Amazing Monday!!!

Today we had a most marvelous Monday!!

In math, we are extending our learning with shapes and recognizing similarities and differences between them including rectangle, circle, square, and triangle.

Our new letter we are learning about this week is 'T' and our new password is "TENT!" 

In science, we are falling into deeper investigations with fall and sorting different colored and shaped leaves!  Today we did an interactive sort and then compared leaves with a partner, recording our observations!!

We also practiced the Rosary today as we will be participating in the Living Rosary tomorrow at 9:00a.m.

REMINDERS:

PLEASE SELL THOSE RAFFLE TICKETS!!!

Fall Festival is THIS COMING WEEKEND!

How-To Thursday!

Today we had a lot of learning that included How-To activities!  In math we discovered how to cover already made pattern block designs by manipulating pattern blocks, we demonstrated how to have quiet and peaceful bodies during prayer to listen to and talk with God, and we learned how to make hot homemade hot applesauce!! There was a lot of preparation, measuring tools, and steps to follow in the recipe in which we all worked together to learn how apples turn into applesauce!  We had a tremondous day!!

Reminders:

Tomorrow, Friday is a HALF DAY of school!! School dismisses at 12:00 noon and there will be lunch and ESD.

Tuesday we will have a Living Rosary in which we will all gather to say the Rosary at 9:00 a.m. Families are more than welcome to attend and students may bring a Rosary to school with them.

Friday, October 4th there will be the Blessing for Animals after Mass in which parents may bring their pets to the church to be blessed. ALL pets must be on a leash/contained and will go back home with the parent after the blessing. If your family does NOT have a pet, your child may bring in a stuffed animal small enough to fit inside their backpack which can be blessed.

SELL those raffle tickets to help our class when the party and to support Fall Festival!!!

We are still in need of candy, 2 liter bottles of soda, and toys for prizes for Fall Festival!!! PLEASE bring to the school office to help us out!!!

Oh, what a wonderful Wednesday!!

Today we extended our learning with rhymes, vowel/consonant work, the letter 'h' and our spelling words!  We also worked with math words "First, Second, Third, and Fourth."  We visited the church to practice how we have a quiet heart to be with Jesus and talk to Him through prayer wherein we actually heard Jesus speaking back to us!  In science, we all began as pips (or apple seeds) to find out how we grew into apples and did an apple sequencing activity!  We are acknowledging our new season of fall more and more every day as we observe all of the fallen leaves and acorns!

Reminders:

Wednesday folders come home today! Please return by tomorrow!

Tuesday we will have a Living Rosary in which we will all gather to say the Rosary at 9:00 a.m.  Families are more than welcome to attend and students may bring a Rosary to school with them.

Friday, October 4th there will be the Blessing for Animals after Mass in which parents may bring their pets to the church to be blessed.  ALL pets must be on a leash/contained and will go back home with the parent after the blessing.  If your family does NOT have a pet, your child may bring in a stuffed animal small enough to fit inside their backpack which can be blessed.

SELL those raffle tickets!!!!!!

Tuesday the 24th!

Today we extended our learning with the letter 'h,' a new spelling word: hog, adding and subtracting in math, dressing persons for specific seasons, and practiced having a quiet heart and prayer posture in religion!  We also had PE today!!

Reminders:

Friday is a HALF-DAY of school.  There will be lunch and ESD!

Hello Monday!

Important REMINDERS:

HOMEWORK is being sent home tonight for students to write their first and last names 3 times after tracing their names!!

PLEASE check your child's yellow folder daily!

SET will be held Wednesday at 6:30 in the Family Life Center!!

Sell those raffle tickets for Fall Festival!!

Friday is a half-day of school!! There will be lunch and ESD.


Today we began our work with the letter 'Hh'!

We continued discussing compound words and were each made into a compound word with a partner!

In religion, we are working on having QUIET bodies for God and prayerful postures.

In science this week, we will be discussing apples and the process of their life cycle and how scientists can use their senses and other tools to learn about them! We are also celebrating and working with the new season of fall!

In math, we are extending our work with AB patterns along with adding and subtracting!!

It's going to be a wonderful week!!

Rainy Friday!

We welcomed the much needed rain with a day full of learning centers and activities inside! We were able to have music today which we loved!  We worked in our literacy and math centers, practiced AB patterns in math, worked with brain building activities to practice "Staying Focused" through our SecondStep guidance program, listened to "Go Dog Go!" and built a stoplight using a rectangle graham cracker with red, yellow, and green gummy bears to identify green means go!  We also had Show-and-Share in which many friends had the opportunity to share their letter 'g' objects brought from home!! Today was the first day that many students got to choose from the Treasure Box for filling up their sticker graph according to their charted behavior for each day in school! 

Learning and loving is definitely present here in the kindergarten classroom at St. Luke's! 

Hope you each have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Thursday!!

Parents: If you have not signed and returned your child's progress report, PLEASE do so by TOMORROW, Friday September 20th!!!!

Today we had Rosetta Stone in the computer lab, finished our seasons book, read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and gave our own previously made mouse puppets their own cookie, took our first 'spelling test' using alphabet tiles and writing the letter for each sound given, worked in literacy centers, and worked on counting, sorting, and number sense to identify the number of counting bears given to each!

REMINDERS:
Tomorrow we have Mass, so please make sure your child is at school at 7:45 a.m.

Working Away Wednesday!

Today we extended our learning and review of the letters l, o, and g as we worked with blending sounds and spelling our first spelling word: 'log'

We worked more with rhyming words along with vowels and consonants as we learned to mark a short 'o' vowel followed by a consonant with a breve such as in our spelling word 'log.'

There is MATH HOMEWORK tonight!! Please view your child's yellow folder for the math activity!

We began the making of our Nature's Seasons booklet to make our fall and winter pages!

In religion, we recalled the story of creation and used our individual bibles as we read the story of Noah and the flood.

Our special class was art today!!

REMINDERS: IMPORTANT!!!!

PROGRESS REPORTS have been sent home today.  PLEASE review them, sign, and return to the school!!!  If you have any questions or concerns, please email me in regards.

WEDNESDAY BLUE FOLDERS are sent home today with A LOT of important information--PLEASE read and send back to school the appropriate papers!!

Today is Tuesday!

The clouds in the sky today made the children very anxious to know if it was going to rain or not today.  We kept being meteorologists and observing the weather to find out!

Today we had P.E., worked with the upper case 'G' and identifying beginning sounds of words for o, l, and g, learned about how the seasons affect the activities that people do and the clothes that people must wear, had an interactive storytelling of the story of creation and all that God made, made a hand to place around the world to show how we can take care of the world, and worked with determining the most/fewest amounts of pattern blocks through graphing!

Parents: PLEASE remember to send your child's yellow folder to school every day with their weekly behvaior sheet initialed--this helps your child learn responsibility for their belongings!

Marvelous Monday!!!

The Kindergarten class at St. Luke's definitely came to school today READY to learn and make SUPER chocies!!!

Today we worked on and will be continuing throughout the week:

Religion: About all of the wonderful things God made and the story of creation!

Math: Working with number cards and one-to-one correspondence!

Language: The letter 'G'! Also, discovering compound words!!

Science: The 4 seasons!!!

REMINDERS:

SELL those raffle tickets!!!

Happy Friday!!!

Just another amazing day in kindergarten at St. Luke's Elementary School!!!

We began our day by going to Mass and then we had music!

We worked more with the alphabet to identify and count each letter: vowel and consonant.

In math, we were mathematicians as we explored the shapes of circle and rectangle with crackers, along with going on a circle and rectangle hunt in our classroom to identify the shapes everywhere!

Before ending our day with centers, we enjoyed reviewing the letter 'o' as we made O's out of Cheerios and then made a big class 'O' vowel poster!

We read an octopus rhyme poem followed by listening to The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! to identify the placement of the 'o' in each word: beginning or middle.  We then enjoyed eating octopus hot dogs to celebrate our hard work with the letter 'o'!

 

 

We wrapped our day up with Show-and-Share in which we got to learn about 'o' objects brought in from our classmates!!

