Hi Parents,

We had a GREAT first few weeks of school! We are so excited for an amazing year together!
This past week, the children were introduced to the learning structures of our reading curriculum, Wit and Wisdom. This curriculum builds knowledge of key topics in history, science, and literature through the study of excellent texts. By reading and responding to stories and nonfiction texts, we will build strong routines for ELA.

Reminders:

• -Please send in headphones for your student if you haven’t already.
• -A peanut free snack and water bottle should be sent each day.
• -We love celebrating birthdays! Students can celebrate at school by bringing in individually wrapped, prepackaged treats. Please no cupcakes. Please coordinate with your teacher if your child’s birthday falls on a weekend, break, or day we are not in school.
• -Thursday, August 31st is our first Navigator Day! Please send your students to school in their yellow field trip shirt.

Upcoming Dates:

• August 31- Navigator Day
• September 1- No school
• September 4- Labor Day- No school
• September 7- Picture Day
• September 8- Fall Picnic
• September 11- Tiger Cup
• September 14- No school

ELA: ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do our senses help us learn?
Students will…
-Read, enjoy, and analyze literary texts and visual art.
-Identify how words and pictures work together
-Experience Wit & Wisdom’s lesson structure.
-Engage with Focusing Questions, Content Framing Questions and Craft Questions.
-Practice and reflect on instructional routines and strategies.
-Develop classroom culture and construct systems for a knowledge-building, text-focused community.

MATH:
-Explore and use math tools.
-Recognize and name groups of up to 5 objects and images without counting.
-Answer “How Many” questions.
-Show one more and one less than a given set of objects.
-Count groups of up to 10 objects.
-Classify objects and count number of objects in each category
-Sort objects based on shape, size and color

Social/Emotional Learning (SEL)
-Demonstrate and awareness of my emotions
-Understand and use strategies for managing my emotions and behavior constructively
-Demonstrate awareness and consideration of other people’s emotions, perspectives, and social cues

Thanks for ALL you do!
-Kindergarten Teachers 😊