Dear Parents,
We hope you had a good holiday with family and friends. We’re happy to be back for another short week of learning and fun. It is wonderful to see all students interact and become part of a new community in Kindergarten, playing together and getting to know one another!
This week’s reminders
- Please remind your child to bring their library bags every Thursday
- Tomorrow we will follow a Sunday schedule
- After School activities schedules will be posted online
A Message From Girl Scouts!
The Cairo council of USA Girl Scouts Overseas is delighted to announce that we will be hosting KG Daisies again this year! Girl Scouts is open to all girls attending or affiliated with CAC, starting in KG. You don't have to be American or have previous experience with Girl Scouts. Meetings are conducted in English and will reinforce the themes of leadership, adventure, and experience-based learning. While Girl Scouts of the USA draws from American culture, we have adapted our activities to reflect the girls' experiences living in Egypt, and welcome input from girls from other nationalities.
For more information, please contact KG Daisy troop leader Ruth Anne Stevens-Klitz at stevensr@georgetown.edu
Learning in KG!
Balanced Literacy
Readers continue to learn about reading behaviors and what their job is during the Reading Workshop. To keep the engagement level high, we are reviewing how to choose books for the book bags, making sure students are choosing books that are a good fit for them.
This week we will focus on what readers do before they start reading, starting with the cover of books and talking about what books are about. Talking about books is an important skill our kindergarteners will learn throughout the school year, and now that they have partners, their conversations will have a lot more depth!
What do readers do before reading words?
- Look at the cover
- Turn the pages
- Look at the picture
- Point and tell what you notice
Writers continue to work on putting ideas onto paper and adding more to their pieces. During the first bend of our first unit writers worked on thinking of ideas, sketching and writing independently. Now that we’re in our second bend, they are revising their pieces by adding more pages and working with partners to ask and answer questions about their pieces. These strategies help young writers with elaborating and focusing on one topic at the time.
For phonics, we continue to work with sorts for beginning sounds. Last week students worked with beginning sounds b, m, r and s. This week, they will review those letters to sort them into lowercase and uppercase groups. Partners love working together during this period!
Math
Students have been enjoying and exploring numbers in our Math lessons, engaging in the different games and activities we have planned for them. They have been working with numbers 1 to 5 looking at the different ways we can represent these numbers.
This week we continue learning about “hidden partners,” which are two numbers hiding inside a larger number. For example, 2 and 3 are hidden partners of 5. Students are being asked to illustrate a number story that shows hidden partners, like the story in lesson 10: 5 dogs are playing. Draw a fence that keeps exactly 3 of them inside.
Social Studies
Social scientists continue to learn about choices, talking about what makes a good choice and what makes a poor choice. Students will engage in class conversations, as well as peer discussions asking questions about the choices they make at home and in their community.
These are some of the questions that will lead the conversation:
- What are my likes?
- What are my dislikes?
- What are some things my friends and I have in common?
- What are the good choices I make every day?
Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter!
Ms. Ana (KGC) - achavez@cacegypt.org
Mr. Balazs (KGB) - nbalazs@cacegypt.org
Ms. Paola (KGS) - psadek@cacegypt.org
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