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!

Sept. 1- No School- Labor Day

Sept. 4- Parent Info Night (5:30 pm)

Sept. 17- ORHS Homecoming Parade

Sept. 17- Read for a Better Life

Sept. 18- Pizza & Read Night

Sept. 26- Moving with Moms (7:00 am)

Sept. 26- PTO School Store

The Five Senses

Students will listen actively and ask questions to understand information and answer questions using multi-word responses.
Students recognizes characteristics and structures if informational text, including central idea and supporting evidence, with adult assistance.
Students will discuss with adult assistance the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
Students will identify and use words that name actions; directions; positions; sequences; categories; such as colors, shapes and textures; and locations.
Students will Dictate or compose informational texts.

Foundational Skills

Students will restate and follow oral directions that involve short, related sequences of actions.
students will demonstrate phonological awareness by identifying syllables in spoken words; blending syllables to form multisyllabic words; manipulating syllables within a multisyllabic word.
Students will demonstrate print awareness by holding a book right side up, turning pages correctly, and knowing that reading move from top to bottom and left to right with return sweep.
Students will identify and use words that name actions, directions, positions , sequences, categories such as colors, shapes and textures and locations.

2D Shapes

Students will identify 2D shapes including circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares as special rectangles.

Money

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

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

Properties of Matter

The student is expected to identify and record observable physical properties of objects, including shape, color, texture, and material, and generate ways to classify objects.

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;