OCEAN GATE SCHOOL DISTRICT

All About Me
Introduction of Preschool
(Exploration, Observation, Interaction)
Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill

Work at Home/Extra Practice

• Read each day for 20 minutes.
• To help ease the fears of parents and children, here is a good article that may help.
• Please check your child's folder daily. Important notes, letters, and assignments will be sent home often.
• Review Jack and Jill.

Family
Letter A
Number 1
Color Red
Shape Circle
Nursery Rhymes: Jack and Jill

Work at Home/Extra Practice

• Read each day for 20 minutes.
• Please check folders. Please write all family members that live in your household when this assignment comes home.
• Practice spelling your name. Write each letter of your child's name on the separate sheet of paper or index card. Lay them out to spell your child's name. Mix them up and have your child put them in the correct order.
• Students will be coming home singing their letter song, "The sound of A is a. The sound of A is a. A A A A A A, The sound of A is Ah." This is sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell."
• Read the story "The Cat Has a Hat."
• Print and trace the number 1.
• Play the color red online game.
• Find items in your house that are in the shape of a circle.
• Review Jack and Jill.

* As a preschooler, your child will be taught the short vowel sound as in apple. As they begin to recognize these letters as vowels, the long vowel sound will be introduced.

My 5 senses
Letter B
Number 1
Color Red
Shape Circle
Nursery Rhymes: Mary Had A Little Lamb

Work at Home/Extra Practice

• Read each day for 20 minutes.
• Continue to practice spelling your name. 
• Students will be coming home singing their letter song, "The sound of B is buh. The sound of B is buh. Buh Buh Buh Buh Buh Buh, The sound of B is buh." This is sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell."
• We are learning the Five Senses: See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell.
  • Have your child look at an object.
  • Have your child listen to something and tell you what it is that they hear.
  • Have your child touch something that is Red.
  • Have your child taste something that is in the shape of a circle.
  • Have your child smell something that starts with the Letter B. Ask them what it smells like.
• Review Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Apples
Letter C
Number 2
Color Red
Shape Circle
Nursery Rhymes: Mary Had A Little Lamb

Work at Home/Extra Practice

• Read each day for 20 minutes.
• Continue to practice spelling your name. 
• Students will be coming home singing their letter song, It sounds like the letter k. "The sound of C is k. The sound of C is k. K k k k k k The sound of C is k." This is sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell."
• Play the shapes game to practice your shapes.
• Read Ten Apples Up on Top by Dr. Seuss. Have your child try to stack 10 objects on top of each other.
• Review Mary Had a Little Lamb.

* As a preschooler, we will be concentrating on the /c/ sound (which sounds like k) for the letter c as in cat. The general rule is that the letter c represents /s/ before the letters e, i or y; otherwise it represents /c/. Students will be taught that there are exceptions and that some letters make more than one sound.