WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN

We look forward to a year filled with lots of learning, laughs and love! Thank you for entrusting us with your child.

This page will have class reminders and lessons for the week. LESSONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

WELCOME TO THE 2019 – 2020 SCHOOL YEAR!!!!!

REMINDERS:

• Please feel free to contact me by email/note.
• All money must be in an envelope marked with your child’s name, grade and purpose.
• School supplies and class folder must be checked every evening.
• The children must bring their own snack and drink each day.
• If your child is staying for after care they MUST have their OWN SNACK.
• Thursday brown envelope MUST be returned either  Friday or Monday morning.
• THE HOMEWORK PAPER FOR THE WEEK IS IN THE HOME WORK FOLDER. KEEP THIS HOMEWORK PAPER IN THE FOLDER  AND RETURN BOTH PAPER AND FOLDER EVERY DAY. THE HOMEWORK IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CLASS SUPPLIES MUST BE BROUGHT TO SCHOOL  EVERY DAY.
• HOMEWORK IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
• WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26TH ASH WEDNESDAY – LENT BEGINS. THE CHILDREN WILL ATTEND THE NOON MASS.
• KINDERGARTEN WILL ATTEND THE 8 O’CLOCK MASS ON WEDNESDAYS ON THESE DATES DURING LENT: MARCH 4TH, 11TH, 18TH, 25TH, APRIL 1ST, AND APRIL 8TH.
• MARCH 6TH THE CHILDREN ARE TO ARRIVE BY 7:40 TO ATTEND MASS. REPORT TO THE CLASSROOM.
• Monday – SPANISH
• Tuesday –  MUSIC
• Wednesday – COMPUTER
• Thursday –  GYM – the children are to wear their gym uniform and sneakers to school AND ART CLASS IN THE AFTERNOON
• Friday – Science Lab 

READING : The students will be introduced to a new Superkids friend while working with consonant Ff, continue to encode and decode words, continue to identify nouns and verbs, and and  asking sentences and question mark, continue to review short vowel Aa and Oo, Ii,  in both the initial and medial position, continue work with COPS; capitalization, organization, punctuation, and spelling, work with blending papers, continue  to identify parts of a book, recognize words are made up of letters, identify rhyming words and syllables. SPELLING QUIZ ON FRIDAY FROM WORDS IN THE NOTEBOOK.

The children should always review their  groups of Red/ Sight/Memory words. 

CCSS: K.RF.1B – Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. K.RF.2 – Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). K.RF.3a – Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. K.RF.1d – Recognize and name all upper-and  lowercase letters of the alphabet. K.RI.5 – Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book. K.SL.2 – Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

MATH: CHAPTER 7 MATH QUIZ TUESDAY — The students will describe position of shapes using terms above, below, beside, top, middle, bottom, over, on, under, inside, outside, in front of, behind, next to, left, right, between,to correctly name shapes regardless of orientation.

STEAM CONNECTION:  In this chapter the children will make connections to scientific practices as they use observations to identify the positions of objects.

MATH WORDS: Above, below, above, top, middle, bottom, over, on under, over, in front of, inside, outside, behind next to, left, right, between.

CCSS:  K.CC.3 – Write numbers 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral. K.CC.4 – Understand the relationship between number and quantities, connect counting to cardinality.

RELIGION: The students will read and discuss Lent a time of prayer and loving God and others, read, discuss and learn the Stations of the Cross. The children will read Bible stories and sing Religion songs.

WEEKLY READER –  Our First President – Children will use visuals and texts to compare and contrast life in George Washington’s time and life today.  Animal smiles – Children will ream emergent, repetitive text and use vocabulary to describe the shapes of different animals teeth. – Science Spin-  Profile of a Scientist and Robot Man.

CCSS: K.SL.1 – Participate in collaborative conversations about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

SCIENCE LABLEARNER – The children will begin the fourth cell of LabLearner – Making Measurements – The children will perform activities and conduct  experiments focused on measuring and quantifying properties of objects using measuring objects such as rulers, meters, pitchers, pan balance liters and gram cubes.