Kindergarten Newsletter
January 10th - 14th
What we're learning this week...
Phonics: Digraphs sh, ch, th, wh
Book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Reading Strategies: Visualizing, making an inference, retelling the story, making a connection, writing our opinion
Math: 2D and 3D shapes, number handwriting practice, fluency of addition and subtraction within 5, how to sort objects into groups based on different attributes
Writing: Writing our opinions, letter formation (handwriting practice)
Social Studies: Understanding past, present, future (timelines), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Science: Properties
Religion: God Chooses Mary, God the Father Gives Us Jesus
Social Skill: Following directions
Virtue: Celebration
Social and Emotional Learning: understanding stereotypes about objects, activities, and roles: children discuss how everyone can make choices and that toys, activities, and roles can be for everyone, and practice a way to respond to stereotypes