October Skill Rings
October 8- Know your address and phone number
October 15- Determine number of syllables in a word by clapping (Ex: Ba-na-na has 3 claps)
October 22- Recite one nursery rhyme
October 29- Recognize and orally spell first and last name
**Bonus Skill-Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
November Skill Rings
November 4- Recognize numerals 0-10 out of sequence
November 12- Recite the turkey poem
When the turkey gobble gobbles
He is plump and proud and perky.
When our family gobble gobbles
We are gobbling down the turkey!
November 17- Say (or sing) the alphabet
**Bonus Skill-Recite 2 more nursery rhymes
December Skill Rings
December 3- Recognize & match the upper and lower case letters: F f, E e, D d, P p, B b, R r
December 10- Count 20 objects
December 16- Recite the gingerbread rhyme
Run, run as fast as you can.
You can't catch me,
I'm the gingerbread man!
January Skill Rings
January 7- Recognize the numerals 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 out of sequence
January 14-Recite the days of the week in order
January 21-Recite the snowman poem
Snowflakes falling,
Swirling, slow,
my snowman melted---
where did he go?
January 28- Recognize & match upper and lower case letters: M m, N n, H h, K k, L l, U u
**Bonus Skill- Count with ordinal numbers to 10th (ex: 1st, 2nd, 3rd...)
February Skill Rings
February 4-Write numeral 0-9 correctly
February 11- Recite the bubblegum poem:
I love you,
I love you,
I love you divine.
Please give me your bubblegum,
You're sitting on mine!
February 18- Count by 10's to 100
February 25- Recognize and & match upper and lower case letters X x, Y y, Z z, C c, O o
**Bonus skill- Say your birthday (month & day)
March Skill Rings
March 4-Place numerals 0-20 in order
March 11-Match rhyming words using pictures (Must make 8 pairs of rhymes)
March 18- Count orally to 30
March 25- Given groups of objects, determine which have "more" and which have "less"
**Bonus Skill- Count on and count back on a number line
April Skill Rings
April 1-Read at least 10 popcorn words
April 15-Recite the bee poem
Every bee
that ever was
is partly sting
and partly buzz.
April 21-Recognize and match upper and lower case letters: A a, T t, S s, I i, J j, Q q, G g
April 29-Write first and last name using upper and lower case letters (ex: Jane Smith, not JAne SmIth)
**Bonus Skill-Count by 5's to 100
May Skill Rings
May 6-Write these 15 popcorn words: go, it, like, at, my, is, can, and, me, to, I, a, you, the, see
May 13-Read at least five color words: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, pink
May 20-Read at least five number words: zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
May 27-Name and identify the value of coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter
**Bonus Skill-Read directional words: up, down, left, right, in, out
