Kindergarten Newsletter

Skills to work on at home everyday for 15 mins if possible.

• Practice letter sounds
• listen for beginning sounds in words
• practice sight words
• writing letters and numbers
• counting

Other Notes

* Send a small healthy snack and a spill-proof water bottle every day.

* Shoes must be lace up tennis shoes that actually tie.

November 18 - Popcorn and Disney T-shirt Day

November 23-27 - Thanskgiving Break

Our kindergarten sight word lists have been placed in your scholars red folder. Each week we will introduce one to two sight words. Please provide practice at home.

This week we will we will begin our Unit 2 in Fundations. We will them tune into the middle sound mand blends, segment and manipulate the sounds. Scholars will learn to blend and read three-sound short vowel words, This words are called CVC words. In this unit they will also practice alphabetical order with their tile boards.

This week we will introduce a new concept, scholars will learn how to tap and read words.

+Phonemic awareness skills: rhyming, beginning sounds, identifying 1 and 2 syllable words, ending sounds

+ Listen and count how many words are in a sentence

Letters

(Scholars should be able to identify, name, sound, and form the letter correctly, please provide extra practice at home.)

t b f n m i u c o a g d s e r p j l h k v w y x z qu

sight words to know

I it if in at am a on of go so no is his was as be he

Wit & Wisdom

Look At What We Are Learning

This week in Lessons 18-21 scholars will:

• Express understanding of how writers create characters in a story
• Identify the characters and setting in The Little Red Hen
• Analyze the characters in the The Little Red Hen
• Identify the problem and resolution in The Little Red Hen

Module 2 Family Tip Sheet

Essential Question:

• What makes a good story?

Focusing Question:

• How do authors create characters?

By the end of the module scholars will need to understand the following:

• Authors of informational texts teach us about real life through their books.

• Authors of narrative texts use their imaginations to tell fictional stories that entertain and teach us.

• In real life, farm animals live on farms and help people in different ways.

• Life on a farm and the animals’ behavior change with the seasons.

• Informational texts and fictional stories are structurally different. Fictional stories have characters, setting, problems, and resolutions. Informational texts tell facts about a topic.

This week in Module 3 Comparison

We finish up topic A and begin topic B . Topic B opens with scholars using their senses to experience and discuss the new measurable attributes of weight.

Scholars will:

• Compare the lengths of two cube sticks
• Compose cube sticks that are the same length
• Compare weights by using heavier than, lighter than, and about the same weight as
• Use a balance scale to compare scale to compare two objects