Kindergarten Newsletter

Valentines Day is coming up soon; Please keep in mind that per our hand book we do not have parties. However, we will make Valentine mailbags❤️.

Your scholar is welcome to bring Valentine cards, small goodies or trinkets throughout the week.

Mrs. Richards: 19

Mrs. Solis 27

Mrs. Castillo 23

February 27th we will celebrate our 100th day by dressing up as if we were 100 years old. We would like to invite the scholars to dress up like they are 100 years old. Get creative with glasses, hair, and outfits. It's lots of fun! We will also have several activities focusing on the number 100.

**We have noticed that most of the scholars can count to 100 by 1's and 10's 🎉 . If your scholar has not mastered these, please continue to have your scholar practice. In class we have shifted our focus to skip counting by 5's to 100.**

* Scholars need 2 snacks and a lunch. Sometimes parents like to pack 1 snack and a larger lunch, that they can finish during our second snack break. The first snack must be healthy. We do require them to save treats for lunch or afternoon snack.

* Shoes must be lace up tennis shoes that actually tie.

* Please clean out your scholars folder nightly.

Here are our Quarter 3 learning goals.

All kindergarten Pizza Wednesday

Scholars can purchase pizza for $5, which includes two slices of pizza, a piece of fruit, and a drink.

Scholars will need to bring cash or check (made out to TOPA) to their homeroom teacher on Monday or Tuesday mornings. Money for pizza must be turned in by Tuesdays.

**If your scholar is absent on a Tuesday and was unable to order pizza, please send them with a lunch on Wednesday as we will not be accepting any pizza payments on Wednesdays**

Send the money with your scholar, and NOT to the Front Office. Homeroom teachers are in charge of keeping track of their own class and it maximizes efficiency when you send it directly to your scholar's teacher~ Thank you!

Feb. 6 T-shirt day; red, white and blue

Feb. 17 President's Day - No School

Feb. 20 Popcorn Day

Feb. 27 Kudos: Kinder Caring

Feb. 27 Hot Chocolate day

Feb. 27 100th day celebration

Wit & Wisdom

This week in Module 3 Then and Now

Scholars will:

• Describe the connection between related photographs in a text.
• Express understanding of how Transportation Then and Now and Communication Then and Now build knowledge of change in America.
• Ask and answer questions about the words and pictures in Now and Ben.
• Identify the main topic and key details in Now and Ben.

Module 3 Family Tip Sheet

Essential Question: How has life in America changed over time?

This week scholars will continue Unit 3.

• We will continue to practice distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds.
• We will continue to practice building , taping and blending cvc words
• Will have dictation on Thursday
• End of Unit Assessment on Thursday

Sight words to know

I, it, if, in, at, am, a, on, of, up, go, so, no, is, his , as , has, was, be he, me, we, see, an, and, can

Letters To Know

Scholars should be able to identify, name, sound, and form all lower and upper case letters correctly. Please provide extra practice at home as needed. We will continue to work on letter name and sound fluency.

Common letters & sounds scholars are mixing up while reading and writing: g j, m n, e i, p q, b d,

Fundations Family Pack

We will start the Module 5 this week.

Topic A represents addition. Scholars solve a variety of addition problems and use number sentences with symbols to represents their thinking. Scholars use familiar story structure to (beginning, middle , and end) to write and understand subtraction sentences.

Scholars will:

• Represent add to with result unknown story problems by using drawings and numbers
• Relate number sentences and number bonds through story problems.
• Represent and solve add to with result unknown story problems
• Represent decomposition situations by using number bonds and addition sentences.

This week we will continue our Science Module: Pushes and Pulls

Scholars will :

• Apply new learning about changing the direction of an object's movement to the anchor model.
• Plan an investigation to explore how a tugboat can make a cargo ship slow down and stop.
• Investigate how a tugboat uses pushes and pulls to make a cargo ship slow down and stop.
• Identify simultaneously pushes between a pair of objects.

Anchor Phenomenon: tugboats moving cargo ships.

Essential Question: How do tugboats move cargo ships through a harbor?

Focus Question:(Lessons 10-16) What causes moving objects to change direction or stop?

Family Tip Sheet