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!

2nd-6th- Dr. Suess Week

5th- Career Day

6th- Field Day

9th-13th- Spring Break

27th- Graduation Pictures

27th- PTO School Store

RLA Unit 9: Seasons & Weather: As the Earth Turns

• Theme & Content: This unit integrates science and literacy to help students understand the Earth’s rotation, the four seasons, and how weather patterns affect plants, animals, and humans.
• Instructional Focus: It uses informational texts and "Flip Books" to build vocabulary and comprehension while meeting 100% of Texas TEKS standards for Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts.

Foundational Unit 8:

• Phonics & Spelling: Students are introduced to 14 new double-letter spellings for consonant sounds (such as 'mm', 'nn', 'ck', and 'zz') and practice reading them in context using the decodable reader, Sam.

• Tricky Words & Assessment: The unit teaches four to seven new high-frequency "Tricky Words" and concludes with a performance task assessment to determine if students are ready to advance to more complex reading tasks.

Joining & Separating

• The students will model the action of joining to represent addition and the action of separating to represent subtraction
• The students will solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and differences within 10.

Numeration & Comparing Numbers

• The students will read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures
• The 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
• The students will compare sets of objects up to at least 20 in each set using comparative language.

Plants

• The students will identify the structures of plants, including roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits.

• The students will observe and identify the dependence of plants on air, sunlight, water, nutrients in the soil, and space to grow

Economics & Technology

• The student understands that holidays are celebrations of special events.

• The student understands the difference between human needs and wants and how they are met.

• 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.
• Have your student read simple sight word sentences. (ex: I see the cat.)
• Have your student sound out simple CVC words. (ex: cat, bat, sat, sit, hit)
• Practice recognizing numbers and writing them (0-20).
• Count objects to 20.
• Count to 100.