

Kindergarten Monthly Newsletter
December
Language Arts
Module 4 Continued
SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LEARNING: Self-Management
Happy Healthy Me
ESSENTIAL QUESTION How can I be my healthiest me?
Essential Skills
BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND LANGUAGE
- Oral Language: Topic Words
- Active Listening and Viewing
- Collaborative Discussion
READING AND VOCABULARY
- Ask and Answer Questions
- Topic, Central Idea, and Key Details
- Oral Language: Academic Vocabulary
- Use Text Features
- Print Concepts: Directionality
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS
- Identify Initial Sounds
- Isolate Final Sounds
- Identify and Produce Alliterative Words
- Phonics: Consonants g and k
- High-Frequency Words: Words to Know
- Read Decodable Text
WRITING WORKSHOP
- Research Writing
- Ideas: Generating Questions
- Grammar: Sentences and Capitalization
Module 5
I Can Do It!
Essential Question
What does it mean to try hard?
Essential Skills
Build Knowledge And Language
- Oral Language: Topic Words
- Active Listening and Viewing
- Collaborative Discussion
Reading And Vocabulary
- Make and Check Predictions
- Story Elements: Characters, Setting, Events
- Oral Language: Academic Vocabulary
- Use Picture and Text Clues
- Character Feelings
- Print Concepts: Return Sweep
Foundational Skills
- Blend Phonemes into Words
- Isolate Medial Vowel Sounds
- Produce Rhymes
- Phonics: Short u
- High-Frequency Words: Words to Know
- Read Decodable Text
Writing Workshop
- Narrative Writing
- Organization: Beginning, Middle, End
- Grammar: Pronouns
Sight Words
big now went long are no
come came if ask very ride
an into over just its blue your red
Math
Units 2 Count Sequence and Numbers to 10
- Module 7: Represent Numbers 6 to 10 with Objects
- Module 8: Represent Numbers 6 to 10 With a Written Numeral
- Module 9: Use the Count Sequence to Count to 100
- Holiday Math Games
Science
STEAM
Holiday Themed STEAM Activities
Studies Weekly
Social Studies
Studies Weekly
Holidays and Christmas Around the World
Upcoming Events:
- Monday, December 2: CPS Angel Tree gifts due
- Tuesday, December 3: 5th-8th grade deliver CPS Angel Tree gifts
- Wednesday, December 4: Stepping into Excellence 8:45 a.m.
- Wednesday, December 4: School store
- Friday, December 6: Wear your pajamas - Merry Merry Morning
- Friday, December 6: Polar Express family event - 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- Monday, December 9: 3rd Grade class trip to Waco
- Tuesday, December 10: School spelling bee 9:00 a.m.
- Tuesday, December 10: Citizenship Luncheon
- Tuesday, December 10: RMHC Meals from the Heart
- Wednesday, December 11: Kindergarten Club for Pre - K
- Thursday, December 12: 3rd grade enrichment trip to Bass Hall to see "The Nutcracker"
- Thursday, December 12: Dirty Dough spirit night
- Thursday, December 12: Bedtime Story via Zoom 7:00 p.m. - Zoom 260-986-0774
- Friday, December 13: Wear your favorite holiday shirt
- December 16-20: Snow Time Shop (Intermediates and older)
- Tuesday, December 17: Intermediate and Pre-Kindergarten holiday performances - 2:45 p.m .(Toddler and Beginner performance link will be sent home for viewing.) - All preschool students wear holiday colors.
- Wednesday, December 18: Coffee and Connections - 7:15-8:45 a.m.
- Thursday, December 19: Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade holiday performances at Bob Duncan Center - 2:00 p.m.
- Thursday, December 19: 3rd-8th grade holiday musical - "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" - 7:00 p.m.
- Friday, December 20: Feeling Grinchy - wear your "grinchiest" attire
- Friday, December 20: Classroom winter parties and book exchange
- December 23-January 6: Winter Break - no instructional classes
- Monday, December 23: Winter Camp - school open regular hours
- Tuesday, December 24-Wednesday, December 25: School closed for holiday
- Thursday, December 26-Friday, December 27: Winter Camp - school open regular hours
- Monday, December 30: Winter Camp - school open regular hours
- Tuesday, December 31: Winter Camp - school closed at 5:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, January 1: School closed for holiday
- Thursday, January 2 and Friday, January 3: Winter Camp - school open regular hours
- Monday, January 6: Winter Camp - school open regular hours
Kindergarten Teachers
Ms. Nguyen and Mrs. Spikes
Email: Katrina.spikes@merryhillschool.com
Email: Amanda.nguyen@merryhillschool.com
Location: Merryhill Preschool & Elementary School, West Arbrook Boulevard, Arlington, TX, USA