Mrs. Johnson’s Newsletter

Month of May

A Look Ahead:            

Fri, May 20th         Field Day:  On field day, our afternoon kindergarten class will come to school during morning carpool (8:15-8:25) and be dismissed at 12:40 along with the rest of the school.  (Our class will meet in the Elementary Science Room- next to our classroom, since Mrs. Sander’s morning kindergarten class will be in our room.)  We will not have a normal class day on Friday.  It will be helpful to have lots of parent volunteers come and help chaperone our class on field day.  There is no limit on how many chaperones so set your calendars!  (More details to follow.)

Tues, May 24th       This will be our last normal school day in kindergarten

Wed, May 25th       Kindergarten Graduation:  There will not be a regular school day on Wed.  Instead, students and parents will come for kindergarten graduation in the auditorium from 9am-11am.  After graduation, students will be released to their parents and go home for the day.  This will be our last day of school for kindergarten students.   Students will not wear dress code on this day but will dress up for graduation.  Also, instead of wearing graduation caps we are asking each family to help their student create a hat that tells what they want to be when they grow up.  (Example: teacher, fire fighter, police officer, baseball star etc.)  We are asking for all hats to be turned in on Monday, May 23rd.  We will keep the hats here and have them ready for graduation morning.

Kindergarten Graduation:   9:00-10:00 am (with a small reception after the ceremony)

Children should come dressed up for this special occasion.  Please bring your child to the classroom at 8:45 am and then go find a seat in the gym.  Bring tissues and your cameras! After receiving their diploma, your student will go and sit with you in the audience and go home with you after enjoying refreshments.  There will be no classes for kindergarteners on May 25th (graduation day) or May 26th (the last day of school). 

 

 

       

Important Information:

Homework:  Starting in January, please begin choosing one activity from the Kindergarten Homework Sheet to complete each night along with one side of the math worksheet.  On the calendar, initial each night that your student completes his or her homework activity and math worksheet.  The calendar will be returned to me at the end of each month for a homework grade.  (Math homework sheets do not need to be returned to me.  Instead, indicate whether the work was completed by initialing the homework calendar.)

 

Infinite Campus/Grades:      Please see the front office to get your Infinite Campus logon and password. 

        This year ACS and the district will be using a progressive 1-4 grading scale, which is designed to show student growth throughout the year.  If your student has met the kindergarten end of the year expectations, she or he will receive a 3.  Most students will earn a 1 during 1st quarter, a 2 during 2nd quarter, a 2.5 during 3rd quarter and a 3 for 4th quarter.  These are the basic expectations for each quarter, although they will vary by student.  If a student earns a higher number for a given quarter then they are working above expectations.  If a student earns a lower number for a given quarter, then they are working below expectations.  (A 4 indicates that the student is working significantly above end of the year kindergarten expectations and will be earned very, very rarely.)  The only exception is for social studies and science, since these are areas where the students are learning knowledge rather than progressing through skills.  In social studies and science, once a student has mastered the knowledge presented they will receive a 3.    

Change of Clothes:  Please remember to keep a change of clothes (ACS pants and underwear in a ziplock bag) in your student’s backpack in case of an accident.

 

PE:  PE class is on Wednesdays.  Please send your student to school with non marking tennis shoes/sneakers.

 

This Week in Kindergarten:

Language Arts— McGraw Hill, Treasures curriculum

This month we will be studying:

          Phonics:                                   name and sound of J, Q, Y, Z

          High Frequency Words:          with, my, where, me

          Phonemic Awareness:          Segmenting sentences and words, blending words, isolating sounds, rhyming skills.              

Comprehension:                     Reread to aid comprehension, identify setting                     

Our theme this month will be “I know a lot!”.

*(The last two weeks of school we will be reviewing our work from the year and practicing the sounds “sh”, “ch”, “th”, “wh”.

Math—Saxon Math curriculum: 

Over the next month we will be learning the following new skills: identifying numbers through 30, writing numerals through 30, identifying and counting quarters, paying for items using pennies, nickels, dimes, or quarters, counting by 2’s to 20, identifying a cone, identifying even and odd numbers to 10, comparing the heights and lengths of objects, sharing a whole by separating it into two equal parts, measuring length using inches, identifying halves and fourths, placing a tag on a pictograph.

*The last week of school we will review key math concepts and practice addition and subtraction.

Core Knowledge— E.D. Hirsch Core Knowledge Curriculum

        March:  The 7 Continents, Map Skills

Mrs. Johnson

PM Kindergarten

johnsonk@academycharter.org

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