Curriculum

Please read to your child often, even if your child is reading or beginning to read.  They need to hear you read, as well as hear you read as well as read to you.  The more we read the better reader we become.

Kindergarten

We will work with the same letters and sight words the children have worked with in their ELA class.  Please review the letter names/sounds and sight word as often as possible with your child.  We are working on blending 3 letter short vowel words and identifying the words.  We are also working on using our sight words to make sentences (drawing pictures to fill in words we do not know).

Letters

a, t, b, h, m

r, n, i, l, c, f

d, g, j, e, o, s

p, x, k, v, w, y

q, u, z

Sight Words

the   I   see   can   

and   like   me   we   

is   have   look   to

go   you   for   my

play   do   are   with, he

First Grade

We will continue to practice short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) and cvc words (consonant, vowel, consonant) words.  We are using short vowel patterns to help us read other words with the same pattern (ten/men, hug/mug). We are working on identifying "l"  clusters in words (blends).  We are writing dictated sentences and correct them together to help us understand our mistakes.  We are beginning to work with long vowel sounds and the spellings we use for each long vowel.  We are working on the long a using the following spellings for writing this vowel, a, a_e, ai_ & _ay. The _ in each spelling is for a consonant.  (cake, train, day)

Sight Words

the   up   and   like   on   got 

little   a   is   big  has   to  

my   eat   play   go   make   loves

me   he   his   put   it   in  

too   can   you   said   same   out

we   come   am   did   with

Second Grade

We will continue to review short and long vowel patterns using these patterns to help us read other words.  We are working with  blends( l. r, & s) and digraphs ( ch, sh, th, wh,& ph) identifying the blends and digraphs in words we are reading.  Digraphs are two consonants that come together and make a new sound.  We are writing sentences and correcting the sentences together to help us understand our mistakes.

High Frequency Words

HFW

after   into   just   stop   who

by   playing   who   same   work 

three   I'll   when   so   on   

or   as   give   mother   don't

two   man   may   under   does   fly

something   working   more   making   stay

other   girl   each   take   father   lets

help   much   about   jumped   fun   inside

goes   having   every   house   outside   doing

these   didn't   must   home   say