 

 

Today was filled with so many fun learning opportunities in which we worked together in partners and groups.  The concepts of sharing, helping friends, and being kind to others out of generosity and for the love of Jesus in everyone is beyond present in the classroom!

"I love school!" Thursday

Today we worked more with identifying the sounds and letter symbols for 'l' and 'o, 'identified vowels and consonants, and worked more with sentences!

We are working towards showing more reverence during Religion time through our actions such as genuflecting, marking our foreheads, lips, and hearts with a cross, and participating in actions for Psalm prayers.

We had Rosetta Stone today in the computer lab and visited the library to check out new library books!

Referring back to our potatoes we first predicted about the insides of the potatoes and then observed them making conclusions that they were different!  We discussed their similarities and differences and reviewed living and nonliving objects.  We did a 'Living and Nonliving' sort of objects.  We then worked with the word 'opposite' to discuss what it meant and to do in an activity in which we had to find a partner with the opposite object card as us and explan why it was the opposite! 

We enjoyed our centers time today as we are exploring more and more things to work and learn with alongside our friends!!


Reminders:

TONIGHT is PTP Meeting in the Parish Hall at 7:00p.m.

TOMORROW is Show-and-Share in which your child may bring an appropriate item that starts with 'o' to school to share with friends!

Day of the Week: Wednesday

We are really working on our days of the week to include what yesterday was, today is, and tomorrow will be!

Today was a wonderful day!  We went to Art class which we always love!!

We worked with sorting and graphing our counting bears and writing the number 2!

We worked more in our literacy centers with the letter 'o' and reviewing 'l.' 

We also worked with rhymes, vowels/consonants, and sentences!! LOTS of LEARNING!!!

In science, we are exploring living and nonliving things in which we observed two potatoes: 1 sweet potato and 1 red potato to discuss the properties of them, how they were living and grew, and then drew a scientific drawing using our sense of sight to really make our illustrations descriptive!!

We have been acknowledging feelings and treating others respectfully and kindly in an ongoing manner every day in every situation!

Reminders:

Safe Enironmnet training tonight at 7:00 p.m.

PTP Meeting tomorrow at 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 10th

What a super day!!! So many friends in kindergarten are making super learning choices all day long and I couldn't be more proud of them!!

Today we had P.E. which is a reminder to make sure your child's tennis shoes are at school!!

Reminders:

TONIGHT is Safe Environment Training at 6:00 p.m. and tomorrow, Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.

Please see the Homelink for our SecondStep program today as we have been practicing our listening rules, focusing attention, and following directions!!

Happy Monday!!

After reviewing the letter 'l', we began our learning and work with the letter 'o' as it makes the short vowel sound as in "octopus" which is our new password!

In science, we are discussing the similarities and differences between living and nonliving things!

This week our religion focuses on stories and the Bible being a book that holds the holiest stories related to God and all that he created and Jesus' teachings.

In math, we are extending our practice with numbers as we are writing more and manipulating with pattern block designs, counting bears, and linking cubes to practice one-to-one correspondence and sorting!

REMINDERS:
Tomorrow we have P.E., please make sure your child's tennis shoes are at school!!

Safe Environment training is Tuesday at 6:00pm and Wednesday at 7:00pm

SELL THOSE FALL FESTIVAL RAFFLE TICKETS!!

Happy Grandparents Day!!!

Happy Grandparents Day to all of the grandparents!!! I hope each of you experiences love and peace on this special day to recognize how significant you are in the lives of your grandchildren!

Fabulous Friday!!

Today was a terrific day!! We started by going to Mass followed by celebrating Mary's birthday with cupcakes in the cafeteria!

We had music today in which we worked with triangle instruments!!

In math we worked on making designs with pattern blocks, worked more with the letter 'L' in our literacy centers, and worked with a poem, 'Lily Lee' in which we identified 'l's and then enjoyed frozen lemonade lollipops!!

To top off the day, we had our first successful Show-and-Share in which we each got a turn to share what we brought in, why we brought it, and then answer two questions from our friends! It was a great learning experience!!

