Welcome to Kindergarten!

I am looking forward to a FANTASTIC school year!!!

PCA

KINDERGARTEN NEWS

January 13-17, 2025

In our class:

• Letterland:

This week students will practice building words and sentences with the following word families: -at (as in cat and rat) and –ap (as in nap and cap). Students will also continue to read and answer comprehension questions from our “Sam” reader.

•  Listening & Learning:

We will continue Domain 6: Native Americans. This week students will learn about the Wampanoag and Lenape tribes. Students will learn how these tribes lived, including their food, shelter, and culture. Please use the information sheet that will be sent home to help your child review. Our Domain 6 Assessment will be on Wednesday, January 22nd.

• Ready Math:

We will begin Unit 4: Addition and Subtraction. This week students will be introduced to the plus sign and the equal sign as a way to represent the joining together of two groups of objects into a single group. Students will use connecting cubes and drawings as models to show adding two groups.

• Sight Words:

Please practice sight words with your child each night.  Students will be assessed on the next 5 sight words on Tuesday, January 21st. (at, have, ran, want, with) If your child has not yet mastered their Baseball or Soccer Words, please continue to work on them.

Upcoming Dates and Events:

·       January 13th-17th- Reading i-Ready Diagnostic

·       January 21st-24th- Math i-Ready Diagnostic

·       January 16th- PEAK Meeting 6pm

·       January 17th- College T-Shirt Day

• January 20th- Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday- No School

• January 24th- PEAK K-1st Grade Dance- 6:00pm

Writing:

This week we will continue opinion writing. We will also continue to practice capitalizing the first letter in a sentence, putting spaces between words, and ending each sentence with punctuation.

Friendly Reminders:

·       Please send a coat labeled with your child's name to school EVERY DAY.

·       Please make sure that your child has a labeled water bottle and snack each day.

Thank you so much for your continued support of all that we do here at PCA!

Below are some important reminders:

• Hooded clothing cannot be worn inside the building at any time.

• Outerwear items (without a hood) must be solid red/black/white OR a combination of those colors and can be worn inside the building if they are embroidered with our school logo. Items that are not embroidered are not approved for daily classroom wear throughout the school day and must be removed when inside the building.

• Students cannot wear clogs, mules or boots.

• Students must wear socks daily. They can be solid white, solid red, solid black or white with school plaid trim. A small logo is permitted, not to exceed 1". 

• Solid red, solid white or solid black tights only can be worn under skorts or dresses. 

• Solid black leggings can be worn under skorts or dresses.