Kindergarten Homework
Kindergarten students will receive monthly homework calendars. These calendars (along with the corresponding work packet) will come home at the beginning of each month in their binder. Each day (Monday-Thursday) will have one or two assignments for the students to complete. Some assignments are written while others are activities for your child to do orally or with materials at home. All written assignments have a page in the packet for your child to complete the work. Please help your child complete the work each night and return the homework packet at the end of the month in their binders. New homework packets will not be sent home until the beginning of each new month.
Thank you for your help! It’s going to be a great year!
Kindergarten students will receive monthly homework calendars. These calendars (along with the corresponding work packet) will come home at the beginning of each month in their binder. Each day (Monday-Thursday) will have one or two assignments for the students to complete. Some assignments are written while others are activities for your child to do orally or with materials at home. All written assignments have a page in the packet for your child to complete the work. Please help your child complete the work each night and return the homework packet at the end of the month in their binders. New homework packets will not be sent home until the beginning of each new month.
Thank you for your help! It’s going to be a great year!
Baggy Book Information
Your child will be bringing home a book inside a pocket in their binder to read each night during the week. Please take this opportunity to sit down with your child and read with him/her. Reading to or with your child is essential for his/her growth as a beginning reader. It is important to follow the daily process that we have suggested. Research consistently shows that repeated weekly readings, of the same book, at the kindergarten level builds fluency and important concepts of print that are vital to reading success. Following this gradual release of responsibility model is a proven and researched way of helping your child become an independent reader. You, as the parent, begin by modeling the reading first as your child watches and listens. Then you guide your child through the process, by pointing to the words and saying them together. Finally your child is ready to read the book on their own. As your child becomes more adept at this process, we will increase the speed of this process by sending home two books a week and then three books a week. Please also sign the sheet that will come home with the book. The book, bag, and signed sheet should be returned to school each Monday. Students will not be able to bring home new books until all books are returned. We are very excited to work with you as we foster your child’s love for reading. Thank you for support!
Weekly Nightly Reading Schedule
Monday
Parent reads the book while child follows along with the parent. This would be a good time to have your child place his/her finger on yours so you can point at the words together.
Tuesday
Parent again reads the story and models pointing at the words. The child also points and child may choose to read some words with the parent.
Wednesday
Parent and child read the story together. The child will point to each word as they read.
Thursday
Child reads and points to each word independently.
Reading Tips To Assist Beginning Readers
Your child will be bringing home a book inside a pocket in their binder to read each night during the week. Please take this opportunity to sit down with your child and read with him/her. Reading to or with your child is essential for his/her growth as a beginning reader. It is important to follow the daily process that we have suggested. Research consistently shows that repeated weekly readings, of the same book, at the kindergarten level builds fluency and important concepts of print that are vital to reading success. Following this gradual release of responsibility model is a proven and researched way of helping your child become an independent reader. You, as the parent, begin by modeling the reading first as your child watches and listens. Then you guide your child through the process, by pointing to the words and saying them together. Finally your child is ready to read the book on their own. As your child becomes more adept at this process, we will increase the speed of this process by sending home two books a week and then three books a week. Please also sign the sheet that will come home with the book. The book, bag, and signed sheet should be returned to school each Monday. Students will not be able to bring home new books until all books are returned. We are very excited to work with you as we foster your child’s love for reading. Thank you for support!
Weekly Nightly Reading Schedule
Monday
Parent reads the book while child follows along with the parent. This would be a good time to have your child place his/her finger on yours so you can point at the words together.
Tuesday
Parent again reads the story and models pointing at the words. The child also points and child may choose to read some words with the parent.
Wednesday
Parent and child read the story together. The child will point to each word as they read.
Thursday
Child reads and points to each word independently.
Reading Tips To Assist Beginning Readers
- Look at the cover of the book and have your child predict what this story might be about.
- Have your child identify where the title and the author are located.
- Look through each page and have your child just tell you what they see in the pictures. (No reading, yet!)
- Together you could count the number of words in a sentence. (builds concepts of words and sentences)
- Point out that sentences begin with a capital letter and have an ending mark.
- If you notice a pattern in the book you are reading, see if your child notices it as well.
- After reading, have your child retell the events of the story.
- Have your child identify words they know. You can also have them count those words and see how often they appear in the story.
- Choose a picture on a page and have your child find the word that matches the picture.