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February 2nd, 2024

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Dear Kindergarten Families,

It's been a great week of learning! In expeditions students have been learning about the elements of literature including: characters, setting, and plot. They have been exploring how stories and poems can serve as mirrors, windows and sliding doors in helping us make connections, explore differences, and seek understanding. Students have been working hard on their theater skills including: gesture, voice, facial expression and props to enhance their oral storytelling. This week they dramatized their favorite story they chose to their classmates and did an amazing job performing. To continue building on their skills we are excited to tell you that we will be having a field trip on Thursday Feb 8th to Teatro El Gato. Today we are sending their Friday Feedback folder inside you will find the permission slips, please sign and return to your homeroom teacher at latest on Wednesday Feb 7th.

In our science unit, students are learning about force, push and pull and in the following weeks they will be working in groups to create their own boat. For this we will be needing recycled materials for them to create them, if you could please send any would be greatly appreciated.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

ELA: Students will be learning new super reading powers that could be activated when they are reading.

Phonics: Students are growing their word part power by adding diagraphs at the beginning of words to make new ones.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

ELA: During reading workshop students will be activating new super reading powers, such as their think power to show what they notice and wonder about a book before they read it. They will learn to monitor their reading, noticing when they've made a mistake and rereading to fix-it up and they will strengthen their powers by teaming up with a partner, reminding one another and working together to shore up all their powers.

Phonics: Students have been introduced to diagraphs. They learned that two letters can make one sound such as: -ch, -sh, -th, -wh

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

ELA: Students are encourage to read books at home and put in practice all of their super powers they have learned. -Pointer Power, Slider Power, Snap Word Power, Think Power and Fix-it Power

Phonics: Students are encouraged to practice using diagraphs (-sh, -th, -wh, -ch) and word parts (-op, -at, -ip) to come up with words such as: shop, chop, ship, that)

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los escritores trabajan con compañeros para agregar mas sonidos a sus palabras, y escriben un principio, medio y final.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los escritores aprenderan a trabajar con sus compañeros para estirar los sonidos de las palabras y agregar mas a sus historias, tambien aprenderan sobre la secuencia en sus historias.

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

En casa trabajar juntos para estirar los sonidos de las letras ayudar a los niños a escuchar el sonido inicial.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will describe the difference between the length of two objects. They identify pennies and nickels.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will continue to explore measuring objects, comparing length and comparing numbers. They will be introduce to money to reinforce the previous work with numbers to 10. Th emphasis will be on recognition of 5 as a sub base, counting five and some more, and the idea of 10 is composed by two sets of 5.

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

Mathematicians can measure different objects around their home and then compare the lenght of two.

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

Students will need to understand the steps they need to use while designing their sail boats.

What tigers are doing at school...

Students are learning the importance of planning at the same time building a sailboat in order to be tested in their planning abilities

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students can plan their daily routine tio see the effiiency of being organized

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Recognize situations that are unfair to others.

Use perspective-taking. and empathy to support others and discourage unfair behavior.

Feel capable of supporting others in unfair situations.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners learn that being fair means treating everyone the same, giving everyone the same opportunities, including everyone. The counselor describes what fair situations and unfair situations look and feel like within the school context. Then through the think-share-pair activity with peers, they discuss how to be fair in some scenarios.

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

Discuss any fair or unfair behaviors they see in the classroom. If necessary, help kids discover ways to make a situation more fair.

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Upcoming Events

Feb. 6

Retake Photo
Session

Feb. 10

AASCA Soccer Tiger Fun Day
8 - 11 a.m.

Feb. 14

Frindship
Celebration

Feb. 16

Friday Feedback sent home

Feb. 23

No School

Reminders

KB has swimming until Friday February 16th
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 - Please sign and return latest on Wednesday February 7th.
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 all classmates are included in the activity. Please send them at latest by Tuesday February 13th in order to organize them. Thanks in advance. Students can wear colored clothes red, white, pink with jeans.
Friday February 16th - Friday Feedback Folder
Friday February 23rd - No School