Are you working on kindergarten stuff at home?

[tennisgal]

W doesn’t get homework...but at conferences the teacher did point out some things for us to work on at home. How much/how often are you working on things at home? We got him some workbooks for Christmas and have started doing those a few days a week and also have him doing some beginning reading. Just wondering if we’re on par with what others are working on?

[mlkgls]

That sounds in line with what G is doing. No daily homework, but he has sets of sight words to master before moving onto the next group. I’ve made a salt box to practice so it seems more fun and less work.

He also has a weekly reading log with a cumulative goal of 45 minutes. I love our local library with the seemingly endless supply of dinosaur and monster books!

[lauranicole91]

Peyton is assigned homework Monday-Thursday from school.
Mondays she writes the week’s high frequency words (2-3 are assigned each week) 3 times.
Tuesdays she has to draw/create patterns or put shapes in order based on a list I read allowed (the square is first, the triangle is in the 3rd spot, the circle is in the 5th spot, etc)
Wednesdays she has to write two sentences that incorporate her high frequency words of the week.
Thursdays she comes home with a math worksheet. Usually word problems they want drawn out and solved. Or simple addition. Although, they are start subtraction this week.
She also has a reading log. She has to read 15mins a night m-th.
We had been reading whatever books like the character “step 1, 2, and 3” books you can find everywhere, but she was struggling with them and was starting to hate reading. I learned that they aren’t properly leveled books, and then I was introduced to a website that offers books leveled just like the school does and she’s doing so well with those.
www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/

[puppylove64]

Wow I feel behind! He has to learn 100 sight words this year. We practice those 15-20 minutes most nights. We were not doing them regularly early in the year and he got behind. We are trying to “catch up” now.

He has a sheet where if he reads 6 hours, he could earn a six flags ticket but we haven’t been doing that. We used to read every night but that has slacked off

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Her school just asks we read 30 minutes every night. We alternate between working on her sight words, her reading easier books on an app the school uses, and us reading to her.

She’s supposed to know 60 sight words by the end of the year, count to 100, and write a complete sentence with spaces and punctuation. That’s really it for their goals to move to 1st grade.

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Feb 22, 2018 8:21:29 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Peyton is assigned homework Monday-Thursday.
Mondays she writes the week’s high frequency words (2-3 are assigned each week) 3 times.
Tuesdays she has to draw/create patterns or put shapes in order based on a list I read allowed (the square is first, the triangle is in the 3rd spot, the circle is in the 5th spot, etc)
Wednesdays she has to write two sentences that incorporate her high frequency words of the week.
Thursdays she comes home with a math worksheet. Usually word problems they want drawn out and solved. Or simple addition. Although, they are start subtraction this week.
She also has a reading log. She has to read 15mins a night m-th.
We had been reading whatever books like the character “step 1, 2, and 3” books you can find everywhere, but she was struggling with them and was starting to hate reading. I learned that they aren’t properly leveled books, and then I was introduced to a website that offers books leveled just like the school does and she’s doing so well with those.
www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/

Yes those step 1 books are hard lol. A’s teacher says they’ll start doing step 1 books towards the end of 1st grade. I can’t find any books at the library that are easy enough so we’ve been using an app her teacher told us to use.

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Feb 22, 2018 13:20:12 GMT -5 Loco Coco said:

G gets has a worksheet every night Mon-Thurs so we do that and she is in a reading program so she has a book we read every day and then we send it back and she reads it to the teacher or aide. She’s already got the 120 kindergarten sight words so we’re doing 1st grade ones now. We bought 1st grade sight word readers to read at night. We read nightly and that’s basically it.

120?! That’s crazy. They only have 160 by the end of 1st grade here. Her class is struggling to get 60 by the end of this year.

[rxbeth]

The only things we are supposed to do are weekly sight words and read one book they bring home once a week. We don’t have the sight words anymore because Madison is a ridiculous reader (just naturally) and finished all 500 words in 4 weeks. So they are just sending her the weekly book.

[mumegs]

M has a bag of books she brings home M-Th and we are just supposed to practice reading. We do that most nights but that is it. Her class usually only does 1 sight word a week, sometimes 2. It is a struggle sometimes just to get her to do that so luckily we don’t have anything else that we have to do.

[ktstorm]

He doesn't have any homework, but we read before bed every night. We've got a set of sight word flashcards that he asked for and we go through a couple times a week. I keep early reader books in the car and ask him to read them to Elliot when we're driving anywhere.

They normally have 4-5 sight words a week.

[fusion]

I don't give homework, but I do ask that parents incorporate counting and spelling into their talks with their children and practice sight words. I can tell a huge difference between children that have their work reinforced at home, and those that have their learning for the day end at the school door.

[blane12]

We have weekly homework plus a lot of times he has worksheets sent home to finish that he missed because of his pull out therapies. He spends 30ish min every day with the multiple disabilities teacher for individualized instruction and he requests her to send homework with him because she sends a game home too.

So...we typically have homework 4 out of 5 nights during the week. Some days he’s SO mentally done after school, it’s hard to push him to do more. Of course, he is not the same as a typically developing kid, and it takes sooo long to finish homework for us.

School has been really frustrating for me this year because it’s hard to watch him struggle. He has made tons of progress, but isn’t up to level.

[DesertMoon]

We do reading and writing daily and his teacher told me his reading really needs to improve the he's not testing where he needs to be so we are looking into a tutor also.