Welcome to Kindergarten! : All About Nocturnal Animals!

Our thematic unit this week was a nonfiction unit! We focused on nocturnal animals. Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included finding nocturnal animals and writing them at Write the Room Center, sorting nocturnal and diurnal animals, playing CVC BINGO, reading books assigned to us on RAZKids, and writing about nocturnal animals using power words that we have learned.

During Phonics, we worked on our last few letters/sounds that we haven't learned yet: Qq and Uu. We learned two new power words: you and of. We continued stretching out sounds and segmenting words, isolating beginning and ending sounds, and reading and writing power words. You can find the words we are working on on the tab above!

In Reading, we read the story Whistle for Willie by Exra Jack Keats and worked on retelling to deepen our understanding, making text-to-self connections, talked about patterns in rhyming stories and practiced rhyming words, and looked at illustrations and talked about their importance. We also learned new vocabulary words: proud, determined, whirl, and scramble.

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels sad. We practiced looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation. Encourage your child to notice when others around them feel sad. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling sad.

During Writing, we practiced hearing and discussing a story. We practiced stretching out words and writing each sound that we hear. We added a few more words to our word/sound wall. You can find the power words that we are learning by clicking on the tab above.

We continued working on comparing numbers to 10 in Math using the vocabulary more than, less than, fewer than, and equal to.

We learned about our five senses in Science and talked about how to make a good observation.

We learned about Veteran's Day and talked about it's importance with our fourth grade buddies. Thank you to all who have served!

A note from our counselors:

Dear Parents,

We’re excited to share our upcoming PreventEd lessons for the K-4 grade levels that focus on building strong social and emotional skills. Each grade will explore important themes through engaging activities:

Kindergarten: Winning Friendships – Building positive friendships with kindness, sharing, and problem-solving.
1st Grade: Caring 4 Classmates – Developing self-respect, embracing differences, and supporting others with kindness.
2nd Grade: Friendship Rules – Learning key friendship principles: inclusion, giving chances, accepting differences, and enjoying time together.
3rd Grade: Building You, Building Me – Exploring how words and actions impact friendships, and how to work well with others.
4th Grade: Taking Charge of Me I – Focusing on self-awareness, goal-setting, and personal responsibility for actions.