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January 26th, 2024
Kindergarten News
Dear Kindergarten Families,
We had another amazing week full of learning in kindergarten. They have been determined in writing true stories and got ready to showcase their books with Pathways students. Next week in literacy we will be starting our Readers Workshop called "Super Readers" and in Spanish they will be starting a new writing unit called "Writers for Readers", Mrs. Karen Velasquez is back from her maternity leave. In Math, students have been working with adding and subtracting numbers within 5. In Phonics, they have been looking carefully at word parts in words and noticing that by only changing the beginning sound they are able to come up with many rhyming words.
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
ELA: Students will start reading workshop "Reading Superpowers" Unit
Phonics: Students will be finishing the unit of word part power and will start a new unit called vowel power.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
ELA: Students will be using superpowers to actually read words, especially "slider power". They will learn how they starts under the first letter and make that sound, then continue sliding their finger under the first 2 letters and blend those first two sounds together, then finally, they will slide their finger under all three letters to blend all three sounds.
Phonics: Students will learn to make words with diagraphs and word parts.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
ELA: Students are encouraged when reading a book at home they use their slider super powers to read words.
Phonics: Have children find and highlight the diagraph -ch in the Chocolate Song
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Los escritores escribirán oraciones mas largas en sus libros y usarán el poder de releer para mejorar sus oraciones.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los escritores pasarán de agregar etiquetas a escribir oraciones a sus historias reales, también revisarán sus palabras releyendo lo escrito. Repasarán las vocales.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
En casa pueden practicar contando historias de lo que hicieron en la escuela, pueden hacer en secuencia ordenanda.
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Students will describe the length of an object.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Mathematicians will explore measuring length with non-standards units ( feet, craft sticks and unifix cubes). Students will develop the understanding of the concept of longer, shorter and th same length.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Students can use objects around their house and measure length. They can also compare one object length to the other.
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
Students will learn about the forces of push and pull and how they work, they're all around us. Also building our scientific vocabulary.
What tigers are doing at school...
Students will learn by personally experiencing push and pull forces, and will elaborate experiments involving push and pull.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Students can build their own paper airplanes at home with their one unique design and challenge their family to see who can build the best plane.
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
Develop an understanding of others’ perspectives and feelings, Describe ways to show empathy and caring to someone, Consider how empathy relates to friendship.
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Empathy is the ability to identify with and understand people’s emotions—to feel what they feel. It is a precursor to compassion or when one actively tries to find solutions to help others. Empathy is linked with greater peer acceptance and positive relationships as students improve their prosocial behaviors (e.g., helping). In this lesson, students will think about how characters feel in a situation and role-play ways to show empathy and that they care
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Model different ways to show empathy, such as asking follow-up questions to show interest, offering to listen to something they have to say, or providing encouragement. Reinforce that we can show we care by letting others feel their feelings and by being a good listener.
CONNECT
Upcoming Events
Feb. 2
Friday Feedback sent home
Feb. 6
Retake Photo
Session
Feb. 14
Frindship
Celebration
Feb. 23
No School
Reminders
Today was KA's last day for swimming on Monday January 29th until Friday February 16th - KB starts swimming, please have students wear their swimming suits under their uniform and send towel, goggles, swim caps, comb, and underwear in a swim bag. If your child is not swimming you need to send a medical excuse to jcastro@ans.edu.ni, ansprimary@ans.eud.ni and your homeroom teacher.
Friday Feb 2nd - Friday Feedback Folder sent home.
Tuesday Feb 6th - Yearbook retake pictures, if your child is new to the school or otherwise notified for a retake please make sure to pack a white collar shirt inside their backpacks.
Thursday February 8th - Field Trip to Teatro El Gato - More infromation will be coming soon.
Wednesday February 14th - Friendship Celebration - Students will be sharing a small snack and a letter that they will make at home to bring to share with their classmates. Please make sure classmate is included in the activity. Please send them at latest by Tuesday February 13th in order to organize them. Thanks in advance.
January - Calendar
Swimming
Big Questions Day
Meet the Team!
Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming
KA
Mrs. Vivian Espinoza
KB
Mrs. Lorena González
KC
Mrs. Karen Velásquez
Kindergarten Spanish Lead
Sabrina Sandino
KA Paraprofessional
Fátima Jiménez
KB Paraprofessional
Ma. Gabriela García
KC Paraprofessional
Mrs. Auxiliadora Guzmán
Kindergarten Inclusion Lead
Alicia Oviedo
K Spanish Paraprofessional