Blast Off into a New Marking Period
with Kindergarten!
Important Reminders:
Our Kindergarten Philadelphia Zoo Field Trip is coming up in May.
All students will be allowed one (1) chaperone!
Start saving now so that you don’t miss out on this amazing adventure!
Kindergarten Shoots for the Moon!
Kindergarten will continue to aim high as we work towards our third marking period goals. Our goals this marking period include:
- Identifies all letter sounds.
- Recognizes and identifies numbers 0-50.
- Counts numbers 0-75.
- Knows address.
- Identifies 85% of all sight words.
Soar into Reading!
This marking period, Kindergarteners continue to explore sounds by segmenting and blending words independently. Students will enjoy stories about Weather, Transportation and the Farm as we blast into our next three themes. During these units, kindergarteners will continue to focus on concepts of print and learn how to apply reading strategies such as: questioning, making predictions and inferences, sequencing events and summarizing.
Movin’ through Mathematics!
Kindergarten is busy adding this marking period! Students will begin the marking period with a new unit on identifying addition partners of numbers 0-10 and writing equations. Kindergarteners will continue skip-counting orally by 5’s and 10’s and using nickels and dimes to reinforce this connection.
Kindergarten Authors Soar to New Heights!
This marking period, students will write about themselves, their families and their family traditions by demonstrating an understanding of writing conventions such as: writing from left to right, using spaces between words, beginning each sentence with a capital letter, and ending each sentence with correct. This marking period, students will begin using Kindergarten handwriting paper! We will continue to reinforce our handwriting skills and students will begin sounding out words independently. Students will also be responsible for spelling word wall words and word family words. Please encourage your young speller to try this out at home!
Kindergarten Builds Strong Communities and Future Scientists!
As we soar into the third marking period, Kindergarteners will begin learning about the weather and seasons. We will also talk more about community helpers and American symbols. Students will identify important individuals in our history, too!
Look for new information when we blast off into the
4th Marking Period!