Happy Halloween!

There is definitely Halloween excitement in the air today!!

After reading a festive book, we did a writing prompt to write and illustrate what costume each of us was going to be!

We are working with our digital and analog clocks to identify different times!

We also worked with our word parts, syllables, to identify how many syllables are in words by clapping for each syllable.

In religion today, we learned more about the saints and the celebrations of All Saints Day and All Souls day that will take place tomorrow!!

In social studies, we learned more from Ty the Turtle about maps and rooms within a building, such as our school!

In science, we expanded our learning of the phases of the moon as we worked with Oreos as a group to make the different phases to include new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, and full!

REMINDERS:

TONIGHT is the Halloween Festival from 5:30-7:30!!! Come out to enjoy fun games, candy, and Halloween fun!! Hope to see you there!

TOMORROW we have Mass and due to it being a Holy Day of Obligation, we will arrive at Mass early so we will leave our classroom promptly at 7:50 a.m.  Please make sure your child is at school and has used the restroom by 7:45a.m.

TOMORROW is All Saints Day in which your child may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!! Your child will wear their Saint's costume OVER THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM as we will be taking the costume dress off after Mass.

PLEASE send back to school the signed permission sheets for the video taping of students learning for the outreach Spanish teachers' lesson!!!

Please make sure you have texted or emailed for the Remind101!!!
Text: 469-518-3975 the message: @stlukeca
Email: Send an email to: stlukeca@mail.remind101.com

Hard Working Wednesday!

As we have been learning about and identifying the differences in day and night, along with the time of day, the weather and dark mornings have created ongoing discussions as we try to better understand what time of day it is and how to differentiate between day and night when observing the weather patterns.

In math today we worked with ordinal positions as we are using the words: first, second, third, fourth.

We have been discussing saints and the saints we are dressing up as to celebrate All Saints Day on Friday! Today we talked about how saints lived and the Golden Rule!

In science, we are working with the different phases of the moon, identifying what a new, full, crescent, and quarter moon look like.

In social studies, as we have been acknowledging the differences in our families and homes, we started work on a foldable to make a demonstration of our own home.

Today we had the special opportunity to view a play/skit put on by Jesuit high schoolers regarding acceptance and standing up for oneself!

Tonight your child has 'Nn' handwriting homework!

Reading with your child every night should be logged on the reading logs!! Remember: Reading with your child is one of the most precious gifts you can give them!

REMINDERS:
PLEASE send back to school the signed permission sheets for the video taping of students learning for the outreach Spanish teachers' lesson!!!

SCHOLASTIC ORDERS are due tomorrow!!! It is very easy to place orders online!

Please make sure you have texted or emailed for the Remind101!!!
Text: 469-518-3975 the message: @stlukeca
Email: Send an email to: stlukeca@mail.remind101.com

Halloween Festival is Thursday, October 31st from 5:30-7:30p.m. It's a great time to dress up and bring the kids for safe and fun family games and treats to celebrate Halloween!

Please remember to talk with your child about All Saints Day on November 1st, THIS FRIDAY, in which they may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!! Your child will wear their Saint's costume OVER THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM as we will be taking the costume dress off after Mass.

Along with All Saints Day, we will be celebrating All Souls Day on FRIDAY in which your child may bring in a picture of a person who has passed with which we would remember specially for All Souls Day. Please put your child's name on the back of the picture.

Windy Tuesday!

Today we began work with telling time using digital and analog clocks, focused on the formation of writing the uppercase 'n' and new words that we can make using the letters we've investiagated thus far,  introduced Ty the Turtle to our kindergarten class as he joined us to help us learn in Social Studies to use maps to discuss the different places we can go and visit within our community, and learned about specific saints as we prepare to celebrate All Saints Day!!

Our hard work and efforts in trying to grow a pumpkin have paid off as we observed a sprout growing today!!! We have been observing our pumpkin ever since we planted it and have been watering it, waiting for a sprout to pop up and it finally did!!  We are now anxious to see if a pumpkin vine and blossom will form!

Tonight your child has their first and last name handwriting homework!! Please discuss with them which name is their first and last name, along with acknowledging uppercase and lowercase letters and their formation on the handwriting papers.


Reading with your child every night should be logged on the reading logs!!  Remember: Reading with your child is one of the most precious gifts you can give them!

REMINDERS:

Please make sure you have texted or emailed for the Remind101!!!
Text: 469-518-3975 the message: @stlukeca
Email: Send an email to: stlukeca@mail.remind101.com

Halloween Festival is Thursday, October 31st from 5:30-7:30p.m. It's a great time to dress up and bring the kids for safe and fun family games and treats to celebrate Halloween!

Please remember to talk with your child about All Saints Day on November 1st, THIS FRIDAY, in which they may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!! Your child will wear their Saint's costume OVER THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM as we will be taking the costume dress off after Mass.

Along with All Saints Day, we will be celebrating All Souls Day on FRIDAY in which your child may bring in a picture of a person who has passed with which we would remember specially for All Souls Day. Please put your child's name on the back of the picture.

