Kindergarten
Ms. Maldonado, Ms. Gabbert, Ms. Shirley, Ms. Cope, Ms. Landers, Ms. Romano
Ms. Crumpton, Ms. Cardelino
Kindergarten Weekly Email Blasts
August
Weekly Email Blasts
7-31-26
Hi Parents,
I enjoyed meeting so many of yesterday at Sneak Peek! It is the kick-off to a new year full of fun and possibilities.
I wanted to send you an email so that you would have my contact information in case you had any questions or concerns. Please let me know if you would rather not receive emails at this email address moving forward or if there is another email address that you would like me to add to our distribution list.
Here are a few reminders to make sure everyone is ready to go on Monday morning.
- Double-check your transportation in Pick Up Patrol. As a reminder, if you ever have any transportation changes, you will make those directly in Pick Up Patrol. If you haven’t set that up for your kindergarten student, please take the opportunity to do that ASAP.
- Don't forget to send your student to school on Monday with the nametag on their shirt. This will help us make sure everyone gets to the right place.
- Students should bring a small snack and a water bottle to school each day. As a reminder, the snack should be able to be eaten in a couple of minutes and should not require a fork or spoon. Also, only water in water bottles and no juice boxes.
- On Monday, your student will come home with a temporary folder to use for a few weeks. This folder should come home each night and return to school the next day. This will hold student work as well as any notes or reminders from the school or other clubs/organizations.
- Breakfast is offered in our cafeteria every day. Students should go there straight from the bus or car. However, many of our students need practice for this to become part of their routine. If you would like your student to eat breakfast at school, please send me an email and I will make sure that they get something from the cafeteria on Monday morning.
If I didn't get the opportunity to meet with you yesterday, I look forward to meeting you soon. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns about next week. I am looking forward to a great year together!
Have a great weekend!
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Weekly Email Blasts
2-5-27
2-12-27
Happy Valentine’s Day Eve!
We had such a fun day in kindergarten! Students enjoyed exchanging Valentines with their classmates and sharing some extra kindness. We also got to spend time with our 5th grade buddies, who joined us for a special visit and helped make the day even sweeter!
Remember, Monday is a Teacher Workday and Tuesday is a Professional Development Day, so there will be no school for students on those days. We will see the kids back in school on Wednesday.
Kindergarten Reminders
Homework: As an extra treat for Valentine’s Day, we are not sending home any homework this week. Homework will go home again next Friday.
Northwood Information
iReady: If you ever want to do iReady at home, here are the steps to log-in.
1. Go to Classlink https://login.classlink.com
2. Type in your child’s username (their student ID number) and their password (their birthday in numerical form).
3. Then, click on the iReady icon.
Calendar Updates
February 16 - Presidents' Day (Teacher Workday; Students No School)
February 17 - Professional Development Day (Students No School)
Curriculum Information
AVID: My goal is to surprise others by performing random acts of kindness.
ReThink: We will learn ways to perform non-preferred tasks.
Phonemic Awareness - We will work on letter sounds, isolating sounds, rhyming words, putting words together and taking words apart.
Phonics- We will be reviewing all of our phonics skills in preparation for our upcoming unit test.
Sounds Learned So Far: /t/, /p/, /n/, /a/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /s/, and short /i/ as in igloo, /h/, /b/, /l/, /r/, and short /o/ as in octopus, f, hard c (as in cat), j, w, z, k, and short e (as in echo), y, v, q, x, and short u (as in under)
Reading – We will be reading expository books and looking for main topic, text features, and descriptive language.
Math - We will be practicing addition and subtraction fluency as well as solving addition and subtraction story problems. We will also review composing and decomposing.
Writing - We will be writing opinion pieces as well as informational pieces.
New High Frequency Words: N/A
HFW Learned So Far: I, a, the, can, to, play, see, for, like, have, you, we, who, what, where, go, so, look, want, come, said, saw, be, he, she, me, we, and, black, blue, brown, yellow, are, little, with, do, find, no, they, help, jump, was, will, went, this, that, there, one, two, three, four, do, my, too, am, down, must, at
Have great weekend!
2-19-27
Good afternoon families!
It was a short week in kindergarten, but we loved hearing all about the adventures everyone had over the long weekend. Next week, we are looking forward to celebrating the end of February with our PBIS celebration!
Kindergarten Reminders
Homework: Homework went home again today!
Northwood Information
Starting Monday, February 23, 2026, we will be using a system called PickUp Patrol to help us track dismissals. PickUp Patrol provides families with a convenient way to make changes to your child’s dismissal plans and helps ensure that students are accurately dismissed each day.
How It Works:
- Your child’s regular dismissal plan will be entered into the system. This is considered their Default Plan.
- Whenever your child is doing something other than their Default Plan, you’ll submit a Plan Change via PickUp Patrol.
- Examples of a Plan Change:
- Your child normally rides the bus but needs to switch to carpool for the day.
- Your child is getting picked up by someone other than yourself (must be an emergency contact in Infinite Campus).
- Your child has a doctor's appointment and will be leaving early.
- When the change is submitted, a notification will be sent to the front office and their teacher.
REGISTER: Today, Friday, February 20, 2026, you will receive a registration email from PickUp Patrol with a link to set up your account. The parent portal is free to parents and can be accessed from your phone or computer. The link in your registration email will be live for 48 hours. As soon as you receive it, please log in and confirm your child’s default plan.
Thank you for using PickUp Patrol to make safety a priority and to ensure our dismissal process is efficient for all! Parents can access all of their children in the same account as long as the same email address is used. Once you are registered you do not need to re-register for each child, you will simply log out and back in again to view all children in the app.
