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

Happy New Year to you and your family! It is hard to believe that we are beginning the Second Semester of the 2019-2020 school year…time flies when you are having fun! KA and KB students are working hard to learn new concepts and skills using what they learned in the first semester as a “spring board.” They continue to practice naming letters & the sounds they make, blending sounds into words, building a Word Wall, and even reading simple sentences & stories! In Math, they continue to practice counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens to 100. We are building a number chart to show how many days we’ve been in school! The children are learning how to solve word problems with addition and subtraction.  In Religion, we continue to discuss making good choices, praying every day, and saying, “yes” to God. In Science, the children are discussing winter and all the changes this season brings to our weather, clothing, eating habits, and activities/sports. We also enjoyed an in-house field trip with ECO Explorers.  We learned all about insects!  In Health, the children are learning about Healthy choices in their diet, exercise, and personal hygiene.  The children continue to work on fine motor skills such as printing in proper form, coloring neatly, pasting, cutting, tying shoes, and buttoning/zipping coats. If you would like to learn more about the Saint Benedict Early Learning Center, please stop by on Sunday, February 2^nd from 12:00 – 2:00 PM for our Open House.

 

• Sign of the Cross and daily prayers…Focus on Hail Mary…Our Father…Glory Be
• Importance of praying and different prayers

• 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 …practice daily
• Letter recognition (capital and lower case) and letter sounds
• Matching the capital letter to the lower case letter
• Listen for short vowels in the middle of a word
• Identify beginning and ending sounds of words
• Practice identifying /l/ at the beginning and at the end of words
• Identify rhyming words
• Blending letter sounds together to form words
• 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 and adjectives

• Practice writing letters and numbers in proper form in pencil
•  Work on left to right progression
•  Practice writing names 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
• Practice one to one correspondence between two sets
• Listen to and solve addition and subtraction story problems
• Practice writing and reading addition 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 addition sentences using different number pairs for a given number until you have all possible pairs… 1+4=5,  2+3=5,  3+2=5,  4+1=5,  5+0=5,  0+5=5

• 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 habits/germs
• Shadows