Reminders:

All School Mass this Sunday at 11:00a.m.

Safe Environment training next Tuesday the 10th at 6:00p.m. and next Wednesday the 11th at 7:00p.m.


Have a most wonderful restful weekend!!!

Thursday!

Today we had a terrific day! We began our day by going to the computer lab for Rosetta Stone!  We worked more with our counting bears and pattern blocks: counting with one-to-one correspondence to 10 and writing the number 1 with pencils as best as we could! In religion, we discussed the importance of Jesus' name and how it is holy, which is why we do certain things such as genuflecting in the church which we practiced! We visited the library and checked out new library books which was very exciting! The search for 'L' words in the new library books began right away :)

We we were great letter 'L' makers as we worked in our literacy centers making 'l's with different manipulatives!

We reviewed our five senses and how they help us learn.  We made a five senses man to remind us of how we learn: Eyes to see, bells used for ears to hear, cinnamon for a nose that smells, tootsie roll for a tasting mouth, and sand paper arms for our touching hands!

We were also wonderful scientists as we learned with our five senses using apples! We began by making a Venn Diagram to first think of how we could use our senses to work with apples and what we already knew about red and green apples.  We then proceeded to investigate red, green, and yellow apples with all of our senses. One comment in the process of the activities was, "Wow! We really can use all 5 senses with apples!"  We made a graph to determine our favorite color of apple as the last sense we used was tasting the red, green, and yellow apples!

 

In SecondStep Guidance program, we reviewed our rules and how we demonstrate them as we introduced a new puppet: Snail! Puppy and Snail visited our classroom in which we had to use our "attentoscopes" and listening ears and bodies to participate in a "Follow Follow" game in which we only followed Snail's directions as Puppy tried to trick us!  There were defined proud moments of focused attention and great listening skills among the students!

 

It was a great day in kindergarten!

 

REMINDERS:

Tomorrow we have MASS so PLEASE make sure your child is ready and has used the restroom before being in the classroom at 7:45a.m.

 

Safe Environment Training is TONIGHT at 6:00p.m.

 

We will celebrate Mary's Birthday tomorrow directly after mass in the cafeteria!

 

SELL those raffle tickets!!

Please send back Blue Wednesday Folders the following day and all papers that are meant to be sent back!

 

All School Mass at 11:00a.m. Sunday and Food Sale is this weekend!!

Lots of learning Wednesday!!

Today was FULL of learning to include: working with positional and directional words (i.e. beside, inside, outside, next to, under, over, on top, behind, in front, etc.), working more with the alphabet and the letter 'Ll' as we went on a looking hunt in our classroom for 'l' words, writing upper case 'L' and using our alphabet strips to count the letters in the alphabet while acknowledging vowels and consonants, identifying and learning about the five senses, discussing what we must take care of and how with our Clifford Big World packet, and so much more!!

We also had ART today!

REMINDERS:

Blue Wednesday Folders come home today so PLEASE read over all information and return appropriate papers!!

Please send PE tennis shoes to school if you have not already done so!

A note is going home today about our Show-and-Share times that will begin this Friday in which they are related to the letters that we are learning! This week your child may bring in an item that begins with the letter 'l' (food labels are great for the harder to find letter items)!

Safe Environment Training will be held tomorrow, Thursday the 5th at 6:00p.m.

PLEASE READ to your child every night and view the at home activities sent home related to religion and math as they are very important to extend your child's learning!!

Today is Tuesday!

Today we had P.E. which is another reminder that if you have not sent in gym tennis shoes for your child, PLEASE do so as soon as possible!!!

REMINDER: The next Safe Environment Training is Thursday, September 5th at 6:00 p.m.

In our classroom today, we began learning about the letter 'Ll' and started use of our Password, which some children had remembered from last Friday when we chose the word 'Lion' together!!

We discussed Labor Day as a holiday and acknowledged community helpers and workers! 

We learned how to skywrite our last number: zero!!

In religion this week we are discussing the importance of names and Jesus' name!

Always remember: Reading to your child every day is one of the MOST IMPORTANT things you can do!!