Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
*students decided on PANCAKE MIX or CEREAL for their food pantry almsgiving donation next week. Bring in any day!
This Week
- Click HERE for DESCENDANTS performance schedule this weekend!
- Tuesday, March 3: 8am Mass
- Thursday, March 5: PBIS assembly
- Spring Auction: The Spring Auction is NEXT WEEK! It’s on 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! If you’re unable to make it, please still watch for the auction items to go live. Mrs. Zontos and I donated a “painting party” for families to bid on. One lucky student will be allowed to choose 2 friends to attend a painting party with Mrs. Zontos and me after school (date TBD) this school year. We will paint a canvas and will also paint a cookie too! Be sure to watch for this item to be posted!
Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Friday, May 8th: KINDERGARTEN moms, please plan on joining us for the Mother’s Day Tea in our classroom from 10:00-11:15ish, Mother’s Day Tea
What’s Due:
- Throughout Lent, we will focus on ALMSGIVING and will be donating to the food pantry. Students are trying to think of foods that other kindergarten children might like. For next week, students decided on bringing in A BOX OF PANCAKE MIX OR CEREAL. Students can bring this in any day 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 will be posted next week!
- “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 our first mystery reader guest this week! It was so much fun. We can’t wait to see who else is going to visit our classroom!
I wrapped up trimester 2 assessments this week and will be filling out report cards in the coming week. Those will be sent home before parent teacher conferences which are on the 12th!
Next Week
Language Arts:
Fundations: We started unit 4 in Fundations which is all about DIGRAPHS! In addition to being introduced to digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck), we will work on:
- Phoneme segmentation
- 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: went and with. Next week, I will send home a copy of what the word wall will look like by the end of the school year! Hard to believe!
- We will wrap up our Dr. Seuss unit and will begin Easter read alouds next week!
- Pocket chart: We will learn a leprechuan song. We will illustrate this new song in our poetry journals.
- 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, remembering punctuation and working on writing 2 or MORE sentences! We’ll go over your child’s writing journals at conferences and you’ll take those home!
Math:
We have about one more week left to modules 11-14. We continue to practice to build addition and subtraction fact fluency. At our math centers we use manipulatives, dominoes, dice, number lines and more to help build that 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 continue to pray the Stations of the Cross in church next week on Friday.
- We will continue to pray the “Our Father” (prayer) each morning.
- We will continue to collect change in our classroom “rice bowl” (almsgiving).
- Next week, we will collect boxes of pancake mix and/or cereal for the food pantry (almsgiving).
- We will continue to share God’s love with others and have “given up” using unkind words (fasting/sacrifice)
- We will continue to add a piece of tissue paper to our Lenten crosses each time someone is seen working hard to become more beautiful on the INSIDE, which is what Lent is all about!
- Jesus gives us so many examples of what forgiveness and kindness look like. We will begin to read more stories from the bible that show us examples of kindness and forgiveness.