Kindergarten March Updates 

Families,

Thank you all for joining us for the Sweetheart Lunch. It was a blast! We are so appreciative of your attendance and being able to make lasting memories with your children!

Qt. 3 Curriculum Connections

• Phonemic Awareness/Heggerty: Students will be working on blending phonemes, phoneme isolation: final sounds and medial sounds, segmenting a word into phonemes, adding initial and final phonemes, deleting initial and final phonemes, substituting initial, final, and medial phonemes, and phoneme-grapheme connection.
• Word Recognition/Letterland: We will be wrapping up the deep dive of each of our letters and completing an assessment for letters w,x,y,z. We will begin our onsets and rimes section. Students will be working through different word families with short a, short i and short o. Students will be rhyming with -at, -ap, -an, -ig, -in, -ip, -op, -ot, -ock.
• With these new word families students will be able to start building sentences using the words learned. There will be 16 new tricky words throughout this section.
• 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 what different weather and seasons look like and how it can vary.

Texts

• March 2-6: Weather in Spring
• March 9-13: Snow!
• March 16-20: Teacher Choice
• March 23-27: Teacher Choice

Writing: Students will be practicing forming and revising words and sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation. Students will also work on writing opinion pieces with reason and closure. Students will work on providing peer feedback with revisions. They will be able to have detail in their sentences and drawings. Students are working towards writing simple sentences with automaticity and fluency.

Math Connections:

NC.K.CC.1 Know number names and recognize patterns in the counting sequence by:

• Counting to 100 by ones. Rote sequence to 50.
• Counting to 100 by tens.

NC.K.CC.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence, instead of having to begin at 1.

NC.K.OA.1 Represent addition and subtraction, within 10:

• Use a variety of representations such as objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations or expressions.
• Demonstrate understanding of addition and subtraction by making connections among representations.

NC.K.OA.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems within 10, using objects or drawings to represent the problem, when solving:

• Add to/Take From—Result Unknown
• Put Together/ Take Apart (Result Unknown and Two Addends Unknown)

NC.K.OA.3 Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way using objects or drawings and record each decomposition by a drawing or expression.

NC.K.OA.4 For any number from 0 to 10, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or expression.

NC.K.OA.6 Recognize and combine groups with totals up to 5 (conceptual subitizing).

Science Connections: Students will look at needs and wants through an economic lens as well as looking at Change over Time. We will look at how people and different events have shaped history. Students will also learn how life was in the past in our community and around the world. Students will also look at different SEL topics such as what it looks like to be happy and/or sad and how we can support friends in that.

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- smaldonado2@wcpss.net