Hello families! Our kindergarteners have been working hard this month to be good students and friends. We are thankful for our students and for your support!

Important Dates & Reminders

• April 4-8: Spring Break!

• Please pack an extra set of clothes and underwear in your child’s backpack.
• Please pack a water bottle labeled with your child’s name.
• Please pack a healthy snack labeled with your child’s name.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students continued working on building letter-sound relationships and phonemic awareness skills through engaging in meaningful small group lessons and independent activities.
   
• Students continued to learn how to monitor all aspects of reading to engage in and understand texts as a whole.
   
• Students continued to engage in different types of poetry and respond to a variety of poems through remember reading, writing, and recognizing poetic tools (rhyme, rhythm) in order to discover their personal interests and tastes in poetry.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Students will continue working on building letter-sound relationships and phonemic awareness skills through engaging in meaningful small group lessons and independent reading and writing activities.
   
• Students will continue to learn how to monitor all aspects of reading to engage in and understand texts as a whole. Students will solve predictable decodable words using letter/sound relationships. They will also continue / begin reading simple phrases.
   
• Students will engage and learn about the research process. They will ask questions about a line of interest, use observation to learn about new information, and collaborate / discuss their observations and questions with their peers.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students engaged in counting collection groups to reinforce orally counting quantities and writing numbers 0-100.
   
• Students started their 2nd composing & decomposing unit. Students learned to use different tools (ten-frames, bead racks, dot arrangements, and fingers) to describe parts of numbers 0-10 and show different numbers.
   
• Students learned to model and solve simple story problems involving sums and differences to 5.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Students will continue to work on their number sense skills (counting / writing quantities, composing / decomposing).
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• Students will continue to engage in counting collection groups to reinforce orally counting quantities and writing numbers 0-100.
   
• Students will identify and learn about the quantities of a penny, nickel, dime, and a quarter.
   
• Students will learn about data through object graphs, picture graphs, and tables.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students learned about the weather and water cycle.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will learn about living things and their needs to survive. They will also learn about plant and animal life cycles.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students continued to learn about change over time to compare people, places, and events from long ago and now.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will begin to learn about economics - they will learn and compare the differences between a need and want.