S EPTEMBER

Monday 2 Labor Day No School Tuesday 3 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look for these sight words in a book: a, the, and, to, can. Wednesday 4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look for circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles in your house. 11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing numbers 1-10. Thursday 5 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Count your toys and write the number to show how many. Friday 6 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting orally to 20.

9 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look for these sight words in a book: it, I, and, go, we.

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Review 1st Nine weeks sight words using flash cards.

12 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Help with the dishes. Sort the plates, cups, and utensils into groups. 19 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw something that starts with each of these letters: t, r, c, g, and l. 26 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look for these sight words in a book: a, the, and, to, can

13 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing your name. Start with a capital and the rest lowercase. 20 Read with your child for 15 minutes. While reading, point to the beginning and end of each sentence.

16 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Think of an animal that starts with the letter H and another that starts with O. 23 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Find 5 things that are the color red and practice writing the color words. 30 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the alphabet in lowercase letters. *Start each letter at the top.

17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the uppercase letters. Start writing each letter at the top. 24 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting cereal into groups of 0-10.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Cut out sight words from magazine. Practice reading them.

25 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting orally to 50.

27 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw something that starts with each of these letters: b, m, f, s, and p.

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

*While your child is writing, it is important that they write top to bottom.

For Example to write the letter T go down, then cross at the top.

First Nine Weeks Sight Words: I, can, see, like, a, the, we, to, and, go

O CTOBER
Monday Tuesday
1 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw 2 things that begin with the same sound as your name.

Wednesday
2 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Point to the first and last word in the sentence. How many words in the sentence? 9 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Put five toys in a line and find the 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc. 3

Thursday
Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice drawing circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles.

Friday
4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice sorting your toys by things that are the same (color, shape, size 11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw something that starts with each of these letters: b, n, h, s, and a 18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make 2 groups of toys. Which one has more, less, fewer, etc.

7 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Highlight or circle sight words in a newspaper or magazine.

8 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting backwards from 10-0.

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look at a calendar. Find todays date. What day of the week is it? 17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw a picture of a new friend from school.

14 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Put these words in order to form a sentence. bird I see red a. 21 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 30.

. 15 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write your first and last name. Draw a picture of yourself.

16 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Tell about three things that happened at school today. (In order: first, next and last) 23 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Find something that is cold and something that is hot in your house. 30 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the alphabet in lowercase letters.

22 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write your name and sight words in shaving cream or sand.

24 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the alphabet in lowercase letters. *Start each letter at the top. 31 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Happy Halloween! Draw a picture of what you were for Halloween.

25
Read with your child for 15 minutes. Dog rhymes with _______. Cat rhymes with _______. Pop rhymes with _______.

28 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Put cans from pantry in a line. Name which is before the corn, after the beans etc.

29 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Find 5 things that are the color blue and practice writing the color words.

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

First Nine Weeks Sight Words: I, can, see, like, a, the, we, to, and, go

N OVEMBER
Monday Tuesday
1 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look in a book and find the beginning and end of 4 different sentences.

Wednesday
2 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Say words that rhyme with look. (book, cook) Practice rhyming with other words. 9 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Put 3 unknown sight words on bedroom door. Say them each time you enter. 16 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw and write about a friend youve made this year.

Thursday
3 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Find 5 living organisms and non-living objects in your house.

Friday
4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Start with 10 and count backwards to 0. Practice counting to 60.

7 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice blending the sounds in 3 letter words. Ex: c-at.cat

8 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Put your favorite toy close, far away, above, below, under, and over you.

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Place objects in a line and find the 2nd, 4th, 3rd, 5th, and 1st. .

11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice reading and writing sight words.

14 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Clap the syllables for turkey, Indians, pilgrims, Plymouth, & Thanksgiving.

15 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice recognizing numbers 11-20 in random order.

17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Talk about the beginning, middle, and end of book you read tonight.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write a letter to your parents to say thank you for something they did for you.

Thanksgiving Break Nov. 21st-25th

I am thankful you are in my class! Have a wonderful break!!
28 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw 3 things you do at night and 3 things you do during the day. 29 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting by 10s to 100. 30 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice saying the months of the year in order.

