September 5, 2025

SNACK

Our lunchtime is at 10:30, therefore, you may want to send in one HEALTHY, NUT-FREE and utensil - free snack from home for your child to have in the afternoon. Please do not send in any juice boxes or other drinks, besides water. Due to allergies and other health concerns, we will not be allowed to provide any snacks or allow the students to share snacks. Sending in a snack is completely optional, however students get very sad (and are hungry) if they don't have one. If you are sending a snack, please pack it separately from their lunchboxes so it doesn't "accidentally" get eaten at lunchtime!  This happened quite a few times this week! Thank you for your cooperation.

BREAKFAST & LUNCH CODES

There are still many students who buy lunch everyday and still do not know their lunch codes. Please help your child memorize this number; it will help expedite the line, allowing students more time to enjoy their lunch.  It would also be helpful if you and your child look at the lunch menu ahead of time, so s/he can make a choice quickly. 

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. 

I can identify words that rhyme.  

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

Math: 

I can read, write and represent numbers from zero to 10.

I can recognize instantly the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements.  

I can count a set of objects up to at least 10 and demonstrate that the last number said tells the number of objects in the set regardless of their arrangement or order.

I can generate a number that is one more than or one less than another number up to at least 10.

I can use comparative language to describe two numbers up to 20 presented as written numerals.

Science:

I can identify and sort objects by properties of size, color, shape and texture. 

Social Studies: 

I can follow rules and routines in the classroom and be a respectful member of the community.

I can identify rules that provide order, security and safety in our home and school.