August 7-11, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Shapes

Focus: Ll

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-

• Tuesday-    

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-     

• Friday-    First Sight word Assessment 

August 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    

• Tuesday:    

• Wednesday:    

• Thursday:     

• Friday:   

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  red orange yellow green blue purple 

Saxon: Ll

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

(This will start later)

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

September 4- Labor Day No School

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

May 8-12, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Summer

Focus: Review

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-

• Tuesday-    Raffle ticket monday due- Drawing will be this day 

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-     

• Friday-    PATRIOT PALOOZA

No May Birthdays 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Reese

• Tuesday:    Theo

• Wednesday:    Abbi

• Thursday:     Austin

• Friday:   

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  Review all  

Saxon:  Review

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

Patriot Palooza May 12

5K Awards 9:30 Storm Shelter 

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

May 1-5, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Zoo

Focus: Review

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-

• Tuesday-    

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-     

• Friday-    

No May Birthdays 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Lexi

• Tuesday:    Mack

• Wednesday:    Marcus

• Thursday:     Preston

• Friday:   Rayleigh

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  Review all  

Saxon:  Review

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

Patriot Palooza May 12

5K Awards 9:30 Storm Shelter 

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

April 24-28, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Farm

Focus: Long vowels 

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-

• Tuesday-    

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-     

• Friday-    

April- Eva Rose 18th

Brooklyn 22nd  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Grady

• Tuesday:    Hailie

• Wednesday:    Henry

• Thursday:     Jaxon

• Friday:   Jayme

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  Review all  

Saxon:  Long Vowels

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

April 17-21, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Environment 

Focus: Long vowels 

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-

• Tuesday-    

  Practice subtraction facts

• Wednesday-  

  Practice subtraction facts

• Thursday-     

  Practice subtraction facts---- MKAS TEST(eat a good breakfast)

• Friday-    

  Subtraction Fact assessment

   

April- Eva Rose 18th

Brooklyn 22nd  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Cooper 

• Tuesday:    Ella

• Wednesday:    Emilia

• Thursday:     Emmett

• Friday:   Eva

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  Review all  

Saxon:  Long Vowels

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

April 11-14, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Plants

Focus: Letter OO

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-   

  NO SCHOOL  

• Tuesday-    

  Practice subtraction facts

• Wednesday-  

  Practice subtraction facts

• Thursday-     

  Practice subtraction facts

• Friday-    

  Practice subtraction facts

   

April- Eva Rose 18th

Brooklyn 22nd  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    

• Tuesday:    Bailei 

• Wednesday:    Bellah

• Thursday:     Brooklyn

• Friday:   Carsen

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  Review all  

Saxon:  OO

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

APRIL 7-10- NO SCHOOL 

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

April 3-7, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Easter

Focus: Letter TH

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-   Practice subtraction facts-- Easter eggs due 

• Tuesday-    

  Practice subtraction facts

• Wednesday-  

  Practice subtraction facts

• Thursday-     

  Practice subtraction facts

• Friday-  NO SCHOOL  

March 20- Bellah  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:   Theo 

• Tuesday:  ABBi

• Wednesday:    Austin

• Thursday:     Bailei

• Friday:   

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  Review all  

Saxon:  TH

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

APRIL 7-10- NO SCHOOL 

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Mar 27-31, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Insects

Focus: Letter SH

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-   

• Tuesday-    

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-     Free Dress Day $1

• Friday-  Sight word assessment  

March 20- Bellah  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:   Lexi

• Tuesday:  mack

• Wednesday:    Marcus

• Thursday:     Preston

• Friday:   Rayleigh

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  All, get, went, has, name 

Saxon:  SH

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Mar 20-24, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Pets

Focus: Letter CK

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-   

• Tuesday-    

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-     

• Friday-  Sight word assessment  

March 20- Bellah  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Grady

• Tuesday:  Hailie

• Wednesday:    Henry

• Thursday:     Jaxon

• Friday:   Jayme

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  have was yes were duck

Saxon:  CK

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Feb 27- Mar 3, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Community Helpers

Focus: Letter Qq

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  Read with a buddy 

• Tuesday-   Reading is cool - Wear sunglasses 

• Wednesday-  Wacky Wednesday- Wear crazy socks

• Thursday-   Cat in the hat day- wear a red uniform shirt and your fav hat  

• Friday-  Read my shirt!- Wear a shirt with words on it 

Feb 9- Grady

Feb 18- Preston

Feb 24- Bailei  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Abbi

• Tuesday:  Austin

• Wednesday:    Bailei

• Thursday:     Bellah

• Friday:   Brooklyn

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  do but doll out are

Saxon:  Qq

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Feb 20-24, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Dental Health

