Welcome to Kindergarten!

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Dental Health Month!

We have had a busy two weeks learning about how to take care of our teeth and bodies! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week focused on ways to be healthy! We wrote about healthy habits, looked at the five food groups, played games with blends and digraphs, found words with blends and wrote them, practiced writing heart words, and more!

We worked on reading shared texts together during Reading and focused on blends, digraphs, and floss rule words. Please keep reading at home with your child.

In Writing, we worked with our new partners to hear, visualize, and act out poems. We explored interesting words in a poem as well as repetition and rhyme. Some of us even wrote our own poems this week! We worked really hard on visualizing and drew and wrote our visualizations/what we saw in our minds. Ask your child to tell you about what they visualized during Writing.

We continued our subtraction unit in Math. We will continue to revisit addition and subtraction in the coming weeks.

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that taking time to feel calm before reacting is a helpful first step to solving a problem. Let your child see you taking a moment to feel calm at home when things are busy or stressful. For example, say, “Today was a really busy day. I’m going to take a few slow breaths to help me feel calm.” Invite your child to join you.

This week we learned about Jackie Robinson and why he is such an important person in history.

We talked about how Jackie Robinson was the first Black player in Major League Baseball. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and wore number 42. We learned that he showed great courage, even when others were not kind to him. He stayed strong, worked hard, and helped change the game of baseball forever.

We discussed words like brave, fair, and perseverance, and how Jackie Robinson is a great example of all of them. The students shared thoughtful ideas about how we can be brave and stand up for what is right in our own classroom.

Looking ahead...

Early Release Day 3/6

Parent Teacher Conferences 3/10 and 3/11- Don't forget to sign up!

Early Release Day 3/12

Spring Break 3/13-3/22

Career Day Speaker 3/24

Difference Makers 3/24

Have a great weekend!

Jena

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

All About the Mail!

We had a short but busy week learning about the mail and the Post Office! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included various blends and digraphs games, activities that focused on blends, writing letters to our friends, learning about the Post Office and how the mail starts in one place and ends in another, finding blends around our classroom and writing them, writing power words, and reading books on RAZKids!

In Phonics, we revisited the "wh" and"ch" digraphs. We revisited the power words she, said, and off from last week, and learned the new words where, what, and from. LOTS of tricky words this week! Please keep sounding out words and writing with your child at home.

During Reading, we learned about various baby animals by listening to expository nonfiction books. We discussed what we wondered and shared what we learned and practiced making connections. We listened to a poem and discussed the repetition of the words and the beat in the poem while acting it out.

We continued to work on subtraction during Math. Please keep practicing with your child at home.

During our writing time, we have been working hard on adding more details to our writing to help our stories make sense to the reader. We are also practicing using punctuation (capital letters and ending marks) and making sure we use finger spaces between words. These skills help us become clearer, more confident writers. Thank you for supporting this work at home by encouraging your child to add details, spaces, and punctuation when they write!

We also continued our conversations about Black History Month, why it is important, and learned about important individuals who have made meaningful contributions to our world. The students asked thoughtful questions and engaged in great discussions as we explored fairness, kindness, and celebrating the achievements of others.