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Dear Kindergarten Parents,
Below you’ll find assignment sheets outlining what your child can work on at home. I hope that this work does not put an extra burden on you at this unprecedented and stressful time. Please let me know if it does and we will work something out.
The good news is that the Summer Bridges workbook is perfect for this point in our school year. It allows students to review and practice what we've already covered in class, and the level seems custom designed for where we are. Please feel free to skip the more difficult pages, at your discretion.
The less-good news is that Kindergartners cannot always work independently. They can't read the directions or understand them. So adult supervision is required.
I have assigned an average of four workbook pages a day. But if your child is enjoying the activities and wants to do more pages, please let him/her do it. There are 140 pages in the workbook, so a student who does 40 pages now will have 100 optional pages to do over the summer and vice versa.
My point is that you can decide how much or how little to do in the workbook; it’s all good! I know your family situations differ, and of course the students differ. Please follow your child's lead, keep it fun, and do what works for YOUR family.
Summer Bridge Activities (Workbook)
If your child has already completed pages 71 – 90, please continue going until the end of the workbook. The following 16 pages are most closely aligned with the work we have done in class:
· Pages 99, 102, 104, 106-113, 116-117, 120, 135-136.
· Pages not listed above are optional.
· If your child comes to a new concept, either provide extra support at that time OR come back to those pages later.
Phonics
· In class we’ll continue to review the 5 short vowel sounds and meet the vowel sounds of _y.
· Students will also have an introduction to the long vowel sounds, with a special focus on the role of Magic E.
· The sounds for ow, ou, aw, au will be introduced, and worksheets will come home via email attachments.
· Students will have lessons on words ending in _ed.
Kid Writing
· Using our Kid Writing process involving phonetic spelling, students will write a fictional story about two characters who have adventures in Imagica. Each story must have two settings, and the characters must have a problem that gets solved. Specific details about the happy ending must be included. The stories will be lightly edited before I type them up. Students will illustrate the stories at home before they are published on our website.
Reading
· We will read the following stories on VOOKS: The Day Punctuation Came to Town, Giraffes Can’t Dance, Little Raindrop, Stick and Stone, and My Garden.
· Students will do a shared reading of Are You My Mother? Each student will be responsible for reading 10-14 pages. New sight words will be introduced.
· The new sight words are not included in the 70 Everywhere Words for the Year and are for enrichment purposes.
· Students will read, illustrate, and discuss the following poems: Waiting, Happy Birthday, Summer’s Here, Now That I Can Read. Students should illustrate each poem to share with the class, and then glue it on cardstock and put it in the Big Book of Poems.
· In class we’ll review and practice the critical sight words and phonetic elements in our books and poems. Each student will pick a favorite poem to record and publish on our website.
Math
· In class we’ll work on money skills. Students should be able to recognize and identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Concepts of value will be introduced but not graded.
· You may help your child sign on to happynumbers.com, class 440 821. Please email me if you need your child’s password again. Your child can work for 15 minutes a day, for 3-5 days a week.
Last Scholastic Homework (in manila envelope #2)
· Read A Frog Grows Up and do the work on the At-Home Homework Sheet #2.
· Continue working on the 70 Everywhere Words for the Year.
· Students may work on new sight words from Are You My Mother?
Summer Bridge Activities (Workbook)
· Complete pages 71 – 90.
These pages have some math concepts that we did not yet cover in class, including fact families, adding and subtracting to 20, and counting by 2’s. New phonics skills include the sounds for sh, th, and ch, and the role of Magic E in making long vowels say their own names.
I will be covering these new concepts in my on-line classes over the next few weeks. If your child comes to a new concept, either provide extra support at that time OR come back to those pages later.
Phonics
· In class we’ll continue to review the 5 short vowel sounds.
· The sounds for ch, sh, th will be introduced, and worksheets will come home via email attachments.
Reading
· We will read the following stories on VOOKS: They All Saw a Cat, You Are (Not) Small, and Bear Has a Story to Tell. We’ll also read the following poems: Baby Bird, Spring Duckling, Waiting, The Rabbit Skip, and In May. Students should illustrate each poem to share with the class, and then glue it on card stock and put it in the Big Book of Poems.
