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!

Nov. 3 & 4- No School

Nov. 21- PTO School Store

Nov. 24-28- Thanksgiving Break

Plants: How they Grow

• In this unit, students will differentiate between living and nonliving things.
• Students will use pictures to monitor their comprehension of a text, ask questions while they are reading to deepen their understanding, and then identify basic needs of a plant.
• Students will set a purpose for reading and explain the purpose of the different parts of a plant.
• Students will explain, describe the life cycle of a plant.

Foundational Skills

• In unit 3, students will begin to make connections between sounds and symbols. They will continue to practice blending sounds into words and they will be taught several of the symbols used when reading and writing. Specifically, they will learn the most common way to spell eight of the sounds in English: /n/, /h/, /s/, /f/, /v/, /z/, /p/, and /e/.

Numeration

• Students will read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures

• 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

Comparing Numbers

• The students will compare sets of objects up to at least 20 in each set using comparative language.

Light Energy

• The students will communicate the idea that objects can only be seen when a light source is present and compare the effects of different amounts of light on the appearance of objects.

• The students will demonstrate and explain that light travels through some objects and is blocked by other objects, creating shadows.

Day/Night Patterns

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

Geography & Map Skills

• The student understands how historical figures helped shape the state and nation. The student is expected to identify contributions of historical figures, including Stephen F. Austin, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and José Antonio Navarro, who helped to shape the state and nation.

• Students will use spatial terms, including over, under, near, far, left, and right, to describe relative location
• Students will locate places on the school campus and describe their relative locations;
• Students will identify the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, Earth's resources, and weather;

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.