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January 10th, 2025

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Dear Kindergarten Families,

Happy New Year! 🎆 We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are as excited as we are to continue this journey of learning and growth together.

Starting Monday during our expeditions, we will begin a new unit called "Oh, the Stories We Tell." 📚 In this unit, students will explore the elements of literature, including characters, setting, and plot. Through engaging stories and poems, they will discover how literature can serve as mirrors, windows, and sliding doors, helping us connect with ourselves, appreciate differences, and gain a deeper understanding of the world. 🌍

Additionally, students will have the opportunity to develop their theater skills 🎭. They will learn to use gestures, voice, facial expressions, and props to bring their oral storytelling to life. We are thrilled to see their creativity and imagination shine in this new and exciting unit! ✨

Thank you for your continued support. Here is to a fantastic start to 2025! 🎉

Important Information:

Group A (Group D --> Chart) continues swimming until Jan 24th.
Monday January 13th - Afterschool starts

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

ELA: Readers use the pattern to help them read.

Phonics: Students will be using word part to write other words.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

ELA: Our readers started a new reading unit "Sharing Reading", during this week they are going to learn that they can use the snap words they know to read pattern books.

Phonics: Students will use their word part power to make as many new words as they can. They will learn to write words letter-by-word-part and they will use it to read simple rhyming books, while focusing on the fact that words that sound the same at the end are often spelled the same at the end.

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

ELA: Practice reading at home and find snap words in the books and the pattern. Here you have an option.

Phonics: Students can read familiar books to find and use word parts. (-an, -at, -ap, -in, -it)

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Releer para leer con fluidez

What readers & writers are doing at school...

En este segundo bend, los lectores y escritores vuelven a leer sus libros para lograr que su voz suene más suave y fluida, expresando y dramatizando gestos y emociones de los personajes. Además, practican la lectura y escritura de rimas, destacando los sonidos similares.

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

En casa, los padres pueden leer cuentos interesantes junto a sus hijos, haciendo pausas para dramatizar gestos y emociones de los personajes. También pueden ayudarles a identificar palabras frecuentes que estén aprendiendo en clase.

Con respecto a las rimas, pueden jugar a encontrar o pensar en palabras que tengan sonidos similares. Además, pueden escuchar y cantar canciones con rimas, lo que hará que la actividad sea más divertida. link de rima 1 link de rima 2

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will continue to expand the study of numbers to 10. They will match numerals and quantities, count forward and backward, compare numbers and add.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will continue to practice counting forward and backwards from a given number. They will identify whether a number of objects in a group is greater than, less than or equal to the number of objects in another group.

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

Students can play Hopscotch to practice counting forward and backwards.

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

What tigers could be doing at home...

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Tigers will learn about stereotypes.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Tigers will learn about stereotypes and how to treat everyone with kindness and respect, no matter how they look or what they like. We'll talk about how we are all unique and special in our own way!

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

Think about ways to treat everyone fairly, no matter what they look like or what they like to do. Share stories about people who are kind to others, even when they’re different.