Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Friday, February 7: No School, teacher professional development day
- Tuesday, February 11: 8 AM Mass
- Friday, February 14: Valentine’s day party, wear valentines colors and don’t forget to bring your valentines for friends!
- Saturday, February 15: Dudes and Donuts event for early childhood students only; Takes place in the PC gym; be sure to RSVP with the flyer that was in the Wednesday envelope. If you need another copy, just send me an email!
And finally, SAVE THE DATE for the 2025 SPRING AUCTION: VEGAS NIGHT: April 5th, 6pm in the Parish Center. ALWAYS such a fun night! Please consider attending!
Looking Ahead:
Friday, May 9: MOMS, please mark your calendars: Friday, May 9th from 10:30-11:30ish is the kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea! This kindergarten event has been a St. Cletus kindergarten tradition for over 30 years! Your child is going to work really hard to make it a special hour for you by learning new songs, making special art projects, yummy treats and more! You don’t want to miss it. We will send an official save the date in a few weeks, but we want our busy moms to put this one on the calendar now!
What’s Due:
- RSVP for the spring auction!
- Set up your family page for the auction! Information was in your Wednesday envelope. There are lots of incentive prizes if we get everyone to sign up! Thank you for supporting our wonderful school! 🙂
- If you would like to be a mystery reader and didn’t have a chance to sign-up (the sign-up is full), please just reach out and give me a day that works for you at 2:30! We’d love to have you. Remember, one mystery reader slot per child! Wish we had time for more! 🙂
- If your last name begins with N-Z, it’s your turn to bring in supplemental supplies! Please scroll down to kindergarten to see what we need: https://stcletusschool.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/School-Supplies-List-2024-2025.pdf
- Summer camps at St. Cletus are coming out now! I wanted to highlight the camp being taught by Mrs. Zontos and Ms. Sonia Sanchez. It runs from June 9th-27th. You can choose 1, 2 or 3 weeks. Camp runs from 9-3pm. It’s for early childhood students only. Mrs. Zontos LOVED running the half day camp last year and received permission to extend the camp to 3pm this year! The flyer went home in the Wednesday envelope a few weeks ago. If you need another copy, reach out! It would be fun to get a kindergarten (going into 1st!) crew together to attend!
This Week:
- We learned more about our senses this week, focusing on our sense of SMELL this week. The kids did a smell test and had to guess what they were smelling on their prediction page. Afterwards, I revealed the answers—coffee, chocolate and oranges!
- The kids had a great time celebrating 100 days in kindergarten. We played “Would you Rather, 100th day edition”, enjoyed a tasty trail mix and rotated through 5 centers–100 piece puzzle, building with 100 cups, 100 gumball dot paint craft, coloring and write the room. 100 days of learning and fun in kindergarten! Students also illustrated our 100th day song in their poetry journals. Ask your child to sing it to you! Hint: Hooray for 100 days, hooray for 100 days. School is so cool! School is so cool! 100 days of fun, 100 days of fun, and we’re not done. We’ve just begun!
Next Week:
It’s valentine’s week! We’ll be learning new songs and reading stories all about this special day!
Language Arts:
- We will continue to practice LAST names.
- We will continue unit 2 in Fundations with M, N, O, P capital letter formation. We are now blending 3, 4, even 5 sounds!
- We will continue to meet in reading group. We will practice fluency passages, Superkids decodable books and fundations word work practice. A student’s fluency will improve when reading the same text multiple times. The passages and/or books that I send home in the book pouches have all been practiced here at school in reading group. I am asking you to practice a bit more at home and then send it back so we can continue on to the next passages! Thank you for your support at home.
- High Frequency words: I have introduced: NO, GO, THE, YES, WE, TO, WILL, DO, A, MY, LIKE, AND, HAVE, HAS, HIS, YOU, AT, IT, IF, IN and color words, RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE, WHITE, PINK, BLACK, BROWN, BY, WENT and number words ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT and NINE, AM, PLAY, WITH, LOVE and FROM. Next week, I will introduce DEAR and we will continue to review all other words.
- Journaling: Journaling continues with some students starting to write 3 sentences! They’re rockin’ journaling time! Students also continue to participate in interactive writing time which is when we practice writing student generated sentences on our whiteboards. This is a good warm-up to journal writing time!
Read alouds: We’ll be reading books about the 100th day of school!
Math: We will continue modules 11-13 which is all about addition and subtraction. That will be our main focus through the end of February.
- Counting to 100 by ones. At home: please practice!
- Counting to 100 by tens (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100). At home: please practice!
- Counting to 100 by 5s. At home: please practice!
- Counting to 20 by 2s. At home: please practice!
- Acting out and solving addition problems within 10.
- Acting out and solving subtraction problems within 10.
We will also continue to practice:
- tallying, graphing and sorting!
Religion: We will continue our 5 senses unit with “tasting” and “touching.” Students will test their senses by having a taste test and also a feel test. Thank you God for our senses which help us to learn more about your world and also help to keep us safe!
We will also begin to explore Bible stories next week where we see examples of Jesus showing love and kindness. Jesus is our greatest example of how to treat one another. This is always a great way to kick off valentine’s week!