K Teachers
Mrs. Collins
Ms. DeBold
February 2016
This month is February is going to be LOVELY and exciting! We will celebrate our 100th day of
Kindergarten, have our Valentine’s Day parties, and continue to LOVE our learning!
Mrs. Mattsen
Mrs. Meadows
Mrs. Rydzewski
Reading and Language Arts
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We will retell familiar stories.
We will ask and answer questions about key details and unknown words
in books we read.
We will identify story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution).
We will recognize common types of text.
We will describe the relationship between illustrations and the story.
We will compare/contrast the adventures/experiences of characters in
familiar stories.
Words Their Way
Words
We are learning about words with
We will be reading and writing the
predictable spelling patterns (words
following kindergarten sight words.
with the same ending).
Please practice reading, writing, and
Word Families for the Month:
locating these words.
_ag
_en
_ug
February
February 10th:
Report cards go
home
February 12th:
Kindergarten
Valentine’s Day
Parties
February 15th:
President’s Day,
New Words: can, she, for,
February 26th: ½
get, our, this
day Dismissal at
Math
These are the math concepts we will focus on this month:
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Dates
No School
_et
_eg
Important
1:20
Poems &
Songs
We will identify, describe, and represent 2-dimensional
“Ms.
shapes and 3-dimensional shapes in different sizes and
Groundhog”
orientations.
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We will use the attributes of shapes (number of sides,
“100th Day of
corners, faces) to identify them by name and describe
School”
their similarities and differences.
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We will count objects arranged in a circle (up to 20
objects) and objects that are scattered (up to 10
objects).
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We will decompose numbers up to ten in more than one
way and describe and record our arrangements.
“Get You a
Valentine”
“Father of
our Country”
“This Tooth”
Writing
Science
*Observe, describe, and compare the plants
During Writers Workshop, we will…
residing in Maryland.
4,5
*Observe, describe, and compare the animals
residing in Maryland.
*write and illustrate personal narratives about an
event or loosely-linked events and provide a
reaction to this event(s)
Social Studies
* Identify the difference between needs and
wants and how the choices we make have
advantages and disadvantages.
* Describe different occupations and what is
required to perform them.
* Identify different goods people make and grow
and how they are useful.
*focus on using nouns within writing and continue to
practice spelling words phonetically
*practice using and understanding question words
(who, where, when, what, how)
*research animals living in different habitats using
different technological tools and write informative
sentences using our newfound facts
Vocabulary
-needs
-three-dimensional
-cone
-wants
-oval
-cylinder
-job/occupation
-square
-sphere
-service
-circle
-pyramid
-goods
-triangle
-cube
-external features
-rectangle
-noun
-living things
-hexagon
-question
-two-dimensional
-rectangular prism
Important Information and Reminders
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Please come to school on time by 9:15.
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Please remember that if you choose to purchase or have your child make Valentine
cards, please make sure your child makes one for every child in the classroom. We
want everyone to feel included.
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Please practice reading and writing the kindergarten words with your child each
night as part of their homework. If you need another copy of these words, please
let your child’s teacher know.
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IXL.com is a great resource to practice math at home. Ask your child’s teacher if
you need a reminder of your child’s user name and password.
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Please label all coats, hats, and gloves with your child’s name. This makes it much
easier to return lost items.
Art
In February, Kindergarten students will continue with our observational drawing of
musical instruments borrowed from Ms. Holden. After drawing the instruments from real
life, we will experiment with watercolor crayons! For our next project, we will explore
clay again, focusing on where clay comes from and what we can do with it. Each
student will have the chance to make a pinch pot with a lid and glaze our pots, adding
color.
Music
Students will work on exploring different types of tone color using the voice and
classroom instruments. Students will continue to work on identifying musical opposites
by identifying the difference between long and short sounds. Students will also be
working on identifying repeating sections of music.
P.E.
In PE, Kindergarten students will be practicing their fundamental jumping and landing
patterns in addition to working on balance.
Information Literacy in the Media Center
Mrs. Portocarrero-Pitt will see Kindergarten classes in the computer lab for 2 weeks in
February. For the first class they will be listening to a narrative story, Duck on a Bike, and
then learn how to use a drawing application called Pixie 3.
As they listen to the story we will make connections to the story. I wonder how many
kindergarteners already know how to ride a bike? I will ask questions about the setting,
events, and characters in the stories. Our kindergarteners learn that authors use details
to describe the events and discuss how characters react to these events.
Using Pixie they will learn to use various tools to draw their own duck!
During week 3 and 4 kindergarteners will write informative texts. Students will select an
animal, formulate a question about that animal and locate the answer using print and
digital sources.