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Kindergarten Connections
February 9th, 2017
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Dear Families,
At the mid-year address last week, Dr. Pernambuco-Wise reflected on where we've been and where we're going. This is a great moment for us to pause and consider the same concept. In a nutshell, together we have learned to...
- read, using picture clues and letter knowledge, and then sharing our ideas about the text with friends
- write, becoming authors in our own right, eager to share our thoughts in pictures and words, writing true stories from our lives
- do math, articulating our math thinking aloud, playing math games, solving problems and writing our knowledge on the page
- act as scientists, observing and questioning and wondering about the world around us
- collaborate, reading the faces of our friends to gauge emotions, working together to negotiate conflicts, understanding the size and scope of a problem to determine a solution that fits, thinking flexibly, perservering, and using self-control
Next up, we will further challenge and excite the children with creative, innovative learning and thinking. We'll become better, stronger, and more confent, readers, writer, mathematicians, scientists and friends. We're looking forward to continuing this journey together.
Your Kindergarten Teachers - Team K!
Emily Travis, Helen Ortiz and Sherri Trigueiro
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What We Have Been Learning
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Writer's Workshop
We've been practicing adding speech bubbles to our writing, to make our pieces come to life!
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Social Studies/Friendship Workshop
This week, we formally introduced the concept of self-control.
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Math
We've had fun playing games with 10-frames that help us subitize
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Reader's Workshop
We've been working towards being independent "superheroes" during reader's workshop, by being gentle, quiet, working, and our own bosses (not the bosses of each other!)
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Talking with your child is the best way to support classroom learning. The following questions can help you get started.
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Self-control -
What does that mean? What do marshmallows have to do with it?
- Stretching-out words - What do you do when you want to write a word? What tools can you use?
- 10 Frames - What are those? How to they help with subitizing? Also, what's subitizing?
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If you've got these items around the house, please bring them in!
- Worn our button-down shirts (adult-sized) to use as smocks for painting
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Valentine's Day is just around the corner. We will have mini classroom celebrations on Tuesday, February 14th. Children should bring 11 valentines for their classmates. Please leave the "to" section blank. This will make distributing valentines a breeze!
We switch out sight words on Friday mornings. On Thursday nights, please leave any mastered words loose in your child's sight word holder.
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K-8 Assembly & Learning Buddies
Friday, February 10th, 8:20 a.m., Kohrs Family Center.
Sweetheart Dance
Saturday, February 11th,
6:30 - 9:30 p.m., Kohrs Family Center.
A special evening for
all Sea Crest daughters and
a parent, or other important role model! Tickets are $40 per pair with $20 for each additional person.
A sign-up sheet and payment box is located near the front desk until
Wednesday, February 8th
. Please email
Tanya Gulesserian with any questions.
Presidents' Break -No School
Monday, February 20th - Friday, February 24th.
K-1 Parent Education: Healthy Relationships and Communication at Sea Crest
Monday, February 27th, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.,
Think Tank
As the final session of the Raising Healthy Kids workshop series for Kindergarten and First Grade parents, Dr. Keely Sikes Rollings will talk about
how parent-teacher partnerships are both valued and supported at Sea Crest, as well as discuss tips and tools to navigate the school.
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Thursday, March 9th – Friday, March 10th
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Kohrs Family Center
Sea Crest School
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Tickets will be on sale in the Kohrs Family Center lobby for $25 each on
Friday, February 10th and Monday, February 13th, from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Click here for more information.
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The Kindergarten students are cast as
whimsical animals. Your child is asked to wear a
brightly colored shirt and pants or dress and leggings with
a contrasting brightly colored pair of sneakers (Converse, Vans, etc.) on the evening of the performance.
Children may choose which color to wear but
please avoid neutral colors, such as black, brown, gray, white or tan. Other costume items will be provided by the school.
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From start to finish,
Seussical promises to be a fun journey for the whole family through the imaginative world of Dr. Seuss!
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On parenting
"Way to go Mommy! She remembered to give me a fork 3 days in a row!"
On preparedness
"Here are some [make believe] wine bottles, in case we have visitors to this house. Then we can give our visitors a glass of wine! We have to have lots and lots of wine bottles, so we don't run out. You never want to run out."
New vocabulary:
"I know lots of strategies for shelf control!"
Watch the video below: Cleaning up and using a vacuum for the first time!
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Additional Photos & Videos
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Do you have photos or videos you'd be willing to share with the school?
Please click here to upload them to SmugMug, or email us at [email protected].
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If questions ever arise, please do not hesitate to reach out! We are available by email at [email protected], [email protected] and/or [email protected]. Email is our preferred method of communication. We will check our inboxes after school daily.
If there is an emergency, please call Cathy at the front desk - 650.712.9892.
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SEA CREST SCHOOL | seacrestschool.org | 650.712.9892
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