Captain James E. Daly, Jr. Elementary School
January 2016
Mark Your
Calendar
Friday, January 1st
No School, Holiday-New Year’s
Day
Monday, January 18th
No School, Holiday-Martin L.
King, Jr., Day
th
Tuesday, January 25
Professional day for teachers;
No school for students
Math
During the month of January
students will . . .
*Count by tens to 100.
*Compare quantities to
determine which is more.
*Model addition and
subtraction word problems.
*Represent different
arrangements of up to 10
objects
*Decompose numbers up to
10 into two pairs (for
example: 6 and 4 or 5 and 5
or 8 and 2)
Science
In science we will
compare the animals to
their offspring as we
learn about their life
cycles. We will learn
about the lifecycle of
Darkling Beetles.
Our January
Goal
Every kindergarten
student will be able to
tie their own shoes, zip
their own coat and put
on their own gloves
correctly. Please
practice these things
with you child at home
each night.
Reading
and
Writing
In reading we will read
informational texts and
identify the main topic, retell
key details and draw
relationships between
illustrations and the text.
We will also sort common
objects.
Students will be writing to
teach the reader about
something. The goal is for
them to choose a topic and
Social
write 3 things
about it. For
example, a book about cats
Studies
may include, “A cat has four
legs.
A catobserve
is small. and
A cat
We will
can
be a pet.”
compare
physical and
human made features
of the Earth. We will
also learn how people
modify and adapt to