October 28th- November 8th

October 28th- November 8th

RED RIBBON WEEK 

Wed: Mustache Day

Thursday: NO COSTUMES Wear Black/Orange and Halloween garb

Friday: Dress as a Saint and have 2 facts about your Saint!  

Kindergarten Funny:  

Me: Our next Magic Tree House book will be Adventures in the Amazon!

Student 1: What's the Amazon?

Student 2: It's that store that you buy stuff on your phone and it shows up at your house 2 days later......

Me:......Um No.  

REMINDERS: 

~ It is COLD outside and that nasty white stuff has fallen from the sky ALREADY......yuck.. (not a fan of winter weather...)
 Please send your child with a winter coat, hat and mittens.  If there is snow they will not be allowed to play on the blue chips or in the snow without snow pants, boots, coat, hat and mittens.  

~Cold and Flu season is here and I have been having a problem with students in my class bringing cough drops into the room without telling me or in their coat pockets or in their lockers.  This is very dangerous, especially if I am unaware that they have one in their mouth.  1st- Our school policy is to have ALL medication (there is medicine in cough drops) in the office.  2nd- Cough Drops are a chocking hazard and there are times throughout the day that would be very dangerous for a child to have a cough drop in their mouth (recess, gym, music, snack and lunch etc.)  To avoid this danger/hazard PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give your child's cough drops to Mrs. Shuh in the office and fill out the form for us to administer this medication!  I really appreciate this!

~The conference schedule was emailed out to you last week, I am still waiting for a few of you to sign up!  Please do that ASAP! Thank you!

~ Please make sure your child has a paint shirt in their locker.  We do tend to paint a lot through out the year and art is on Friday this year.  I would hate for them to get paint on their good church clothes! 

~Extra pair of clothes!  Please make sure your child has an extra pair of church appropriate clothes in their locker!  This helps for milk spills, accidents, going down the slide when it is wet, playing in the sink in the bathroom, not knowing how to drink out of a bubbler, and coming to school on a church day in clothes that are not in the guidelines for church!  THANK YOU!  

~Gym Shoes... If your child has tie shoes as their gym shoes, they should be able to tie them all by themselves.  Most of the time they will wear their shoes they already have on.  I normally only have them change if their shoes are dirty or wet.  Their everyday shoes should also be shoes they can get on and off as well as tie all by themselves!  

~Friday is Mass- they need to dress up for church.  No shorts, tshirts, no jeans and no words on their clothing.  Boys need a collared shirt.  If you do not want/ or your child does not want to wear their dressy church clothes all day, please send a change of clothes. They will change right after mass.  

Our 4 October Birthdays! I have been very busy this fall with all the birthdays!

Reading: We will be starting to meet in small reading groups this week.  We will be starting with learning some of the more frequent sight words that they will need to know! Some of these words include: the, a, is, in, it, was, as, of, I etc.  When you are reading with your child, pointing out these sight words will help!  Also a big help is asking questions after a story...

Who was this story about?
Where did this story take place?
What was the problem?
How did he/she solve this problem?
This will really help with their reading comprehension.

*New Information*

As you may have noticed, I am now sending home a black reading bag with your child every day!  This bag should contain a book, sight words and sometimes a worksheet that will need to be completed and returned by Friday of that week.  

They should be studying their sight words everyday, I will be testing them on Thursday or Friday and will give them new words at that time.  If they get all 5 words right, I will give them 5 new words, if they get 4 words right they get 4 new words and so on.  They will keep all the words they get right and their new words and should practice them ALL, not just the new words, as this will help reinforce their knowledge and ability to recognize these words when reading!  

They should also be reading their book to you each night as well.  It is OK if they need the pictures to help them with the words, it is OK if they have to sound out words.  These are both important strategies needed for reading.  

Please please please help your child with their reading and sight words, this help from you is crucial in their learning and will help them immensely.  

Had a blast at Xavier watching their production of Stone Soup!

Fundations / Spelling:We have finished all the lowercase letters.  At this time will be be talking about the difference between a sentence and a word, sentence structure and spaces between words.  This will most usually tie in with our writing unit and I will be connecting these 2 subjects for awhile!

Writing:We are working on labeling/sentence structure/sounding out words.  As well as all that is listed above in Fundations!

Math: We are finishing Unit 2 and will have a review/test around Nov. 4th.  This will review shapes, directions, sequential order, and adding/subtracting.

Religion: We will continue learning about mass and how that all works.  We are learning about God and Jesus everyday.  We will continue to work on the rosary throughout the year!  We are now working on Moses and will be learning about All Souls/All Saints Day!   

Social Studies/Science:  We will be learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin! We will then move into the Color wheel and learn about primary/secondary colors and how to mix them to make other colors!  This is one of my FAVORITE units!  

Group picture from the Little Farmer!

