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Kindergarten Newsletter

Kindergarten Newsletter
KindergartenNewsletter

Week of October 5th, 2026 Week of October 5th, 2026

What We're Learning What We're Learning

Literacy

  • Unit Theme: Every Story Has Characters
  • Skills: Active Listening, Following Directions, Rhyming, Alphabet, Initial Sounds, Syllables, Writing our name, Handwriting practice, Identify Parts of a Book (title, front cover, back cover, author, illustrator, title page)
  • Letters and Sounds: Aa, Mm, Ss, Tt, Pp, Ff, Ii, Nn, Nasalized Aa
  • High Frequency Words/Sight Words: I, like, we, go, see

Math

  • Three-Dimensional Shapes and Weights

Social Emotional

  • Feelings and Community

Science and Social Studies

  • 5 Senses

Skills you can practice at home

  • Writing name in proper title case (ex: Alex Smith)
  • Letter Recognition A to Z
  • Letter Sounds A to Z
  • Number recognition to 10
  • Writing Numbers to 10
  • Practice counting a collection of 10 objects

Reminders Reminders

Thursday Folder

  • Please remember to empty out your child’s Thursday folder and return to your teacher every week. You may keep your Thursday folder to reuse next year.

Snack

  • Please make sure to pack a daily healthy snack that can be eaten quickly. Please limit snacks to one or two items and avoid candy.
  • No juice or colored liquids are allowed in the classroom for snack time. Please send only water.
  • Please bring a water bottle daily

Homework

  • October homework will be sent home on the 5th. These are some fun activities you can do with your child to practice the concepts we are learning at school. Please cross off the activities as they are completed. On the back there is a reading log where your child can color in an object for each book they read or you read to them. There is also a green fluency practice page where you can start a 1 minute timer and see how many letters or letter sounds your child can name. To be on grade level students at this point in the year should get a minimum of 13 letters in a minute. Students will spend the month completing the activities and reading log. Please complete at your own pace. You can place completed homework in your student’s homework folder and return to school by October 30th. Students who turn in their homework will receive a prize.

Important Dates Important Dates

October 6: Fun Run Prize Day

October 12-16: Fall Break

October 23: Fall Festival 5:30-7:00PM

October 30: Please join us for our Halloween Classroom Party (More information to follow)

Fall Festival – Volunteers & Donations Needed! Fall Festival – Volunteers & Donations Needed!

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Our Fall Festival is happening on Friday, October 23rd, and we’re excited to join in the fun! Each grade is creating a themed display—and Kindergarten’s theme is Coco!


We’re looking for parent volunteers to help set up the kindergarten display after school starting at 3:30PM. You can sign up to help here:
👉 Volunteer Sign-Up Link

We also need a few donated supplies to bring our Coco theme to life. Items can be purchased directly from our Amazon Wish List:

👉 Amazon Wish List

Please see Ms. Friel if you have any questions. Thank you for helping make the kindergarten hallway a hit!

Specials Specials

Mrs. Dehdashtian's Class: Art

Library on Tuesday, please return books back inside book bags by Monday

Ms. Friel's Class: Music

Library on Wednesday, please return books back inside book bags by Tuesday

Mrs. Hegre's Class: STEAM

Library on Thursday, please return books back inside book bags by Wednesday

Contact Us Contact Us

Ghazaleh Dehdashtian gdehdashtian@dcsdk12.org

Danielle Friel dfriel1@dcsdk12.org

Michelle Hegre mmhegre@dcsdk12.org

Kindergarten Team
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