Adams Elementary Kindergarten

Team
Mrs. Sue Johnson
Mrs. Jody Lindberg
Miss Danielle Fayle

Mrs. Ginny Sellenrick

Mrs. Kim Zetterman
Miss Karrington Miles

Literacy
We are continuing to teach Unit 6 Weather
for All Seasons in our McGraw-Hill reading
series. All of our stories will include
elements of weather! (Lets hope for more
sunshine and less wind!)
Our next unit in the McGraw-Hill reading
curriculum has a focus on animals: baby
animals, pets, and animal habitats. Our
literature connections will include fiction and
non-fiction titles. One component of the
program that the children are loving is the
oral vocabulary. Each week the students
are introduced to 5 new words. We talk
about the meaning and how it is used in a
sentence. Ask your student what the new
oral vocab is for this week. You will be
amazed at the difficulty of the words. The
kids love to notice these big words when we
read books. Students will focus on the
letter names and letter sounds (in
beginning, medial and final position) and
handwriting strokes for the letters Uu, Ww,
Gg, Xx, and Vv. We will continue to work on
sight word vocabulary development adding
new words. (for, have, of, they, said, and
want) We will continue to work on grammar
skills. We are getting very good at plurals
and singular. We even know when to add
es or s to make it plural. We are learning
to find nouns, verbs and adjectives in a
sentence and how to substitute pronouns
for nouns! Are you impressed? These
students are doing fabulous! We recently
sent home the high frequency words

for you to use as flashcards.

Please practice these with your
child (reading and writing) as we
will be assessing these at the end of the
quarter. If you have misplaced your
home set please email your teacher and
we can get you another set. Other skills
we continue to work on include rhyming
words, recognizing the beginning, middle
and ending sounds in words, and blending
and segmenting words.

Math
We have started to work in Unit 4. In this
unit children will continue to practice
number partners up to addends of 10. We
will also focus on +1s in our adding. We
will introduce a fun, new math model for
number partners, the Math Mountain, which
is used through Grade 5 as a visual
representation for relating addition and
subtraction. Finding partners of numbers
continues to be a strong focus of childrens
work as they move toward the
understanding of writing equations for
addition and subtraction.

Integrated Studies
Miss Fayle and Miss Miles will explore
science concepts during the study of the
four seasons. Mrs. Sellenrick and Mrs.
Zetterman will be teaching Body Basics in
our health unit. During Social Studies time,
Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Lindberg will focus
on modes of transportation and how goods
travel. We enjoy sharing classes and
getting to know all the kindergarten
students at Adams.

Winter Wear
Please remember that we will try to go outside on

Valentines Day Party

We will have our Valentines Day Party from
2:00-2:45 on Friday, February 12th.

the days weather permits. Thank you for sending

appropriate coats, hats, mittens, etc. all labeled with
your childs name. We also appreciate your patience
as occasionally those mittens, gloves and hats do

For our Valentines celebration children are

welcome to bring Valentines to share with
their friends. We ask that you bring enough
for each child in your childs room.

get left behind. Please check the lost and found rack

Mrs. Johnson 23
Mrs. Zetterman 23
Mrs. Sellenrick 20
Mrs. Lindberg 23
Miss Fayle 23
Miss Miles 23

Time Out for Technology

We also ask that your child sign their name

but DO NOT put first names on the
valentines as this makes the delivery very
time consuming. Your child is encouraged
to bring their valentines on the day of the
partyFebruary 12th. We will be making
Valentines Day sacks at school to bring our
cards home after the party, so you do not
need to supply anything. Thanks so much
for all of your generous donations this past
year.

for any missing items.

The winter months are a good time to

explore some new websites with your child.
Here are a few of our favorites you might
want to check out!
http://www.starfall.com
http://pbskids.org/

Check out this website for a fun interactive

100s chart you can color in to count by 2s,
5s and 10s!
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/math/games/100
-number-chart-one.html

Calendar Dates
Library Time
Kindergarten students are doing a fabulous
job of learning the library procedures!
Thank you for helping your child return their
books on time. However do not feel
pressured to return a book everyday. Keep
the book long enough for your family to
read or even re-read and enjoy!

February 12 Valentine Classroom

Parties @ 2:00
February 15 No School-teacher plan day
February 23 PLC Day
Early Dismissal @1:33
March 1 and 3-Parent teacher
conferences 3:30-7:00
(Be sure to bring your student as
these are student-led conferences.)