Kindergarten Newsletter

• Please look out for information to sign up to bring something for our Winter Party!
• 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!

Dec. 2- Pictures with Santa

Dec. 3-5- PTO Holiday Store

Dec. 18- Winter Party

Dec. 19- Early Dismissal

Dec. 22- Jan. 5- Winter Break

RLA Unit 5: "Farms: From the Ground Up":

• Learning About Farms and Food Sources: This unit educates students on where food comes from, exploring different farm animals, crops, and the "farm-to-market" process through engaging, rich read-aloud stories and texts narrated by a character named "Old MacDonald."
• Building Vocabulary and Understanding the World: The lessons are designed to build essential background knowledge and vocabulary related to farming, the seasons, and the importance of cooperation (using stories like "The Little Red Hen"), all of which support stronger listening comprehension and future independent reading skills.

Foundational Unit 5:

• Building a Reading "Starter Toolkit": In this unit, we are zeroing in on the crucial connections between letters and sounds. Your child is actively building their foundational "starter toolkit" for reading, learning how to sound out and decode words independently.
• Growing Knowledge Through Stories: Beyond letter sounds, we're growing our students' world knowledge and vocabulary. We'll be exploring different topics through engaging read-alouds, helping them understand new ideas and build strong listening comprehension skills that pave the way for successful reading in the future.

Data

• Students will use data to create real-object and picture graph and draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs.

Joining & Separating

• Students will model the action of joining to represent addition and the action of separating to represent subtraction.

• Students will solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10 and differences within 10.

Day/Night Patterns

• The student will know that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among objects in the sky.

Objects in the Sky

• Students will observe, describe, and illustrate the Sun, Moon, stars, and objects in the sky such as cloud.

Culture & Customs

• Students will describe and explain the importance of family traditions; and

• Students will compare traditions among families.

• 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.