Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Sunday, September 29: Family Mass at St. Cletus, 10:30
- Tuesday, October 1: 8am Mass, doors open at 7:45
- Thursday, October 3: PICTURE DAY! You all received your order forms last week! Students should still wear gym shoes on this day.
What’s Due?
- Seesaw: NEW BOOM CARDS ARE POSTED! Be sure to log in and check your “MESSAGES”. This is where I send the “boom cards.” Please reach out if you need help logging in! I will send updated cards next week (every 2 weeks is when I update them).
- Field trip permission slips: Please turn these in along with the $15 by October 10! We will be going to the La Grange Farmer’s Market. First come, first serve for the chaperones and remember all volunteers must be virtus trained. Click the following link to see what that entails: https://stcletusschool.com/volunteering/
- RSVP by October 7 for the little cardinals event: FSA is sponsoring an Apple cider and popcorn event for early childhood students on October 11 immediately after the 2pm (early) dismissal in the courtyard. How fun!! RSVP here: https://form.jotform.com/242615420670147
This Week:
Thank you for sending in your child’s baptism memento and also for talking to your child about his/her special day. All the kids enjoyed sharing what they learned from YOU about their baptisms with the rest of the class! 🙂
Next Week:
Language Arts: In Fundations I have introduced:
- T, top, /t/,
- B , bat, /b/
- F, fun, /f/
- M, man, /m/
- N, nut, /n/
- i, itch, /i/
- u, up, /u/
Next week, I will introduce c, cat, /c/ and o, octopus, /o/
Remember, letters are practiced in the following formation: letter name (i), keyword/picture (itch), sound (/i/). See this video so you fully understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwcWjH9cumc
At home:
High Frequency words: I have introduced: NO, GO, THE, YES, WE, TO, WILL; Next week, I will introduce DO. We are learning how to read and spell these words. AT HOME: Please keep the word wall I sent home last week in a safe place. These are words I want the children to be able to spell and read. At night time, ask your child to point out some of these words in the books you’re reading!
Write the Room: we will continue to “write the room” during centers. Students are understanding that letters make up words and words make up sentences! It’s also extra practice for our word wall words I, SEE, THE and also a good chance to practice writing letters.
Name writing: Don’t forget to keep practicing at home using the name writing packet that I sent a couple of weeks ago!
Shared writing: We will continue shared writing. Students follow along as we fill in in missing words or letters on chart paper to create a story about each child following this format: My name is___, I am __ years old, I like ___, I do not like ____.
Math: We will begin our second math workbook, modules 4-6! We will be working on:
- Classifying, counting and sorting.
- We will start adding and taking away within 5.
In addition to this, we will continue to practice:
- Tally marks: We are representing numbers using tally marks for 1-20 and some are working on numbers beyond 20! This skills really helps students see numbers as “tens” and “ones”. At home: using any writing utensil (pencil, marker, chalk, dry erase marker), give your child a number from 1-20 and ask your child to show you tally marks for that number.
- Number formation: All numbers have been introduced (1-9), we will now review the formation for all numbers. Again, explicit letter and number formation practice is SO important and REALLY helps as we get deeper into our math, reading and writing skills. At home: Click HERE for number poems (scroll down to page 34)
- Counting: we will now be counting by 1s up to 30.
- We have started to use the >,<, = signs to compare numbers. Next week, students will complete a dice roll center where they have to write the numbers and insert the correct symbols. The hard part is being able to go back and READ IT correctly: “7 is less than 9” or “5 is equal to 5” etc.
- Representing numbers 1-20 on a ten or double ten frame. We are now focusing on TEEN NUMBERS as well as “one more” and “one less.” Using a ten frame helps with subitizing (recognizing numbers automatically) and also seeing numbers as “tens” and “ones”.
Religion: We will begin our unit on CREATION; we will learn a new pocket chart song and will illustrate this song in our poetry journals. God put us here on this earth to take care of all of His creation! Let’s make sure we do just that!