October 10, 2025

WHAT A BUSY WEEK!

This week we stayed at the farm and learned some interesting facts about sheep. Did you know that sheep are really smart and can experience emotions and they can also recognize the faces of both humans and their flock-mates?  We continued working on identifying and producing rhyming words, counting syllables, and listening for beginning sounds in words. We also practiced finding words that start with the same sound. These skills will be assessed on the upcoming report card. If your child has not yet mastered any of these skills, please continue practicing them at home.  A little bit of extra practice goes a long way!  In math, the students worked on composing numbers by showing different ways to make numbers up to 7, such as: 7 and 0, 6 and 1, 5 and 2, 4 and 3, 3 and 4, 2 and 5, 1 and 6 and 0 and 7. We are working on counting backwards from 20 to 1 and counting from 1 – 100.  In social studies, we learned that there are good citizens and leaders that make up our country, such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.  We also learned what explorers do and that Christopher Columbus was an explorer who set out to learn about a new place.  Following the Gator Way is something that good leaders always do!

SNACK

We had MANY students without a snack this week.  Please remember to send your child to school with ONE healthy snack every day.  Thank you!

📚 Dress as Your Favorite Storybook Character Day and Parade

    Friday, October 31st 📚

To celebrate our love of reading, students are invited to come dressed as their favorite storybook character! Be creative and have fun bringing a favorite story to life.

Please remember:

• No masks, face paint or colored hair

• No toy weapons

• Wear shoes suitable for school activities
  
  

We can’t wait to see all the wonderful characters roaming our halls!

LETTER ID and SOUNDS

Your child should be able to confidently identify (within 3 seconds, in random order):

at least 20 upper case letters, at least 20 lower case letters & at least 20 letter sounds.

AT HOME LITERACY ACTIVITIES

The link below contains some fun activities for your child to enjoy and practice different reading skills!

mCLASS® Home Connect®

https://www.mclass.amplify.com/homeconnect/

SIGHT WORDS

Below are the kindergarten sight words for the entire year. We may not cover them all and we may add in some of our own.  Knowing our sight words will help your child tremendously in reading and writing. Each week we will learn two or three new words. Please review these words with your child. Students are expected to read, write and spell these words.

These are the sight words we learned this week:

at      go

These are the sight words we have previously learned:

at  go  am  to   by   my   I    see   a    the   

READING and WRITING SKILLS WE WILL LEARN in KINDERGARTEN

By the end of Kindergarten, students should be able to:

• Recognize and produce rhyming words

• Segment words in an oral sentence

• Segment words into syllables

• Segment and pronounce initial, medial and final phonemes in spoken CVC words

• Manipulate phonemes with additions or substitutions in one-syllable words

• Name all letters of the alphabet

• Write all manuscript letters in lowercase and uppercase

• Sequence letters of the alphabet

• Fluently produce sounds of consonants and short vowels when given the letter

• Fluently produce sounds for basic digraphs (wh, sh, ch, th, ck)

• Name and write corresponding letter(s) when given sounds for consonants, consonant digraphs, and short vowels

• Distinguish long and short vowel sounds within words

• Read and spell approximately 200 CVC words 

• Spell other words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships

• Read and write our sight words

• Identify and name correct punctuation at end of sentence

• Capitalize words at beginning of sentences and names of people

• Name the author and illustrator of a story and define their roles

• Explain narrative story structure including character, setting and main events

• Use a combination of drawing and dictating to narrate linked events to tell about a story in  sequence

• Re-tell key details of narrative and informational text, using pictures or prompts as a guide

• Identify characters, settings and main events in a story, with pictures or other prompts

• Describe what happened in a story when given a specific illustration

• With prompts, compare and contrast the experiences of characters in two stories

• Explain difference between narrative and informational text

• Echo-read a passage with correct phrasing and expression

• Identify and explain new meanings for familiar words and newly taught words

• Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities

Curriculum Objectives

Language Arts: 

I can identify upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. 

I can identify words that rhyme and produce a word that ryhmes with a given word.  

I can count the number of syllables in words. 

I can write my name with only the first letter capitalized, followed by all the other letters lower case.

Math: 

I can compose and decompose numbers up to 7.

Social Studies: 

I can recognize that there are good citizens that make up our country.

I can explain the contributions that George Washington made to help shape our nation.

I can explain the contributions that Christopher Columbus made to help shape our nation.

I can be a good citizen and follow the Gator Way.