Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, October 28: 8am Mass
- Friday, October 31: Halloween: Classroom party in the morning and Trunk or treat is at 1:45; click the link for more info: Halloween Guidelines for Kindergarten
Next week is RED RIBBON WEEK. Click Red Ribbon Week Flyer (or see below) to see the schedule for the week as decided on by our student council! We will focus on ways to keep our bodies and brains HEALTHY! In kindergarten, that means exercise, eating well and getting enough rest.
Monday – Let’s solve This! Breast Cancer Awareness PINK Dress Down Day for $1 to help work toward solving this disease!
Tuesday – Regular uniform day. Crazy Sock Day! Buddies and puzzles or games! Bring a canned/boxed food item(chili, cereal, soup, flavored Rice packets) !
Wednesday – It’s Puzzling! Decades Day – dress from your favorite decade – 80’s, 70’s, 60’s, 50’s???! Create a puzzle collage as a class.
Thursday – It’s a Mystery – Let’s Solve It! Hawaiian shirts and shorts/ comfy clothes day !
Friday – We Are Drug Free! Dress in your Halloween Costume – follow the costume guidelines. Parties and Parade!
Looking even further ahead: 🙂
- Christmas: I want to make sure our busy families mark FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH on their calendars. This will be the kindergarten Christmas Mass and song performance. We will be partnering with our 8th grade buddies to be in charge of the different Mass parts, and then after Mass, the kindergartners will stand on the altar and share their Christmas song presentation with you. The Mass will begin at 9:30 and will end with the song presentation close to 11:00. Keep in mind, this is a 2pm early dismissal day.
What’s Due:
- 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 have been added to SEESAW. Please check those out. Reach out with ANY issues you may have getting into SEESAW.
Next Week:
Next week is red ribbon week and of course, HALLOWEEN! It will be a busy week. Reach out with any questions regarding Halloween after referring to the note posted above!
Language Arts:
- Fundations: So far, I’ve introduced:
t, top, /t/
b, bat, /b/
f, fun, /f/
n, nut, /n/
m, man, /m/,
i, itch, /i/
u, up, /u/
c, cat, /c/
o, octopus, /o/
a, apple /a/
g, game, /g/
d, dog, /d/
s, snake, /s/
e, Ed, /e/
r, rat, /r/
p, pan, /p/
j, jug, /j/
Next week, I’ll introduce: l, lamp, /l/
- Journal writing: Journal writing continues with I see and I like sentences. We will also write Halloween words at the writing center for word work.
- Listening center: last week of Halloween stories at the listening center!
- Poetry journal: We will illustrate our final Halloween song in our poetry journals next week: “The Ghost goes BOO!”
- High frequency words: I have introduced: the, I, we, go, yes, no, will, to, see, like, is, a, my. Next week, I will introduce: DO, HAVE
- Decodable books: We will read a new decodable book during reading group next week. Students are working on left to right tracking, quickly reading word wall words and tapping out CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words.
- Read alouds: We are currently working on identifying story elements, retelling stories (beginning, middle and end) and comparing and contrasting stories. Story elements are the characters, setting, problem and solution. When reading fiction stories, the students help me fill out a chart with those 4 different story elements. Characters are defined as people, animals or things in story. The setting is where and when the story takes place. The problem is what is wrong in the story. The solution is how the characters solve the problem. At home, when reading with your child, please ask about the characters, setting, problem and solution in stories. Next week, we will be reading 3 different stories–The Little Red Hen, The Little Red Hen Makes Pizza and the Little Green which. We will focus on story elements, retelling or sequencing the stories and will compare and contrast these 3 very similar stories.
Math:
We are halfway done with modules 7-9 (we will go back to modules 4-6 right after) which is all about representing numbers 6-10.
- Teen numbers: We are practicing reading and writing our tricky teen numbers. Students will tackle another Halloween “count the room” clipboard activity next week.
- Counting to 50. We will now practice counting to 60. At home, please practice counting to 60 (or beyond)! The goal by the end of kindergarten is to count to 100 (or beyond)!
- Greater than/less than: we will continue to practice comparing numbers within 20.
- One more/one less: students will practice naming “1 more” and “1 less” for numbers within 10.
- Graphing: We will continue graphing next week including “Are bats creepy or cool?” and also a candy corn graph. Besides graphing the results, students will analyze the graphs and answer questions like, “how many ___?” “How many more ___ compared to ___” “how many ___ and ___ altogether?” etc.
- Counting order: students will practice putting a group of numbers in “counting order,” with a set of numbers not including “1”.
Religion
- We will continue to attend 8am Mass each Tuesday. Remember, doors open 5 minutes early, at 7:45.
- The next several weeks during religion time are all about how God is with us no matter what we’re feeling–happy, scared, sad, angry. This past week, we focused on “happy” and “sad.” We read one of our “Peter stories” from the religion series and discussed how God cares how we feel and asks us to care how others feel too! Next week, just in time for Halloween, we will focus on the feeling of being “scared”.