Parent Information and Tools
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How will this class work? Click to read the Class Disclosure! Links to an external site. |
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Our Daily Learning Schedule
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Click here to see our Phonics & Curriculum Map for the year! Links to an external site.
What is a Sight Word?
What is a Sight Word? Sight words are also known as "High-frequency Words" and they are the 107 words a First Grader will read most often. HALF of everything that your child reads will be made up from these words and the more familiar they are with them will help their reading and writing to skyrocket! Most of these words cannot be "sounded out" and your child will have to learn to recognize them from sight and remember the tricky parts of the word that can't be sounded out "by heart". The first 25 are Kindergarten words. Your students should know these words from last year. Students who know all 107 words will be knighted a “Sight Word Warrior!”
We will be learning and working with these words all year. You may help at home by making flash cards that will be sent home weekly and by looking for "Sight Words" as you are "out and about". We will focus on 10 words each week and have an assessment at the end of the week.
Click here to see all 107 words that your child will learn this year! Links to an external site.
1. Read with them!
The best thing you can do to help your child to succeed this year: Establish a daily reading routine. Have your child read to you, read to them, or take turns reading together in a blanket fort. Children who have parents make reading a daily habit always end the year as my highest readers and writers!
2. Make sure they sleep 10 to 11 hours
each night.
First grade students need 10 to 11 hours of restful sleep every night. Students who need to be up at 7am to get ready for school should be asleep no later than 9pm.
Children perform better academically, are less likely to act out in school, have lower rates of obesity, and are less susceptible to illness when they get enough sleep.
3. Make sure they eat breakfast
Please make sure that your child eats breakfast before they come to school. I keep snacks in my cupboard to help with hungry tummies that can’t learn, but eating breakfast at home starts your child’s day off on the right foot.
Children who eat breakfast in the morning are more focused in school, better able to learn, have better academic performance, and are less likely to be absent.