K LIT: UNIT 3, Weeks 1-3

Learning Goals:

• I can read and understand texts.
• I can write about the texts I read.
• I know rules we follow in different places.

Key Skills:

• This week our class will be focusing on the rules they follow at home and in school. Children also will be reading stories about the laws people follow in their neighborhoods and communities.

Vocabulary: cooperate, rule

• Make a chart of the rules your child follows. Encourage your child to think about the ways we cooperate, or work together with others.
  

High Frequency Word: to

• Fill a small pan with shaving cream. Have your child write the word to in the shaving cream each time you use the word in a sentence.

Category Words: action words

• Encourage your child to think of laws and rules to follow at home, at school, and in the community.

Phonics: i

• Help your child think of words that include the letter i, such as ink, pin, inch, if, sit, hid, and in. Write the words on paper. Then ask your child to underline the letter i in each word.

Comprehension: Character (click the link to see the activity)

• Point to the characters in the story as you listen for what they do.

Learning Goals:

• I can read and understand texts.
• I can write about the texts I read.
• I know the different sounds we hear.

Key Skills:

• This week our class will be reading stories about sounds we hear in our neighborhoods and communities. Your child will experiment with ways to make sounds.

• Write the word and, then have your child trace it. Have your child search for and circle the word and in a newspaper.

Vocabulary: listen, volume

• Go outside together and invite your child to listen to the sounds in your neighborhood. Talk about what makes the sound. Describe the volume of the sound.

• Sit outside together and listen for different sounds. Ask your child to identify what is making the sound. Have your child describe the sound.

• Search for objects that begin or end with the letter n, such as nails and pan. Write the words on sticky notes and have your child put the notes on each object.

Comprehension: Main Story Elements/Setting (click the link to see the activity)

• Look at the picture.
• What is the setting?
• What do the details tell you about the setting?
• Circle each thing that makes a sound.

Learning Goals:

• I can read and understand text.
• I can write about the texts I read.
• I know places I go to during the week.

Key Skills:

• This week our class will be reading stories about the places we visit in our neighborhoods and communities. Your child will talk about these places and the people we see and visit there.

Vocabulary: routine, neighborhood

• Talk about a weekend routine in the neighborhood. Use the words first, next, then, and last.

High-Frequency Words: go

• Write the word go in the air. Ask the question, Where do you like to go? Invite your child to complete the sentence: I like to go to the __________.

Category Words: sequence words

• Play a game called “What are we going to do?” Encourage your child to use sequence words such as first, next, then, and last.

• Play a rhyming game and invite your child to guess words that begin with the letter c. If your child does not guess the word, give another clue. Then make a list of the words your child guesses correctly. Read the list together.

Comprehension: Main Story Elements/Character (click the link to see the activity)

• Let’s make up a story. The main character will be an animal. Remember, the main character is who the story is mostly about. Use the questions on the sheet to think about your story.