I have a ton of pictures from this field trip, so I will be sprinkling them in my blog posts for awhile!  That way it won't be 3 pages of pictures! 😂

As always, my door is always open, if you have any questions please feel free to ask!

Calendar/Important Dates:

October

31- Halloween- No costumes(wear black and orange)

November
1st-8:15am Mass (All Saints Day- Dress as a saint and bring 2 facts about them)
5th and 7th- Parent Teacher Conferences 3:15-6pm
8th-No School
15th-8:15am Mass
22nd-8:15am Mass
27th -WEDNESDAY 8:15am MASS 
          Early Release 11:30am
          NO AFTERCARE!
28th-NO SCHOOL Happy Thanksgiving!
29th-NO SCHOOL Happy Black Friday!

P.S.

Things Mrs. Lowe is looking for or would love for the classroom! If you find them at a rummage sale or find a good deal for these online, please let me know so I can get them or if you get them, I will pay you back!  Here are some things I am in search of!

~Burger King Stuffed Emoji toys.... they will come in handy when talking about emotions and feelings!

~Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and accessories
~Magic Tracks and cars that work with the tracks(batteries)
~Legos
~SkipBo Cards or the board game version!
~SpotIt Cards
~Cool Toys Monkey Balance
~Learning Resources Alphabet Island
~Smatch by Think Fun
~Books (ANY)
    ~Magic Tree House #22 (Revolutionary War on Wednesday)
    ~Ancient Adventures Bible Stories  (book and workbook)

October 14th- 25th

REMINDERS: 

~ Please make sure your child has a paint shirt in their locker.  We do tend to paint a lot through out the year and art is on Friday this year.  I would hate for them to get paint on their good church clothes! 

~Extra pair of clothes!  Please make sure your child has an extra pair of church appropriate clothes in their locker!  This helps for milk spills, accidents, going down the slide when it is wet, playing in the sink in the bathroom, not knowing how to drink out of a bubbler, and coming to school on a church day in clothes that are not in the guidelines for church!  THANK YOU!  

~Gym Shoes... If your child has tie shoes as their gym shoes, they should be able to tie them all by themselves.  Most of the time they will wear their shoes they already have on.  I normally only have them change if their shoes are dirty or wet.  Their everyday shoes should also be shoes they can get on and off as well as tie all by themselves!  

~Friday is Mass- they need to dress up for church.  No shorts, tshirts, no jeans and no words on their clothing.  Boys need a collared shirt.  If you do not want/ or your child does not want to wear their dressy church clothes all day, please send a change of clothes. They will change right after mass.  

We had a great time with the Center Fire Department on October 9th!

Here are some of our friends learning how to use a fire hose!

Reading: We will be starting to meet in small reading groups this week.  We will be starting with learning some of the more frequent sight words that they will need to know! Some of these words include: the, a, is, in, it, was, as, of, I etc.  When you are reading with your child, pointing out these sight words will help!  Also a big help is asking questions after a story...

Who was this story about?
Where did this story take place?
What was the problem?
How did he/she solve this problem?
This will really help with their reading comprehension.

*New Information*

As you may have noticed, I am now sending home a black reading bag with your child every day!  This bag should contain a book, sight words and sometimes a worksheet that will need to be completed and returned by Friday of that week.  

They should be studying their sight words everyday, I will be testing them on Thursday or Friday and will give them new words at that time.  If they get all 5 words right, I will give them 5 new words, if they get 4 words right they get 4 new words and so on.  They will keep all the words they get right and their new words and should practice them ALL, not just the new words, as this will help reinforce their knowledge and ability to recognize these words when reading!  

They should also be reading their book to you each night as well.  It is OK if they need the pictures to help them with the words, it is OK if they have to sound out words.  These are both important strategies needed for reading.  

Please please please help your child with their reading and sight words, this help from you is crucial in their learning and will help them immensely.  

Here are some of our other friends exploring the fire truck!  We are very lucky to have such a wonderful fire department looking out for us!

Fundations / Spelling:We are working on lower case letters and their sounds! We have started with b, f, t, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s, r, p, j, l, h, k, v.  We will be adding w, x, y and z in the next couple weeks. To help with this find ways to point out or search for letters, whether it be while driving or on a cereal box!  

Writing:We are working on labeling our drawings and sounding out each word!  What is a sentence and the punctuation that goes along with it. 

Math: We are working on following directions!  We have talked about circles, rectangles, and squares.  We have learned how to write numbers 1-8 and will be working our way up to 10! 

We are in the process of introducing strategies for adding and subtracting.  

Religion: We will continue learning about mass and how that all works.  We are learning about God and Jesus.  We will continue to work on the rosary throughout the year!  We are now working on Noah's Ark and will move to Moses and 

Social Studies/Science:  We will be learning about animals and their habitats! Next week we will be talking about the life cycle of a pumpkin! 

