Weeks of September 30 and October 7, 2019 

Kindergarten  Scholars 
 
 

Upcoming important dates 

10/1 - Fire Prevention Activities 
10/15 - Open School House/Academic Success Night 5:15-7:15pm 

10/22 - Picture Day 

10/25 - No School; Staff only day 

Food Pantry open - ​Every Tuesday 2:30-5:30pm and Thursday 1-3pm 

Early release at 1:15 - ​Every Monday 

Birthdays 
​Victor -10/7 - Wocelka Anthony - 10/9 - Braun 

Reinella - 10/19 -Wocelka Dylan T. - 10/24 - Kuecker 

Jah’Mir 10/26 - Cashin 

 
Learning links - What we’re doing these weeks 
Reading  Writing  Phonics  Math   Science / 
Social Studies 
We are reading  We will work on  We are learning  We are learning  We are learning 
the texts:  handwriting and  these letters: I, N,  about: Notice,  about:  
-Let’s Sing It  learning the  D, O, L, R  describe, extend  -Being assertive 
-Big Black Bug  letters I i, N n, D  (previous letters:  and create  to get what we 
-There Was a  d, O o, L l, R r   A, T, M, S, F, P)  patterns in math,  need 
Tree      addition concepts  -Understanding 
  (previous letters:  We are working  to 5, working with  feelings in 
Skills:  Aa, Tt, Mm, Ss, Ff,  on hearing the  10 frames,  ourselves and 
-Text Genres  and Pp)  parts or syllables  counting and  others 
(Fiction,  in words. (ie.  comparing  -Zones of 
nonfiction,  “bug” has one  numbers of dots  Regulation 
song/poem)  part and “insect”  and working with  -Trees and 
-Author’s  has two parts)  math concepts  Leaves 
message  greater than, less 
-Comparing texts  than, equal 
-Sequencing  to/the same as.  
events   

Home​ ​connections  

Important word to know:  What it means: 

Genre  Types of texts. In kindergarten we will focus on fiction 

(fake), nonfiction (real) and songs/poems. 

   
 
 
Literacy connections: ​When you read with your Scholar, be sure to ask them 
what kind of book they are reading. 
1. Is it fiction, nonfiction or a song/poem? 
2. How do they know? 
a. Is it made up? 
b. Is it about something they have seen in their life? 
c. Talk about the illustrations. Are they photographs or drawings?  
3. Sort your books into these categories. 
 
Math connections: ​You can work with your Scholar on counting and 
comparing numbers at home. Ask your scholar to count how many slices of 
apples they have (or something you have on hand) and compare that to the 
number of fingers you are holding up. Which is more or greater than? 
Which is less or less than? Are they the same or equal to each other? 
   

 
 

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