Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, January 13: 8 am Mass
- Friday, January 16: 2pm Dismissal
- Monday, January 19: No School, MLK Day
Looking Ahead: We have so many fun things coming up in kindergarten! Read carefully, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun to come! 🙂
- Catholic School’s Week: Catholic School’s week begins with 10:30 Mass on Sunday, January 25th. After the Mass, come on over to school for the open house from 11:30-2:30. This is for both current and prospective families. Bring a friend or neighbor if you can! All are welcome!
- 100th day kindergarten classroom celebration: As long as we don’t have any unexpected days off, we will have the 100th day celebration on Tuesday, February 3. I’ll send a note out about this soon!
- Valentine’s Party: Friday, February 13 at 12:20; this will be a parent volunteer opportunity! Watch for a sign-up from Mary’s mom to come out soon!
- Kindergarten Olympics: Friday, February 20th: we will do a cross-curricular mini unit on the winter olympics! We will end the unit with our own “kindergarten olympics” where students will “compete” in bobsledding, hockey, olympic torch relays and more! This will be another parent volunteer opportunity. To volunteer, click here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548A9A62AAAFB6-61533628-kindergarten
- Spring Auction: Saturday, March 7, 6:30-10:30 in the Parish Center; all our fundraisers are important, but this one is ESPECIALLY important. We need your help to make it successful. Your attendance alone is a great way to support and it’s always fun to be around other cardinal families!
- Little Cardinals Dudes and Donuts in the Parish Center: 9am on Saturday, February 7th
What’s Due:
- Hot lunch orders: Order now!
- Virtus training: In order to volunteer in our classroom or go on a field trip, you must be VIRTUS TRAINED: https://stcletusschool.com/volunteering/; Please be sure to get this completed! We’d LOVE to have you in our classroom! 🙂 Please reach out to Ms. Krieger in the office with ANY questions about virtus training: mkrieger@stcletusparish.com . We LOVE volunteers and are happy to help you with any questions. A BIG thanks to all that have gotten these requirements completed. We are so grateful to our volunteers!!
- Boom cards: Be sure to check those out!
- Grandparent letters for the school auction: if you choose to participate in the letter writing to grandparents, turn in the form. This is optional!
- “Six Seven Surge”: help us meet our auction goal by raising $67! Lots of incentives for the kids if we meet the goal!
- Supplemental Supplies: Students with last names N-Z, please send in supplemental supplies at your convenience. https://stcletusschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/EPI-Flyer-2025-26.pdf
- Mystery Reader Sign-up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548A9A62AAAFB6-61533225-mystery
- Spring Auction, Kindergarten Class Basket: A note from our room parent (sent by Mary’s mom to you in an email): Every class is assigned a theme for a basket that is included in the silent auction. We have been assigned the theme of “Movie Night”. If you would like to help me brainstorm and purchase items to put in the basket, reply to this email or text me. If you are looking to rehome any casting devices/ streaming sticks, streaming service gift cards, DVDs or other movie night related items that you may have received over the holidays, send them my way! The suggested minimum value of each class basket is $150. If each family could please Zelle or venmo me $15 (or whatever amount you are comfortable donating) it would be greatly appreciated. I need to have the completed and assembled basket turned in to the school office by Thursday, February 5th. Please Venmo or Zelle me by Friday, January 23rd.
This Week:
- We revisited all our classroom and PBIS rules and routines this week. We made a New Year’s Resolution list together which included things like doing at least one kind thing each day, being neat with our work, praying more and keeping our classroom neat and tidy. What great ideas! We ended the week with a PBIS “ticket pull” and assembly.
Next Week:
Language Arts:
Fundations: I’ve introduced: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N. Next week, we will work on O and P. In addition to focusing on capital letter formation, Unit 2 is also all about:
- Phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting and manipulation of sounds
- Blending and reading 3 sound short vowel words, CVC words (cat, run, big) etc.
- Story prediction
- Alphabetical order
- High frequency/Word wall words: Click HERE for what our word wall will look like by the end of February. We are currently working on NUMBER WORDS, 1-10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzfFzJGwwZQ
- Pocket chart: Our new poem is “A Chubby Little Snowman.” Students illustrated the poem in their journals this past week.
- Reading group: keep practicing the book folders I send home. Those books and passages are what we work on in reading group. Remember–kindergarten students who are exposed to decodable text and engage in repeated readings of that text, become strong, CONFIDENT readers!
Math:
We will wrap up modules 4-6 next week! We already completed modules 7-10, so we will jump ahead to modules 11-14 which is about adding and subtracting with 10 (previously we went up to 5), and ways to make ten (if I have 8…how many more to get to 10?)
- Counting to 100. We will now practice counting to 100. At home, please practice counting to 100 (or beyond)! The goal by the end of kindergarten is to count to 100 (or beyond)!
- Addition and subtraction: we are working on writing and solving addition equations within within 5.
- Counting by 10s: We will continue to practice skip counting by 10s to 100. Practice at home!
- Counting by 5s: We will continue to practice skip counting by 5s. Practice at home!
- Counting by 2s: Next week, I will introduce counting by 2s to 20. The goal is to count by 2s to 20 and this is what students will be assessed on. If students make it to 20, I encourage them to recognize the pattern and keep going to 100 if possible!
Religion:
- I’ve got senses, I’ve got senses, yes I do! Yes, I do! Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, thank you, God. Thank you, God. Next week, we will explore the senses of seeing and hearing. We learn about our world through our senses. Thank you, God!
- We started a new kindness project in the classroom. “God’s love keeps us warm,” reminds students that on these chilly, winter days, we stay warm and fuzzy on the inside because of all the love we get from our family and friends. Each time students are caught doing something extra sweet and kind, they will put a heart sticker on a mitten with their name on it. We’ll see the mittens become filled with hearts as we share love with our classmates and teachers.