Here are a few pictures from pet blessing!  What a fun event, I had a blast meeting some of my students furry family members!

As always, my door is always open, if you have any questions
or concerns please don't hesitate to ask!  

Calendar/Important Dates:

October

18- 8:15am Mass

23- 8:15am Mass(Wednesday) K-5 got to Xavier to see a play

24- EARLY RELEASE 11:30am (NO AFTERCARE)

25- NO SCHOOL

31- Halloween- No costumes(wear black and orange)

P.S.

Things Mrs. Lowe is looking for or would love for the classroom! If you find them at a rummage sale or find a good deal for these online, please let me know so I can get them or if you get them, I will pay you back!  Here are some things I am in search of!

~Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head and accessories
~Magic Tracks and cars that work with the tracks(batteries)
~Legos
~SkipBo Cards or the board game version!
~SpotIt Cards
~Cool Toys Monkey Balance
~Learning Resources Alphabet Island
~Think Fun Smatch
~Books (ANY)
    ~Magic Tree House #22 (Revolutionary War on Wednesday)
    ~Ancient Adventures Bible Stories  (book and workbook)

October 1st-11th

REMINDERS: 

~Little Farmer field trip is tomorrow October 2nd.  Here are some things to remember.
 - Wear warm clothes- it should only be 55 degrees tomorrow!  Sweatshirts, long johns or leggings under their jeans, whatever it takes to keep them warm!

 - There is a chance of rain, thank God this percentage gets smaller by the hour, but please send a raincoat or poncho or even a clean garbage bag to keep them dry. 

 -NO UMBRELLAS ("You'll poke your eye out")

 - Also RAIN BOOTS or shoes you don't mind them getting dirty... it will be muddy and wet! 

 - They need a BAG LUNCH, one that they can dispose of afterwards.  So please don't send their lunch in their fun lunch bag or tupperwear containers etc.   NO SODA. 

 -Send along an old pillowcase for them to carry their pumpkin in!

Charlie celebrated her 6th birthday on September 23rd!

~Extra pair of clothes!  Please make sure your child has an extra pair of church appropriate clothes in their locker!  This helps for milk spills, accidents, going down the slide when it is wet, playing in the sink in the bathroom, not knowing how to drink out of a bubbler, and coming to school on a church day in clothes that are not in the guidelines for church!  THANK YOU!  

~Gym Shoes... If your child has tie shoes as their gym shoes, they should be able to tie them all by themselves.  Most of the time they will wear their shoes they already have on.  I normally only have them change if their shoes are dirty or wet.  Their everyday shoes should also be shoes they can get on and off as well as tie all by themselves!  

~Friday is Mass- they need to dress up for church.  No shorts, tshirts, no jeans and no words on their clothing.  Boys need a collared shirt.  If you do not want/ or your child does not want to wear their dressy church clothes all day, please send a change of clothes. They will change right after mass.  

Beautiful sunset from September 30th!

Reading: We will be starting to meet in small reading groups this week.  We will be starting with learning some of the more frequent sight words that they will need to know! Some of these words include: the, a, is, in, it, was, as, of, I etc.  When you are reading with your child, pointing out these sight words will help!  Also a big help is asking questions after a story...

Who was this story about?
Where did this story take place?
What was the problem?
How did he/she solve this problem?
This will really help with their reading comprehension.

We made Thank You cards for Veteran's participating in the Honor Flight!  They turned out GREAT!

Fundations / Spelling:We are working on lower case letters and their sounds! We have started with b, f, t, n, m, i, u, c, o, a, g, d, s, r, and p.  We will be adding j, l, h, k, v, w in the next couple weeks. To help with this find ways to point out or search for letters, whether it be while driving or on a cereal box!  

Writing:We are working on labeling our drawings and sounding out each word!  What is a sentence and the punctuation that goes along with it. 

Math: We are working on following directions and shapes!  We have talked about circles, rectangles, and squares.  We have learned how to write numbers 1-5 and will be working our way up to 10! We took our first math test and all did AWESOME!  

Religion: We will continue learning about mass and how that all works.  We are learning about God and Jesus.  We finished our unit on Creation and Adam and Eve!  We will be talking about Mary and learning about the rosary and the prayers that we say during it!  

Social Studies/Science:  We finished up our unit on the 5 senses and are moving on to our Seasons/Autumn Unit!  

As always, my door is always open, if you have any questions
or concerns please don't hesitate to ask!  

Calendar/Important Dates:

October
2- Field Trip to Little Farmer- see top section for information!
4- 8:15am Mass 2:15pm Pet Blessing
11- 8:15am Mass
18- 8:15am Mass
23- 8:15am Mass(Wednesday) K-5 got to Xavier to see a play
24- EARLY RELEASE 11:30am (NO AFTERCARE)
25- NO SCHOOL
31- Halloween- No costumes(wear black and orange)