A Glimpse into our learning

Reminder: No School Thursday, October 2 (Yom Kippur) and Friday, October 3 (Professional Development)

 ELA

CKLA Skills:  

We began Unit 2 this week. In Unit 2, students will practice an essential reading skill: blending sounds to make words. They will learn how to put syllables together to say two-syllable words, and how to blend individual sounds (like /c/ – /a/ – /t/) to make short words. 

Blending is the most important early skill for learning to read. When children can hear individual sounds and smoothly put them together, they are ready to connect those sounds to letters. This will prepare them for the phonics work in Unit 3 and beyond.

CKLA Knowledge:  This week, we learned the following nursery rhymes:

• Hickory, Dickory, Dock
  
  

• Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
  
  

• Little Bo Peep
  
  

• Little Boy Blue

• Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

• Humpty Dumpty
  
  

New vocabulary words: struck, stockings, sheep, haystack, meadow, lane, wool, together, great

Math 

Bridges Unit Lessons:  Unit 1, Module 4

In Module 4, students will be exploring patterns in fun ways—using movement, sounds, and hands-on materials. They’ll clap, stomp, and use their voices, as well as classroom tools, to practice noticing, copying, and creating patterns. At math centers, they’ll also keep building number sense by working with counting patterns of fives and tens.

Number Corner:  In September Number Corner, students are working on:

• Exploring 2D shapes: circles, rectangles, triangles, and squares

• Practicing basic counting skills

• Learning different combinations that make five
  
  

💡 Try this at home: Have your child hunt for circles, rectangles, triangles, and squares around the house or outside. Ask, “How many different ways can we make 5?” using fingers or small objects.

SEL:  

Over the next few weeks, kindergarten will be working through the RULER program, which focuses on recognizing and understanding our emotions and learning strategies to regulate them. 

In kindergarten, we have worked on our class charters and the mood meter, and continue to discuss our emotions.

Social Studies & Science:  COMING SOON!

Books we read this week:  The Good Egg, It's Fall, Mother Bruce, Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon