January 27, 2023 Class News
We had another great week in kindergarten! We are busy learning and having fun, especially at the Seattle Prep carnival! Check out what we were up to this week.

Sight Words: Our two sight words this week: all and were. Next week we will learn we and when. Is your child practicing their sight words at home? Try using them as flash cards or practicing them before bedtime!
Phonics: Our phonics focus this week was word families –op and –ot and –og. Students cut out their sort cards (that now have pictures and words), played memory match, glued them onto their graphic organizer and lastly spelled our own words within these word families. Some even wrote sentences in their writing journals using words that ended in –op and –ot and –og!
Literacy Centers: We worked hard during centers this week! Students listened to stories of the bible and practiced letter writing on the iPads. They enjoyed looking at and reading picture books at the independent reading centers and created CVC words using foam letters at the phonics center! In reading groups this week we continued to dive deeper with word families. Some students used word family wheels and used these words in sentences, other students continued practiced sounding out CVC words within our word families this week.


Writer’s Workshop: This week we began our “How-to” unit. We read the story Charlie Needs a Cloak and noticed the author added new pictures and words to show the different steps he took to make a cloak. We decided we could write just like the author, Tomie dePaola! We wrote a “how-to” story as a class, and then students wrote their own how-to stories (in three steps) using pictures and words as well as adding transition words such as “First,” “Next,” “Then,” and “Last.” We will be adding on to our “how-to” stories in the coming weeks.
We continue to write our own real or make-believe stories and adding details using our five senses to help give us ideas for details. We continue to focus on including 4 things in our sentences, using our writing checklist:
1. Capital letters at the beginning of a sentence.
2. Spaces between words.
3. Period at the end of a sentence.
4. Mostly lowercase letters.
Math: This week began chapter 5: Addition! Chapter 5’s essential question is: How can I use objects to add? We learned some key words: add, join, and in all. “Join” and “in all” are special math word clues that tell us information of how to solve a problem. We practiced telling addition story problems using these clues and practiced math illustrations as a problem-solving strategy.
Religion: We enjoyed Primary Mass on Wednesday and continue to practice the Our Father, Prayer Before Meals, and the Hail Mary.
Common Core Standards we’re working on:
- I can read common sight words.
- I can count to 100 by ones and tens.
- I can count forward beginning with a given number within the known sequence (instead of starting at 1)
- Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.
- I can read emergent level text with purpose and understanding.
- With prompting and support, I can ask and answer questions about key details in text.
- I can spell simple words phonetically.
- I can read CVC words.
- I can speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly.
- I can read the words in a book in the right order.
- I can tell how the words and pictures go together in stories.
- I can say the most common sound for each consonant in the alphabet.
- I can draw or write to help me share what I think.
- I can help my class learn about a subject and then write about it.
- I can print lots of upper and lowercase letters.
- I can write numbers from 0-20.
Important Dates:
- January 29th – February 4th – Catholic Schools Week. Please see school website for more details on this week!
- Wednesday, February 8th – Dress Uniform, Primary Mass, 9am. Join us if you can!
- Friday, February 10th – No School, Teacher In-Service
- Tuesday, February 14th– Valentine’s Day Celebration!
- Your child may bring in one Valentine for each student in our class (26 students). No names please!
- Wednesday February 15th – Dress Uniform, St. Valentine Day Mass
- Friday February 17th – Noon Dismissal – Winter Holiday
- Monday February 20th – Tuesday February 21st – No School, Winter Holiday
- Wednesday, February 22nd – Dress Uniform, Ash Wednesday Mass