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

• February 21: President’s Day (No school)

• 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 “All-about” 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: 

• Due to the unforeseen snow days, our kindergarteners will continue working on writing personal narratives. They will continue to listen and share stories with peers and learn how to use strategies to brainstorm ideas independently.
   
• Students will interact with texts as they follow and empathize with characters in stories, and develop ideas about how and why characters and feelings change in stories.
   
• 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 learned how to recognize and describe with fluency part-whole relationships for numbers up to 5.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Students will begin their 3rd counting unit and continue to work towards fluency with counting sets, making sets, comparing sets, ordering sets, and writing numerals up to 100. Students will also continue 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 will also work on counting collections - they will learn to count forward by 10s to determine the total number of objects to 100.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

We learned and engaged with the objects around us through magnets.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

We will learn about the science behind how shadows are created.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

Our students learned about community helpers and their various jobs.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

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