Kinder Cubs Newsletter
Week Sixteen: December 6 - December 10
Hello Kinder Families!
This month will be full of more learning and growth, festive winter activities, and time for our second grading period assessments. We are looking forward to learning about and celebrating all of the holidays during December!
Weekly Learning Objectives
Students will apply mathematical process standards to collect and organize data to make it useful for interpreting information.
Students will use data to create real-objects and picture graphs.ELA:
Students will use complete sentences, capitalization of the first letter in a sentence and name, and revise drafts by adding details in pictures or words.
Phonological Awareness:
Students will blend syllables to form multisyllabic words.
Students will identify and produce rhyming words.
Students will identify syllables in spoken words.
Students will blend spoken phonemes to form one‐syllable words.
Letters of the Week:
Jj and Ww
High Frequency Words:
be, do, had, ten
Writing:
Students will list, speak, read, write, and think using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Social Studies:
Students will compare family traditions among families. Students will describe and explain the importance of family traditions. Students will identify similarities and differences among individuals such as kinship and religion.
Science:
Students understand that plants and animals have basic needs and depend on the living and nonliving things around them for survival.
Students will focus on studying winter animals.
SLA:
Students will learn about the importance of family traditions, customs, and celebrations. Students will describe and learn about each other's family traditions and celebrations by identifying similarities and differences. Students will highlight and share family traditions, customs, and celebrations by creating a collage. Students will recognize the characteristics and structures of informational text, including titles and simple graphics to obtain information.
Last but not least, we want to reinforce our mantra of the power of play. Kindergarten is a time of great academic development. It is also a time when children form and solidify connections with their peers, develop social skills, and strengthen their ability to communicate their observations and thoughts. Play is an integral part of our day, as it nurtures social and emotional development.