Independence Day

Independence Day is coming up.  Do you love and appreciate the freedoms you have as a citizen of this great country?  Are you helping to make our country a better place to be.  Remember, you can be anything you want to be if you work hard and do your very best.  Only you can determine your future.  Do what it takes to make your dreams come true.  Learn what you need to do.  Your actions have consequences.  What are the results that you want, what actions do you need to take to receive those results?

173 Days

This is 173rd day in 2014. Do you know how many days are left in 2014? Make your guess and then scroll down to find the answer.

192 days

Did You Know?

On June 16, 2010 Bhutan became the first country to have a total ban on tobacco.

Do you know where the country of Bhutan is?  

How much information can you learn about this country?

Do you know what a ban is?

Are you committed to be tobacco free? 

Are you committed to be drug free?

What harm is caused by using tobacco?

Read On

Free access to a digital library for every child!
Keep reading all summer long!

1. Go to www.ReadOnArizona.org/myON
2. Click on myon.com
3. Select Log In Now

• School Name: Read On Arizona, Digital Library
• User name: read
• Password: read

Did You Know

On June 10, 2003 the Spirit Rover was launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. 

What do you know about Mars? Read a book, or go to the www.nasa.gov website to learn more.  

Here are some games about Mars that you can play.

Kindergarten Literacy Skills & Activities

Letter Naming - quickly recognize and name uppercase and lowercase letters

• practice with flash cards
• match uppercase and lowercase letters

Phonological Awareness - manipulate the sounds of spoken words

• play rhyming games - say two words that rhyme (bat, hat) and ask your child to say a word that rhymes with those two words
• take turns thinking of two words that begin with the same sound (man, mop; duck, dog; fat, furry)
• say a word, one sound at a time, and then have your child say the word at the normal rate - for example - you say "/b/ /a/ /t/" then your child says "bat"

Phonics - know all the sounds of the letters of the alphabet

• make a list of CVC words and have your child practice sounding them out and blending them back together to form real words (mat, fan, bet, pen, hid, pod, cod, hut) (CVC = consonant, vowel, consonant)
• write two sets of CVC words on flash cards - play memory

Decoding - read new words by sounding them out and blending them back together to form real words

Book Reading

• Schedule 15-20 minutes a day for reading
• Picture walk - before reading, guide your child in making predictions as he/she looks at each picture
• Talk about interesting and new words while reading
• Model fluent reading - bring your energy and excitement to books as you read them aloud to your child.
• After reading, talk about what happened at the beginning, middle, and the end of the story.

Online Resources, Activities, and Games

Resources to print and practice at home

Star Fall

PBS Kids

Lil' Fingers

Scholastic Interactive Storybook

Just about 2 more weeks

In just about 2 weeks I'll be having my new baby.  We are so excited about the new addition to our family.  I will post pictures, but be patient.  It will take a while.  In the meantime, keep visiting my blog and one day you will see pictures of Baby Abbi.