WEEK OF JANUARY 7-10

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Welcome back!!! We hope you all had a fantastic Winter Break. We are with the batteries recharged to continue having fun and learning every day in our Kindergarten World. We wish you the best of the best in this New Year!

This week we are going to be working with the letter Ii. The vocabulary that we are going to be focusing on is the following: Indian, inside, invitation, instruments, itch, igloo, iguana, insects, and internet. If you happen to have any item at home that begins with this letter, have your child bring it to school so it can be displayed on a special table. Thanks in advance!

Some of the stories that we will be reading this week are:

Iggy Iguana thinks ice is nice! We will find out how he uses his imagination to beat the heat!! 

This is the story of one very smart little inchworm. As the story begins, he is about to be an addition to a robin's meal as the robin is hungry and the little inch was quite available. But unfortunately for the robin, this was one fast thinking little worm and he convinces the robin that he is a very useful creature. He offers to measure the robin's tail. Of course the robin is quite impressed (he found that his tail was five inches long, which pleased him greatly) so he takes the little worm to the other birds.

What’s a fraction? A puzzled inchworm finds out when she enlists the aid of H-inch, N-inch, and G-inch worms in her quest to measure all the vegetables in their garden. New lengths bring new fractions to conquer, but the clever worms prove equal to every challenge, triumphantly munching their way through this tasty tale of math and measuring.

In Math we are going to be introducing the concept of BEFORE. We are going to work with addition problems to 10 and reading a bar graph. Please practice the following skills at home:

Addition

I.1      Addition with pictures - sums up to 5

I.2     Add two numbers - sums up to 5

I.3     Addition sentences - sums up to 5

In Phonemic Awareness we are going to be working with oral blending of phoneme by phoneme. c-a-t = cat 

Sight words:
see, go, so, am, my

We are going to be wrapping our unit of Weather. We will be writing about the importance of weather and how to dress up for every kind of it.

The children in charge of donating the materials for Kindergarten Kafe this week are Katina Alvarado and Valentin Mejía. Thank you in advance!!

SECOND QUARTER REPORT CARDS AND CONFERENCES – Report Cards for the second quarter will be issued on Friday, January 17. Conferences for this quarter are on a need basis, and notices will be sent home on Monday, January 13. If a parent does not receive a notice from a teacher but would like to meet for a conference, please contact the teacher to set up a time for the afternoon of Friday, January 17. Students will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m, and conferences will be held from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

HOLIDAY – There will be no school on Monday, January 20 in recognition of the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

MAP TESTING – Our second MAP testing session will take place from Tuesday, January 21 to Friday, February 10.