Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, September 23: We will attend 8am Mass.
- Tuesday, September 23: Please bring in a single portion of washed, cut, ready to serve fruit. Please see the religion section below for more info.
- Thursday, September 25: Grandfriend’s Mass at 1:15: We’d love to have a grandfriend for each child! See below! It’s such a special afternoon. Reach out with any questions!
What’s Due:
- Hot lunch orders: Order now!
- Boom cards: check your messages on SEESAW and work with your child! New boom cards will be uploaded later next week.
- Name writing: continue to turn in the name writing pages I sent home last week.
- Bulls game tickets: be sure to turn that Wednesday envelope flyer in for the free October 16 Bull’s preseason tickets.
- Grandriends day RSVP: MUST GET RSVP IN BY TODAY, 9/19. https://form.jotform.com/232478506197061
- 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
Next Week:
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/
Fundations reminders: We are ONLY working on LOWERCASE formation right now in Fundations. Each letter is introduced as “letter-keyword-sound”. Here is what that sounds like and how the students recite it each day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYhKyXCs7Ug
During Fundations, formation will be explicitly taught for each lower case letter using the following language: Sky line (top), plane line (dashed), “grass line” (under the plane line) and “worm line” (bottom).
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- Name writing: We will continue to practice name writing at school. Please continue to practice at home as well and turn those pages in. Please help your child: 1.) write with a pencil, 2.) write with 1 capital letter, the rest lowercase, 3.) use the Fundations lines.
- Journal writing: We will continue to work in our journals, drawing pictures and labeling pictures with one word. We will practice “writing the sounds we hear.” So for “pumpkin,” students may spell it, “pumkn,” and that’s okay! Correct spelling will come later, right now we want students to have plenty of practice writing the sounds they hear and gaining CONFIDENCE in those letter-sound relationships.
- Listening center: Fall stories will be out at the listening center!
- Write the room: We’ve started our “write the room” centers. Write the room is one of my favorite ways to practice skills in kindergarten. Kindergarten bodies are meant to MOVE, and “write the room” allows them to do just that! Students walk around the room with their clipboards and fill out their write the room forms. These forms may have students practice numbers, letters, words and eventually sentences. Next week, they will try continue to practice writing our labels, “the __”.
- Poetry journal: We’ve illustrated two songs in our poetry journals so far. Next week, we’ll have our first poetry journal “morning work” day. Students will use their flashlight pointers to practice singing the two songs we’ve learned so far. Again, our pocket chart/poetry journal songs help students with left to right tracking and help build their beginning reader confidence.
- High frequency words: I have introduced: the, I, we, go, yes, no. Next week, I will introduce: will, to; we will practice reading and writing these words during centers and calendar time.
Math:
We started our “into Math” workbooks this week. Work books are divided into “modules” (20 modules total) and we are currently about half way through module 1. Module one is all about representing numbers 0-5. In addition to this, we are working on:
- Number writing: All numbers, 1-9 have been introduced! The students are doing great! It’s absolutely okay for those backwards numbers to pop up every once in a while. Very developmental. No concerns. Just takes time and practice! 🙂 Here are our Number Poems so you can support your child at home!
- Ten frame practice: We are working on numbers 11-19. We talk about these numbers as “a group of ten with ___ ones left over.” At home, you can practice representing numbers on a ten frame. If your child is not confident with numbers 1-10, please stick with the single ten frame. If your child is confident with numbers 1-10, move on to the double ten frame and practice representing 11-20. TenFrameWorkmatsFREEBIE-1
- Tally Mark practice: In addition to ten frames, we also work a lot with TALLY MARKS in kindergarten because it helps students to recognize numbers as ‘tens’ and ‘ones.’ Next week, we will start to tally numbers greater than 15.
- Counting to 30. We will practice counting daily. At home, please practice counting to 30 (or beyond)! The goal by the end of kindergarten is to count to 100 (or beyond)! A great place to practice is in the car. You can try, “I’ll say 1, you say 2” and go back and forth as high as you can.
- Greater than/less than: Students will practice inserting < > = symbols in between two numbers. Students will then have to practice READING those number sentences, using the words ‘greater than,’ ‘less than,’ or ‘equal to.’
Religion:
- At our first PBIS assembly last week, students were informed teachers will now be handing out “cardinal dollars” when students are caught being respectful, responsible or compassionate. Students will hold on to these dollars and then will use them to “buy” a prize/treat at the PBIS store which opens up next month! We have seen so much respect, responsibility and compassion in our classroom. Mrs. Zontos and I need to go to the bank 😉 and get more cardinal dollars because we are running out and that’s a GREAT thing! We sure have some ROCKSTAR students!
- We will continue to attend 8am Tuesday Mass each Tuesday. Remember, doors open 5 minutes early, at 7:45.
- We will attend the Grandfriend’s mass on Thursday.
- Next week, we will wrap up, “I am special to my friends,” and begin our unit on BAPTISM. To wrap up our unit on “friends,” we will have a friendship fruit salad on Tuesday. I am asking students to bring in a container of their FAVORITE FRUIT, washed, cut up, ready to be served. This should NOT be enough to feed the whole class, just one small serving. Students will empty their fruit into one large bowl and we’ll have one colorful fruit salad, big enough for the whole class to enjoy together! I’ll send a reminder email on Monday.