Kindergarten February Updates 

Families,

We all enjoyed a mix of mild and cold temperatures with occasional snowfalls. STEAM night was a blast to remember with the Kindergarten hallway having our fiery volcanic race path. We love and appreciate your school spirit and seeing so many families, have fun together making memories!

Qt. 3 Curriculum Connections

• Phonemic Awareness/Heggerty: Students will isolate the initial phonemes of a blend, medial phonemes (long and short vowels), segment words into three phonemes. Students will add, delete, and substitute initial phonemes in spoken words. They will develop alphabet knowledge of multiple sounds of consonants and vowels and connect phonemes to graphemes.
• Word Recognition/Letterland: Students will continue their learning journey through section 2 using the 5 lesson types adding in segmenting routines. By the end of this set of lessons, they will have been explicitly introduced to f, -ff, -ll, b, l, -ve, j, r ,q, v, ve, o, w, x, ys, z.
• They will be increasing their skills at decoding and encoding cvc words.  Identify letter sounds, identify beginning sounds in words, write letter in response to sound, accurately decode and encode words with taught letter/sound
• Language Comprehension/Close Reading Lessons: Students will engage in learning and discussion through interactive read-aloud and integrated speaking/language/writing experiences to build background knowledge and vocabulary as they explore acceptance of how people are alike and different in the ways we live and in the choices we make each day.

Texts

• Feb. 2-6 : Town Mouse and Country Mouse
• Feb. 9-13: Lily Learns about Needs and Wants
• Feb. 16-20: Wants Vs. Needs: Food and Drink
• Feb. 23-27: The Rain Stomper

Writing: Students will be practicing letter formation and expressing their thoughts through drawing and dictation. Students will practice holding writing tools appropriately, form letters appropriately (as they are taught), explain drawings and representations in order to share ideas effectively.  The Writing focus will be on skills such as fact, opinion, who, what, action, capitalize, sentence, subject, predicate, characters, period, reading direction, fiction, setting, events, topic sentence and closure statements/ sentences.

Math Connections:

• Count to 70 using the correct number sequence
• After counting a group of objects in various arrangements, identify “how many” without recounting
• Tell if a group has more than, less than, or the same amount as (equal to) another group
• Compare two numbers within 10, presented as written numerals (which is more/less/equal)
• Use a variety of representations to model addition and make connections among those representations.
• Numbers less than or equal to 10 can be decomposed into pairs in more than one way using objects or drawings.
• Use objects or drawings to identify the number needed to make a group of ten when given a number from 0-10
• Recognize and combine a group of objects (up to 5) without counting (conceptual subitizing)

Science Connections: Studying, observing, and analyzing patterns of weather using data to summarize changes in the environment by learning about the different types of seasons. Students will learn to use their senses to gain knowledge about the weather during observations and journaling.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher if you have questions or concerns.

Mrs. Carter-  ccarter2@wcpss.net

Ms. Ellis- mellis2@wcpss.net

Ms. Maldenado-