Kindergarten Newsletter

Week of April 22, 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 13: Data & Graphing

  • I can read data to create a graph.

  • I can collect data using tally marks.

  • I can create a graph using data I collected.

  • I can roll the die to create data & graph the data.

LITERACY

UNIT 5: Outside My Door

Genre: Informational Text / "The Earth"

Foundational Skill: Review Consonant Digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh)

Reading Comprehension: Answer questions over the text

Academic Language: effect, measure, prepare, extreme

High Frequency Words: no, say, under

Language & Conventions: Review Verbs & Nouns

Writing: Write sentences the who, did what, where method.

Spelling List Words: CVC words (flag, slip, trap, stop, eat & walk) TEST FRIDAY!

Social Studies

Theme: Scholastic Magazine

Hummingbirds

  • Vocabulary -- hatched, migrate

  • Sequencing

  • Life cycle of a hummingbird

Science

Theme: Quincy Quake Labs

Quincy Quake's Box and Bocks

  1. To show that the greatest damage from an earthquake occurs at its epicenter.

Quincy Quake's Earthquake in a Bottle

  1. To show how heat is produced by movement of the Earth's crust.