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January 19th, 2024

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Good afternoon, Kindergarten families,

Students had a great week of learning. We started a new kindergarten expedition "Oh the Stories well Tell", and kids are learning about characters, setting and plot of stories. They continue to work on making their writing easy to read in Literacy. Mabel has been helping them with Word-Part power in phonics. They are able to find short word parts like -op, -ip, -an, -at, -it in words and manipulate the first sound to make lists of words. They are enjoying the new workplaces in math and are learning strategies to add numbers together easier like the counting on strategy.

Thank you all you were able to join our parent workshop "Growing Problem Solvers".

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

ELA: Writers will choose a piece for their writing celebration

Phonics: Students will be using word part to write other words.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

ELA: Students will be celebrating the work they have done. They will be teaching other people what they have learned about writing and revising true stories that are easy to read.

Phonics: Students will use their word part power to make as many new words as they can. They will learn to write words letter-by-word-part and they will use it to read simple rhyming books, while focusing on the fact that words that sound the same at the end are often spelled the same at the end. They will learn 3 new snap words: got, was, went.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

ELA: Students are encourage to write true stories using everything they know about making writing easy to read and reading it to a family member.

Phonics: Students can read familiar books to find and use word parts. (-an, -at, -ap, -in, -it, -ip, -op).

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los lectores celebrarán el fin de la unidad de lectura y darán inicio a la nueva unidad de escritura.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Al iniciar la unidad " Escribiendo para lectores" los estudiantes continuarán desarrollando habilidades que les permitan formular palabras y oraciones mas completas, de igual manera, recordarán la rutina y pasos del taller de escritura.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Para este inicio de la unidad de escritura , seria increible que en casa puedan practicar las letras y sus sonidos ,(vocales y consonantes)

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Mathematicians will learn the counting on strategy to add two numbers. They will experiment with length.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will explore addition throughout the counting on strategy. They will represent addition with objects. They will start module 3 and will be introduced to comparing length.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Students can collect different objects and compare length using vocabulary learned in class.

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

Scientist will continue learning about maps and globes.

What tigers are doing at school...

Students will continue last week's topic and continue learning about maps and globes, why they get distorted through the use of a ballon, and students will create a brand-new map and learn about the difficulties of mapping out an environment.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students can map their home, neighborhood, local park or any other area so they can better navigate themselves at home

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Learners and friends identify beliefs or stereotypes that exist about others, objects, or roles.

Learners and friends describe limitations and problems associated with stereotyped thinking.

Learners and friends demonstrate ways to challenge stereotypes (e.g., exchange for fresh thoughts, get to know others).

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners learn strategies to reflect on the accuracy of these beliefs and foster increased understanding of variability and similarities within social groups. In this lesson, students will reframe stereotypes with the phrasing “some do____” and “some don’t____.”

What friends and learners could be practicing at home...

If children make stereotyped comments, turn the discussion back with a general example and the language: some do… some don’t; some are… some aren’t; sometimes you do… sometimes you don’t.