If you have any questions, please first check the PickUp Patrol Parent Guide & if you need additional assistance, please reach out to Mrs. Lorraine Robertson at Northwood's front desk, robertsonl1@fultonschools.org. Please note, starting Monday, the Northwood Dismissal email will no longer be utilized.
Calendar Updates
March 16 – Professional Development Day (no school for students)
April 6-10 – Spring Break!
Curriculum Information
AVID: My goal is to follow along when we read as a class.
ReThink: We will learn ways to move past mistakes
Phonemic Awareness - We will work on letter sounds, isolating sounds, rhyming words, putting words together and taking words apart.
Phonics- We will be reviewing all of the short vowels.
Sounds Learned So Far: /t/, /p/, /n/, /a/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /s/, and short /i/ as in igloo, /h/, /b/, /l/, /r/, and short /o/ as in octopus, f, hard c (as in cat), j, w, z, k, and short e (as in echo), y, v, q, x, and short u (as in under)
Reading – We will be reading expository books and looking for main topic, text features, and descriptive language. We will also read narrative books looking for story elements like characters, settings, and events.
Math - We will be practicing addition and subtraction fluency as well as solving addition and subtraction story problems. We will also review composing and decomposing.
Writing - We will be writing informational pieces about animals.
New High Frequency Words: now, well, new, not
HFW Learned So Far: I, a, the, can, to, play, see, for, like, have, you, we, who, what, where, go, so, look, want, come, said, saw, be, he, she, me, we, and, black, blue, brown, yellow, are, little, with, do, find, no, they, help, jump, was, will, went, this, that, there, one, two, three, four, do, my, too, am, down, must, at
Have great weekend!
2-26-27
We can’t believe that February is nearly over! We got to wrap up the rainy week with our monthly PBIS celebration and a visit to the Explorer Exchange. Ask your student about their favorite part of the day!
Kindergarten Reminders
Next week is Read Across America Week! We will be celebrating each day with a special theme!
· Monday- Hat Day
· Tuesday- Tye Dye and Neon Day
· Wednesday- Team Day
· Thursday- Stuffed Animal Day
· Friday- Northwood Spirit Day
Northwood Information
Northwood has started using a system called PickUp Patrol to help us track dismissals. PickUp Patrol provides families with a convenient way to make changes to your child’s dismissal plans and helps ensure that students are accurately dismissed each day.
How It Works:
1. Your child’s regular dismissal plan will be entered into the system. This is considered their Default Plan.
2. Whenever your child is doing something other than their Default Plan, you’ll submit a Plan Change via PickUp Patrol.
3. Examples of a Plan Change:
a. Your child normally rides the bus but needs to switch to carpool for the day.
b. Your child is getting picked up by someone other than yourself (must be an emergency contact in Infinite Campus).
c. Your child has a doctor's appointment and will be leaving early.
4. When the change is submitted, a notification will be sent to the front office and their teacher.
REGISTER: Today, Friday, February 20, 2026, you will receive a registration email from PickUp Patrol with a link to set up your account. The parent portal is free to parents and can be accessed from your phone or computer. The link in your registration email will be live for 48 hours. As soon as you receive it, please log in and confirm your child’s default plan.
Thank you for using PickUp Patrol to make safety a priority and to ensure our dismissal process is efficient for all! Parents can access all of their children in the same account as long as the same email address is used. Once you are registered you do not need to re-register for each child, you will simply log out and back in again to view all children in the app.
If you have any questions, please first check the PickUp Patrol Parent Guide & if you need additional assistance, please reach out to Mrs. Lorraine Robertson at Northwood's front desk, robertsonl1@fultonschools.org. Please note, starting Monday, the Northwood Dismissal email will no longer be utilized.
Calendar Updates
March 2 - Read Across America Week
March 8 - Daylight Saving Time (Clocks Ahead One Hour)
March 13 - All Pro Dad
March 16 - Professional Development Day (Students No School)
March 20 - PTA Blooming Mornings
March 27 - PTA Bingo Night
March 31 - Spring Pictures
April 3 - STEM Day
April 6-11 - Spring Break (No School)
April 17 - All Pro Dad
April 29 - May 1, 5-8 - GA Milestones Assessments
Curriculum Information
AVID: My goal is to always be honest.
ReThink: We will learn about cooperation.
Phonemic Awareness - We will work on letter sounds, isolating sounds, rhyming words, putting words together and taking words apart.
Phonics- We will be reviewing all of the short vowels.
Sounds Learned So Far: /t/, /p/, /n/, /a/, /m/, /d/, /g/, /s/, and short /i/ as in igloo, /h/, /b/, /l/, /r/, and short /o/ as in octopus, f, hard c (as in cat), j, w, z, k, and short e (as in echo), y, v, q, x, and short u (as in under)
Reading – We will be reading expository books and looking for main topic, text features, and descriptive language. We will also read narrative books looking for story elements like characters, settings, and events. We will compare and contrast characters from different stories.
Math - We will be reviewing all of our math skills and taking our unit assessment.
Writing - We will be writing informational pieces about animals.
New High Frequency Words: all, good, say
HFW Learned So Far: I, a, the, can, to, play, see, for, like, have, you, we, who, what, where, go, so, look, want, come, said, saw, be, he, she, me, we, and, black, blue, brown, yellow, are, little, with, do, find, no, they, help, jump, was, will, went, this, that, there, one, two, three, four, do, my, too, am, down, must, at, now, well, new, not
Have a wonderful weekend!