Here is a list of what we are learning in school:

RED Words

Please keep practicing sight words from List A and you can begin practicing RED Words from List B and C

Library Books

Please return all Library books on Friday

The children are upset when they cannot choose a new book when he or she has not returned the previous book.

Welcome to 2025!!!

At this time of the year, we should be able to identify our letters and their sounds. We have been practicing our sight words by identifying them by sight and writing them.

We are learning to write new words by stretching out the sounds and writing the letters to match those sounds.

We have been working on the neatness of our handwriting and the correct sizing of our letters.

We are starting to practice our addition and subtraction math facts.

You may review addition facts and start to review subtraction facts at home.

¡¡¡Bienvenidos al 2025!!!

En esta época del año, deberíamos poder identificar nuestras letras y sus sonidos. Hemos estado practicando nuestras palabras reconocibles a simple vista identificándolas a simple vista y escribiéndolas.

Estamos aprendiendo a escribir nuevas palabras alargando los sonidos y escribiendo las letras para que coincidan con esos sonidos.

Hemos estado trabajando en la pulcritud de nuestra escritura y el tamaño correcto de nuestras letras.

Estamos empezando a practicar nuestras operaciones matemáticas de suma y resta. 

Puedes repasar las operaciones de suma y comenzar a repasar las operaciones de resta en casa.

Guided Reading

We have also officially started Guided Reading the 2nd week of January.

Books will be sent home in a plastic bag with your child's name on it every Friday.

The book(s) are to be read over the weekend as many times as possible 

(Try to read at least 5 times for each book) and are to be returned the following Monday. 

Please put the number of times that your child reads the book(s) and your signature next to the book.

Please do not eat or drink while reading these books.

Thank you!

Lectura guiada

También hemos iniciado oficialmente la Lectura Guiada. 2da semana de enero.

Los libros se enviarán a casa en una bolsa de plástico con el nombre de su hijo todos los viernes. 

Los libros deben leerse durante el fin de semana tantas veces como sea posible.

(Intentar leer al menos 5 veces cada libro) y deberán ser devueltos el lunes siguiente.

Por favor, coloque el número de veces que su hijo lee el(los) libro(s) y su firma junto al libro.

Por favor, no coma ni beba mientras lee estos libros.

¡Gracias!

Water Bottles or Thermoses

Please remind and practice with your child how to close his or her water bottle or thermos every day.

We have had several accidents with water bottles or thermoses not being closed. 

Thank you!!!!

Related Arts Schedule 2024 - 2025

Monday - Music

Tuesday - Physical Education (Gym)

Wednesday - Art

Thursday - Physical Education (Gym)

Friday - Library / Stem or Technology and World Language

Library Books

Please remember to return all Library books every Friday.

Your child may not take out a book until he or she returns one.

Thank you!

 Please check out my Supply List for essential Kindergarten materials.

  Weeks 20 and 21

1/13 - 1/17 and 1/20 - 1/24

SEL - Social Emotional Learning

We are practicing these 4 steps to great learning:

Eyes Watching

Ears LIstening

Voice Quiet (Lips Quiet)

Bodies Still

Practice these 4 steps with your child at home. It will help them be better learners and listeners at home, as well as at school.

Language Arts

Identify capital and lowercase letters

Identify the letters in his or her first and last name

Writing his or her name using capital and lowercase letters correctly

Learning some French, Spanish, and Sign language.

We are practicing:

How to hold our pencils correctly 

How to slant our papers to help write our letters correctly

To follow print from top to bottom and from left to right when reading

To identify periods, exclamation marks, and commas when reading

All RED words (sight words) on List A should be secure by the end of Kindergarten.

Upcoming RED Words: can. of, on, and, go, me, my, he, has, to, too, two, I, in, is, it, just. keep, play, chop, up, be, by, run, for, not, egg, see, shop, said, 

Other RED Words practiced are: I, a, the, my, am, see, an, look, go, in, at, can, do, like, is, to, it, and, on, me, we, he, she, be, so, up, said, for, not, play, ran, saw, all, too, you, was, that, here, are, there, where, come, good, came, put, some, this, got, jump, big, little, say, away, then, went, will, get, they, with, when, ride, want, but, your, eat, has, had, have, who, take, make, made, give, her, gave, him, his, us, as, soon, out,.our, about, very, were, from, of, new, just, must, well, did, what, now, find, ate, 

red, blue, orange, green, yellow, purple, brown, black, gray, white, pink

Phonics

Identify Capital and Lowercase letters: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd, Gg, Mm, Ll, Hh, Tt, Ii, Jj, Kk, Pp, Ch, Uu, Bb, Rr, Ff, Nn, Ee, 

Identify the following letters and their sounds: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd, Gg, Mm, Ll, Hh, Tt, Ii, Jj, Kk, Pp, Ch, Uu, Bb, Rr, Ff, Nn, Ee,

Identifying the letters and their sounds: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd, Gg, Mm, Ll, Hh, Tt, Ii, Jj, Kk, Pp, Ch, Uu, Bb, Rr, Ff, Nn, Ee, 

Identifying short vowel sounds: a, e, i, o, u

Identifying long vowel sounds: a, e, i, o, u

Identifying short vowel word families: at, ag, an, and, am, ack, 

Identifying long vowel word families: Upcoming

Identifying the digraphs such as: th, sh,

Identifying blends. Upcoming

Reading Workshop

This reading unit contains mini-lessons that demonstrate how a reader thinks while they are reading.            

There is so much more to reading than reading the words/pictures and retelling a story.

A reader thinks, thinks and thinks as they read.

This unit names and demonstrates the different kinds of thinking a reader does to understand the book better.

A good reader predicts, infers, creates mental images, questions, wonders, synthesizes and talks.  

Good readers think about the story and make predictions.

Good readers point to words when they read.

Good readers are good listeners.

Good readers read a variety of genres.

Good readers read the illustrations

Good readers to understand the use of punctuation in a sentence

Using inferencing as a reading strategy

Writing Workshop

Writers make lists.

Writers label pictures.

Math

Topic 7

Explore Subtraction

Represent subtraction as taking apart

Represent subtraction as taking from

Use minus sign 

Represent the minus sign

Represent and explain subtraction with equations

Continue to represent and explain substraction equations

Solve subtraction word problems: take from

Use patterns to develop fluency in subtraction.

Use appropriate tools

Science