Kindergarten Homework
Teacher: Mrs. Jennifer Christiansen
REMEMBER PARENT ORIENTATION NIGHT IS SEPTEMBER 12, 2007!!!!!!!
At the beginning of the year the kindergarten students will be learning to recognize the capital and small letters of the alphabet. At home, you can make flash cards for the letters of the alphabet and work on them with your child. Also, we will begin to learn the numbers 1-10. You can also make flashcards for the numbers 1-10 and work on them with your child.
At any time of the year there are many ways to reinforce kindergarten
skills.
Here are some ideas:
Go on a “hunt” through newspaper ads, magazines, or books. Look for a
particular color of your choice, a particular letter, or a particular
number. Find as many as you can. If possible, cut out the colors/ letters/
numbers that you find and glue them to a piece of paper to make a collage.
Read a book. Look for the
likenesses and differences in people, animals, or objects throughout the book.
Go to the library and check out several books about a particular topic of
interest to your child (for example, snakes).
Read them and discuss what your child learned from each book. Ask them which book was their favorite and
why.
Make and use flashcards for all of the letters of the alphabet (capital and
small).
Make and use flashcards for numbers 1-20.
Read a book to your child. After
reading the story, ask your child to retell the story in their own words. Talk about their favorite part of the
story. Follow up by asking your child
to draw a picture of a part of the story.
Encourage your child to tell a sentence about their picture. Write the sentence at the bottom of the page
for them with a highlighter or light colored marker. Ask your child to trace over the letters in the sentence your
wrote for them.
Refer to the stapled page of D’Nealian letter formation in your child’s
take home folder. Help your child to
practice writing the letters of the alphabet and the numbers that we have
already covered by writing them 10 times each (ask your child to point to the
letters we have already covered).
Please make sure they are forming the letters and numbers correctly.
Use small objects to make up simple adding problems. For example, 2 pretzels plus 2 pretzels
makes 4 pretzels.
Draw some wavy and zigzag lines on a piece of scrap paper. Ask your child to cut carefully on the
lines.
Read a simple book to your child.
Ask them to identify any words they recognize (a, the, my, that).
Rhyme words with your child. For
example, bat, fat, mat, sat, pat, hat, cat, rat. List them on paper and point out how they have the same ending
letters and sounds.
The
above ideas can be used throughout the school year!
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