Phonics: In week 10 of Fundations, students continue building strong early literacy skills. They practice identifying and writing lowercase letters, saying their letter names, and producing their letter-sound correspondences. Students review previously taught letters while learning to tap and blend three-sound CVC words using keyword and sound routines. They also work on proper letter formation, sky-line to grass-line strokes and begin recognizing rhyming words.

Reading: In Module 3: My Community Hero’s, students learn about the important people who help our community everyday. Through engaging stories and informational texts: Place In My Community, Map My Neighborhood and Quinito’s Neighborhood. Students practice identifying ket details, discussing how these helpers keep us sage and connecting the text to their own experiences. Foundational skills include building vocabulary related to community helpers.

Writing: In the Show and Tell writing unit, kindergarteners learn to write by sharing the things they know and love. Students practice drawing detailed pictures, labeling their drawings with beginning sounds and orally telling their stories before writing. They learn how to add details, match pictures and words and stretch out sounds in their writing. Through modeling, partner work and show-and-tell routines, students grow as confident early writers.

Math: In Unit 3: Flat Shapes All Around Us, kindergarteners explores two-dimensional shapes by identifying, describing and comparing circles, squares, rectangles, triangles. students learn to recognize shapes in their environment, sort shapes by attributes and build shapes using tools and materials. Through hands-on activities and math talks, they develop vocabulary such as “sides”, “corners” and same or different and begin to understand how shapes make up the world around them.

PBL: In our Social Studies Unit: School Community, kindergarteners learn about the people, places and routines that help the school run safely and smoothly. Students explore the roles of teachers, principals and other helpers in our school. In our class, we created a list of questions that we wanted to ask and interview some of the people in our school community. We interviewed Ms. Grady-Assistant Principal , Ms. I-ENL Teacher, Mr. Brown,-PE Teacher and Ms. Angelucci- The Science Teacher. After we interviewed each one we then wrote the answers to our questions using simple sentences. Last we drew pictures of our school community