Kindergarten Weekly News

Many of our students are experiencing spring fever please remind our students of appropriate school behavior. We still have 2 months left of kindergarten and behavior expectations remain the same. Please encourage your child to be a good listener, follow directions, and do the best they can every day. We appreciate your support. They must show they are ready for first grade.

Please remind students that we do not bring toys to school. It is causing a big distraction, and students are giving toys to other students and causing confusion.

When your student is absent from school, PLEASE make sure you are sending an excused note in their homework folder or sending an email to the front office.

We will be learning about our 7 continents and 4 oceans. As you can imagine this is an abstract topic for 5-year-olds to understand. We really need support at home in having conversations of what they have learned at school.

Discussion topic examples:

- We live in North America.

- East Coast Oceans / West Coast Oceans

- Conversations about vacations if you have traveled anywhere

1. Please make sure students are going to bed at a decent time as we get back into the routine

2. If your child has a fever they must be fever free for 24 hours before they return to school

3. Keep practicing tying their shoes.

4. Keep extra clothes in a ziploc bag in your student's backpack to use in case of need.
5. Teachers will respond to parent emails within a 24-hour timeframe.
6. If your child brings a home lunch they are welcomed to bring a water bottle for lunch only.

7. As the weather is changing make sure your child is dressed appropriately

Change of Transportation must be submitted in Writing Park Street requires written notice from parent or legal guardian before allowing a change or transportation or students to be transported by anyone other than a parent.

You may send in a note with your child or email parkstreet@marietta-city.org with the details of the change.

If you must make a change during the day, notify the school office staff before 2:45 p.m.

Reading and Phonics:

• Wit and Wisdom Module 4 - The Continents
• Reading and writing CVC words
• Reading and writing words using digraphs ( -ck, sh, ch, th, wh)
• Magic / Silent " e" like in the word like, bike, make
• Listening to texts (fiction and nonfiction books) and participating by answering questions about the texts
• Identifying main topic and key details

Science / Social Studies:

• Needs and wants
• Earth day
• zoo animals

Writing:

• Writing sentences
• End of the year goal is for students to be able to write 2 sentences on a given topic using correct punctuation, capitalization, finger space, and using heart words (sight words) correctly.

Math:

• 3D shapes
• Measurable attributes

April 27 - AMIRA Testing

April 28- Zoo Field Trip

April 30 - Q4 Progress reports go home

Quarter 4 begins in just a couple of weeks. Your child should know at least 60 - 75 sight words with automaticity (no sounding out). Students need to be able to READ, WRITE and, APPLY in their writing.

End of the year goal is ALL 100 words. It is expected of them to know all because in First grade their list will be 220 sight words.