Kindergarten Update
Dear Parents, January 10,2020
Happy New Year and welcome back! There is a lot happening this month as we prepare for Catholic Schools Week which occurs at the end of January. It is a special time for Catholic Schools where we celebrate our students, community, cultures, academics, faculty and staff. Details and more information for this special week will be provided on the St. Philip Neri website. As we begin this new year, please remember to make sure your child has enough sleep and to adhere to routines. Children do better with structure; reinforce rules when necessary. This helps us in the classroom.
We will begin our year by adding a “Guesstimation Jar” to our curriculum. One student per week will take home a large jar which they will fill with “like” items. They will return it to school and the students will “guesstimate” how many items are in the jar! No prizes will be given but it will be fun to see how close the students can guess. We will begin next week.
Our Super Kid this week is Franco.
Rose will go home with Mazee.
What’s Happening in Class?
ELA/ Language Arts/ Superkids- Introduce Superkid Etta betta, recognize that words are made up of letters, Identify Uppercase and Lowercase E, associate pictures with inital sounds, encode letters with initial sounds, identify and associate medial e, blend to decode words,follow oral directions, identify the title of a story, track from left to wight, top to bottom, visually discriminate between words
Math.– Count up to 20 objects, represent addition with fingers, decompose numbers less tahn or equal to ten into pairs in more than one way, count backward from any number in the range of 10 to 1, represent subtraction with objects, solve subtraction story problems,look and make use of structure
Science-– Assessment on Living and Non Living
Social Studies- Study about Martin Luther King Jr.
Religion- Jesus Teaches us to Pray
Looking Ahead
Monday, January 13th- Free Dress for January birthdays
Friday, January 17th- No School – Teacher Inservice Day
Monday, January 20th- No School- Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Thursday, January 23rd. January Homework due- Please note earlier date this month due to Catholic Schools Week.
Friday, January 24th– Book Orders Due
Sunday, January 26th- Friday, January 31st- Catholic Schools Week
Sunday January 26th -Catholic School Week Mass- 9:00 AM, Open House
Monday, January 27th- Celebrate Community, Vocations
Tuesday, January 28th-Celebrate the Nation- Multi-Cultural Day- More info to follow
Wednesday, January 29th- Celebrate Students- Free Dress- All school Assembly-
Thursday, January 30th- Celebrate Academic Excellence-Oratorical Fest-1:00 PM
Friday, January 31st- Celebrate Faculty, Staff and Volunteers- Teacher Appreciation
Notes to Parents from your Children:
Be Consistent.
I might lose faith in you if you change your mind midstream.
Give me your best answers.
If you can take the time, I will accept what you tell me even if my questions do not come at the right time.
Let me know that it’s okay to be afraid.
Help me to understand and win over my fears so that I have none.
Wishing a blessed new year for all and again thanking you for your generosity during the holiday season.
Sincerely, Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Halkias