Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
*students decided on A BOX OF PASTA/MAC AND CHEESE for their food pantry almsgiving donation next week. Bring in any day! And remember, as I reminded the kids–sometimes that box of mac and cheese is needed at YOUR house, and that’s just fine! 🙂
This Week
- Tuesday, March 10: 8 am Mass
- Wednesday, March 11: Read Across America whole school “Crazy socks and hat day”
- Thursday, March 12: 11:30 dismissal, no aftercare and parent teacher conferences; optional Dr. Seuss dress down day.
- Friday, March 13: No School and St. Cletus Fish fry at 4:30, 5:30 and 6:30.
- The auction is THIS WEEKEND! We hope you can make it! If not, be sure to check out all the amazing items there are to bid on. Look for the donation from Mrs. Zontos and me which is an after school painting party (date TBD) with 2 friends. It’s item #177. There are SO many other awesome items to check out, be sure to scroll and find something to bid on! 🙂 https://e.givesmart.com/events/AP7/i/
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. 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 PASTA OR MAC AND CHEESE. Great idea! 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 were posted. Be sure to check out!
- 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:
On Thursday, we attended the PBIS assembly and got to see the teachers participate in a March Madness Basketball shootout competition. The kids in 1st-8th will have their own competition in a few weeks. Something to look forward to in 1st grade! 🙂
On Friday, Ms. Kendall took us on a tour of the St. Cletus food pantry. We had a chance to see where all our Lenten almsgiving donations are going. She spoke to us about how the food pantry works and thanked us for all the jelly and cereal/pancake mix we brought in.
Next Week: Report cards will go home next week and I’ll see you at conferences on Thursday!
Language Arts:
Fundations: We will continue 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:Next week will be a review week, no new words will be introduced. A copy of what our FINAL word wall will look like by the end of the school year was sent home on Friday!
- We will wrap up our Dr. Seuss unit and will begin Easter read alouds next week!
- Pocket chart: We will continue to sing our new leprechaun 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, 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 finish up modules 11-14. We will 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 PASTA/MAC AND CHEESE 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” and “The Good Shepherd”. Next week, we will read about some of the miracles Jesus performed including healing the blind, healing the paralyzed man and healing the sick.