• Recognize letters in name

• Recognize same letters (Upper and lowercase)

What does this look like?

How to teach kids to spell their name

Upper and lowercase letters

How can I help support my child at home?

• Spot letters in their name in the environment 

• Display the alphabet in different forms so that they can pick up, feel and sort letters. 

• Use playdough.  Create dot letters for your child’s name on the playdough and have the child trace the letters.

• Play a matching game: Match upper and lowercase letters using cut out letters 

• Children have fun air writing and using their bodies to form letters when they listen to songs like Frog Jump Letters and Diver Letters’ School. 

• Hide letters around the room and challenge kids to find the letters in order to match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letters

•  Recognize how letters symbolize initial sounds

• Identify and produce rhymes

How can I help support my child at home?

• Write letters on cards. Hold up the cards one at a time and have your children say the sounds (for example, the /d/ sound for the letter d).

• Match the letters in their names with the sounds in their names.

• Point out words that begin with the same letter as their  names (for example, John and jump). Talk about how the beginning sounds of the words are alike.

• Find an object in the room, but instead of naming the object, give him a word that rhymes with it instead. For example, "Bryce, can you find something in the room that rhymes with pouch? Yes, couch rhymes with pouch."

• Grab a small bowl and some dry cereal. Call out a word (start with simple three letter words such as rag, hen, and sun) and take turns generating rhyming words. For each rhyme, add a piece of cereal to the bowl. How full can you get the bowl? Count your bounty and enjoy a snack!

• For this playful game, you will say three words. Two of them should rhyme.  Student  will listen for the rhyming pair and call it out. For example, "Note, nail, boat — which two rhyme? Yes, 'note' and 'boat' rhyme. They both have the same sound at the end."

• Identify letters and letter sounds

• Identify Middle and Ending sounds

How can I help support my child at home?

• Write letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bagStudent willeach into the bag and take out letters. Have them say the sounds that match the letters.

• Take a letter and hide it in your hand. Student will  guess in which hand is the letter. Then show the letter and have them say the letter name and make the sound (for example, the letter m matches the /m/ sound as in man).

• Make letter-sounds and ask your children to draw the matching letters in cornmeal or sand.

• Talk about what sounds are made by which letters. 

• Point out letters and print in books. Student makes the sound 

• Identifying Syllables

• Identify and spell words that follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern

How can I help support at home?

• Say the student's name slowly while emphasizing the different syllables.  

• Show your student how to clap their hands for each syllable in their name.

• Small drums can be used to break words apart.  If you don’t have an actual drum,  use an upside-down bucket with a stick, a wood block with a stick, or use two cups with  sticks.

• Give student a consonant-vowel- consonant (CVC)  word such as "cat". Then have students identify each sound in the word.

• Ask students to write the sounds that they heard.

• Have students find a word that rhymes with CVC words

• Identify and spell words that follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern

• Students begin counting by ones to 100 
• Students count out objects up to 10 and compare quantities and numbers up to ten 
  • Print and cut out: Students can order numbers within decade 
  • Online Game: Counting to 50
  • Online Game: Help turtle get home

• Students continue counting by 1s to 100 
• Students identify shapes based on attributes
  • Printable: Students can order numbers within that decade
  • Online Game: Counting to 50
  • Printable: hundred chart puzzles
  • Online Game: Count out 20
  • Online Game: Counting objects to 10
  • Online Game: Shape Sort
  • Online Game: Shape Match
  • Printable: 2D and 3D shapes and chart with definitions
  • Ask your student to go on a scavenger hunt to find shapes around the home or in places you visit often

• Students count to 100 by ones and count to 100 by ten starting at 10
• Students join or separate numbers in a story problem up to 10
  • Printable Students can order numbers within that decade
  • Printable: Complete hundreds chart puzzles
  • Printable: Order numbers by tens
  • Joining Stories - Game: Double Compare
  • Take Away Stories - Printable practice: One Less Dog
  • Separating Stories - Online Video: Splat Game

• Students identify, describe, compare, and create three-dimensional shapes
• Students put together their understanding from throughout the year to cap off major work and fluency goals of the grade.
  • Online Game: Toss 10 Chips
  • Online Game: Race to the Sun
  • Online Game: Fill the Treasure Chest
  • Online Game: How Many to Ten