Kindergarten - Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Strell

Important Reminders:

• Please pack an extra set of clothes in your child’s back pack in case of an accident-be sure it is weather appropriate
• Please make sure your child is dressed for the days weather…we do go outside for recess
• When your child wears boots to school, he/she MUST bring tennis shoes to change into…boots are not worn in the classroom
• Practice putting on and taking off jackets/sweatshirt…tying shoes…putting on gloves
• If your child is ill, he/she must be fever free for 24 hours before returning to class
• Folders must come to school daily-please be sure to look through your child’s folder each day…it must be emptied daily 
•  Homework needs to be checked and initialed by an adult

Wow, it is hard to believe that Spring is officially here…the kindergarten students look forward
to going outside for recess and a breath of fresh air! It is also hard to believe that we have
finished the third quarter; the kindergarten children are working very hard getting ready for first
grade.
 
In Reading/Phonics the children continue to build their word wall and are reading simple stories!
In Math, we are modeling addition and subtraction equations and solving word problems with a
variety of manipulatives. In Science, we learned how a rainbow is made and had fun making one
with a prism.   In Social Studies, we keep track of the number of days we had ”lion” weather and “lamb” weather on our calendar. We worked hard learning the difference between a map and a globe. We even learned about a compass rose. We also reviewed and practiced our tornado drill, fire drill and lockdown drill.
 
In Religion we are learning about Lent. During Lent we are reminded that each one of us is a
child of God.  Jesus sacrificed his life to show how much he loves us and now it’s our turn to
show our love for Him by making sacrifices and trying to be a better person. The children
received a calendar of good deeds to help them better themselves during the 40 days of Lent.
The KA and KB children wish all of you a Happy Spring!

 

• Sign of the Cross and daily prayers…Focus on Hail Mary…Our Father…Glory Be
• Importance of praying and different prayers
• Lent…remember to go over the Lenten good deed each morning before class
• Stations of the Cross

• 8 basic color words (red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, black, brown) and number words 0-10 (zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten)  
• Word wall words: here, I, am, the, to, a, and, it, he, she, you, an, is, in, on, we, at, be, go, it’s, like, see, me, if, have, can, as, did, do, get, my, of, was, his, her, are, ask, yes, no, all, look, had, that, big, down, little, up, will, this, got, not, us, want, saw, went, for, give, so, has, they, came, out, come, make, say, play, what, there, ran, let, run, let’s, thank …practice daily
• Letter recognition (capital and lower case) and letter sounds
• Matching the capital letter to the lower case letter
• Identify short vowels in the middle of words
• Identify beginning and ending sounds of words
• Identify /f/ at the beginning of words
• Identify rhyming words
• Blending letter sounds into simple CVC words such as…leg, map, cot, big, sun
• Read simple stories daily…have your child identify sight words, punctuation marks, parts of the story, retell the story
• Identify what the author, illustrator, narrator jobs are in a story
• Identify the genre of story (fiction vs. nonfiction)
• Identify character, setting and plot of story
• Good listening…look and listen to speaker quietly and wait for directions
• Identify different types of sentences…telling vs. asking
• Punctuation marks…period…exclamation mark…question mark…comma
• Identify proper nouns, nouns,verbs and adjectives

• Practice writing letters and numbers in proper form in pencil
•  Work on left to right progression
• Practice writing FIRST and LAST name correctly on lined paper
• Practice copying sentences in proper form
• Coloring neatly within the lines
• Cutting and pasting neatly

• Model and count objects with number names and written numerals
• Count to 100 by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• Read and extend a given pattern…AB, AABB pattern and ABB pattern
• Use ten frames to model numbers 6-10 using counters (counters are red and yellow circles)
• Identify number pairs for given numbers between 6-10
• Identify number neighbors…example: 5 and 7 are 6’s number neighbors
• Math vocabulary words: equal to, greater than, less than, more, fewer, compare, addition, sum, equation, equal sign, plus sign, subtract, minus
• Practice one to one correspondence between two sets
• Listen to and solve addition and subtraction story problems
• Practice writing and reading addition/subtraction equations
• Put numbers in counting order
• Practice number words…match number words to number
• Compare and contrast numbers…greater than, less than, equal to
• Solve addition word problems within 10 and record the equation
• Write and read addition/subtraction sentences
• Model/illustrate addition/subtraction sentences with circles or squares   

• Practice reciting complete address and phone number
• Discuss daily weather and the four seasons
• Learn about the months and days
• School rules/routines and lockdown drills

• Healthy snacks
• Habitats