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! 

Happy Autumn!  Our kindergarten students are already settling into classroom routines and structures.  We are so excited to see their smiling faces.

In literacy we are finishing up our 2nd unit in Benchmark and will begin unit 3. We will focus on “Rules at Home and School”.   We will gather  information in order to answer the essential question, “Why do we have rules?” We are exploring nonfiction and fiction texts to gather information to further our understanding of this topic. Students will also review phonics and high-frequency word skills through sorting, blending, and word building activities.

In Everyday Math 4, our math program, we will be reading and writing numbers, comparing more versus fewer, sorting and graphing, along with counting and cardinality of numbers. Students will be able to identify various 2D and 3D shapes along with matching written numbers with the quantity of objects.  

In science, we will continue our study of sorting organisms and objects while using our five senses including observing, investigating, and describing how objects can be sorted using their physical properties. Students will  explain why objects are sorted into categories and then sort a set of objects based on their physical characteristics, and explain how the objects are sorted. 

Reminders:

• Every Friday is our Coyote Ridge spirit day where we can wear our Coyote Ridge gear or our school colors (blue and white). 

• Please have your child bring a water bottle and an extra snack for our afternoon snack time.

• Please have your child bring in a light jacket or sweater as the temperatures are becoming cooler with the start of autumn.

Upcoming Dates:

• Parent Teacher conferences: October 3rd and October 10th

• October 4th: Teacher work day

• SPIRIT WEEK 10/7-10/11

  • Monday: Pajama Day

  • Tuesday: Teacher Student swap (dress like a teacher)

  • Wednesday: Hat/Sports Day

  • Thursday: Blue day (dress in all blue/CRE gear)

  • Friday: Hawaiian day

• October 14th-18th: Fall Break

• October 23th: Unity day (wear orange)

• October 24th: Picture retakes 

• October 25th: Falloween

As a school, we will be celebrating Unity Day on Wednesday, October 23th. This is a day to promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion. We encourage all students and staff to wear orange as a way of bringing awareness to this day

Thank you for all of your support at home and school.  We couldn’t do it without you!

Sincerely,

Taylor Humphries, Jen Gonci, Erika Cowan