Kindergarten Update

Dear Parents, January 27,2022

We look forward to celebrating  Catholic Schools Week next week with you.

 Below is the schedule:

Sunday, Jan. 30th- Celebrate Catholic Education

• Family Mass at 9AM
• Virtual Open House ( on school website)

Monday, Jan. 31st- Celebrate Belonging

• Cub Scouts perform Flag Ceremony , Morning Assembly ( Big School) 
• Local Musician Jesse Manibusan will perform two concerts in the church for the older classes 

Tuesday, February 1st- Celebrate Students- Student Appreciation

• Student Free Dress
• Lawrence Hall of Science Hands on Exhibit- 9-10 AM for Grades TK-2 

Wednesday, February 2nd- Celebrate Families

• “SPN Family Culture Day”- Each grade will share their projects-Kindergarten shares “My Family and Me” books

Thursday, February 3rd- Celebrate Academic Excellence- Virtual Oratorical Fest

• Recording of fest readers  at 10 AM- Recorded version will be available to families and school by 1PM

Friday, February 4th- Celebrate Teachers

• Teacher Appreciation; noon dismissal

The month of February finds us very busy with Valentine’s Day, Presidents’ Holiday, 100th Day of School, Black History Month  and Lunar New Year. Our room mothers will be contacting parents to assist with donations for the celebrations.Thanks for your help.

Here is what we have planned for February:

Black History Month:  Weekly Literature Circles, Interactive Notebook Entries, Seesaw Projects

Lunar New Year:  In class activities and performance with Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Shindler and Mrs. Spaudie on 2/11, Literature Circles and Interactive Notebook Entries

100th Day of School:  Students are to bring 100 items to school on or before February 11th.  These should be non-edible items that fit in a zip-top sandwich size bag (eg:  legos, paper clips, mini erasers).  They will be used for a project in class and will be returned.  We will have a day full of math centered activities around the number 100!  

Valentine’s Day:  Students will celebrate with a themed snack and distribution of Valentines.  Please send your child a Valentine to pass out to their classmates.  Please have them only sign their name and not personalize them for each classmate.  There are 27 students in our class.  It is a free dress day-pink, red and white colors!

The students selected to represent Kindergarten this year at our Oratorical Fest are Samantha  Fayngersh, Annamarie Patterson, Maverick Schindler and Lorenzo Fowler. Only four students may be chosen per class but we told the students that if they weren’t selected this year, they could be chosen next year!  All of the students were well prepared and the class really enjoyed it!

Our SuperKid next week is Jack. Thank you to Emily L. for sharing her things.

Just a quick note about Choice Lunches- we are noticing that some students are not eating most of their lunch and are throwing it away. Please speak with your child that they should be eating at least half of their lunch and that you are choosing foods that they like. We don’t like to see the amount of food that is being wasted. Thanks for your support. 

What’s Happening in the Classroom?

ELA/ Language Arts, SuperKids Club, Writing- Unit 17-Identify upper and lower case Mm, encode words, identify title of a story, track print ,read memory words “of”, “no” “I”,use prior knowledge, answer questions about a story, generate questions about a story,determine important ideas, understand synonyms and antonyms, follow oral directions, recall details,form Mm and exclamation marks, use correct spacing and punctuation,writing a sentence about a drawing

Math.-  Bridges- Building a Number Rack

             February Calendar

             Interactive Notebook- Compose and decompose numbers to 10

             (We are adding in Happy Numbers to our Math lessons on the IPADS in class.)

Social Studies- – Students will share their Family History reports with their classmates.

Religion- Meditation

               Finish Student Learning Expectation Journal- Respectful,Responsible, Reverent, Life 

               Long Learner      

Looking Ahead    

January 30 -February 4th- Catholic Schools Week 

        See schedule above

Thursday, February 3rd- Oratorical Fest recording sent out

Friday, February 4th- Minimum Day- 12 Noon Dismissal

Friday, February 11th- Kindergarten’s 100th Day

                                       Lunar New Year Celebration

 Thanks for all the work you do for our school. We are fortunate to have parents as our partners in educating children. You make a difference.

Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Halkias