Kindergarten - Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Strell

KA and KB students are working hard to learn new concepts and skills using what they learned in the first semester.  We continue to practice naming letters and the sounds they make, blending sounds into words, building a word wall, and even reading and writing simple sentences! In Math, we continue to practice counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens to 100. We are building a number chart to show how many days we’ve been in school! The children are learning how to solve word problems with addition and subtraction. In Religion, we continue to discuss making good choices, praying every day, and saying, “yes” to God.  In Social Studies we are learning all about great leaders and leadership qualities.  In Science, the children are discussing winter and all the changes this season brings to our weather, clothing, eating habits, and activities/sports. In Health, the children are learning about Healthy choices in their diet, exercise, and personal hygiene. The children continue to work on fine motor skills such as printing in proper form, coloring neatly, pasting, cutting, tying shoes, and buttoning/zipping coats.


Please continue to practice the following skills everyday: 

• Naming Capital & Lower Case letters in random order
• Identifying each letter sound
• Blending letter sounds into words
• Read sight words from our sight word list
• Print name/letters/numbers in proper form
• Practice cutting & pasting 
• Count to 100 by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• Practice printing numbers in counting order
• Practice addition math facts (remember to include 0)…0+1=1, 2+1=3 etc. 
• Practice subtraction math facts

• Sign of the Cross and daily prayers…Focus on Hail Mary…Our Father…Glory Be
• Importance of praying and different prayers
• Forgiveness is good
• Lent-Review the Lenten good deed daily before coming to school
• Stations of the Cross

• 8 basic color words (red, blue, yellow, green, purple, orange, black, brown) and number words 0-10 (zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten)  
• Word wall words: here, I, am, the, to, a, and, it, he, she, you, an, is, in, on, we, at, be, go, it’s, like, see, me, if, have, can, as, did, do, get, my, of, was, his, her, are, ask, yes, no, all, look, had, that, big, down, little, up, will, this, got, not, us, want, saw, went, for, give, so, has, they, came, out, come, make, say, play, what, there, ran, let …practice daily
• Letter recognition (capital and lower case) and letter sounds
• Matching the capital letter to the lower case letter
• Listen for short vowels in the middle of a word
• Identify beginning, middle and ending sounds of words
• Identify rhyming words
• Count syllables in words
• Blending letter sounds together to form words such as…lid, hat, sag, rot
• Read simple stories daily…have your child identify sight words, punctuation marks, parts of the story, retell the story
• Identify what the author, illustrator, narrator jobs are in a story
• Identify the genre of story (fiction vs. nonfiction)
• Identify character, setting and plot of story
• Good listening…look and listen to speaker quietly and wait for directions
• Identify different types of sentences…telling vs. asking
• Sentence structure…beginning with a capital letter, space between words and end with punctuation
• Punctuation marks…period…exclamation mark…question mark…comma
• Identify proper nouns, nouns and adjectives

• Practice writing letters and numbers in proper form in pencil
• Work on left to right progression
• Practice writing FIRST and LAST name correctly on lined paper
• Practice copying sentences in proper form
• Coloring neatly within the lines
• Cutting and pasting neatly

• Model and count objects with number names and written numerals
• Count to 100 by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• Read and extend a given pattern…AB, AABB,ABB and ABC patterns
• Identify number pairs for given numbers between 6-10
• Identify number neighbors…example: 5 and 7 are 6’s number neighbors
• Math vocabulary words: equal to, greater than, less than, more, fewer, compare, addition, sum, equation, equal sign, plus sign
• Practice one to one correspondence between two sets
• Listen to and solve addition and subtraction story problems
• Practice writing and reading addition/subtraction equations
• Put numbers in counting order
• Practice number words…match number words to number
• Compare and contrast numbers…greater than, less than, equal to
• Solve addition word problems within 10 and record the equation
• Write addition/subtraction sentences   
• Compare and describe 2D and 3D shapes

• Practice reciting complete address and phone number
• Discuss daily weather and the four seasons
• Learn about the months and days
• School rules/routines and lockdown drills

• Black History Month stories
• Wrap up of Dental Health
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Purpose of rules