Kindergarten Information

What We Are Learning: March 2024

Reading

-Identify sight words

-Recall important details from books and discuss (beginning/middle/end)

-Make a book-to-self connection

-Draw conclusions/infer: what isn’t the author telling us that we can figure out on our own?

Writing

-Personal narratives (telling a story about ourselves in the right order)

-Stretching out sounds to write unfamiliar words;

-Write simple sentences with uppercase letter in the beginning, spaces between each word, and punctuation at the end

Phonics

-Digraph sounds: sh, ch, th, wh and -ck

-Reading and writing “CCVC” (consonant digraph-vowel-consonant) or “CVCC” (consonant-vowel-digraph consonant) words

e.g. cash, ship, thud, much, etc.

“tapping out” words to read, “stretching out” words to spell them

Math

-Solving Addition number story problems

-Decomposing numbers (8+2=10, 1+9=10, 10+0=5, etc.)

-Oral counting to 100 by one and tens

Science

-Weather & Seasons

After reading a book with your child each night, help your child retell all of the important events (in example, what happened in the beginning, middle and end –or facts in a book, if it is a non-fiction piece) to help their comprehension and oral language. Take time to also ask them questions that help them draw conclusions and/or make inferences (see below for details).
LEXIA: an online resource that your child can use to build their literacy skills. If you are unsure on how to login, ask your child’s teacher for more information.
Please also take advantage of KidsA-Z.com. *Accessible by computer, phone or tablet*
- https://www.kidsa-z.com/main/Login
- K-207: User: Mramos50;
- K-208: User: rsantos30;
- K-209: User: mschmitt2020;
- Password for all: Cat icon
Continue to work on building your child’s heart word knowledge bank at home.
Please check your child’s pockets and backpacks for toys before dropping them off in the morning and help support our no toys at school promise. Note: toys are NOT allowed in the after school program either.
Look inside your child’s homework folder every night for important information and completed classwork. Gentle reminder, clean the folders out every weekend.
Please keep your child home from school if they wake up with a fever, diarrhea, persistent cough or sore throat as this helps to minimize the spread of illnesses in our classrooms.

Thursday, March 7: Parent Teacher Conferences & Half Day for students

Sunday, March 10: Daylight Savings Time begins

Thursday, March 14: Parent Association Meeting & Family Night @ 6pm

Friday, March 29: School Closed for Easter Weekend (students return Tuesday, Apr 2nd)