Central School

 

Welcome to Kindergarten

 Week of November 16, 2025

 

 

This week at a glance:

 

Handwriting-We have learned how to correctly form the letters t, f, b, i, l, m, n, d, s, h, k, u c, o, a, g, x, p, j, e, y and f, the sounds they make, the motion to help us remember and words that go along with these letters.  Please continue to practice giving your child words or objects and have them identify the beginning sound.

 

This week we will be learning the letters w and v.   We will learn how to correctly form the letters, the sounds it makes, words that begin with these letters and the pictures that helps us remember.  We will learn the upper and lowercase letters.  It is important that you reinforce that all our letters are formed from the top down not the bottom up.  

 

We have also learned all our vowels.  We are working on our vowel sounds by singing vowel back and have begun tapping out CVC words.  (Consonant vowel consonant)

 

High Frequency Words-Students will be introduced to the sight words 'eat' and 'look' this week  This will be in their composition books and they should be practicing it daily.  Students should be able to recognize and read the words.  They do not need to know how to spell the word.

Previous words learned -the, and, is, I, see, you, me, we, go, can, he, she, isn't, can't, to, like, my

 

We are continuing to work on rhyming.  Knowing the word look this week will help students know how to spell and recognize words such as  book, cook, took, hook

 

The paper books should be reread at home to practice fluency and sight words.

We are using pictures and looking at the beginning sound to help decode unfamiliar words.

 

Writing-This week we are continuing to focus on journal writing.  Students are incorporating the sight words and sounds they know to form words and learning how a sentence is formed.  We begin with an uppercase and end with punctuation leaving spaces between our words.  We are beginning to sound out words as we write.  We are trying to use our best handwriting every time we write and are learning that our names only begin with an uppercase letter and the rest of the letters should be lowercase.  We will begin tapping out words to decode CVC words.  (Consonant-vowel-consonant)  Students have begun writing independently to prompts and a dictated sentences using the skills they have acquired.

 

 

Being a Reader-We are continuing to use the strategy turn and talk with your partner and making connections to the books we are listening too.  We learned how to retell a story in our own words using illustrations from the story.    It is important for students to know the characters, setting, problem and solution for the stories they listen to or read.  We have introduced our vocabulary component to Being a Reader.   Students learned the words, snatch, furious, welcome, excited lonely, invite, greet, champion, sneak, imitate, persistent, search, heartbroken, and comfort, proud, determined, whirl and scramble.

 

This week students will listen to a book called, Sam and Jump.    Our new vocabulary words this week are companion, wade,  patient and sleepless.

 

Small group reading has started.  If you child brings home a book to read, please sign and date their reading log.  This should be a familiar reread.

 

 

 

We are continuing to learn and practice our color words.  Students should be able to recognize their colors.

 

Math-We will be learning about addition and joining numbers to 5.  A quiz will be given tomorrow.  Our next unit is 2 dimensional shapes.

 

Science/SS-We will be learning about Thanksgiving.

 

 

 

Library books are due by Friday.

 

 Please return yellow folders daily.

 

Optional hw will be given once or twice a week.

 

Book Orders are due by Friday 11/21.

 

There will be a sight word test on Friday.

  

 

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