Central School

Welcome to Kindergarten

 Week of April 20, 2026

 

 

 

This week at a glance:

 

Handwriting-We are working on letter formation and consistently using our best handwriting for all writing activities.

 We will be working on blends, digraphs, cvcE words, and compound words.  Students will be encouraged to sound and stretch out the words as they write.  (phonemic spelling)

 

High Frequency Words-Students will be introduced to the sight words 'does' and 'good' 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.  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, they, have, her, a, little, out, play, of, what, put, his, where, make, want, very, your, any, many, so, from, would, could, should

 

  

 

Being a Reader-We will continue our unit of non-fiction.  Students are familiar with the components of a non-fiction book and the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.  This week students will listen to a story called, What is Round.  Students will make text-to-self connections

 

Our new vocabulary words will be communicate, assist

 We will be reviewing vocabulary words from the past.

  

Small group reading will continue.  If your child brings home a book to read, please sign and date their reading log.  This should be a familiar reread.  Please be sure to return the small book that comes home.

 

 Please be sure to empty your child's folder daily.  Students have begun to pack up independently at the end of the day.  

 

Math-We will finish up our chapter on subtraction.  Students should know what a number sentence is, how to model a number sentence using subtraction.  Our next unit will be word problems and when to use addition or subtraction.

 

Science/SS-We will be finishing up our unit on Earth Day.  Students have learned what it means to reduce, reuse and recycle.  We will be planting soon and learning about the life cycle of a plant.

 

 

Take your child to work day is on Thursday.  Please let me know if you plan on bringing your child to work.

 

Book Orders are due on Friday.

 

School spirit day Friday-Dress as what I want to be when I grow up

  

 Please return yellow folders daily.

 

Optional hw will be given twice this week.

 

Library Books are due every day 6.   (Friday this week.)

 

 

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