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As you get the school year up and running, you might discover that your students could use a little more practice with key concepts. This is when a homework routine can come in handy! In this post, I’m sharing ideas and tips to help you plan age-appropriate kindergarten homework for September.
The month of September can look different depending on the district where you’re teaching. Your school year might be well underway by the beginning of September or your first day of kindergarten might be sometime after Labor Day. No matter when you start school, developmentally appropriate kindergarten homework can be a helpful addition to your daily routine.
As you consider what tasks to send home with students for homework in September, look for activities that will reinforce the math and literacy concepts you’re practicing during the first month of school. Homework shouldn’t be a long, drawn-out process every evening! Here are some examples of homework activities that could be helpful for your students in September.
In September, students will be building foundational literacy skills that they will use to become confident readers. Homework can give students the chance to review skills like phonemic awareness. This also helps parents see the types of literacy activities that you’re working on in the classroom so they can reinforce them at home.
This beginning sounds activity is a great example! Parents will see that their child is working on identifying what letter is at the beginning of words. They might decide to extend that with conversation about what letters are at the beginning of names, places, or even favorite foods!
Alphabet practice is a huge focus of the kindergarten literacy curriculum at the beginning of the year! Many students come to kindergarten recognizing only a handful (if any) letters of the alphabet. Homework can be a helpful addition to letter identification practice for your new kindergarten students.
In this particular activity, students will find the lowercase letter that matches the uppercase letter and color in the correct circle. There is an additional task that helps students practice initial sounds and fine motor skills. They will cut and paste the correct picture for each letter by determining its initial sound.
As students progress through the kindergarten literacy curriculum, they will likely be introduced to basic high frequency words. You can use your kindergarten homework for September as a way to help your students review these words so they become more familiar with them.
As students learn to identify high frequency words with automaticity, they will grow in both confidence and fluency. In this homework activity, students can identify the sight words according to the instructions. This helps students see the patterns in words! There are also pictures that can help students practice reading each sentence. Students are always so excited to put their skills together and read a simple sentence!
September is an important month for math instruction! Students need to have a strong foundation of number sense skills to help them learn math concepts all year long. Number recognition and one-to-one correspondence are two of the foundational skills that kindergarten students practice a lot at the beginning of the year.
This is why it’s helpful for these number sense skills to be included in homework activities! For example, in this homework task students will count the number of fall items in each box to determine how many there are. To help students keep track of the items as they count, they can make a small mark on each object or color it in.
Once they have counted the objects, they can cut and paste the correct number and put it in the box. This is a great opportunity for students to practice using school supplies and improve their fine motor skills!
If you’re interested in using homework to help your students review important skills in September, you’ll definitely want to check out this recently updated resource!
This set of kindergarten homework for September includes enough printable literacy and math activities for four weeks of homework practice. It also includes a variety of editable cover pages so you can create weekly homework packets, if that’s something you’d like to do.
You’ll also find editable sight word activities in this resource! Since students are practicing a wide variety of high frequency words, these editable activities allow you to decide which words your students will practice. You can easily create sight word activities that correspond to your ELA curriculum, a thematic unit, or a particular phonics pattern.
If you’d like to take a closer look at everything included in this set of September kindergarten homework, you can find it in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or in my TPT store.
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These alphabet books will have students dive deep into learning about each letter of the alphabet while eager to see what activity they get to complete next!
