Kindergarten Parents' Weekly News!
Week of December 11-15, 2023
Important Infomation for this week!
Parents,
Winter break starts December 20th. We look forward to welcoming your child back to school on Thursday, January 4th. We hope you all have a wonderful and restful holiday season!
- Please send students to school in warm clothing and write the student's name on their jackets.
- Students should also have a change of clothes in their backpacks in the case of an accident.
- Make sure you are looking at your child’s folder each night, signing the behavior form, and emptying out the papers, check and sign the behavior chart EVERY DAY.
Green or Pink = Followed the rules and had a great day!
Yellow = Needed extra reminders about following the rules.
Red = Had a difficult time following the rules.
- Please send healthy snacks or full lunch in your child lunch box if they don't eat from the cafeteria.
- Please send a written excuse or call to the office if your child was or will be absent from school so we can excuse them.
December Calendar - English
December Calendar - Spanish
Picture with Santa
Important Dates!
- 12/11 to 12/14 Assessments
- 12/12 Pictures with Santa (During School Hours)
- 12/14 Holiday Performance
- 12/11-15 Quarter 2 Math Common Formative Assessment (CFA)
- 12/15 Kindergarten Holiday Celebration @ 2:15 pm
- 12/20 - 1/3 Winter Break
Our students!
This is our Kindergarten Team!
Meet our Kindergarten Teachers...
Mrs. Barbara Hoffman
Sra. Lenis Lopez
Mrs. Katie Fitzgerald
Mrs. Erica Gondek
Mrs. Navarro
Mrs. Amy Cheney
Mrs. Stephanie Sims
Mrs. Lucero Castro
What we will learn next week and how parents can help from home?
Theme for this week: Pennies, nickels and dimes!
Math Class
THIS WEEK: Unit 3
(K.NR.1.4) I can identify pennies, nickels, and dimes and know their name and value.
K.NR.3 Use place value understanding to compose and decompose numbers from 11-19.
K.NR.3.1 Describe numbers from 11 to 19 by composing (putting together) and decomposing (breaking apart) the numbers into ten ones and some more ones.
~ AMP assessment-Dec. 11-15
REVIEW AT HOME:
- Number Identification from 1 to 50.
- Count from 0 to 100.
- Count by tens to 100.
- Count by five to 100.
- Count forward and backward from 1 to 50.
- Identify, write, represent and compare numbers up to 20.
- Explain, create and repeating patterns with a repetition.
- Identify, describe and compare basic shapes.
- Demonstrate the relationship between numbers and quantities up to 20 connecting cardinality.
- Observe, describe, and compare physical and measurable attributes of objects and analyze graphical displays of data.
- POSITIONAL WORDS: above, around, behind, below, beside, between, in front, down, in the center, in the middle, near, next to, on, outside, over, though, under, up.
READING
- Listen to stories and answer questions.
- Read Aloud: Farm Animals
- Identify stories elements and connections to text.
- Identify the author and illustrator of a book.
- Practice the frequent words list attached below this session. Sight Words: Please practice the first 50 words from the list below.
PHONICS
- Finishing up letters & blending
- Keep practicing the remains alphabet letters and sounds by the 2nd week of December.
- Some students will be blending sound.
- Some students will be reading passages.
WRITING
- Elf Writing
- Extending sentences using Who, What, When.
English Video to practice at home every day!
Dual Language Immersion (DLI - (K1 & K3) important information...
DLI Math Homework...
- Count by ones up to 100.
- Count by tens up to 100.
- Count by fives up to 100.
- Count backward from 50 to 0.
- Make patterns.
- Use data to create simple graph.
- Review flat shapes (2D) sides and vertices.
DLI Spanish Homework...
Topic 10: Compose and Decompose Numbers 11 to 19
Lessons: 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, 10-4 and 10-5
Letters of the Week:
- Ch, Ñ
- Read the story "Papa, Mama, Ana, Pepe y Adela" at home every day (please turn off the volume and ask your child to read it!
NEW LETTERS:
- Blending syllables with Ch, Ñ (check Sonidos Iniciales chart).
- Review the five vowels sounds and write them correctly: A a, E e, I i, O o, U u
- Review and write syllables with: M m, P p, S s, L l, T t, D d, R r, C c, G g
DLI Spanish Videos to practice at home every day!
Story with syllables with "a"
Park Street Student Standard Dress Attire
Uniforms can be purchased from Wal-Mart, K-mart, Value City Thrift Store, or elsewhere.
- Tops:
- Collared Shirts: Navy blue, light (powder) blue, yellow, and white
- Collared shirts can be long-sleeved, short-sleeved, button-up, and/or polo.
- Non-collared Shirts: Can be worn only in navy or pale yellow
- Marietta/Park Street Spirit Shirt: Any MCS or Park Street spirit shirts are allowed within the standard dress attire
- Collared Shirts: Navy blue, light (powder) blue, yellow, and white
- Bottoms
- Khaki
- Jeans (without rips)
- Navy blue skirts, pants, shorts, skorts, dresses, and/or jumpers
All pants must be belted/affixed at the waist and worn with a tucked-in shirt. The length of the khaki/navy blue shorts and skirts must be no more than five inches above the knees as measured from the inside bend of the knee.
- Tops:
We are Panthers!
Location: 105 Park Street Southeast, Marietta, GA, USA
Phone: 7704293180