Kindergarten
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May 3rd, 2024
Kindergarten News
Good afternoon Kindergarten Families,
We finished our fourth Kindergarten Expedition, Musical Hearts. In this expedition students explored music and how instruments can make sound. Students learned how different instruments and materials can make different sounds. Students also learned that music can make us feel different emotions and that we react differently to different kinds of music. Please click on the following link for the unit overview.
This week students started a new unit in expeditions called "From Seed to Plant"
Looking ahead, we want to share some additional information about the Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony. Students will wear a white collared polo shirt and dark skirts, shorts/pants and close toed dark colored shoes. Girls should wear their hair down since they will be wearing their caps.
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
ELA: Writing Decodable Books Like a Teacher.
Phonics: Writing Real Poetry Using All of Our Phonics Knowledge
What readers & writers are doing at school...
ELA: Students will be progressing from reading lists of words using digraphs and blends to reading and writing sentences full of blends and digraphs. They will engage in pretending to be teachers and will create a phonics or decodable book.
Phonics: Students will be generating a list of words using the rimes, -ick, -ell, -uck, -ow, & -og, noting that the ends of rhyming words sound and sometimes look the same. They will use those words to write short rhyming poems. They will also be revising their poems and coming up with even more rhyming words using blends and digraphs.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
ELA: Students are encourage to write their own phonics and/or decodable book using all they know about blends and digraphs using the following chart
Phonics: Students can write poems by coming up with rhyming words using all they know about blends and diagraphs.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Los escritores crean sus propios proyectos para persuadir a su audiencia.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los escritores crearán sus propios proyectos para persuadir a las personas alrededor de ellos sobre problemas que afectan nuestro planeta, podrán elegir entre cartas, letreros, listas y peticiones. y luego aprenderán a usar su voz para convencer.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
En casa pueden hablar con los niños sobre problemas a su alrededor y ayudarlos a pensar en soluciones.
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Students will represent additions with objects and equations.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Mathematicians will revisit and work extensively with the combinations to 5 and will expand their skill to writing equations to represent the combinations. They will also recor decompositions of numbers less than or equal to 10 with an equation.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Mathematicians can write their own story problem. Draw a picture and then represent it with an equation.
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
Students learn how to be fair and how to solve unfaior situation, moving foward to think as a scientist: analyzing what we see and its effects on our lives
What tigers are doing at school...
Students have finished understanding what is fair and unfair and beatinmg unfair situations, this friday we will start our new science unit, they'll share what they learned in the science lab.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Practice thinking as a scientist, make predictions, observe your enviornment, and see if your correct or wrong about your predcition.
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
Friends and learners practice the golden rules of tigers through cooperative and collaborative games.
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Friends and learners think about ways to work as a team, face challenges with their friends and achieve their goals through collaborative games. In turn, they reflect on the importance of including others and listen to their friends about how it feels to be included.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
During playdates you can continue to reinforce the golden rules: Listen to your friends, take turns, help your friends, include or invite a friend when they are not playing, motivate your group or team, because only together can we achieve our goals. .
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Upcoming Events
May. 7-14
BAS Testing
May. 7 & 8
Pathways Open House for new Families
May. 8
Early Dismissal
(11:00 a.m.)
May. 10
Friday Feedback Folder
May 13-17
Teacher Appreciation Week
Reminders
KC continues with swimming until May 17th; If your child cannot participate please send a medical excuse. Send students to school with a swimsuit under uniform and pack their towel, comb, swim cap, and underwear.
Wednesday, May 8th - Early Dismissal at 11:00 am
Friday, May 10th - Last Friday Feedback Folder
Monday, May 20th - Friday, May 24th - Spirit Week - More Information will be provided soon.
Tuesday May 28th - Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony
Special Announcements
May - 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