Kindergarten Spanish Immersion

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

14-18 de septiembre

¡Hola Familias!

We had a great week in kindergarten, and I am so proud of the kids for how much progress they have made so far. We are learning to take turns, share with others, and be kind friends--in addition to learning letters, sounds, numbers, and LOTS more!

This week, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15), we had the opportunity to learn a little about the countries of Costa Rica and Guatemala with our other Kindergarten friends. A special thank you to Javier Solis, who came to talk to ALL of the kindergarten students about Costa Rica! For each country, we talked about the beautiful things we can thank God for, as well as prayer points. We worked together as a community to create prayer chains, which you can see in the main hallway on the way to the gym! Ask your child how you can pray for both countries at home as well!

Here is more information about our week...

Reading / Lectura: This week in reading we have learned the letters K, L, and M. We have also worked on distinguishing nouns that are personas (people) or lugares (places), and practiced reading with our partners.

Writing / Escritura: We have been working on adding more work to our writing pages and write and draw about our families.

Math / Matemáticas: We have been drawing and looking at scenes with different numbers of objects. We have also been using different math tools to create and build things.

Bible / Biblia: This week we continued learning about Spiritual Practices that can help us grow closer to God. We learned how we can spend time in prayer, listen to God by being still, and how we can sing and dance to praise God!

Immersion Tip of the Week

This week, try to give your child a chance to hear Spanish outside of the classroom if you don't speak Spanish at home. This could mean changing the language on a TV show or movie, going to a place where Spanish is spoken (check out the Community Connections page), or listening to some new music. Take advantage of every learning opportunity!

Reading Tip of the Week

Encourage your child to use "picture clues" to figure out words. For example (pointing to the word "elephant"): "This is a long word! It starts with the sound "ehh". Hmm, here's a picture of an elephant. I bet this word says "elephant"!" This is an important skill for students to use when reading and decoding new words.

Grandparent's Day

We will be celebrating Grandparent's Day at Rose Park on the morning of Thursday, October 1st. Would you mind quickly filling out this form for me? ¡Gracias!

Save the Dates:

September

23: Walkathon
24: Rose Park Fall Fest 5:30-7:00pm - sign up HERE

October

1: Grandparents Day →
8 & 10: Parent Teacher Conferences - evening
14,15,16: No School - Fall Teacher Convention
19: Picture Retakes

Announcements:

Grandparents Day! We are excited to welcome Grandparents and Grandfriends to Rose Park on the morning of October 1st (see schedule in the image above). We plan to have some treats available for Grandparents to enjoy in the library - if you would be willing to volunteer or provide treats please take a look at the sign up genius!
Ranch Hands: We’d love to have a few additional families join our Ranch Hands team to help care for the goats and chickens on the weekends. Families typically claim one weekend at a time, making it an easy way to pitch in and care for our Ranch animals. If this is something your family would be willing to do, please let Ms. Roskamp know! We’re happy to train you and get you started!
Walkathon - Please take a look and begin making your asks for this important fundraiser! We are looking forward to participating in our Walkathon on Wednesday September 23rd at the High School.
Pokemon Cards- What a fun and exciting thing to have, share, discuss, and trade. At school we’ve noticed that this has caused some disruptions to learning, hard feelings over trades, bent or lost cards, etc. If you would help us out by having these be a fun home activity, we would appreciate it! At recess we’ll encourage your children to run and play!
Volunteer Registration Link - if you haven’t had a chance to sign up as a volunteer, here is the link again!

Thank you for reading! Here are some more pictures from our week (check them out on Smugmug as well!). Have a great weekend, and see you back at school on Monday!

Friday, September 11, 2026

8-11 de septiembre

¡Hola Familias!

It was a short, but very busy, week here in Kindergarten! It has been so exciting to see friendships building and kids getting more comfortable with each other. We have also been getting used to our routines and building more confidence en español every day!

