Kindergarten Newsletter

Week of January 20, 2025

Reminders

  1. If you have a different form of transportation for your child than what they usually do, please inform the office, so we get him/her to the correct place.

  2. Your child has a red take home folder that will be used for communication between the parent and teacher.

  3. Please check take home folders nightly.

  4. There will be a daily communication sheet notifying you of how your child's day went. The Communication Sheet is to stay in the folder all week and returned on Monday, when a new one will be given.

  • Girls need to wear shorts under their dresses.

  • Please send an extra set of clothes for your child to put in their cubby in case of an accident.

  • REAL is after school from 3:35- 5:00 Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. Students will travel home from REAL their normal way. If your child will have a different plan for getting home please notify the office before 3:20PM.

  • Please read to or with your child every night for 20 minutes.

MATH

Unit 8 Numbers to 100 & Unit 9 Comparing Numbers to 20

  • I can build and write numbers 1-100.

  • I can show collections of 100.

  • I can identify, write, and count the numbers to 100.

  • I can build and match sets to numbers

  • I can compare sets to find the set with more.

LITERACY

UNIT 3: Tell Me a Story

Genre: Fiction / "The Hat" by Jan Brett

Foundational Skill: Word Families -at, -am, -an

Reading Comprehension: Sequencing

Academic Language: choose, explain, meaning, character

High Frequency Words: live, know, going

Language & Conventions: prepositions

Writing: Write sentences with word family & high frequency words.

Social Studies

Theme: Scholastic Magazine / American Heros

  • Learn about American history.

  • Learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Learn about an American hero.

Science

Theme: Density Dan

  • Learn about density.

  • Describe how floating in salt water would be different than floating in fresh water.

  • Use science process skills to explore how some liquids are denser than others.

  • Recognize the letter "Dd" and the sound of /d/.

  • Identify the location of the /d/ sound in a word.