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

Sight words to know: 2nd 6 weeks- is, you, that, it, he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his
3rd 6 weeks- they, at, be, this, from, I, have, or, by, one, had, not

D ECEMBER
Monday
3 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Count your toys and write the number to show how many.

Tuesday
4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look for circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles in your house.

Wednesday
5 Read with your child for 15 minutes. While reading, point to the beginning and end of each sentence.

Thursday
6 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write words that rhyme with cat. (rat, sat)

Friday
7 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look at a calendar. Point to today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw something that starts with each of these letters: w, e, u, v, and k.

11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. What sound do you hear at the beginning of the words: bake, doll, run, gecko?

12 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write as many words as you can in 3 minutes.

13 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting by 10 to 100. (10, 20, 30, 40)

14 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Review sight words using flash cards.

17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 40.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Help with the dishes. Sort the plates, cups, and utensils into groups.

19 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Cut out sight words from magazine or newspaper. Practice reading them.

20 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Start with 10 and count backwards to 0.

21 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make a list of your favorite holiday foods.

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Christmas Break

Please write initials in box each night! Thanks!

Sight words to know: like, he, for, me, with, she, see, look, they, you
Please keep this calendar at home during the month and return it to school when complete. I will keep it for my records. Thank you!

J ANUARY
Monday 1 Tuesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 Friday

Happy New Year!

Staff Development Day

Students return to school

7 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write 5 words that start with ch__.

8 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write the names of all the people in your family.

9 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing capital and lowercase letters.

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing your first and last name. Did your start with a capital?

11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Say 3 words that rhyme with boat.

14 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 60. Draw a triangle, rectangle, circle, and square.

15 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Place ten objects in a line and name the 5th, 7th, 3rd, and 9th.

16 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice recognizing a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Help make a grocery list. What is the beginning and ending sound of each item? 24 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write your name and sight words in shaving cream or sand.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Cut out a picture from a magazine and write a sentence about it. .

21 No School Martin Luther King Jr. Day

22 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Review and write these sight words: of, are, that do, one, two, three, four, five, here. 29 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Take the night off. Thanks for all your hard work

23 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write as many words as you can in 5 minutes.

25 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 60. Count by 10s to 100.

28 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write numbers to 15. Cut them out and use them as flash cards for number recognition.

30 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Identify the first letter and the last letter of three words in a book.

31 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write a sentence on paper. Count how many words. Count how many letters.

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

Sight words to know: of, are, that, do, one, two, three, four, five, here
Please keep this calendar at home during the month and return it to school when complete. I will keep it for my records. Thank you!

F EBRUARY H OMEWORK
Monday
3 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Work on Valentines cards (make sure to write your friends names and a sweet note.)

Tuesday
4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Work on Valentines cards (make sure to write your friends names and a sweet note.)

Wednesday
5 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Work on Valentines cards (make sure to write your friends names and a sweet note.)

Thursday
6 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Work on Valentines cards (make sure to write your friends names and a sweet note.)

Friday
7 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Work on Valentines cards (make sure to write your friends names and a sweet note.)

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting cereal into groups of 12, 9, 15, 13, and 20

11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing numbers 0-20.

12 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Say the months of the year and days of the week in order. Find your birthday on a calendar. 19 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make flash cards of the numbers 1-20 Practice in a random order.

13 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look at a calendar. Point to today, yesterday, and tomorrows date.

14 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing someone a friendly letter.

17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Name three things you do before school and three things you do after school.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting orally to 80.

20 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Put 10 things in order and identify the 7th, 4th, 2nd, etc.

21 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Read a book and talk about what happened at the beginning, middle, and end.

24 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 100 by tens using cereal.

25 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Trace your hand. How many pennies long is it?

26 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice recognizing a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

27 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make up an addition story problem. Ex: I have 3 red apples and 2 green. I have 5 all together.

28 Read with your child for 15 minutes.

Cut out a picture from a magazine and write a sentence about it. .

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

Sight words to know: for, have, they, of, said, want, here, me, this, what
Please keep this calendar at home during the month and return it to school when complete. I will keep it for my records. Thank you!

M ARCH H OMEWORK M ARCH 2011

Monday
4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 100. Start with 10 and count backwards to 0.

Tuesday
5 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice the positional words over, under, above, below., and in between.

Wednesday
6 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write as many words as you can in 5 minutes.

