Kindergarten Connection
March 2016
Springtime is almost here and our kindergarteners are really starting to
bloom! We are seeing them make many wonderful strides in reading, writing, and math!
Please continue to work with your child each night to help them develop good work study
habits and understand the importance of homework.
Your continued support is so appreciated!
Reading and Language Arts
Our Focus: Comprehension of informational/explanatory text: text features,
Kindergarten
Teachers
Mrs. Collins
Ms. DeBold
Ms. Mattsen
Mrs. Meadows
Mrs. Rydzewski
Important
Dates
sequence, main ideas, and identifying meaning of unknown words.
Learning about the meaning of unknown words in text and identifying and
discussing new words and text features found in informational and non-fiction
texts.
Learning how the text feature numbered steps helps you understand the text
Students will use background knowledge and facts from the text to identify
the main idea.
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Words Their Way
Words
March 2nd: Read
Across America
Day
March 18th: PTA
Sock Hop
March 23rd: End
of Quarter 3
March 24th:
We are learning about words with
We will be reading and writing the
predictable spelling patterns
following kindergarten sight words
No School for
(words with the same ending).
this month. Please practice
Students
Chunks for the month:
reading, writing, and locating these
-ug
words at home.
-ut
New Words: that, did,
-un
-op
come, I’m, an, got
Math
These are the math concepts we will continue to
focus on this month:
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Describing attributes of 2-D shapes (square, triangle, circle, rectangle, hexagon,
rhombus, etc.) and 3-D shapes (rectangular prism, cylinder, cube, cone, pyramid,
Professional Day –
March 25th-April
1st: Spring Break
Poems &
Songs
“The Cat Who
Wore a Hat”
“March”
sphere) and locating them in our environment
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Compose and construct 2-D shapes and 3-D shapes using various items such as paper,
rubber bands with geoboards, clay, Play-dough, etc.
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Decompose numbers in more than one way
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Combine two quantities and represent the addition
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Build fluency with addition and subtraction to 5
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Count by 1s to 100
“I’m an Irish
Leprechaun”
“On My
Birthday”
Writing
Science
During Writers Workshop, we will…
*Learning about and comparing the external
features of plants, animals, and humans
4,5
*Classifying animals into different groupings
*write to inform an audience using 2 or more
organized, detailed, and descriptive sentences
Social Studies
* making choices: advantages and disadvantages
and illustrations.
*learning how buyers and sellers make exchanges
in the marketplace
*use and spell our word wall words correctly.
*human resources and natural resources
standard English capitalization, punctuation,
*demonstrate command of the conventions of
and spelling.
*edit and share our writings with a peer
Vocabulary
-cylinder
-exchanges
-cube
-choices
-rectangular prism
-technology
-cone
-external features
-pyramid
-compare
-sphere
-two-dimensional shapes
Important Information and Reminders
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Please have your child read for at least ten minutes each night.
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Please make sure your child fully completes each
homework box appropriately as the directions state.
 Please practice reading and writing the kindergarten words with your child
sides
each night as part of their homework.
-three-dimensional shapes
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At home, please practice looking at the clock to help your child understand
-faces
its components and begin identifying and counting with pennies, nickels, and
dimes.
Specials Update
Art
In March, Kindergarten students will continue working with clay. We have begun our
pinch pot lesson, each student made a small pot with a lid, and next we will create small
owls out of a slab of clay. Both projects will be glazed so students can have a shiny, smooth
work of art!
Music
During the month of March, students will be working on identifying repeating sections of
music. We will continue to focus on identifying long and short sounds and representing
them with icons. We will also sing songs that use the voice in many different ways.
P.E .
In P.E., Kindergarten Students will be working on both balance and weight transfer
activities. These activities will include some basic tumbling skills.