Ms. M's Kinder GATE
Our Classroom Newsletter - January
A Note From Ms. M
Happy New Year! We are halfway through Kindergarten. I hope everyone had a nice Winter Break. We will be jumping right into the 3rd quarter building on our reading, writing and math skills!
Good to Know
Supplies needed:
Playdoh
Hand sanitizer
Crayons
As a friendly reminder, toys and stuffed animals are not allowed at school, unless specified. Please help us have a good start to our day so we are not distracted.
ELA (English Language Arts)
We are working on reading CVC words, rhyming words and sight words. We will be putting all of it together to practice reading sentences! We have been gaining confidence in beginning sounds and will start focusing on ending sounds in a word.
Curriculum: Benchmark Advance
Additional Phonics Curriculum: ECRI
Computer App: Imagine Learning
Sight Words: I, see, a, like, the, go, we, can, she, is, he, has, my, to, play, little, you, and, on, with
Upcoming Sight Words: jump, one, me, look, have, are
Math
We are beginning our unit on composing and decomposing numbers. We will learn how to break apart numbers and put numbers together in different ways (4+1=5, 3+2=5, 5+0=5). We will learn about adding numbers and even begin working on using these skills with story problems.
Students are enjoying work on ST Math during computer time in math.
Writing
We are continuing to work on our foundational writing skills (stretching out words we don’t know, capitals, punctuations and finger spaces). We will be working on writing 2 or more sentences to help tell a story or describe something.