Kindergarten News

Curriculum Updates

Reading: We have started a reading unit called Becoming Avid Readers.

This units sets up the children to become less reliant on the teacher,

encouraging them to apply their strategies across multiple contexts.

This unit focuses less on new skills, but more about making sure that

what the children have learned has been internalized and automatic.  

Students will continue to be immersed in books, poetry and songs, but

children will now be encouraged to take more responsibility in making

decisions about what and how to read.

Writing: We have been having fun writing in our  persuasive writing unit.

We are busy working on posters and letters to fix problems we have noticed.

We are using our convincing skills to help readers learn about solutions to

problems. We are learning how to make the world a better place to be!

Math: Our topics include 2-D and 3-D shape review, “counting-on” from

various numbers, subtraction, place value, parts of ten, comparing numbers,

and ordering numbers from smallest to largest.

Integrated Studies:  We are starting a Science unit on Plants. We will learn all

about how plants are affected by our environment. Here are the topics we will

learn about: Living and Nonliving, Parts of a Plant, What Plants Need to Live,

Plant Life Cycles, How Plants Adapt to their Environment & much more!