Dear kindergarten families,

Spelling will begin this week. Your child will have 8 spelling words each week. Four of the words will fit a pattern. For example, this week we will study the ‘–at’ word family. Your child will be given hot words within the –at family to study on Monday. These are the words that we will focus on in the classroom. The cold words will be given to them when they receive their spelling test. They will look different than the hot words, but will still come from the same word family. For example, I might give them the word ‘hat’ to study, but give them the word ‘sat’ on the test. The purpose of the cold words is to see if your child can apply the studied pattern for the week. The last four words will be sight words that we have practiced in the classroom. A spelling packet with the spelling words will go home each Monday and will need to be completed and turned in each Friday.  Please have your child complete one page a day. We will have a test every Friday, unless there is no school on Friday. In that case, we will have the test on Thursday.

Thank you,

Ms. Abulhassan