Kindergarten Newsletter

By Kindergarten Team
Kindergarten
October 31, 2024

Important Dates & Reminders

  • No school on Friday, November 1st (Diwali / All Saints Day / Dia de los Muertos)
  • No school on Monday, November 4th (School planning Day) 
  • No school on Tuesday, November 5th (Teacher Work Day/Student Holiday)
  • Picture Retakes on Wednesday, November 6th
  • Free Family Food Market on Wednesday, November 13th. 
  • 3 Hour early release day on Monday, November 18th. 
  • PTA meeting on Tuesday, November 19th.
  • Thanksgiving lunch on Wednesday, November 20th. 
  • Thanksgiving Break from Wednesday, November 27th to Friday, November 29th. 

What are we learning?

Language Arts

  • Students are learning about letter sounds and are focusing on m says /m/, s says /s/, short sound for the letter a, and t says /t/. 
  • Students are learning about singular and plural nouns
  • Students are learning about characters in stories and analyzing how characters are different
  • Students are learning that stories have a main idea and readers can take away messages from stories
  • Students are working on sounding out letter sounds in cvc words. 
  • Students are learning about sight words: I, like, the, am, go, see, we

Math

  • Students are working on counting to 10 and counting backwards from 10
  • Students are working on writing numbers 0-10
  • Students are working on counting objects in a set and developing one to one correspondence

Science

  • We are learning about making healthy choices with food and hygiene
  • We are learning about major body parts (e.g., head, torso, arms, legs, hands, feet, muscles, bones)

Social Studies

  • We are learning about wants and needs