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Sight Word List

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They may forget what you said, but they never forget how you made them feel!  by carl w. buechner

 

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Support you child by insuring his/her good nutrition, rest, promptness, and good attendance.
Check your child's backpack daily.  You never know what you may find.

homework, sight words, reading folder, graded papers, crafts, important papers from the office, annoucements, etc.

Check over your child's homework, but don't do the thinking for them.  Give them the answer only if they can not be guided into coming up with the answer on their own.

If he/she is trying to think of a letter, for example, have them say and point to the ABC's until the find it,  cue them with the name of someone they know, or give them a word that rhymes.

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Help you child keep up with his/her important materials by keeping them in the backpack when they are not being used.

Library books, reading folders and reading folder books, graded papers, office and homework folders,etc.

iStudent behavior notes and failed sight word test notes must be signed and returned the next day.

Students can only be successful at school if they are present and ready to learn physically, mentally, and emotionally.  If your child must be absent, please call the school to let us know.

You are your child's primary teacher. What you  do and say  will demonstrate your value of education.

Help you child by creating a routine
 for homework, and modeling a positive attitude about school.

Learning the sight words is an important step to insure reading fluency and comprehension.  Students are asked to learn 3 new sight words each week. They will be tested on the 3 words each Thursday. Students who can read all 3 words randomly will pick a treat. Kindergarten students should learn a minimum of 50 words by the end of the year, but I think you will find with your help and encouragement they many can master the entire list.

 

There are many ways to study the sight words with fun activites. There are many free online sites with sight word games. Students benefit from creating flash cards for weekly words, playing sight word Bingo, sight word fishing, writing them in shaving cream, picking them out their environment (road signs, magazines, new papers, story time books, etc.).  Two good free online sites are starfall.com and abcya.com.  Look for the heading sight words. You will find many other important skills taught on these sites like letter sounds, reading, number recogintion and counting skills.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions at 922-4797 or amy.wood@westpoint.kyschools.us

Kindergarten Tips

Dolch 220 Basic Word (listed by frequency)

 

 

Words

1-25

Words

26-50

Words

51-75

Words

76-100

Words

101-125

Words

126-150

Words

151-175

Words

176-200

Words

200-220

the

to

and

he

a

I

you

it

of

in

was

said

his

that

she

for

on

they

but

had

at

him

with

up

all

 

look

is

her

there

some

out

as

be

have

go

we

am

then

little

down

do

came

could

when

did

what

so

see

not

were

get

them

like

one

this

my

would

me

will

yes

big

went

are

come

 if

now

long

no

came

ask

very

 an

over

your

its

ride

into

just

blue

red

from

good

any

about

around

want

don’t

how

know

right

put

too

got

take

where

every

pretty

jump

green

four

away

old

by

their

here

saw

call

after

well

think

ran

let

help

make

going

sleep

brown

yellow

five

six

walk

two

or

before

eat

again

play

who

been

may

stop

off

never

seven

eight

cold

today

fly

myself

round

tell

much

keep

give

work

first

try

new

must

start

black

white

ten

does

bring

goes

 write

always

drink

once

soon

made

run

gave

open

has

find

only

us

three

our

better

hold

buy

funny

warm

ate

full

those

done

use

fast

say

light

pick

hurt

pull

cut

kind

both

sit

which

fall

carry

small

under

read

why

own

found

wash

show

hot

because

far

live

draw

clean

grow

best

upon

these

sing

together

please

thank

wish

many

shall

laugh

Pressley, M. (2005).  Dolch professional development guide.  Columbus, OH:  SRA.

Kindergarten Curriculum
 

Students will work on mastery of the letters and their sounds, identifying, counting, and writing numbers to 20, and 50 sight words by Christmas. Some students will exceed these expectations.

   Students will work on mastering additional phonetic sounds like blends, long and short vowels, r-controlled vowels, diagraphs, diphthongs, and sight words.  We will learn rhyming words, mulit-meaning words, opposites, and many vocabulary words. In math, we will learn to count, write, and identify numbers to 100. We will study addition and subtraction facts for the sum of 10.

  Some other math concepts are 2D and 3D shapes and their properties, directional words, measurement of length, time, volume, weight, patterns, and sequencing. After Christmas, our focus will be blending sounds and using sight words to read and comprehend, writing simple sentences independently with beginning captial letter, ending puncuation, phonetic spelling, and correctly spelled simple sight words.

 Throughout the year students will learn many ideas and concepts in science, social studies, art, music, and practical living.  Some of these concepts are plants, animals, scientific discovery, holidays, community, historical figures, the elements of art and music, and healthy life choices.

 To build character, students are guided with the "Leader in Me" program to instill the seven productive habits of: 1. Be proactive.  2. Begin with the end in mind.  3. Put first things first.  4. Think win-win. 5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 6. Synergize 7. Sharpen the Saw.

  These skills are instilled with stories, discussions, videos, modeling, role playing, skits, and encouragement. Our goal at WPS is to help your child develop in all areas to give them the skills to be all that he/she can be. Our goal is happy, healthy, informed, productive and educated citizens.

Here are some links to fun, free online sites to help your child learn (copy and paste into your brower): 
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http://www.starfall.com/
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http://www.abcya.com/kindergarten_computers.htm
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http://coolmath-games.com/
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http://www.primarygames.com/langarts/sightwords/
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http://www.abcmouse.com/login
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Remember:
*Students will test on the 3 weekly sight words every Thursday
*Reading folders and books are due every Thursday
*Library day is every Tuesday
*Homework is due daily Tuesday- Friday
*Please remember to provide snacks for the class twice monthly
*Always feel free to contact me with any issue, concern, or question
 
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