Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
*bring in a jar of jelly ANY DAY next week. Please refer to the Lent Letter
- Saturday, February 21: Dudes and Donuts, 9-10 in the Parish Center
- Sunday, February 22: Family Mass, 10:30am in church
- Tuesday, February 24: 8am Mass
- Thursday, February 26: We will attend THE DESCENDANTS dress rehearsal performance in the afternoon. Click HERE for DESCENDANTS performance schedule for next weekend.
- 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! click HERE to purchase tickets!
What’s Due:
- Please refer to the Lent letter, and our focus on ALMSGIVING. Students may bring in a jar of jelly ANY day next week. We will drop that off at the food pantry bins when we walk over for Stations of the Cross next week.
- 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: New boom cards have been posted! Check them out!
- “Six Seven Surge”: help us meet our auction goal by raising $67! Lots of incentives for the kids if we meet the goal! https://fundraise.givesmart.com/form/Ys2X5A?vid=1ok7wu
- Mystery Reader Sign-up: We’d love for you to be a mystery reader in our classroom! There aren’t too many slots left, so please just reach out if none of the remaining dates work and I’d be happy to figure out a new date! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548A9A62AAAFB6-61533225-mystery
This Week: The WINTER OLYMPICS were SNOW much fun! Watch for pictures and videos to be posted soon!
Next Week: Next week we will begin our Dr. Seuss author study! Seuss books are great for this time of the year in kindergarten because they really allow children to feel like readers and help build that beginning reader confidence. Kids love the rhythm and rhyme and they love the humor and silly characters. I made a list of Seuss books that I recommend for your readers. Please click HERE and see if you can add these to your book collection at home!
Next week, I will begin trimester 2 assessments. Your child’s first kindergarten report card will come home in March and we will further discuss your child’s progress at conferences. They ALL have SO much to be proud of!
Language Arts:
Fundations: ALL capital letters have now been introduced! We will be moving on to unit 4 in fundations which is all about DIGRAPHS! In addition to being introduced to digraphs, we will work on:
- Phoneme segmentation
- Digraphs: wh, ch, sh, th, ck
- Decoding three sound words with DIGRAPHS. (chip, shack, when, etc.)
- Narrative story form: character, setting, events/beginning, middle and end.
- 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: not and his
- Dr. Seuss read alouds next week!
- Pocket chart: We will learn a new song about Dr. Seuss
- Reading group: keep practicing the book folders I send home and remember to send them back! 🙂
- Daily journaling continues! The kids are now independently streeeetching out their words, correctly spelling word wall words, generating their own topics and ROCKING writing time in kindergarten! Woo hoo!
Math:
We are a little more than halfway through modules 11-14 which is all about adding and subtracting within 10. We will continue to practice to build addition and subtraction fact fluency!
- 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:
- We will pray the Stations of the Cross in church next week.
- We will focus on PRAYER, FAST/SACRIFICING and ALMSGIVING during Lent. We made a chart that we will refer to throughout Lent. It lists the different ways we are going to focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in kindergarten. For example, for “prayer,” we wrote that we are going to add the “Our Father” to our morning prayer routine each day. We are also going to pray the Stations of the Cross each week. For “fast/sacrificing,” we are going to give up saying and doing any unkind things. Many of the kids talked about giving up ice cream, ipads and also talked about what some of their older siblings and grown-ups are giving up. Finally, for “almsgiving,” we have our rice bowl in our classroom which we will use to collect money in. We will also do a weekly food collection for the food pantry, keeping in mind foods that kindergarten children would like. First up, JELLY! Students can bring in a jar of JELLY any day next week!
- Each week during Lent, we will pray the stations of the cross. Please refer to the Lent Letter that was sent home on Friday.