Kindergarten at Home ~ Letter Y, Z, Reading, Math, & more!
I am teaching Kindergarten at home again! Not my own children this time, but the children of a very good friend. See our original post about this adventure here. Each week I plan to share our plans, which I did for Letter Y here and Letter Z here, and I also plan to share after our week is done so you can see my students in action!
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- Letter A in Action
- Letter B in Action
- Letter C in Action
- Letter D in Action
- Letter E in Action
- Letter F in Action
- Letter G in Action
- Letter H in Action
- Letter I in Action
- Letter J in Action
- Letter K in Action
- Letter L in Action
- Letter M in Action
- Letter N in Action
- Letter O in Action
- Letter P in Action
- Letter Q in Action
- Letter R in Action
- Letter S in Action
- Letter T in Action
- Letter U in Action
- Letter V in Action
- Letter W & X in Action
I am excited to share all about our twenty-fifth and sixth week together, with a focus on the LETTER Y and Z! In addition to a letter focus each week we do several other things, which I will also share with you. Since I only have my students two days a week {3 hours each day}, we cram a lot into a short time! I also provide their parents with activities to do at home.
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ALL ABOUT READING LEVEL 1
My students used All About Reading Pre-reading during the first half of the year and after using the placement test from AAR in December, I could see that they were ready to begin Level 1! Over these 2 weeks, we worked on reviewing CVC words! Find all of our CVC word printables here!
LETTER Y & Z FUN
We enjoyed several different activities, most from my site! I will link everything we used below!
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Below you can see AK and Ki doing the following activities:
RAISING LIL ROCK STARS LETTER Y & Z
While the kids color I tell them the story and we review the items on the display board {shapes, colors, numbers}. They also do tracing at home for homework!
LETTER TOYS & PUZZLES
I love setting up fun letter displays and playing with the items. See more ideas here!
LETTER BOOKS
We read tons of books featuring the Letter Y and Z! See all of our Letter Y book ideas here and Letter Z book ideas here.
YOU CAN READ WORD FAMILY en
We are using You Can Read Word Families in addition to our reading lessons. Word families are a great way to build confidence in reading CVC words. It also helps us review rhyming, and focus on word patterns. We are taking 2 weeks for each word family, we worked the _en family.
Bird THEME FUN
We finished up a really fun spring theme unit using our Counting is for the Birds Kindergarten Literature Unit and our Bird Theme Kindergarten Printables!
MORNING MESSAGE
We recently began a morning message notebook. I write them a message before they come to my house. They sit down with a highlighter and highlight any words they can read on their own. Then we read the message together. I always include a “prompt” of some sort.
CALENDAR NOTEBOOK
They work on their monthly calendar notebooks at home and also with me on the days they are at my house.
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