Kindergarten Newsletter

• Please label everything! Jackets, water bottles, lunch boxes
• Make sure your child has a change of clothes in their backpack for accidents or messes.
• Please check your child's daily folder every day, sign each day, and empty every night.
• Make sure your child brings a spill-proof water bottle every day!

Oct. 10- No School!

Oct. 13- No School!

Oct. 25- Trunk or Treat/Fall Festival

Oct. 27-31- Red Ribbon Week

Oct. 30- Class Picture Day

Oct. 31- Storybook Character Parade

Oct. 31- PTO School Store

Fairy Tales & Folktales

• In this unit, students will focus on the literary genre through the retelling of stories. They will identify story elements, including characters, setting and plot. they will practice sequencing events from the beginning, middle, and end of stories. They will compare and contrast characters from different stories to identify similarities and differences.

Foundational Skills

• In unit 3, students will begin to make connections between sounds and symbols. They will continue to practice blending sounds into words and they will be taught several of the symbols used when reading and writing. Specifically, they will learn the most common way to spell eight of the sounds in English: /m/ /a/ /t/ /d/ /o/ /k/ /g/ and /i/.

Numeration

• Students will read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures

• Students will count a set of objects up to at least 20 and demonstrate that the last number said tells the number of objects in the set regardless of their arrangement or order

Comparing Numbers

• The students will compare sets of objects up to at least 20 in each set using comparative language.

Money

• Students will identify U.S. coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

Force of Motion

• The student is expected to describe and predict how a magnet interacts with various materials and how magnets can be used to push or pull.

Light Energy

• The students will communicate the idea that objects can only be seen when a light source is present and compare the effects of different amounts of light on the appearance of objects.

• The students will demonstrate and explain that light travels through some objects and is blocked by other objects, creating shadows.

Geography & Map Skills

• The student understands how historical figures helped shape the state and nation. The student is expected to identify contributions of historical figures, including Stephen F. Austin, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and José Antonio Navarro, who helped to shape the state and nation.

• Students will use spatial terms, including over, under, near, far, left, and right, to describe relative location
• Students will locate places on the school campus and describe their relative locations;
• Students will identify the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, Earth's resources, and weather;

• Practice letter name and sounds.
• Practice writing name with first letter capital, the rest lower case.
• Practice Sight Words.
• Read to your child each night.
• Practice recognizing numbers and writing them (0-20).
• Count objects to 20.
• Count to 100.