Math Tips for Kindergarten ParentsApril, 2013
Give your child plenty of opportunities to count
- Read the calendar, and determine the number of days until an upcoming event.
- Have your child count the change needed to pay for an item.
- Have your child distribute cookies or toys to family members, with each person getting an equal number
Help your child recognize shapes and size relationships
- At the grocery store, ask your child to find items that are triangles, circles, rectangles, and other shapes.
- Organize a scavenger hunt where your child has to find objects of different shapes
Find ways to collect and organize information
- Look around the house to find groups of 2 objects, like pairs of gloves or socks. Look for groups of 3’s, 4’s, and on up to 10’s.
- Have your child help sort the laundry by various categories — by color, or by who an item belongs to.
- Take measurements for a project around the house.
- Collect objects in nature— leaves, rocks, shells and the like. When you get home, sort them by color, size, or type. How many different categories can you find? How many objects are in more than 1 category?
Help your child develop reasoning skills
- Kindergartners love repetition and patterning, which fosters mathematical thinking. Clapping patterns help your child discover sequences and predict what comes next.
· Help your child think about the permanence of a set. Put 6 pennies in a row, and then change the arrangement. Ask “did the quantity change?”
Some family games that use kindergarten math skills:
- Many card games require counting and score keeping.
- Dice games and dominos help kids learn to quickly recognize groups of dots from 2 to 12.
- Play board games that involve counting squares, such as Chutes and Ladders.
- Tic Tac Toe and Connect Four build recognition of rows of 3 and 4 counters.
January News
Happy New Year!!! from the kindergarten classes!!! The kindergarten classes are studying many topics for the month of January. In Reading/Language Arts, we are working on writing sentences, sight words, comprehending simple text, identifying letters/letter sounds, blending sounds to read CVC words and phonemic awareness skills. In Math, we are working on addition, counting, writing and recognizing numbers 1-100, basic addition and subtraction facts within 5 and simple word problems. In Science, we are working on day and night. In Social Studies, we are working on national holidays (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) and the inauguration. We are also beginning the leader in me curriculum.
Reminders
Review sight words, letter recognition and letter sounds.
Please continue to work with your child on learning personal information (name, address, phone number and birthdate) and tying shoes.
Practice counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100.
Count, write and recognize numbers 1-100.
Contact Information
Andrea Dixon andixon@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4200
Shirley Freeman sfreeman@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4200
Ms. Dixon and Dr. Freeman
Season’s Greetings from the kindergarten classes!!! The kindergarten classes are studying many topics for the month of December. In Reading/Language Arts, we are working on retelling stories, reading 50 sight words, comprehending simple text, identifying letters/letter sounds, blending sounds to read CVC words and phonemic awareness skills. In Math, we are working on shapes (plane and solid shapes), positional words, basic addition and subtraction facts, and skip counting by 2’s to 20 and by 5’s and 10’s to 100. In Science, we are working on gravity and motion. In Social Studies, we are working on needs and wants, goods and services and community helpers.
Congratulations to the following students of the month for December:
Deonna Blount and Ny’Alaha Gore
Kudos to the following students for doing a super job on the One Fair Projects:
Racheal Bethel, Donyel Eason, Jr. and Sydney Johnson (first place winners)
Kyndal Arder, Kalyn Kinloch, Itavia McCord and Taleah Middlebrooks (second place winners)
Mariah Sims- Honorable Mention
Reminders
50 Sight Word Test---December 14, 2012.
Please send Box Tops to school with your child.
Read each night during the holiday break.
Please continue to work with your child on learning personal information (name, address, phone number and birthdate) and tying shoes.
Practice counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
Supplies Needed
Disinfectant Cleaning Wipes
Kleenex Tissue
Copy Paper
Construction Paper
Crayons
Pencils
Contact Information
Andrea Dixon andixon@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4200
Shirley Freeman sfreeman@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4200
Ms. Dixon and Dr. Freeman
November News
Greetings from thefabulous kindergarten classes!!! The kindergarten classes are studying manytopics for the month of November. In Reading/Language Arts, we are studying
many phonics andphonemic awareness skills. We are studying beginning, middle and ending sounds,story structure (characters, setting), letters, letter sounds, sight words andblending sounds. In Math, we are studying numbers (building numbers 1-30), comparingsets (more, less and equal) and skip counting by 2’s to 20 and 5’s and 10’s to100. In Science, we are studying physicalproperties (states of matter—solids, liquids and gases). In Social Studies, weare studying maps and globes and national holidays.
Helpful Tipsfor Reading/Language Arts
- Read to your child each night or have him/her read to you.
- Ask your child questions about what they are reading.
- Review sight words daily.
- Review blending sounds daily.
- Practice writing first and last name.
Helpful Tipsfor Math
Practice countingby 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
When counting setsof objects or sorting with your child, ask the following questions:
- Why is counting important?
- Why do we sort objects in a group?
- Why do we need to be able to sort objects?
- When do we use counting skills in everyday life?
Reminders
Please check your child’s homework foldereach day for correspondence and homework. Please assist your child withrecognizing sight words and completing homework assignments as well as keepingthe reading log updated on the homework sheet.
Helpful Websites
Ms. Dixon and Dr.Freeman
October News!!!!!
Happy Fall!!! The kindergarten classes are studying many topics for the month of October. In Reading/Language Arts, we are studying phonemic awareness skills, concepts of print, letters, letter sounds and sight words. In Math, we are studying number words, calendar skills (days of week, months of the year, seasons, etc) and numbers (counting, writing and recognizing numbers 0-20). In Science, we are studying living and nonliving things. In Social Studies, we are studying important American symbols and community helpers.
Helpful Tips for Reading/Language Arts (Phonemic Awareness)
Phonemic Awareness is an essential part of the reading process. These are the areas that we work on in the classroom that you can also work on at home: rhyming (producing rhyming words and recognizing rhyming pictures), blending word parts and phonemes, and detecting beginning and ending sounds.
Field Trip
The kindergarten classes will be going on a field trip to the Atlanta Botanical Garden on October 15, 2012.
Reminders
Our school is a uniform school. Please have your child to wear the school uniform
Monday-Thursday. Please check your child’s homework folder each day for correspondence and homework. Please assist your child with recognizing sight words and completing homework assignments as well as keeping the reading log updated on the homework sheet.
Contact Information
Ms. Andrea Dixon andixon@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4200
Dr. Shirley Freeman sfreeman@atlanta.k12.ga.us 404-802-4200
