Next Week:
- Tuesday, May 20: 8am Mass
- Tuesday, May 20: McTeacher night from 5-7 at the McDonald’s in Countryside. Get your Mcdonald’s happy meals served to you by a St. Cletus teacher! 🙂 Hope to see you there! 20% of all food sales and 100% of all pie sales will benefit our school.
- Friday, May 23: Early 2pm dismissal, NO aftercare
- Monday, May 26: No School, Memorial Day
Looking Ahead/Mark your calendars:
Tuesday, May 27: Kindergarten and 8th grade picnic. Please refer to the 8th grade picnic letter 2025 that was sent home.
Thursday, June 5: Kindergarten Celebration at 10am. ALL are welcome! Come watch the kindergartners celebrate the end of kindergarten on stage in the Parish Center. After the 10am performance, families are welcome to stay and enjoy some treats together and then students will be dismissed to you for the afternoon. Students will return the next day for the final all-school Mass at 9:30. Dismissal for the summer is at 11am.
Next Week:
Now that the Mother’s Day Tea event has passed, we have started to work on the Kindergarten Celebration songs! The kids are busy learning a few new songs and also practicing the many other songs we learned this school year. We can’t wait to present all of these to you at the Celebration on the 5th! Kindergarten rocks!
Language Arts:
- Fundations: I am so proud of all the kids have learned in FUNDATIONS this school year. Seeing them apply what they’ve learned to their reading and writing has been so fun to watch. We will continue to practice our Fundations phonics skills during reading and writing time.
- Reading group: We will continue with fluency passages and Superkids books. Keep watching for those book pouches to come home and keep practicing with your child!
- 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, FROM, DEAR, BE, YOUR, THIS, THEY, OR, FOR, CAN, NOT, ARE, HE, SHE, SAID,COME, SOME. I will introduce the final words next week: WHEN, WHAT
- Writing: Journaling continues! Students are writing in their final kindergarten journals. Their journals will be given to you at the end of the school year. We are also well into our “opinion writing unit.” The students love sharing their likes and dislikes. We know kinder students have lots of opinions, so it’s fun to see what they have to say! Next week, they’ll be deciding between “veterinarian or librarian” and “dog or cat”. They have to make a choice and then use the word “because” to explain why they made that choice.
Math: We are wrapping up our FINAL math workbook with a unit on measurement. We are learning to describe attributes of length, height and weight and also comparing length, height and weight of different objects.
Review:
- 2D shapes: circle, square, rhombus
- 3D shapes: Cylinder, cube, cone, sphere.
- Money: coin recognition and naming value of each—penny, nickel, dime and quarter.
- Counting to 100 by ones.
- Counting to 100 by tens (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100).
- Counting to 100 by 5s.
- Counting to 20 by 2s.
- Acting out and solving addition problems within 10.
- Acting out and solving subtraction problems within 10.
- Tallying, graphing and sorting.
Religion/Science:
- We will continue our “new life” unit, and boy oh boy, we are certainly seeing lots of new life in our classroom! Our bean and popcorn seeds are showing roots, root hairs and tiny shoots. Our caterpillars have been busy too with one in its chrysalis and 3 other in the “J” shape ready to be in their chrysalises too! We will observe and document all these changes in our seed and butterfly journals, just as real scientists do!