Kindergarten

Welcome to Kindergarten at Coyote Ridge Elementary! We are looking forward to working with you and your child throughout this school year. Kindergarten is a time of excitement, wonder, exploration, and discovery. We will open many doors and windows to learning-reading, writing, and thinking. We will develop reading and writing skills using Benchmark Advance and build math concepts using Everyday Math 4.

Our Second Step program supports social-emotional learning through growth-mindset, productive coping skills, empathy, and conflict-resolution in our classroom community. Kindergarten is a year of great academic growth as well as social-emotional strides. We feel the education of a child is a joint endeavor between the home and school. It’s a great day to be a Kindergartener at Coyote Ridge Elementary! 

 

January Newsletter 

Happy 2025! We hope everyone had a wonderful winter break.  We will be spending a little time getting back into the routine and expectations of school.  Our kindergarten students are eager to get back to school along with seeing all of their friends as they continue to learn and grow in kindergarten.

In literacy, we will be reading stories to explore story elements. (Characters, setting, and major events. Students will also work to compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

In writing, students continue to build upon their writing development by using all the components of what good writers do, which includes using capital letters, spacing and punctuation.  Students are embedding sight words they are learning to read into their writing as well.

In math, we are introducing addition and equal symbols to help students represent addition stories.  We are also focusing on teen numbers 10 through 19 with the understanding that those numbers are “one group of ten, and some further ones.” For example, 14 is one group of 10 and 4 extra ones. 

In social studies, we will start to study maps and globes as we receive our snowman friends from families and friends.  We are also focusing on how people live in different places around the world along with comparing and contrasting how people live in different settings, types of food, clothing, shelter, and how they change in different environments.

During the season of winter, the students will be able to go outside for recess as often as possible so please have your child wear appropriate clothing.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Monday, January 20th- No School (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

Tuesday, January 28th- Field Trip (Arvada Center)

Tuesday, January 28th- Chick-fil-a Night (120th and Bradburn) 5:00-8:00pm

 

Happy wintertime!  Stay warm!

Taylor Humphries, Jennifer Gonci,  and Erika Cowan