Dear Family Member:
This week our class will be focusing on ways in which friends get along with each other. Children will be reading stories about how friends share, take turns, and resolve conflicts, or problems, with one another.
Here are some resources you can use with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing.
Student Learning Goals
Have your child talk to you about the learning goals they are focusing on. Ask about any goals that are particularly easy or challenging.
Word Workout
High-Frequency Word: the Have your child find the word the in the title of a favorite book. Then ask your child to write the word and use it in a sentence.
Category Words: feeling words Draw happy and sad faces on index cards. Ask questions and invite your child to hold up a feeling card that answers each question. Ask different questions, such as, How would you feel if your lunch fell on the cafeteria floor? Then draw more faces to show other feelings and make up questions to go with them.
Phonics: m Write words that begin or end with m on sticky notes. Have your child circle the m in each word, then find objects that begin/end with m and place a sticky note on them.
Comprehension: Main Story Elements/Character
Read the story. Then help your child identify who the story is mostly about.