Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
*for our Lenten almsgiving project, students decided on any kind of breakfast/granola bar box for next week. Bring in any day! And remember, as I reminded the kids–sometimes that food is needed at YOUR house, and that’s just fine! 🙂
- Tuesday, March 17: 8 am Mass and St. Patrick’s Day
- Thursday, March 19: St. Joseph’s Day
Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Saturday, March 28: 9am, school courtyard, FSA sponsored, Prek-3rd grade Easter Egg Hunt! So fun! Hope you can make it! The flyer was in your child’s folder or click HERE!
- 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:
- Coloring Contest: The FSA sponsored easter coloring contest went home on Thursday. Be sure to turn that back in with your child’s name and grade level written on it.
- 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. They are so good at brainstorming ideas! They know EXACTLY the kind of foods kindergarten age children would like. 🙂 For next week, they decided on bringing in A BOX OF breakfast/granola bars. 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: I’ll post new boom cards next week! Be sure you’ve also checked your Seesaw for recordings of your child reading. They love to share their reading skills with you!
- 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:
Thank you for meeting with me at conferences on Thursday! I always enjoy having an opportunity to talk with you about your child’s growth. Everyone should be so proud!
Next Week: We will celebrate St. Patrick and St. Joseph next week!
Language Arts:
Fundations: We will continue unit 4 in Fundations which is all about DIGRAPHS! In fundations, the digraphs are taught just like A-Z letter/sounds, with the letter-keyword-sound format:
wh-whistle-/w/
ch-chin-/ch/
sh-ship-/sh/
th-thumb-/th/
ck-sock-/ck/
In addition to being introduced to digraphs, 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: Next week I will introduce WHAT, WHEN
- Pocket chart: We will learn a new poem for our poetry journals about the first day of spring!
- 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:
Next week we will be moving on to modules 14-16. We will continue to practice to build addition and subtraction fact fluency through the end of the school year, but these new modules will focus on:
- Analyzing and comparing 3D shapes-sphere, cylinder, cube cone
- Describing the positions of objects–above, below, next to, in front of, behind, left, right
- Analyzing and comparing 2D shapes-circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon and rhombus
In addition to to these skills, we will continue to practice:
- 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). It’s almost full and ready to be turned in!
- Next week, we will collect boxes of breakfast/granola bars 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. This past week, we read “Jesus welcomes the children,” “The Good Shepherd,” and stories of His miracles including Jesus healing the blind, healing the paralyzed man and healing the sick. Next week, we will be all about God’s SUPERSTARS—St. Patrick and St. Joseph. While learning about them, we’ll be exploring the map (kids love maps!) and will talk about Ireland and Italy.