Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Monday, February 16: No school, President’s Day
- Friday, February 17: 8am Mass
- Wednesday, February 18: Ash Wednesday, 10am Mass
- Each Friday during Lent, we will do the kindergarten stations of the cross.
- 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! Our sign-up is all filled up, thank you!!
Looking Ahead: Read carefully, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun to come! 🙂 Flyers are also below!
- 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!
- Mother and Son Sweetheart Dance: February 13, 5:30-7:30 in the PC gym.
- Dudes and Donuts: Saturday, February 21, 9-10
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! 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: We had so much fun celebrating valentine’s day together. Be sure to check out the pictures page!
Next Week: Next week, will be all about the WINTER OLYMPICS! On Friday, we will wrap up our Olympics unit with the KINDERGARTEN OLYMPICS. It’s a gym day, so the kids should already be wearing their gym shoes, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that will be especially important on Olympic day! Their usual gym uniforms are great, or if there’s any other Olympic attire, that would be just fine too! Our olympic games will focus on teamwork, good sportsmanship and just having FUN! We will end the games with a medal ceremony. We’ll take lots of pictures and videos and will pass those along. It should be a fun time for the kids! A reminder for those who signed up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0548A9A62AAAFB6-61533628-kindergarten#/
We will send out a reminder email and extra info to the parent volunteers/judges next week. 🙂
Language Arts:
Fundations: ALL capital letters have now been introduced! We are officially into Unit 3 in fundations which is all about:
- Phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting and manipulation of sounds
- Blending and reading (decoding) and writing (encoding) 3 sound short vowel words, CVC words (cat, run, big) etc.
- Story predictions
- Retelling stories
- Alphabetical order
- Distinguishing between short and long vowels sounds.
- 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: me and on
- Our read alouds next week will be stories all about VALENTINE’S DAY
- Pocket chart: We will continue to sing our pocket chart OLYMPIC song.
- 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 will continue modules 11-14 which is about adding and subtracting within 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:
- Ash Wednesday and the start of LENT is next week! Students will learn the ashes on their foreheads let everyone know they are special friends of Jesus.
- Each week during Lent, we will pray the stations of the cross. Please refer to the Lent Letter that was sent home on Friday.