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Dear Parents,

I hope you have a wonderful spring break with your child!

 

Morning Meeting: We have focused on Honesty in our Character Strong unit to build our character and enhance social skills this past month; the children are sharing about different ways they demonstrate honesty in their words and actions each day. After calendar routines, we have been working on activities with sight words, phonemic awareness, syllables and tapping out words with consonant blends. I have seen wonderful progress in these areas!

 

Sound Work: Now that we know all lowercase and uppercase letters and sounds of the alphabet, we are learning the spellings and sounds of digraphs and how to use them in words. We are spelling and writing CVC words ourselves, and we are listening to and writing sentences, creating rhyming families, and practicing our letter formation. We are continuing to learn one -two sight/trick words per week and have created books using these words. We have learned all about digraphs and how to read and spell words with these special sounds as well.

 

Reading: This month we focused on the Story Elements of fiction books: setting, characters, main plot events, problem, resolution and message. We have read, reread and discussed many emergent readers, breaking apart each story into "puzzle pieces" that come together to create a book. I continue to meet in guided reading groups with my students each week at their reading levels as they blossom into independent readers!

 

Writing: This month we wrote 3 personal narratives, sharing about special moments in our lives by describing the beginning, middle and end of our experiences. We are now including transition words, uppercase letters, spaces between words, and periods at the end of sentences in their writing. As we grow as writers, we add more details to our ideas with each piece! We present our personal narratives to our classmates, and some of our narratives writing pieces will be proudly on display.

 

Math: This month we focused more on the tricky teen numbers and place value, by counting groups of ten and adding the leftover numbers. We have modeled numbers in various ways and written matching equations for the parts of teen numbers. We have enjoyed learning about the teens through the use of songs, manipulatives, games and activities. We are also counting by 2s to 20 and 5s and 10s to 100; we get faster each day! 

 

SS & Science: During SS, we learned about many different Community Helpers through books videos, crafts, hands-on activities and games. We learned about each helper’s job and purpose and the tools they use. We reflected about our favorite community helpers and what we would like to be when grown up. We then learned about geography and maps, and we expanded our view from our house in our community to our town, state, country, continent and planet, and we learned about how to read and use maps and globes. We created a map project and learned about continents and oceans. We discovered where we are on the map from our home and town, state, country, continent to planet Earth. We strapped on our seatbelts and used Google Earth to travel from space to our school and back again each day! 

 

  

Thank you for your continued cooperation and support in making kindergarten a smooth and magical experience for your child!