Kindergarten Parents' Weekly News!
Week of March 4-9, 2024
Calendario de Marzo
March Calendar
Important Information!
Parents,
- Please send students to school in proper warm clothing and write the student's name on their jackets.
Please remember all students are expected in the classroom before 8:30 am.
- 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 to empty 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 full lunch in your child lunch box if they don't eat from the cafeteria.
- ATTENDANCE IS VERY IMPORTANT! 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.
Tardy Drop-Off
When a student arrives late (after 8:30), an adult must sign the student in at the office.
Early Pick-Up
Please limit early pick-up of children to emergencies and appointments. If a child is out for any portion of the school day, the missed time is recorded as a tardy. A note sent in the morning will help us to have your child ready. To avoid interruptions to instruction, no student will be released between 2:45 and 3:15. Parents will be asked to wait for the dismissal bell. Come to the office to check out a student. Please be prepared to present photo identification upon request. No student will be released to an unknown or unauthorized person.
Kindergarten Field Trip to LEGO Discorvery Center on Friday, March 15th, 2024!
Thank you to the parents who have already signed the permission slip and sent the $8.00. If you have not done so yet, you still have time, please send it as soon as possible to reserve your child's space. Thank you.
We need your support!
Parents,
Thank you to the parents who already sent this supplies, but we still need markers, cleaning supplies to keep classrooms clean and desinfected. We will appreciate your support!
Upcoming Events:
Please be sure to check the coming up dates below. We have a lot that will be happening as we near the end of the year!
3/4: Spring Student/Class Pictures
3/13: DLI Dance 6:00pm
3/15 Kindergarten Field trip to Lego Discovery Center
3/25-3/29: Book Fair
3/21-3/22: K-5 Write Score Assessment
4/1-4/5: Spring Break
4/12: Career Day
4/16-4/19: MAP Assessment
4/18: Lion King Performance 6:00 (3-5th performing)
4/29-5/3: Spanish MAP Assessment for DLI
5/6-5/10: Teacher Appreciation Week
5/21: Awards Day (More information to come)
5/23: Last Day of School
Parents,
We are getting ready for Career Day 2024 which will take place on Friday, April 12, 2024, from 9:00am-11:30am. If you would like to volunteer, please complete the google form below. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwxAd2xvkQ0b_0PeJaKmZdhN--YNq_H5e-pdQg3IJw_z8yhw/viewform
Read Across America
Dia Internacional de Lectura en America
Picture day information
Alliance Theatre
Every Thursday, our Kindergarten students can't wait to see Mrs. Julissa Sabino! She is coming from The Alliance Theatre Institute. They are partners with school districts and schools to deliver professional learning for educators and arts integrated or theater-based instruction for students. Designed to support school curriculum and individual classroom goals across grade levels and content areas, Institute programs include: residencies, student workshops, and professional learning events.
Institute initiatives are aligned with the Georgia Standards of Excellence and Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards and yield proven results in students’ academic achievement and social-emotional growth. Additionally, these offerings provide teachers the opportunity to engage in job-embedded professional development by collaborating with professional teaching artists who embody high quality artistry and utilize their art form to positively impact school communities.
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
Topic for this week:
Topic 8: More Addition and Subtraction
Savvas enVision
Students develop an understanding of subraction by representing operations in different ways.
Subtraction Strategies Manipulatives and Subtraction Strategies Number line
Lessons:
Lesson 8-1: Decompose 5 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-2: Related Facts
Lesson 8-3: Problem Solving: Reasoning
Lesson 8-4: Fluently Add and Subtract to 5
Lesson 8-5: Decompose 6 and 7 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-6: Decompose 8 and 9 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-7: Ways to Make 10
Lesson 8-8: Decompose 10 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-9: Find the Missing Part of 10
Lesson 8-10: Continue to Find the Missing Part of 10
REVIEW AT HOME:
- Number Identification from 1 to 100.
- Count from 0 to 100.
- Count by tens to 100.
- Count by five to 100.
- Count forward and backward from up to 100.
- Identify, write, represent and compare numbers up to 20.
- Explain, create and repeating patterns.
- 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: Story Elements in Classic Tales
- 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
- Blending CVC
WRITING
- Narrative Writing - One sentence to tell an event while stile emphazing telling a story orally.
- Extending sentences using Who, What, When.
Sight Words Expectations
The expectations at this time of the school year are that your child already knows 50 sight words and all of them (100) by May 2024.
English Videos to practice at home every day!
Dual Language Immersion (DLI - (K1 & K3) Important Information...
Dear DLI Families
As we move into the end of the year, we will be focusing on our reading fluency, writing fluency, and Math fluency. Students need to be able to use their skills to read and write. In Math are working on word problems.
Please work on reading with your student every night, letter formation and spelling, as well as Math fluency.
How to Help at Home:
High frequency words/students should know how to spell and read:
It is incredibly important that your student is able to read and spell these words. We are seeing that students that do not know them, are having their reading fluency impeded.
We add new words to this list each week, if your student can fluently read and spell a word. At the end of the year students should be able to read and spell 100 High Frequency words.
Students should be reading at home every night. This can be new books, or the same books over and over. Reading the same book helps build fluency and automaticity in students reading. When students get stuck on a longer word, encourage your student to chunk the word into smaller parts or syllables.
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 Math Homework... (Sra. Lopez)
Topic 8: More Addition and Subtraction!
Students develop an understanding of Subtraction by representing operations in different ways.
Please work at home: (Homework)
Lesson 8-1: Decompose 5 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-2: Related Facts
Lesson 8-3: Problem Solving: Reasoning
Lesson 8-4: Fluently Add and Subtract to 5
Lesson 8-5: Decompose 6 and 7 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-6: Decompose 8 and 9 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-7: Ways to Make 10
Lesson 8-8: Decompose 10 to Solve Problems
Lesson 8-9: Find the Missing Part of 10
Lesson 8-10: Continue to Find the Missing Part of 10
Letters of the Week:
K, k, W, w
- Please your child should read this Spanish story at home everyday!
NEW LETTERS:
- Blending syllables with Zz, H, h (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, Ch, V, ll, Qu,
Spanish Story to read EVERY DAY!
Addition Song - Spanish
Letters Names and Sounds - Spanish
DLI Spanish Videos to practice at home every day!
Counting by Tens - Spanish song
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