Joyner Elementary School | Kindergarten Monthly Newsletter -August 2019 Greetings from Kindergarten Dear Parents, We will spend the first week learning about our new friends, rules and procedures and having fun while learning. We will send home a monthly newsletter that will highlight our main topics for academic areas and include any updates. What We Are Learning Reading: Students will get practice with asking and answering questions about stories read. They will identify the characters, setting, and major events in a story. In our Skills lessons, students will write lowercase letters. They will also work on being able to identify the front/back of a book, spine, title, and the author/illustrator name. Math: This month students will count forward from any number, not beginning at 1. (Ex. 4, 5, 6) Students will count using one-to-one correspondence. They will write numbers and represent numbers with objects. Science/Social Studies: We are going to learn about the seasons and weather. Students will also learn