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

• March 3: Early Release at 1:30
• March 4: Student Holiday
• March 31: Early Release

• 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:

• Our kindergarteners continued to work on writing personal narratives. They learned to listen and share stories with peers and learned how to use strategies to brainstorm ideas independently.
• Students learned to interact with texts as they followed and empathized with characters in stories, and develop ideas about how and why characters and feelings change in stories.
• 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.

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 activities. 
• Students will continue to learn how to monitor all aspects of reading to engage in and understand texts as a whole.
• Students will 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.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students began their 3rd counting unit and continued to work towards fluency with counting sets, making sets, comparing sets, ordering sets, and writing numerals up to 100. Students also continued to solidify oral counting forward by ones to 100 and backward from 10, while becoming fluent with saying the number after a given number from 0 to 100, and before any given number from 0 to 30. Students also began working on counting collections - they learned to count forward by 1s and 10s to determine the total number of objects to 100.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

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

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students learned about the science behind how shadows are created.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will learn about the weather and water cycle.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

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

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will continue learning about change over time to compare people, places, and events from long ago and now.