Kindergarten Newsletter
January 7-11, 2008
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and vacation!
Please remember that now that “chilly” weather is upon us that students will
need to dress appropriately with hats, mittens, coats, and boots when
necessary. Please refer to your school calendar for our procedures when we
have delays, early dismissals, and cancellations.
This week in Kindergarten
Reading and Language Arts- This week we will continue with our
theme 5 entitled “Let’s Count”. We will meet new alphafriend Fifi Fish for
letter Ff. We will review previous letters Pp and Gg. We will continue to
focus on our Kindergarten sight words of: a, to, and, we, like, see, I, my as
well as go and will add the new word “no” We will continue working on using
“juicy” describing words to describe foods. We will continue to distinguish
letters/words, first/last letters and practice return sweep when reading a
book. We will continue to learn how to categorize and classify objects. We
will continue to focus on story structure (beginning, middle, and end).
Math-In Math, we will be working on temperature. We will
investigate temperature using comparative words and identify thermometer
as a tool for measuring temperature. We will review and apply concepts,
skills, and strategies learned in chapter 6 “Measurement”. We will review
length, capacity and weight.
Social Studies- In Social Studies we will continue to talk
about the United States of America. We will talk about “The First
Americans” and how did explorers come to America.
Science-In Science, we will continue our comparison of the
seasons of summer and winter. Let’s hope we have some snow or cold
weather soon so that we have some tangible experiences to make our
comparisons! We will talk about the NASA astronaut “Joan Higginbotham”.
We will investigate also “what can the wind move?”.
Important Information
Jan. 9, 2008- Second quarter report cards released
Thank-you so much for all the wonderful and thought gifts and
donations (can drive)! We really appreciate it. Thank-you for all your
continued support and help in working with your child and making our
Kindergarten year a successful one!
Sincerely Yours,
Kindergarten Team (Ms. Brill, Ms. Castillo, Ms. Enteria and Ms.
Williams)