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August 11th, 2023

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Good Afternoon Kindergarten Families,

What a great group of kids we have this year in Kindergarten! We had a great week with Personalized Learning Appointments and two full days of school. Friendships are already forming as children explore and practice routines within the classroom. We started our new bridges unit, please review Unit 1 - Family Overview in order to get familiarized with the program. Students loved to meet our new friend Mabel which will be part of our phonics unit and will be joining us everyday in class.

We encourage for students to have a good breakfast as lunch time is until 10:10am.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

Literacy

Learning Goal

What readers & writers are doing at school...

ELA: Kindergarteners will be practicing classroom routines andexpectations.

We will be establishing a social contract that will include school rules, the tiger traits and rights/responsibilities.

Phonics: Kindergarteners will learn that when readers and writers really want to learn anew friend’s name, they study it in different ways so they can remember it.

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

ELA: Students can practice talking about their day.

Phonics: Students can practice identifiy the inicial letter of their name and of each family member.

Spanish

Learning Goal

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Español: Esta semana los niños aprenderán la rutina del taller de lectura, expectativas y normas de la clase

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

Español: Conversar en casa las rutinas aprendidas para que los niños puedan recordarlas.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will be starting Unit 1 of our Bridges Program. Kindergarten begin their formal study of Mathematics by focusing on the counting sequence to 20 and quantities to 10. They will learn number word sequence, patterns, counting and quantity.

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

Students can find patterns around their house. They can practice counting objects at home. ( doors, windows, etc)

Science

Learning Goal

How can a scientist make strong observations and ask questions about phenomena?

What scientists are doing at school...

Students will be making strong observations that lead to scientific questions.

What scientists could be doing at home...

Students will be exploring thier own yards to look for phenomena to observe and ask questions about.

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Friends and learners understand how to be successful in school by following tiger goals and rules.

Friends and learners learn how to practice tiger goals and rules through examples and demonstrations.

Friends and learners reflect together with their classmates on scenarios at school and think about how the characters can follow the tiger rules and goals