September 5-8
Kindergarten Parent Weekly Guide
This Week's Happenings:
It's hard to believe that we have been in kindergarten for 4 weeks! Enjoy your long weekend with your little one... They deserve the rest!
Just a reminder: We have been able to connect almost everyone to Seesaw! You will receive all classroom communication through this app. Many posts will come through as a link. Make sure to open the links, as the "picture" on Seesaw is just a small screenshot and may cut off part of the message.
Reminders from Your Teacher
- Read TO and WITH your child at least 15 minutes per day.
- Please allow your child to practice sight words at home each day. If they can read all 35, Congratulations! Your child is now ready for the blue list of rainbow words! Contact your teacher for more information.
- We continue to practice writing names using lower case letters for all but the first letter. If your child is still working on being able to write his/ her name correctly, please have them practice at home. See the attached parent letter and printable practice page.
Upcoming Events
September 4: No School- Labor Day
September 13: Come join us at the College Park Red Wagon Parade at Market Street. This year's theme is Paris. See the Powell Publisher for more information.
September 15: Picture Day
Language Arts
We are kicking off our brand new phonics program this week! Students are being encouraged to see themselves as writers just like big kids and grown ups. In reading, they are learning to notice more on the pages than the pictures and to reread books to notice more and more.
Math
- We will start the week with our first unit on money. Students will identify pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. (They are not expected to know the value of the coins in kindergarten.) This unit will be repeated several times throughout the year.
- Then we will begin our numeration unit. Students will be able to read, write, and represent #0 to at least 20. This will include making sets of objects and counting one to one correctly. Students will practice this skill while simultaneously learning about pennies.
- We are having such fun subitizing in class. What is Subitizing? To subitize is to identify the number of things in a set simply by quickly looking at them—not by counting them one by one. For example: when you roll dice, you are able to recognize the number instantly without having to count each dot.
- We continue working on orally counting to 100. Please help your child practice at home. Our current goal is at least 25.
Science and Social Studies
In Social Studies, we will learn about American symbols, such as the Statue of Liberty, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and much more!
In Science, we are using our senses to observe properties of objects using science vocabulary: bigger or smaller, heavier or lighter, color, shape, and texture.