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                                                                           Homework


    H    omework in kindergarten should be fun and meaningful and not stressful for you or your child. At this age, children can learn so much from everyday experiences: reading familiar print at the grocery store (ex."Cheerios"), counting, making a friend a birthday card, etc. Here are a few more ideas...


    *Read every night! Reading together every night will increase your child's interest in reading, teach basic book handling skills and increase your child's awareness of basic reading skills.

    *Nightly practice sheet- Some weeks, we will have sheets Monday-Thursday to help parents and children see things to practice.

    *Play and talk with your child!  This builds your child's vocabulary and background knowledge, which paves the way to a strong reading foundation.

    *Read the Friday Kindergarten News email.  These emails will communicate what your child has learned and will be learning.  This gives the weekly topics, snap words, letters that you could be practicing as we introduce them and work on them at school.   

    The following five home literacy activities are correlated with reading and math scores--the more frequently the parents performed the activities, the better the children did in 3rd-grade assessments.  The five activities are:
    1. Someone reads to the child at home.
    2. The parent and child talk about what happened during the day.
    3. The child reads along with or reads to others.
    4. Someone takes the child to a museum, library, learning or activity center, or zoo.
    5. Someone teaches the child a sport or takes the child to a sporting event.



     

     
Last Modified on August 25, 2023