Please practice sight words nightly!This is crucial in helping them to become little readers.
Welcome to Mrs. Mains Rootin Tootin Cowboys website. This a great way to learn more about what your child is learning in class each day. My goal is to develop a positive relationship with you and your child and to provide a fun and creative learning environment. Each week I will update the skills that your child will be learning in class. Please practice the skills with your child and review the work that they bring home from school. Please be sure to read with your child each night and encourage your child to read the words that they know so they can become fluent readers. If you need anything please contact me at school or by email at [email protected].
Classroom Expectations
The first few weeks of school we will be working on developing our classroom learning environment. We will be practicing social distancing and hand washing throuhgout our day! We will be focusing on classroom rules and expectations so that all of the students are able to have a terrific day of learning. I will let parents know daily how their child is doing and how well they are working in class with myself and their classmates Please be sure to check your child's planner each day for classroom inormation and your child's accomplishments each day!
Language Arts
We will begin the year by learning letters and sounds. Students will learn vocabulary words for each of the letters we learn in class. We will learn both upper and lowercase letters and how to correctly form each of the letters. We will work on identifying words that begin with each letter and learning new vocabulary words for each of the letters. Students will learn how to identify the letters, produce the sounds of each letter, and begin to blend CVC (3 letter words). This is the beginning stage of reading. As the children begin to learn the letters and sounds they will learn that when the letters are put together they make words. Each week we will be learning new sight words so that your child can become a more fluent reader. Please practice sight words with your child each night at home as part of their homework. My goal is to begin formal reading groups by the third week of school. This will give your child the opportunity to read with me each day and develop their sight word vocabulary. It will always be my goal to enrich your child, so as they learn new words I will continue to send additional words home for them to practice. The more familiar they become with learning their sight words the sooner they will be reading AR books at home to you! Our class goal will be to become the best readers we can be and have a great time while doing it!
We have also started reading our little Read Well readers and the kids are doing a great job reading the stories and learning new sight words.
Rhyming: (cat/hat, pig/wig, dog/fog.....) Students will be able to say a words that rhymes with a word that the teacher says.
Letters (Capital and Lowercase)
Letter Sounds (Being able to write the letter that matches the sound that is given by the teacher,
Writing a complete sentence with a capital letter and a period.
Quarter 1 thru 3 sight words
Middle Sounds in Words Vowels (a e i o u)
Blending Words
Ending Sounds
Middle Sounds
Sequencing the words in a story
Reading sight word sentences.
Reading short passages with sight words and CVC (3 letter words)
Syllables: Students will clap how many syllables they hear in words. (pig = one syllable, popcorn = two syllables, elephant = 3 syllables)
Phonogram Sounds: ( letter sounds A-Z)
Letter Formation: Letters A-Z capital and lowercase letters
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Sight Words: New words will be sent home each week.
Reading
Each week we will be learning about and reading new books from our reading series.
Sight words: red a my I see I'm is orange the as has yellow little green me like blue he to a purple did had have brown we an and black can ran at gray for of with she pink here look you white said his are in to it that went find be if this they all big help get Jump need run on do one two three four five sees down how now good our out
Math
During Quarter 3 we will be focusing on numbers 0-30.We will be working on these skills daily to ensure mastery and to provide daily practice. Please practice counting with your child to 50 and recognizing the numbers 0-30.We will be working on writing the numbers 0-30 and we will practice counting to 30.
(counting, making sets, recognizing numbers, and writing the numbers) This quarter we will be focusing on addition, subtraction, numbers 20 and beyond, counting on to a given number, counting by 15's to 100.
Science/Social Studies
Day and Night
Globes and Maps
Animal Life Cycles
I look forward to an exciting year with you and your child.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Mains