Thursday
7 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice clapping syllables in words. (Ex: baseball, clap, clap)

Friday
8 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice math story problems. Ex: I have 3 birds and 2 cats. How many are there all together?

11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Find 5 objects in your house. Which is the longest? Shortest? Same length?

12 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting groups of 11, 19, 15, 12, and 20 with beans or cereal.

13 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Show your child one of his/her baby pictures. Ask them how they have changed?

14 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make a set of 10 beans. Now make a set that is more than 10. Make a set that is less than 10.

15 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Count by 5s and 10s to 100.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. While reading, point to the beginning and end of each sentence.

19 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Read a book. Talk about the characters, setting, problem, and solution in the story.

20 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Get a cup, a glass, and a pitcher. Discuss which holds more and less.

21 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Cut a picture out of a magazine. Write two sentences about it.

22 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Say the months of the year and days of the week in order. What day is it today? What was yesterday?

Spring Break
March 25-29th Please continue working on skills not yet mastered on the Kindergarten Checklist. **Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

Sight words to know: of, are, that, do, one, two, three, four, five, here
Please keep this calendar at home during the month and return it to school when complete. I will keep it for my records. Thank you!

A PRIL H OMEWORK
Monday
1 Read with your child for 15 minutes.

Tuesday

Wednesday
3 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Talk about the weather. Is it hot? Cold? Sunny? Cloudy? Write a sentence about the weather.

Thursday
4 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice the positional words near, far, on, and beside.

Friday
5 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Count by 5s and 10s to 100.

2 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Look at a book. Point to Practice counting groups the title. Where does the of 13, 16, 18 and 20 with story start? Point to the first beans or cereal.
and last word in a sentence.

8 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Find 2 objects in your house. Which object is heavier? Which is lighter?

9 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Cut out sight words from a magazine or newspaper. Practice reading them.

10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Say the months of the year and days of the week. What day is it today? What was yesterday? 17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Say 3 words that rhyme with rug.

11 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice blending the sounds in 3 letter words. Ex: c-a-t.cat

12 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Place 10 toys in a line. Find the 6th, 3rd, 9th, 5th, and 1st toy.

15 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make a list of animals that can be found in the ocean.

16 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice recognizing a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

18 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Read a book and talk about what happened at the beginning, middle, and end.

19 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Make a set of 8 beans. Now make a set that is more than 8. Make a set that is less than 8.

22 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write as many words as you can in 5 minutes.

23 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Take the night off. Thank you for all of your hard work!

24 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing capital and lowercase letters.

25 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Review sight words using flash cards.

26 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Draw something that starts with each of these letters: m, p, d, s, and w.

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

Sight words to know: go, from, yellow, green, blue, what, said, was, where, come
Please keep this calendar at home during the month and return it to school when complete. I will keep it for my records. Thank you!

Thank you for all of your hard work with homework this year! There will not be an official homework calendar for the 6th six weeks. Be sure your student can recognize and write the following words. the of and a to in is you that it he for was on are as with his they at be this from I have or by one had not

A PRIL
Monday 2 3 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Name 5 things in your house that are living and 5 that are non-living. Tuesday Wednesday 4 5 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: is, you, that, it, he for. Thursday Friday 6 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: was, on, are, as, with, his.

Math Worksheet

Math Worksheet

9 10 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: is, you, that, it, he for, was, on, are, as, with, his. Spelling test on Wednesday! 16 17 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: have, or, by, one, had, not.

Math Worksheet

11 12 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: they, at, be, this, from, I.

Math Worksheet

13 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Place ten objects in a line and name the 6th, 10th, 2nd, and 5th.

Math Worksheet

18 19 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 100 by 5s and 10s.

Math Worksheet

20 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: they, at, be, this, from, I.

23 24 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Write numbers 1-20.

Math Worksheet

25 26 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: they, at, be, this, from, I.

Math Worksheet

27 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice writing the words: have, or, by, one, had, not.

30 Read with your child for 15 minutes. Practice counting to 100.

**Please write initials in box each night! Thanks**

Sight words to know for 6th 6 weeks: they, at, be, this, from, I,
have, or, by, one, had, not

May Homework
Please complete math worksheet on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

May Homework
Please complete math worksheet on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.