Central School

Welcome to Kindergarten

 Week of January 18, 2026

 

This week at a glance:

 

Handwriting-We have learned how to correctly form all 26 letters of the alphabet.  We will continue to practice writing these letters the proper way along with our first and last name correctly.

This week we will continue learning digraphs.  (2 letters-one sound)  We have learned the digraphs sh and ch.  This week our focus will be on the digraph -th.

 

We have learned all our vowels.  We are working on our vowel sounds by singing the song vowel bat.

We will continuing practing tapping out and writing CVC words.  (consonant vowel consonant).  We will be adding in blends now as we spell and write words.  We have learned the cl and bl blend and will continue practicing with these words.  We will also learn the sl blend this week.

 

High Frequency Words-Students will be introduced to the sight words they and have 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.  There will be a sight word test on Friday.  Students should be able to read all the words we have learned thus far.

Previous words learned -the, and, is, I, see, you, me, we, go, can, he, she, isn't, can't, to, like, my, eat, look, by, here, down, are, do, for, saw, will, said, come, some, was

 

We will be learning about syllables this week.

 

We are using pictures, tapping out words and looking for chunks in words to help us decode unfamiliar words.  We also use the strategy does this look like another word I know.  If I know will, I will know hill. etc.

 

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 use 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.  We will continue to work on responding to a text and use our best handwritng.

 

 

 

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 will be learning the new skill of wondering as we read.

 

This week will will review wondering and continue to share our ideas.  Students will listen to the book Going Places.  Students will respond in writing about something they wondered while listening to the story and then share their thoughts with the class.   Our new vocabulary words this week are assemble, contraption, participate and startled.

 

 

Small group reading will continue.  If you child brings home a book to read, please sign and date their reading log.  This should be a familiar reread.  If you need an extra day for a book, please just write a note.

 

 

We are currently working on interrupting and trying to keep our blurts to a minimum.  We have implemented a new system to try to keep our elephants all day long!

 

Math-We will be working on comparing numbers through ten.  Students will take a quiz on Wednesday.  Our next unit of study will be decomposing shapes.

 

Science/SS-We will be learning about snow, snowflakes and snowmen.  Be on the lookout for a signup genius on how you can help.  

 

 

  We will have book checkout every day 4.  This week books will be due back by Thursday.

 

Ice Cream Day is on Thursday.  This is PTO sponsored.  Please sign your child up.

 

We have an assembly on Friday morning.

 

 Please return yellow folders daily.

 

Optional hw will be given twice a week.

 

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