Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Monday, January 20: No School, MLK Day
- Tuesday, January 21: 8am Mass
- Sunday, January 26th: Be sure to mark your calendars for the 10:30 Mass, followed by the 11:30 open house! The open house is for BOTH current and prospective families. The kids love being able to show off their school to their grown-ups. We hope you can make it!!! Please bring a friend, neighbor or family member that might be interested in St. Cletus School!
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!
It will be a quiet week next week before the excitement of CATHOLIC SCHOOL’S WEEK beginning on the 26th!
What’s Due:
- RSVP for the spring auction!
- 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! 🙂
This Week:
- We had our very first mystery reader on Friday. It was SO exciting!
- Please watch for an email from the room moms about our upcoming valentine’s party soon!
- Starting with the last week of January, we will be VERY busy in kindergarten. We have Catholic School’s Week first, followed by the 100th day celebration, followed by the Valentine’s Day party. Watch for emails and info to be sent home about all of these fun things! Kindergarten rocks!
Next Week:
Language Arts:
- We will continue to practice LAST names. Students will practice learning the letters in their last names as well as where to start each letter. Once students know how to spell their last names, they will be expected to write both first and last names on their papers.
- We will continue unit 2 in Fundations with A, B, C, D, E, F capital letter formation. We will continue blending two and three sounds together.
- We have started our SUPERKIDS decodable readers and fluency passages. The kids like meeting the different characters and then seeing them in readers. Watch for for these readers along with fluency passages to come home for practice!
- 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. I will not introduce any new words next week.
- Journaling: We have completed “Journal # 2.” We are now moving on to “Journal #3” and students are expected to write 2 sentences. We are remembering finger spaces, use of lowercase letters, correct spelling of word wall words and putting our thoughts into a complete sentence.
Read alouds: We did not get to reading The Snowy Day this past week, so we will get to that next week. We will read and reread The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and complete comprehension and story element activities throughout the week. We will also do some comparing with another book titled The Snow Day. We will then dive more into Jan Brett stories including The Mitten, The Hat and The Snowy Nap. We will read nonfiction books about Martin Luther King Jr. We will read nonfiction text books about our senses. Boy, we have a lot of reading to do next week!
Math: We will continue modules 11-13 which is all about addition and subtraction. That will be our main focus for the next 2 months.
- 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: Start to 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 new kindness project in kindergarten. “God’s love keeps us warm” is the theme for the next two months. We we will watch for students who work hard to show God’s love to their friends and will ask them to put a heart sticker on their mittens which are hanging on our door. This also goes along well with our books about Martin Luther King which will again reinforce how we treat one another and the importance of using our words. We will also continue our senses unit next week. We will learn about the 5 senses and how our senses help us to learn more about God’s world. We started to talk about “sight.” Next week, we will continue to learn about our sense of sight and will move on to “hearing.” We will keep singing our new pocket chart song, “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!