Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Monday, February 2: 100th day snack items DUE today!
- Tuesday, February 3: 8am Mass and Happy 100th day of School!
- Friday, February 6: No School
Looking Ahead: Read carefully, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun to come! 🙂 Flyers are also below!
- 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; Please click HERE for the classroom valentine party sign-up sent out by Mary’s mom! ALL kids are encouraged to bring in valentines for their friends. Click the link for more info: valentine pass out letter, final
- 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
- Mother and Son Sweetheart Dance: February 13, 5:30-7:30 in the PC gym.
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: I’ll post new boom cards this weekend!
- “Six Seven Surge”: help us meet our auction goal by raising $67! Lots of incentives for the kids if we meet the goal!
- Mystery Reader Sign-up: We’d love for you to be a mystery reader in our classroom! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548A9A62AAAFB6-61533225-mystery
This Week: What a great week celebrating our wonderful Catholic school! The kids especially enjoyed the rock, paper, scissors tournament, the cookie treat from Mr. Porod and Mrs. Schaefer, and the board game fun with 8th grade buddies. We closed out the week on Friday with the traditional “red and white games,” the all-day volleyball event for 1st-8th grade. We got to cheer our buddies on for the final game! ALL cardinals are winners :), but ask your child who officially won–the red team or the white team?!
Next Week:
Language Arts:
Fundations: I’ve introduced: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V. Next week, we will will finish the alphabet with W, X, Y, Z. 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 predictions
- Alphabetical order
- High frequency/Word wall words: Click HERE for what our word wall will look like by the end of February. Next week I will introduce: Dear and LOVE
- Our read alouds next week will be stories all about the 100th day of school!
- Pocket chart: We will learn a new song about the 100th day of school. We will illustrate this song in our poetry journals!
- Reading group: keep practicing the book folders I send home and remember to send them back! 🙂
Math:
We started 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 are now counting by 1s 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 10. Students need to be able to identify +, -, = (plus sign, minus sign and equal to) and label equations as either “addition” or “subtraction.”
- 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: We will continue to practice counting 2s to 20. Practice at home!
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 continue to explore our senses and will focus on TOUCH. This past week, students smelled different containers and then I revealed to them what those smells were–chocolate, coffee, and playdoh! Next week, we will do similar activity where I will let them TOUCH different things and they’ll have to guess what it is they’re TOUCHING. They’re learning these “tests” are much harder when they can only use one sense! We learn about our world through our senses. Our senses also help to keep us safe. Thank you, God!
- Our new kindness project, “God’s love keeps us warm,” continues! This kindness project 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.