Kindergarten Weekly News
January 8, 2016
Language Arts
We started our next unit all about Earth Science and Outdoor Exploration.
We have been learning all about the 4 seasons and the weather. Our
Focus Question this week was: What weather can I observe each
day?  Also, this week’s reading strategy has been all about
Making Connections
This week we also started Week 2 of Unit 4. This weeks Focus Question
was: What can I observe as the seasons change? We discussed
how weather changes throughout the four seasons. We also learned
about different resources we use and the importance of making sure
we keep our Earth clean. Our fluency piece for this week was a
poem called “The Seasons Change”. We practiced reading with
expression, reading with a steady pace, and pausing at punctuation
marks.
Throughout the week we continued to learn the importance of making
connections while we read and how to distinguish between fact and
opinion. We also practiced phoneme segmenting and blending.
Students were asked to listen to separate sounds (/k/ /a/ /t/). Then
they were asked how many sounds they heard (three), and after that
they blended the sounds to make the word (cat). We did this with
multiple three letter words, like bat, lot, fan, box, and pet. You can
play this segmenting and blending game with your kiddo as review!
Math
This week we have been working on Subtraction! We are learning
how to take things apart and use a minus (take away) sign.
Please have your kiddo work on and act out math subtraction
sentences at home together with you too. You can also draw
some picture clues to retell a math subtraction sentence too.
Our projected math test date is Thursday, January 14th. We
will keep you posted
End of Marking Period for Assessments
Over the next two weeks, your kiddo will be getting some end of
the marking period assessments to see where they are at
overall. We will be checking for letter recognition, sounds of
the letters, sight words (up to 26 words right now), numbers to
10 and addition and subtraction, printing his/her first name,
writing and illustrating a sentence (using correct formation
and sight words, spaces, punctuation).
We Are Going to miss You!
As the marking period is coming to a close this month…we are
sad that Miss Jasmine our ETAP student for the AM class) will be
leaving us.  We will greatly miss her and wish her the best of
luck!
Reminders
Tuesday, Jan. 12th ~ NED assembly (see the green form for
more information)
We have learned:
on not has
Wednesday, Jan. 13th ~ Math homework is due
Try to have your child practice these words using flash cards and writing
sentences using these words too. Continued practice of these skills helps us
Thursday, Jan. 14th ~ Tentative math test on Subtraction
to become better readers!  Also…try using your sight word flash cards to
Monday, Jan. 18th~ SCHOOL IS CLOSED
different songs too. Like…Row, row, row your boat OR Twinkle Twinkle
The Week of Jan. 19th -22nd ~STAR testing for all students in
This is a fun way for you and your kiddo to practice these words together.
Kdgn
Friday, Jan. 22nd ~ Lead 21 ~ Benchmark 2 Test!
Letters to Practice at home
Friday,Jan. 29th ~*Early Dismissal:
Letters and sounds we have learned so far….Ss Mm Nn Hh Tt Pp Dd Aa Oo
AM schedule: 8:50-10:50
PM schedule: 11:45-1:45
SIGHT WORDS