Focus: Letter Ww

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  

• Tuesday-   Bingo Bash 5:30 FBS Fellowship Hall

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-    

• Friday-  

Feb 9- Grady

Feb 18- Preston

Feb 24- Bailei  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Preston

• Tuesday:  Rayleigh

• Wednesday:    Reese

• Thursday:     Theo

• Friday:   Jaxon

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  No new Sight words Focus on Addition facts

Saxon:  Ww

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

FEB 21- Bingo Bash

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Feb 14-17, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: National Symbols 

Focus: Letter Xx

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  WINTER BREAK NO SCHOOL

• Tuesday-   

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-    

• Friday-  

Feb 9- Grady

Feb 18- Preston

Feb 24- Bailei  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Jayme

• Tuesday:  Lexi

• Wednesday:    Mack

• Thursday:     Marcus

• Friday:   

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  No new Sight words Focus on Addition facts

Saxon:  Xx

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

FRIDAY FEB 13 NO SCHOOL

FEB 21- Bingo Bash

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Feb 6-10, 2023

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Valentines Day 

Focus: Letter Jj

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  

• Tuesday-   

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-   V Day cards due 

• Friday-  V Day party 

Feb 9- Grady

Feb 18- Preston

Feb 24- Bailei  

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Grady

• Tuesday:  Hailie

• Wednesday:    Henry

• Thursday:     

• Friday:   

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  No new Sight words Focus on Addition facts

Saxon:  Jj

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

FRIDAY FEB 10th- WE WILL HAVE SCHOOL- MAKE UP DAY 

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Jan 23-27, 2022

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Winter

Focus: Letter Dd

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  

• Tuesday-   

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-   

• Friday-  Sight word assessment 

Jan 15- Marcus

Jan 19- Reese 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Abbi

• Tuesday:  Austin

• Wednesday:    Bailei 

• Thursday:     Bellah

• Friday:   Brooklyn

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  away does because find fish

Saxon:  Dd

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

NOne 

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Jan 17-20, 2022

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Transportation

Focus: Letter Yy

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  NO SCHOOL MLK Day

• Tuesday-   Return Report card signed

• Wednesday-  

• Thursday-   

• Friday-  Sight word assessment 

Jan 15- Marcus

Jan 19- Reese 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    

• Tuesday:  Preston

• Wednesday:    Rayleigh 

• Thursday:     Reese 

• Friday:   Theo

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  help jump come funny tree

Saxon:  Yy

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!   

Jan 16- NO SCHOOL MLK DAY  

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Dec 12-16, 2022

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Christmas Week #3

Focus: Letter Review

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  Review all sight words 

• Tuesday-   Review all sight words 

• Wednesday-  Review all sight words 

• Thursday-   Review all sight words

• Friday-  Review all sight words 

Dec 21- Carsen

Dec 22- Ella

Dec 29- Jayme 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Snack Clean out

• Tuesday:  Snack Clean out

• Wednesday:    Snack Clean out 

• Thursday:     Snack Clean out 

• Friday:   Snack Clean out 

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  REVIEW ALL FOR REPORT CARD

Saxon:  Review

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math   

The following math skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• Counts to 25
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 5
• Sort and classifies objects by color
• Names 2D flat shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, hexagon
• Uses position words: over/under, above/below, inside/outside
• Identifies numbers to 10
• Write numbers to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• Names 3D solid shapes- cone cylinder cube sphere
• counts to 50
• identifies numbers 1-25
• writes numbers 1-20
• tells how many objects are in a set up to 10
• sorts and classifies objects by count
• tells which group is greater than, less than, or equal to another group of objects up to 10

The following math skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• counts to 75
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 15
• Uses terms of measurement (longer/shorter, heavier/lighter, bigger/smaller
• Adds fluently within 5
• Solves addition number sentences within 10 (Example 3 + 7 = ___)
• counts by tens to 100
• Sorts and classifies objects by size

The following math skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Counts to 100
• Tells how many objects are in a set up to 20
• Subtracts fluently within 5
• Solves addition word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Solves subtraction word problems up to 10 using objects or drawings
• Finds the missing number in addition problems to equal 10
• Shows that numbers 11-19 are made of tens and ones
• Builds a number to 10 in many different ways
• Sorts and classifies objects by shape

Ongoing Math Skills:

• counts orally to 25/50/75/100

• neatly writes numerals 0-20

• counting and recognizing numbers 1-25

• counting by 10’s to 100

• counting by 5’s to 100

• position words (above, below, beside, inside, outside)

• less than, greater than, equal to

• comparing numbers

• graphing

• classifying/sorting objects by color, size, shape, and count

• identify 2D shapes

Language Arts/Writing

**Ongoing Skills that we will work on throughout the year**

• Book/Story Elements

  • Identify the title, title page, front cover, author, illustrator, setting and characters of a story or book

• Syllables/rhyming words/opposites

• Beginning sounds/ending sounds

• Tells short sound of five major vowels

• Tells sounds of all consonant letters

• Recognizes all 26 letters (upper and lower case)

• Retells familiar stories with important (key) details

• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds

• Recognizes and names punctuation (. ? !)

• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I

• Describes people, places, things, and events that are familiar

• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell about a single event or several linked events

• Retells key details of an informational text

• Identifies the main topic of an informational text

• Opinion writing pieces- Ex. “I like…. because….”

PBIS

Be Safe!

Be Respectful!

Be Responsible!

Important Dates!

Dec 21- Jan 5 Christmas Holidays- NO SCHOOL   

 Character Education:

Patriots are:

 P ersistant

 A mbitious

 T rustworthy

 R esepectful

 I nnoviative

 O rganized

 T olerant

 S elf- Controlled

News from the Office

Please remember transportation changes must be made BEFORE 12:00.  No exceptions.  If there is a change in your child’s transportation, you must call the office or email Mrs. Junkin before noon.  You may also send a note with your child in their yellow folder.

If you need to come inside the building in the morning time, please use the parking lot at the storm shelter.  Thank you!

Please do not drop off before 7:20 in the mornings.  Teachers are not on duty until 7:20; therefore students will not be allowed in the building.  Also, please only drop off in the front of the building.  Thanks for your help with this in order to keep our students safe.

Dec 5-9, 2022

Welcome to our Kindergarten Weekly News!

Unit: Christmas Week #2

Focus: Letter Zz

PLEASE BRING A WATER BOTTLE TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY!!!

Important Classroom Reminders This Week

• Monday-  Review all sight words 

• Tuesday-   Review all sight words 

• Wednesday-  Review all sight words 

• Thursday-   Review all sight words

• Friday-  Reveiw all sight words 

Dec 21- Carsen

Dec 22- Ella

Dec 29- Jayme 

Snack Schedule

Please send snacks in individual portions. No snacks containing peanuts!! Thank you! 24

• Monday:    Ella

• Tuesday:  Snack Clean out

• Wednesday:    Emmett

• Thursday:     Eva

• Friday:   Grady

**Sight words will be assessed on Fridays.  Please review these words with your child each night!  Please check the back of your child’s folder each week to review our words and practice any word not mastered.  My rule is “we look at them and know them.” We don’t try to sound them out.  Please do not remove these sheets from the back of the folder.

SIGHT WORDS:  REVIEW ALL FOR REPORT CARD

Saxon:  Zz

Saxon Reader:  

**Thank you for returning your child’s Book Buddy Bag the following day.  We share these with the other 5K class.

Book Buddy Bags- Please make sure you return the book back the following day.  We are sharing these books with the other kindergarten classroom.

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 1st nine week report card:

• identifies characters
• tells the role (job) of an author/illustrator
• actively participates in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• follows words from left to right, top to bottom, and page to page
• tells that words are made of letters
• tells the beginning sounds in three-phoneme words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
• Uses question words- who, what, where, when, how
• Uses learned words/phrases when talking and responding to text
• Compares and contrasts the actions (adventures and experiences) of characters in familiar stories
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

 The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 2nd nine week report card:

• counts the number of words and spaces in print
• retells familiar stories with important (key) details
• identifies the setting in a story

• recognizes and produces (locates, hears, and says) rhyming words
• counts syllables in spoken words
• blends (puts together) syllables in spoken words
• spells simple words (CVC) phonetically
• tells the ending sound in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words
• tells (produces) the short sound of five major vowels
• names opposites (antonyms)
• recognizes uppercase (capital) letters
• recognizes lowercase letters
• tells (produces) consonant sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• Segment (separates) syllables in spoken words
• Tells how the illustrations and the text of a book are connected
• Draws, dictates, or writes to tell (narrates) about a single event or several linked events

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 3rd nine week report card:

• Identifies major events in a story
• Tells the middle sound in CVC words
• Adds or substitutes individual sounds to make new words (-at to bat and then cat)
• Identifies the main topic of an informational text
• Retells key details of an informational text
• Capitalizes the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I
• Recognizes and names end punctuation ( ., ?, !, ", & ,)
• Writes a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds
• Reads common high frequency words by sight

The following language arts skills will be assessed on the 4th nine week report card:

• Spells simple words phonetically (CVC Words)
• Tells (produces) the long sound of the five major vowels
• Reads grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Reads common high frequency words by sight
• draws, dictates, or writes to express opinion in writing (like, dislikes)
• Collaborates (works) with others to gather information from many sources including digital tools, to produce and publish a writing project

Math