Kindergarten Newsletter
Week of April 22, 2025
Reminders
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.
Your child has a red take home folder that will be used for communication between the parent and teacher.
Please check take home folders nightly.
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
To show that the greatest damage from an earthquake occurs at its epicenter.
Quincy Quake's Earthquake in a Bottle
To show how heat is produced by movement of the Earth's crust.