Academic Resources

You can click on all underlined links below

Letterland:

• Letterland Letters: This resource will help you to meet all of the Letterland characters your child will learn within the first few weeks of school. It includes their song, their handwriting song (how to write their letter the correct way) and some suggested activities!

• Correct Letter Sounds: This link will bring you to a Letterland resource that shows you how to correctly pronounce each letter sound. Click on the blue letter (i.e.: /a/) and it will play the sound.

• Parent Resources: Click here for an all encompassing Letterland resource for parents. It includes an introduction to Letterland, character videos and other useful resources. Use it to learn more about the program, as well as reinforce your child's learning at home.

• Correct letter sounds and action tricks: Each Letterlander has their own distinct sound and a movement to go along that helps students remember the letter and sound. This link will bring you to a video so that you can learn the correct letter sound and the trick that goes along with each letter so you can both understand what your student shares with you and reinforce learning.

• Heggerty Phonemic Awareness for parents: Heggerty is a phonemic awareness program that we use daily during our Letterland block. They include quick word games where students are solely listening to words and sounds. They may add together parts of compound words, substitute sounds in words or identify the first and last sounds in words. This resource breaks down each week with what activities we do during this time. Feel free to try them at home-- they take only 5-10 minutes!

Math:

• WCPSS Math Site: This is a Wake County provided resource that breaks down our math curriculum into its units. It includes a unit overview, vocabulary we will use and additional resources for families. This is a great site to learn about what type of math we do!

• Kindergarten Math Tips: Check out this blog post with various tips for helping your student with math at home from practicing shape recognition to learning games that incorporate math language such as "more and less." These are all quick and easy games or activities to incorporate at home throughout your day!

• Math for Parents: Kindergarten looks a lot different now than it did years ago. This article provides you with a more full understanding of the type of math we will be conducting throughout the year. For example, by the end of Kinder your child should be able to count to 100 by tens and ones and know how to break apart a teen number into tens and some ones. Check it out to learn more.

• DJ Count to 100 Song: This is one of many math songs we will listen and practice with. Feel free to play it with your child at home to practice counting by ones. If you search for other counting to 100 songs, many good options pop up!

• Ten Dog Partners of 10 Song: Another math song to practice! Partners of 10 is a skill we towards the end of kindergarten. This is a kid-friendly way of saying we are breaking 10 into 2 smaller numbers. For example, 1 and 9 are partners of 10 (1+9=10); 5 and 5 are partners of 10 (5+5=10). Kindergarteners are not required to use addition symbols or equal signs at this time.