Kindergarten Families,
March has come….quickly! It marks the beginning of an enjoyable,
exploratory kindergarten time! The children now have a good foundation
in readiness skills, and are able to take on more creative, in depth learning
activities. Reflecting this growth, our curriculum becomes a more integrated
experience.
In Language Arts, we will continue to work in our Fundations and Heggerty programs. We will
be tapping out sounds, creating words, segmenting words, making word
families, and learning more about short and long vowel sounds.
We will continue with our reading groups. All children are now reading books
in school. We will meet in small groups at least one time (hopefully more) per
week.
Sight word fun will include our Egg-citing Sight word hunt!
In Math, we will continue to focus on addition and subtraction and composing and
decomposing numbers to 20. We will work more with number sentences and
we will learn our numeral words. In addition we will be learning positional
words while working on a leprechaun book! We will also try to visit ordinal
numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th).
In Science we will learn and explore animal life cycles as we study the life cycle of
chickens.
In April, these learning experiences will continue and will then be integrated
with life science learning as we welcome the colors of spring with a
flower-planting unit. Children will tend a rainbow of their own plants,
recording their growth.
Letter and sound skills will be reinforced with reading experiences adapted
from stories such as Planting a Rainbow by Lois Elhert, and Mouse Paint by James Wahl.
Thank you for your continued support,
Karen Hoyt and Kim Kerr
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