Kindergarten Newsletter

• Kindergarten Graduation is on May 20 @ 9 AM. Please be on the lookout for an email from Mrs. Eldridge about registration to attend.
• All students will be wearing a matching shirt and graduation hat. The cost is $20. Click the link below to pay or send cash in your student's red folder.
• https://conroeisd.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/75539/195/False/True
• 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!

May 4-8- Teacher Appreciation Week

May 4-8- EOY Testing

May 20- Kindergarten Graduation @ 9 AM

May 22- Last Day of School, Early Dismissal

Nonfiction Unit

• Identifying Physical Traits and Habitats: Students use text features—like photographs and labels—to identify what different animals look like and where they live, such as the ocean, forest, or desert.
• Comparing Life Cycles and Needs: Lessons focus on the basic needs of all animals (food, water, and shelter) while comparing how different species grow and change from birth to adulthood.

Foundational Unit 9:

• Advanced Phonics & Tricky Words: Students master the final five vowel sounds of the kindergarten scope and learn 11 new "Tricky Words" (high-frequency words with irregular spellings).
• Final Assessments & Reading: The unit concludes with a cumulative End-of-Year assessment and uses the decodable reader Scott to practice reading multi-syllable words and complete sentences.

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.

Personal Finance Literacy

• The student applies mathematical process standards to manage one's financial resources effectively for lifetime financial security.
• The students will distinguish between wants and needs and identify income as a source to meet one's wants and needs.

Animals

• The students will identify the different structures that animals have that allow them to interact with their environment such as seeing, hearing, moving, and grasping objects.

• The students will observe and identify the dependence of animals on air, water, food, space, and shelter.

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.

• The students will identify jobs in the home, school, and community.

• Practice writing your first and last name.
• Practice Sight Words.
• Have your student read to you every night.
• Have your student sound out simple CVC words. (ex: cat, bat, sat, sit, hit)
• Have your student sound out words with digraphs ch, sh, th, & wh. (ex: chick, shut, then, when)
• Practice simple addition and subtraction problems using Goldfish or something small at home. (ex: 4+2=6, 5-3=2)
• Count to 100.