Back to school we go!

I hope each of you had an enjoyable and restful long weekend with moments to create special memories!

The kindergartners showed much concern for my hoarse voice today and had to have extra good listening ears to be able to hear and follow directions!!  

We learned the sound and sign language for our new letter 'n,'   and worked on our handwriting formation for the lower case 'n.'  We have been reviewing our previously investigated letters and today we worked on identifying where the 't' sound was heard in words (beginning, middle, or end).  We also worked with new words to include the word 'n' such as nap, pan, and ant!

Tonight, your child has a Reading Practice sheet for homework that includes reading the words we have been working with and sight words.

Today in math we worked with our pennies and penny pockets!!  There is an at home activity that you can keep and use at home with your child to reinforce our penny work!

In religion, we recalled God as our Father and each other as brothers and sisters within our church family.  We discussed the significance of the prayer "Our Father" and practiced praying it together!

In science we are investigating even more into the differences in day and night as we learned about stars and their characteristics!

PLEASE take note of important papers in your child's folder to read over carefully regarding health and wellness!!


Reading with your child every night should be logged on the reading logs!!

REMINDERS:

Halloween Festival is Thursday, October 31st from 5:30-7:30p.m.  It's a great time to dress up and bring the kids for safe and fun family games and treats to celebrate Halloween!

Please remember to talk with your child about All Saints Day on November 1st, THIS FRIDAY, in which they may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!! Your child will wear their Saint's costume OVER THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM as we will be taking the costume dress off after Mass.

Along with All Saints Day, we will be celebrating All Souls Day on FRIDAY in which your child may bring in a picture of a person who has passed with which we would remember specially for All Souls Day. Please put your child's name on the back of the picture.

Busy day!

Today we had a very busy day as we had our school pictures, visited the library to get new books, did matrix work in math, worked with new words for our Word Worm to include tag, gap, hat, lap, and pal, discovered new sight words to include the, a, and at, practiced being nocturnal animals such as bats to sort pictures into day and night on our NOW UP AND RUNNING SMARTBOARD, learned about animals in Spanish, and had Art!! We also got to celebrate how hard work during testing last week with popcorn from Mrs. Carruth!!! THANK YOU Mrs. Carruth for helping us celebrate doing a great job on our testing!

Parents: There are A LOT of germs going around and sickness (stomach, fever, cough, and even strep) is spreading fast.  We are doing our best to clean our room and our hands as often as possible, but germs are inevitably everywhere.  Please be aware of your child's health and how they are feeling so that we can do all that we can to avoid the germs and stay healthy!

REMINDERS:

TOMORROW, Thursday, is Parent Teacher Conferences!! Please be on time as the appointments are limited in their time!!

There is NO school Thursday and Friday this week! Have a restful, wonderful long weekend!

Please remember to talk with your child about All Saints Day on November 1st in which they may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!! Your child will wear their Saint's costume OVER THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM as we will be taking the costume dress off after Mass.

Along with All Saints Day, we will be celebrating All Souls Day in which your child may bring in a picture of a person who has passed with which we would remember specially for All Souls Day. Please put your child's name on the back of the picture.

Terrific Tuesday!

Today was very busy day working with the vowel 'a,'  pennies and number cards, identifying, drawing, and measuring our body parts to discuss their functions and how we've grown since we were babies, going to P.E., demonstrating caring and loving acts as a family does just as the Holy Family did, and working in our math and literacy centers!!

Your child has 'Aa' handwriting homework tonight!!

Also, please be filling out your reading log each night!

REMINDERS:
TOMORROW: Is picture day!!! Your child may be out of uniform and dressed for pictures, but they must be wearing tennis shoes!!!

Thursday is Parent Teacher Conferences and the reminder note regarding your scheduled time was sent home today!!

There is NO school Thursday and Friday this week!

Please remember to talk with your child about All Saints Day on November 1st in which they may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!!  Your child will wear their Saint's costume OVER THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORM as we will be taking the costume dress off after Mass.

Along with All Saints Day, we will be celebrating All Souls Day in which your child may bring in a picture of a person who has passed with which we would remember specially for All Souls Day.  Please put your child's name on the back of the picture.

Routine Monday!!

We are back to our normal routine in Kindergarten this week and we were all very glad to have our visual schedule back!

We were very excited that we are learning about another vowel, 'a,' with our password being 'apple!'

In math, we are beginning our work with coins as we started working with pennies today!! Please note your child's math paper and do the activity at the bottom of the page!!

In science, we are comparing and contrasting day and night!

In religion this week, we are learning how we are part of our families and our church family with the Holy family as our role model to love and care for one another!

Your child received a new reading log today, please make sure you are reading with your child for at least 15 minutes each night and logging their activity!

REMINDERS:

Parent Teacher Conferences are this THURSDAY, October 24th!! PLEASE take note of your scheduled time!!

There is NO school Thursday and Friday this week for the students!

Please remember to talk with your child about All Saints Day on November 1st in which they may dress up for Mass as the Saint they are named after or a Saint that is special and significant to you and your family!!