Kindergarten News
December 2015
Burnt Mills Elementary School
Ms. Arango ~ Ms. Bolden ~ Ms. Miller ~ Ms. Powell ~ Ms. White
Thank you to all the parents who were
Dates to remember. . .
chaperones to our field trip to the zoo!
Dec 24th – Jan 3rd: Winter Break No School
Remember to. . .
Read with your child everyday.
Return library books and homework each week.
Label your child’s winter coat.
See www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/parents/ for
more parent information.
Burnt Mills ES website:
www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/burntmillses
In Reading. . .
In Math. . .
We will review the jobs of authors and illustrators. We will read
We are counting up to 20. We will also compare two groups
informational text. We will determine the relationship between
of objects to determine which is heavier and which is lighter.
illustrations and the text, ask and answer questions about the topic,
We will determine one more and one less of a number. We
as well as, pick out key details. We continue to practice letter sounds
will also group things in sets of 10. Finally, we will work with
and sight words. Remember to read at home every night and
story problems.
record the book on your December reading log.
In Social Studies. . .
In Science. . .
We will observe and determine the difference between human made
We will learn the characteristics of living things. We will study
and natural objects. We will observe and work with maps. We will
also learn about how people make changes to their environment to
the life cycle of different animals. We will learn firsthand
about mealworms; we will have some in our classroom. Our
meet their needs.
mealworms should arrive sometime this month. We will learn to
make and record observations.
In Writing. . .
Fun Website . . .
We are practicing how to write to inform. We will use a
combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to write about a topic.
We will do some research to help us learn more about selected
topics.
We will also practice spelling sight words and recording the sounds
that we hear in words.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=idexNu0SZpU
This will help with learning to spell and read some of the
kindergarten sight words