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August 30th, 2024

Parent-Student Handbook

Birthday Slip

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.

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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

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