ELA: In kindergarten, students engaged in explorations of essential questions centered on their uniqueness, family, and abilities, beginning with discussions about what makes everyone special through drawings and writing exercises. They listened to The Ugly Duckling and participated in comprehension activities. As the focus shifted to family, students illustrated their family dynamics and enjoyed activities together while practicing the sight word "can," also responding to stories like Mama Mouse and El Gato and Fun Together. Continuing their journey, students illustrated their abilities and discussed activities from Kindergarteners Can, identifying letters through At School and writing about their park activities after reading What Can I Do?. In the following week, students explored questions related to movement, senses, tools, shapes, and bugs through engaging stories. They began with the question "How do baby animals move?" and learned through the story Pouch!, focusing on phonics with the letter Aa. The next question about senses led them to Senses at the Seashore, where they drew facts and learned about non-fiction while practicing the sight word "see." Their exploration of tools involved The Handiest Things in the World, where students retold the story and identified topics, focusing on the letter Pp and the sight word "a." As they examined shapes, students listened to Shapes All Around, introduced to the letter Tt and the sight word "like." Finally, they explored bugs through the poem I Love Bugs!, drawing bugs, identifying rhymes, and reviewing letters and sight words while listening to From Caterpillar to Butterfly and practicing dictation. Overall, students showcased impressive skills in reading, drawing, and writing. Good work Kindergarten!
Math: Students focused on writing numbers, counting objects, and learning about the calendar, including months and days of the week. They explored math manipulatives like 3D shapes, pattern blocks, connecting cubes, and dice. The class practiced numbers 6-10 and sorted shapes and buttons by various attributes. Additionally, they wrote numbers 11-15, improved their calendar skills, engaged in cut and paste activities for sorting shapes, and used 10 frames to match numbers while comparing groups to identify which had more or less. Students worked on completing their beginning of the year linkit tests. We continued our math centers exploring manipulatives and learning new math games. Students were introduced to Sudoku using it as a fun way to start our math workshop. Kindergarten focused on measurement by comparing the lengths of various objects and conducting a name project to identify the longest and shortest names in the class. They practiced ordering objects from smallest to largest and engaged in Halloween-themed math crafts. Additionally, the class learned about 2D shapes, exploring their sides and corners through hands-on activities like creating shapes with playdough and geoboards, as well as drawing them.
Social Studies: In Social Studies, Kindergarteners focused on classroom rules and the Zones of Regulation to help them manage emotions, using color-coded zones to represent different feelings. They engaged with this topic through fun pictures and activities. The class also celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month by learning about Frida Kahlo, her art, and creating their own self-portraits inspired by her style. Additionally, the students discussed being responsible classroom citizens and shared what they love about school, practicing active listening during peer presentations. They explored maps, analyzing various types before creating their own classroom maps, labeling items and enjoying the mapping activity. The exploration of neighborhoods began with defining what a neighborhood is, followed by a picture walk through Hoboken, where students discussed local landmarks and practiced giving directions. During Digital Citizenship Week, they learned about online safety, including protecting personal information and recognizing trustworthy sources, highlighted by the catchy song "Pause and Think Online." The focus then shifted to travel within their neighborhood, emphasizing the importance of traffic signs, which they engaged with through a guessing game. The students also learned about the 50 states, with a special focus on New Jersey, exploring its flag, flower, animal, and capital, and understanding map keys. Finally, they participated in a virtual field trip to New Jersey landmarks and created postcards featuring fun facts and symbols from the state, enjoying the creative project.
Dual Language: This Quarter, Kindergarten Dual Language has been rocking it!
In SLA, we learned all the letter names in Spanish. We learned the sounds for the letters Mm, Pp, Tt, Ll, Ss and all of the vowels. We worked on combining consonants and vowel sounds to create syllables and ultimately blend syllables together to read and write words. We also learned how to read and write the following Spanish sight words: yo, puedo, soy, la, el, es, veo, and un. We practiced building and reading sentences everyday with our Spanish sight words
In Matematicas, we practiced counting in Spanish to 100 by 1s and 10s. We practiced counting and creating sets of objects up to 20 and perfecting our number formation using multisensory sand. We also worked on writing numbers correctly in a sequence. We learned the months and days of the week in Spanish. We can say and write the date in Spanish. We can also tell the weather in Spanish. Last, we learned about las figuras bidimensionales ( 2-D shapes), identifying shapes around us, and creating pictures out of shapes.
In Estudios Sociales, we worked on building our spanish language. We learned how to say the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. We learned about school items and places. We also learned about our community and the people in it that help keep our community safe and clean. We also learned about many different cultures.
