Kindergarten Connection
Kindergarten
October 2014
Teachers
Happy fall! Thanks to all of the families that have helped us get the year off to a
great start! Your contributions to the classroom have been tremendous! Continue to
work on reading, writing, handwriting, sight words, and math skills at home.
Here is an overview of the major topics that will be covered during the month of
October:
Miss DeBold
Mrs. Geraci
Mrs. Mattsen
Mrs. Meadows
Ms. Collins
Mrs. Rydzewski
Reading and Language Arts
Our Focus: Reading to be informed

Important
Dates
M
We will read a variety of information books this month about
apples, pumpkins and weather.
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We will share informational text and understand how pictures,
charts, and graphs can give us more information about the topic.
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We will explore environmental print.
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We will understand that there are different reasons for reading.
October
Oct. 13th: Open House
October 17th: No
School
Oct. 20th: Family
Literacy Night
Oct.20-25th: Fall
Harvest Week
Handwriting Practice
Words
We are learning how to correctly
We will be reading and writing the
form the following uppercase and
following kindergarten sight words.
lowercase letters:
Please practice reading, writing,
Letter “Bb”
and locating these words.
Letter “Rr”
Review: I, a, the, in, like,
Letter “Tt”
Letter “Gg”
Letter “Nn”
Letter “Pp”
Letter “Cc”
and
New Words: you, me, see,
am, said, can
Letter “Hh”
October 29th: Field
Trip to Summer’s Farm
October 31st: No
School-Professional
Day
Poems &
Songs
*“Gingerbread
Man Jingle”
*”I Am A
Firefighter”
Math
We will continue our math concepts including:
 Directional and Positional words (before, between, after, top, middle,
bottom, above and below)
*“Take Me Out
To The
Barnyard”

Count and identify numerals (1-100)/Write Numerals 1-20

Sort and describe the sorting rule used (color, shape, size)
*“I Go To The

Graph: use words such as most, least, more, less, same, and equal to
Farm”
describe the graph
-organize and display data using tallies, bar graphs, and pictographs
*“Five Little
Pumpkins”
Science
Writing
*Make daily weather observations.
During Writers Workshop, we will
*Use tools to measure the weather.
continue learning:
*Discuss how weather affects our environment

How to be a writer

Routines
Social Studies

Ideas
*Roles of school staff
*Classroom rights and responsibilities
*Family rights and responsibilities
*Reasons for family rights and responsibilities.
*Identify the attributes of American symbols
*Discuss people important to the American

Development (pre writing & topic
and daily lives.
choice)

Details (using more than 5 colors &
adding more to pictures)

political system (past and present)
Conventions (editing & peer
conferencing)
Curriculum Vocabulary
- sort
- attribute
- pattern
- compare
- alike/different
- unit
- AB/ABB/ABC patterns
- repeat
- sunny
- cloudy
- stormy
- windy
- thermometer
- temperature
- cold
- hot
- details
- symbol
- president
Important Information and Reminders
 Please remember to work with your child every night on their
homework. It is so important to develop good homework skills.
Return the homework every Friday!
 On October 29th, we will be going to Summer’s Farm. Remember
to have your child bring a packed lunch and dress appropriately
for the weather.
News from our Specialists:
Art:
In October, Kindergarten students will begin working with color! We will read the
book Mouse Paint and practice mixing our own secondary colors using the three
primary colors: red, yellow and blue. After that, we are going to use our new
knowledge of line and color to create a picture of an ice cream cone!
Media Center:
Students are beginning to learn their roles and responsibilities as patrons of their
library media center. They are learning how to take of books, introduced to
reading signs and apply this knowledge to locating books in the library media
center. They will begin to collect and analyze data on classmates reading
interests during the month of October and will begin discussing the attributes of
fiction and non-fiction resources and analyze how these resources can be used
for learning.
P.E:
In Physical Education, Kindergarten students will be focusing on executing several
different locomtor skills including Hop, Jump, and gallop. They will also be learn
about Spatial awareness and how to move safely through an open environment.
Music:
We will discover the four ways we use our voices: speaking, singing, shouting, and
whispering. We will continue moving to the steady beat to show music that is
fast and music that is slow. We will also play singing games to help develop our
singing voices.