallies) for numbers 0-20 

• Compare numbers 1-20 to identify which numbers are greater than, less than, or equal. 

Trimester 2 Goals

English Language Arts 

• Mastery of all uppercase and lowercase letters recognition. 

• Mastery of all letter sounds (long vowels included).

• Blend, segment, and decode simple CVC words such as: cat, bed, tip, hot, sun. 

• Write 1 complete sentence demonstrating proper sentence mechanics (capital letter at the beginning, finger spaces between words, period at the end, letters formed correctly, and phonetic spelling).  

• Read 26/40 sight words. 

Math:

• Count by 1's to 100 (use your 100's chart to practice)

• Write numbers 1-20. 

• Fluently add and subtract numbers within 5.

(1+2=3 or 5-4=1). 

Trimester 3 Goals

English Language Arts

• Read grade level text and decode CVC words fluently. 

• Master all 40 Kindergarten Sight Words. 

•  Write 2-3 complete sentences with proper sentence mechanics (capital letter at the beginning, finger spaces between words, period at the end, letters formed correctly, and phonetic spelling).  

Math

• Fluently add and subtract within 10. 

•  Compose and decompose numbers 11-19 using tens and ones. 

• Name/compare attributes of plane (2D) and solid (3D) shapes.

•  Continue to practice writing numbers to 20 and counting to 100.