This week we met with the other 2 kindergarten classes to learn about our Discipleship Practice of the month: Creciendo en Comunidad (Community-growing). It was a joyful time of singing, learning, and thanking God for our community! We also came together as an entire HC community on Wednesday for Convocation, which was a special time of worship as well.

Here is what else we've been learning this week...

Reading / Lectura: We have been learning more letters and sounds--G, H, I and J. We also focused on the vowel (vocal) A this week and practiced identifying it in the classroom and in books. We are also learning about how we can be strong readers and read for longer periods of time.

Writing / Escritura: This week we have continued to learn vocabulary of la familia as we practice the writing process. We have also been enjoying sharing our work with each other!

Math / Matemáticas: We finished our number book! This week we learned numbers 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0. We have been practicing identifying numbers 1-5 and counting objects.

Bible / Biblia: This week we learned about how we can be doers of the Word of God by following what it says! We also talked about Spiritual Practices and made a wheel with different things we can do to grow in our relationship with God. I encourage you to use the wheel at home and talk about these different practices!

Science / Ciencias: As we continue learning about los cinco sentidos (the five senses), this week we learned about los oídos para escuchar. We made palos de lluvia--rain sticks--with our buddies from Maestra Sanchez's class! (sorry if there was a spillage of rice and beans at home; we had some malfunctioning rubber bands--but the kids had a BLAST!)

Immersion Tip of the Week

One reason we don't use translation in a Spanish Immersion class is because we want the students to make immediate connections between the action, object, or concept to the Spanish word. If we translate into English, they pay less attention to the Spanish word and just wait for the translation. In the coming weeks, we'll be practicing an important skill called circumlocution in which the students learn how to describe unknown words using vocabulary they already know.

Reading Tip of the Week

When reading a book this week, try to think of words that rhyme with words in the book. For example, "This word says 'house'. What words rhyme with house? Can you think of any?" This kind of activity will increase your child's phonemic awareness, a critical skill for reading in any language!

Hi from Mrs. Short

I got the chance to visit each classroom this week to (re)introduce myself to the Rose Park students! During our time together, I got to share a little bit about my job as the School Counselor. The big takeaway I wanted students to remember is that I am a helper person at school. I get to help in big ways and small ways at school. It is a gift to be here working with the Rose Park students and staff!

Parent Volunteer Form / Field Trip!

Here is the link again to our Parent Volunteer Form. I neglected to add a spot for your name (whoops!), so if you filled it out already, can you just send me an email to let me know? I'll try to connect with volunteers soon! We do have a field trip coming up on Wednesday, October 7th in the morning to the Farmer's Market. Let me know if you would like to join us!

Save the Dates:

September

12: Kids Stuff Resale at HC High School 9am-noon
16 & 17: Picture Days - Schedule HERE
17: Walkathon packets due back
18: Homecoming - it’s free, but sign up HERE!
23: Walkathon
24: Rose Park Fall Fest 5:30-7:00pm - sign up HERE

October

1: Grandparents Day - morning - schedule coming soon!
8 & 10: Parent Teacher Conferences - evening - sign ups coming soon!
14,15,16: No School - Fall Teacher Convention

Announcements:

We’d love to have a few additional families join our Ranch Hands team to help care for the goats and chickens on the weekends. Families typically claim one weekend at a time, making it an easy way to pitch in and care for our Ranch animals. If this is something your family would be willing to do, please let Ms. Roskamp know! We’re happy to train you and get you started!
Walkathon - Please take a look and begin making your asks for this important fundraiser! We are looking forward to participating in our Walkathon on Wednesday September 23rd at the High School. Please return your walkathon packets to school by Thursday, September 17th!
In an effort to enhance our security protocols and update how we manage campus visitors we have rolled out a new Guest Management System. As we look forward to parent participation and volunteers in our classrooms, we ask you to use this new digital form to complete your screening. This will replace the paper form (iCHAT) that you have completed in past school years. This form can be filled out now, or at least 2 weeks prior to your scheduled volunteering service. Thank you!