Happy New Year 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

• January 17: Student Holiday
• January 20: End of Quarter / 2-hour early release
• January 21: Teacher Workday / Student Holiday
• January 24: Staff Development Day / Student Holiday
• 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 learned about non-fiction in reading and writing. Students continued to work on early reading behaviors as they explored and engaged in various non-fiction texts.
• Students began creating “How-To” books in writing. Students learned how to write and draw about a single topic as well as teach and learn new information through sharing their books with peers.
• Students continued working on building letter-sound relationships and phonemic awareness skills through engaging in meaningful small group lessons and independent activities.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Our kindergarteners will learn how to write a personal narrative. They will continue to listen and share stories with peers and learn how to use strategies to brainstorm ideas independently.
• Students will continue to write about a single topic using pictures and words across pages. 
• 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.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Students worked towards fluency with counting sets, making sets, comparing sets, ordering sets, and writing numerals up to 20. Students also continued solidifying oral counting forward to 31 and backward from 10, while becoming fluent with saying the number after a given number.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Students will learn to recognize and describe with fluency part-whole relationships for numbers up to 5.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

We learned  how to be a scientist with the gingerbread man! We learned about the ingredients to make gingerbread play-doh, hibernation, winter animals, and snow.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

We will learn and engage with the objects around us through magnets.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

Our students learned about change over time - we learned that people, places, things, and ideas evolve over time. We also learned about positional words using a gingerbread man-themed sensory bin.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

We will begin learning about various jobs and community helpers.