1. September 16, 2014

2. Welcome and Thanks! We’ve had a great start!

3. Math Manipulatives – learn by doing Sorting and patterns Counting: 1’s, 10’s, from a number other than 1 Numbers: Recognize, write, match numbers to sets Likenesses and Differences Puzzles Tens frames More/Less/Equal Math vocabulary

4. Literacy – Letters and Sounds Letterland Character names Fast Track What’s next? Letters and sounds- look for them everywhere!

5. Literacy - Reading Reading at Home “Children become readers on the laps of their parents.” Read every night! Pointing while you read Reading at School Differentiated Instruction Sight Words –Fry Words More than a memory game

6. Reading 3 D Testing Letter Naming Fluency – LNF Visual Recognition and Recall of letters First Sound Fluency – FSF Auditory Recognition and Recall of beginning sounds Phoneme Segmentation Fluency – PSF Auditory – separating sounds in words Nonsense Word Fluency – NWF Applying phonics knowledge to read a nonsense word Text Reading and Comprehension – TRC Decoding, Retelling, Oral/Written Comprehension

7. Literacy - Writing Fine motor Pencil grip Encourage non-threatening writing/drawing skills Copying skills- writing words on their own Beginning sentence writing Punctuation, spacing, writing familiar words, sounding out words – lots of developmental skills!

8. Science and Social Studies Taught through monthly themes and in our reading, writing, math lessons and center activities.

9. How to help my child at home Learning Box – Glue, scissors, crayons, tape, pencils… Picture Walk Questions to ask while reading Characters, setting, retelling (first, next and last) Counting – Count everything Environmental Text Point out letters, numbers and words Old fashioned vs. New Technology Talk to your child about school

10. A few more important things about kindergarten… “What was I thinking?” Talk about school with your child Money in an envelope and in pencil pouch / online payments Letterland dress-up day – October 31 st Lunch routines/ extras/ ice cream Class t-shirts on field trip days and graduation

11. Questions??