· In class we’ll review and practice the appropriate sight words and phonetic elements before and after reading the story, using the worksheets provided.
Math
· In class we’ll work on the concept of Fact Families and doubles facts to 12.
· You may help your child sign on to happynumbers.com, class 440 821. Please email me if you need your child’s password again. Your child can work for 15 minutes a day, for 3-5 days a week.
Homework for April 20 – May 8 (in manila envelopes #1 and #2)
· Read My Wild Weather Day, Brand New Bear, and A Sticky Invention and do the work on the At-Home Homework Sheet.
· Continue working on the 70 Everywhere Words for the Year.
Summer Bridge Activities (Workbook)
· Complete pages 51 – 70.
The bottom half of pages 51, 53, 59, 61, and 63 are optional. This workbook is meant to be a review of material covered in class. If your child has difficulty with a certain page, just move on.
Sound Cards / Phonics
Print out the cover pages for the two new cards. (See attachments to my email.) Cardstock, index cards and glue have been sent home. Students should check the cards that already came home and add the special spellings:
· Racing Car: R, r, er, ir, ur, wr
· Zooming Plane: Z, z
· Expanding Tire: X, x
· We will add words to Short I and Short E during class.
· NEW CARDS: Complete Jingling Bell and Yes Please. Draw a good picture for the covers and add the letters inside.
· Keep the cards in your Sound Card bag. If you keep them in order (1-25), you will be able to find them when we go over them in class.
Math Continue working on our Make Your Own Math Book Project. We’ll do Names for 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 this week. You can use the pages in your manila envelope or the ones I send as attachments.
Homework for March 30 – April 3 (in manila envelope)
· Read Zebra Science and do the work on the At-Home Homework Sheet.
· Practice the 70 Everywhere Words for the Year.
The instructions below that are in bold and with a bullet are for students. Please put all completed papers back in the manila envelopes so that the work can come back to school. I will be checking my email multiple times a day in case you have any questions or concerns.
Summer Bridge Activities (Workbook)
Complete pages 5-10, 12-24. Page 11 is optional.
Complete pages 26-36, 38-40, 42, 45-47, 50. Pages 25, 37, 41, 43, 44, 48, 49 are optional.
We have done more addition in class than subtraction, so students will need more support with subtraction. Students have only done horizontal adding and subtracting sentences, so they will be confused by the vertical problems in the workbook. They need to know that the line under the 2 numbers is the same as the equal sign and the + or - goes on the left side.
Sound Cards (All materials are in the manila envelope, except scissors and glue)
Do I i Igloo and E e Eskimo. You need to do the cover, with a good picture and add the inside insert. We can find more Short I and Short E words when we get back to school. Optional: Write down short I and E words that you see when you’re reading.
Do Racing Car, Zooming Plane, and Expanding Tire. Only write the regular spellings (R r, Z z, X x). We’ll add the special spellings at school.
Students will be making a total of five new Sound Cards at home. You'll need to fold the card stock and index cards. The card stock for the vowels needs to be folded the tall way. The card stock for the other letters needs to be folded like a greeting card.
Your child can look at my picture to get an idea before drawing his/her own picture on the page with the empty space. (It's OK if my picture gets used instead.)
Homework: Two Scholastic magazines, Rainbow Reading books, two Home Poems, 70 Everywhere Words for the Year (See Homework Sheet for details)
Do the homework that was due on March 19 (Caring for Baby, Rainbow Reading, Friends Like That)
Do the At-Home Homework in the 2nd manila envelope (Rocket Man, 70 Everywhere Words, Manners, extra Rainbow Reading).
Remember, you have until the end of May to learn all 70 sight words.
Handwriting (Optional)
If your child does this optional work, only have him/her do one line at a time (A-I, J-R, etc.) to avoid hand fatigue. Another optional activity is writing numbers from 1-20 or beyond.
During handwriting, remind your child to start the letters and numbers at the top. Almost all the upper and lowercase letters start at the top, and it makes a difference in terms of how they look. The exception is lowercase e which starts in the middle.
In class we sing a song to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”: Where do we start our letters? AT THE TOP (Repeat…) If you wanna start a letter, then you’d better, better, better, Remember to start it at the top.