Kindergarten
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August 30th, 2024
Kindergarten News
Dear Kindergarten Families,
Thank you all who were able to attend our 1st Parent Workshop. Parent involvement is essential for your child's preparedness and developing a strong sense of belonging. This week in writing students were introduced to the writing workshop routine. In Spanish, they learned how to do private reading, reading with a partner and reading books cover to cover. In math, students began exploring with 5 frames, they started subitizing and learning new math vocabulary "How many cubes?, How many empty boxes? How many in all?". In phonics, they have been engaged in learning their friends' names and have learned that writers can say any word and hear the beats in it - the syllables.
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Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
ELA: Students will learn routines and structure of the writer's workshop and writing process through drawings.
Phonics: Students are learning how to study a name.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
ELA: Students are going to start their first writing unit " Launching the writing workshop", They are going to be call writers since day one, they are also going to learn that they can express themselves through drawing and that is also called writing.
Phonics: Students are learning how to trace new letters: S, R, D, T, F, I. They're making small books with those letters, drawing pictures that matches with the same sound. Lastly, they're comparing names that start with the same letter.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
ELA: Writers can practice sharing what they love and then draw pictures at home, they can have this chart (that we are going to be using this during the week) display in their writing corner
Phonics: Students can practice writting theirs names and recognize some letter sounds.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Los lectores releen, notan y aprenden cosas nuevas
What readers & writers are doing at school...
En esta semana los lectores releen su libros, observan todos los detalles, notan y aprenden cosas nuevas para compartirlas con un compañero, también estudianos nombre y sonido de la letras p,t,c y k.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
En casa los lectores, pueden volver a releer su libro favorito notar y aprender cosas nuevas que todavía no habían visto para compartirlo con sus padres. Al mismo tiempo cuando esten con su libro favorito pueden buscar las letras que vamos a estudiar y reconocer su nombre y su sonido.
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Students will discover relationships between small quantities visually.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Mathematicians will expand their previous work with numbers up to 10. Students will have the opportunity to count, order and compare numbers. They will begin to experiment with composing and decomposing.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Students can use differnet objects around the house to sort, count and compare.
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
Friends and learners will learn how to solve problems in an effective way
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Friends and learners will learn how to solve problems with steps before their problem turns into a bigger problem, with important steps such as pausing to relax, talk with kind words, find solutions and try the solutions.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Friends and learners can practice at home the four steps of peace place when facing a problem: 1. Pause, 2. Talk, 3. Think, 4. Try.
CONNECT
Upcoming Events
AUG. 26TH - SEP. 5TH
MAP Testing
SEP. 6TH
Feedback Folders sent Home
SEP. 11TH
Primary School Open House
SEP. 13TH
Home Communication Plan Sent Home
Reminders
Send a family picture by email.
Please remember to review and return Stepping Stones pamphlet on Monday.
Friday, August 30th is KA's last day for Swimming (Group D -> See Chart) On Monday September 2nd KB Starts Swimming, please have students wear their swimming suits under their uniform and send towel, goggles, swim caps, comb, and underwear in a swim bag. If your child is not swimming you need to send a medical excuse to jcastro@ans.edu.ni, notify the Primary School Office ansprimary@ans.edu.ni and CC the homeroom teacher.
Friday, September 6th: Friday Feedback Folders
Wednesday, September 11th: Primary School Open House - Tiger Experience
Drama and Innovation studios need your help: If you would like donate clean socks for puppet-making and recycled materials (plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, toilet paper rolls, etc) please send them to your homeroom teacher.Thank you for your continuous support.
Special Announcements
August - Calendar
Swimming
Big Questions Day
Meet the Team!
Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming
KA
Mrs. Ann Marie Martínez
KB
Mrs. Lorena González
KC
Mrs. Karen Velásquez
KD
Kathya Blanco
KA Paraprofessional
Fátima Jiménez
KB Paraprofessional
Eva Sevilla
KC Paraprofessional
Ma. Gabriela García
KD Paraprofessional
Ma. Auxiliadora García
K Spanish Teacher
Alicia Oviedo
K Spanish Paraprofessional
Mrs. Auxiliadora Guzmán
Kindergarten
Specialized Learning Lead