Weeks of January 13 & 20, 2019 

Kindergarten  Scholars 
 
 

Upcoming important dates 

Early release at 1:15 - ​Every Monday 
1/20-No School Martin Luther King Day 
1/21- Academic Success Night/Open School House 
1/24-No School 
Food Pantry open - ​Every Tuesday 2:30-5:30pm and Thursday 1-3pm 

Birthdays 
Ari 1/19 (Cashin) Akira 1/29 (Cashin) 
Chrissiana 1/15 (Braun) Gary 1/15 (Kuecker)   
Half Birthdays: 
Ivy 7/7 (Braun) Joslyn 7/23 (Braun) 
Zayden 7/23 (Braun) Sarah 6/28 (Wocelka) 
Riley 7/11 (Wocelka) Emma 7/12 (Wocelka) 

Learning links - What we’re doing these weeks 

Reading  Writing  Phonics  Math   Science / 
Social Studies 
We are reading the  -We continue to  We are learning  We will be  While scholars will 
texts:  learn about writers  these words: put,  continuing with our  continue to learn 
-Happy Birthday,  and authors - why do  you, come.  addition and  about different 
MLK  they write, what do    subtraction  types of 
-Everybody Oughta  they write about and  Letter names: y, q,  concepts. Our  communities, they 
Know  what is their process  x and review.  calendar focuses on  will also learn what 
  for writing    numbers within 5  a citizen is and how 
Skills:  something. We will    and in math we are  they will be an 
-Identifying the  then become writers  Previous words:  starting to work on  important part of 
character and  and authors  the, see, a, I, on,  adding subtraction  their community. 
setting of a story.  ourselves!    happy, my, is, cat,  within 10, but  This will lead into 
-Learning and  look, and, very,  counting all the  our discussions 
defining new  like, are, to.  way up to 40.  about activism and 
vocabulary    how we can be 
-identifying what  We will also work  activists in our own 
the text is mostly  on measuring  communities. 
about.  objects in the 
  classroom. We will 
compare them 
using the words 
longer, shorter and 
same length. 

 
 Home​ ​connections 
 

Important word to know:  What it means: 

Activism   Taking action to make social change. Scholars also heard it 
defined in a book as “if there’s a mess, it’s our job to fix it” 

Look and Say word (AKA:  A word that Scholars should know just by looking at it. 
sight word)  They do not need to sound these words out. Example: the, 
see, a 

Community  1. a place where people live, work, learn and play 

2. a group of people living in the same place or having a 
particular characteristic in common. 
3. a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of 
sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. 

Characters  Who the story is about - people, animals, objects, creatures 

Setting  Where the characters are in the story ie. farm, city, home, 
school 
 
Literacy connections: ​When you read with your Scholar, be sure to have 
them read the words that we have learned. Practice writing the words below. 
Scholars can follow along with your reading by pointing to the words as you 
read them. Make sure they point from left to right and move down the page. 
You can also figure out who the character is and where the character is in 
the story.   
 
Math connections: ​You can work with your Scholar on adding within 5. Find 
any 5 objects and break them into 2 groups. How many are in one group, how 
many are in the other? What happens when you put them back together? 
This is especially helpful if you can find objects that are the same with slight 
variations (for example, two different colored buttons) so scholars can more 
easily see the different groups become a whole. 
 
Use these flashcards to help your Scholar learn Look and Say words: 

we  very  here 

this  can  and 

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