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March 1st, 2024

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Good afternoon Kindergarten Families,

Thank you for joining us this week for the students led conferences. It was so wonderful to meet with most of you and being able to see students showcasing their amazing hard work they do everyday in school. It is important to remember that children develop at their own pace. Being able to learn at their own speed also helps a child develop a positive attitude towards learning. For all of the families who have not joined us, please review your sign up sheet for a reminder of your assigned time slot.

Thank you to all who were able to join us in their Spanish Literacy Celebration, students enjoyed having you and especially demonstrating what they learned about Ruben Dario and the stories they wrote.

Next week, students will be visiting different sites around the school such as the Hungry Tiger, Fresco Stand, and Food Court for our Language Expeditions. They will be able to see "behind the scenes" and how food is made, and even get to sample the food! Starting March 11th students will be making their own peanut butter and jelly sandwich recipe using English vocabulary. We are kindly asking families to help us supply the ingredients. Each classroom will need the following supplies:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Ingredients:

-2-3 loaves of wheat bread

-2-3 loaves of white bread

(about 50 slices of bread)

-1 jar of creamy peanut butter

-1 jar of crunchy peanut butter

-strawberry jelly/jam

-Guayaba jelly/jam

-Pineapple jelly/jam

-Grape jelly/jam

(If it is a large Pricemart jar we would only need one jar per flavor, but if it is the smaller Callejas brand we would need 2 containers)

-Fruit salad (bananas, strawberries, apples, pears, ect)

-1 bag of rice

-1 bag of beans

-pasta (can be regular, noodles, shells)

Teachers will communicate with room parents to help facilitate this. We thank you in advance for your support. Please let us know if your child has any peanut or fruit allergies. We would need all these by Monday March 11th for the expeditions project.

KA will be only doing the Fruit salad on March 15th and are making the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich on March 1st.

KB & KC will be doing the Sandwich & Fruit Salad on March 15th.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

ELA: Readers will finish their unit and share all super powers they have learned.

Phonics: Student will identify vowel sounds.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

ELA: Readers will continue to bring books to life. They will learn that Super Readers use everything they have learned to read and reread books they choose. . We will celebrate the end of our reading unit!

Phonics: Students will work hard to tell short-vowel sounds apart, especially E,O, and U. They will say each part of the word, listening closely for the vowel sound so they can write it.

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

ELA: Readers can practice with a family member retelling what happend in the story after reading their books.

Phonics: Students can practice spelling words and then writing sentences making sure they add a vowel to every word they hear.

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los lectores pueden potenciar sus super de pensar.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Iniciamos nuestra nueva unidad de lectura "Potenciando nuestros super poderes", los lectores aprenderán a potenciar su poder de pensar usando las imagenes de los libros.

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

En casa pueden leer juntos el libro Ves corazones? usar sus poder de palabras comunes y de deslizar.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will describe and identify objects in the environment using geometric shape names.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will continue exploring shapes. They will name, sort and describe shape attributes. They will also analize and compare two dimensional shapes using informal language.

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

Students will be able to name and describe shapes at home.

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

Students are learning about the difference between needs & wants

What tigers are doing at school...

Students are noticing the difference between needs and wants and how we can get each one.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students can share with their parents of what they really need, and what things are neccesary. They can share the scenario of what would they bring to a island to start a conversation of what they really need to survive.

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Recognize that communication changes depending upon the situation.

Respond to others respectfully, with their words and body language based on the situation.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Counselor explains how our tone of voice, body language and words can change in different environments. Through examples of scenarios at school such as the library, the rug with the teacher, recess or when we talk with friends, our brain has the ability to change our communication. Then we did an activity with our partner where the counselor gives us a conversation topic in a specific scenario, when the scenario changed, the trainees changed their tone of voice, words and body language.

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

Discuss the actions and reactions of book characters as you read. How do they respond in different ways depending on where they are and who they are speaking with?