Friday

Students will be able to wear blue/black jeans with a red or pink top on Friday, February, 12. 

We will also have a small Valentine’s day celebration at the end of the day.

KinderNews 2.8.10

Valentine’s Day project: We will be making a Valentine bag to place the Valentine gifts/cards we receive on Friday. I will need each student to bring in a medium size shopping bag (preferably as monotone as possible). The Bloomingdale’s medium bag is a good size. Here’s a link to the project we will be making to give you a better idea.

Valentine craft (episode 21)

Candy grams: The student council will be selling Valentine candy grams during recess this week.  Each gram cost $0.25 and can be sent to anyone in the school.  This is similar to the Halloween candy grams.  Suggestion:attach a list of names with the money.

Friday: Friday will be spirit dress and ice cream will be available for $1.00.

Valentine’s Day: On Friday, February 12^th we are celebrating Valentine’s Day. Students are welcome to bring cards for a card exchange. I have included a list of names below. You can purchase cards or be creative and make your own. There are 23 students in the class, 13 boys and 10 girls. This is a good writing experience for the children. Please help them pace it and write a few cards each day. Remind them to write as neat as they can since they are giving this away, but remember that we just started writing and mistakes such as reversed letters are accepted. Have fun!!!

Boys: Isaiah Alamillo, Brendan Bermejo, Franklin Castillo, Malcolm Cleare, Ali Fakih, Nick Heidy, Jordan Hines, Sean Kamifuji, Brendan Khuri, Keegan Martin-Cox, Antonio Michaels, Angelo Scotto, Miles Trachtenberg

Girls: Ariana Drake, Sabina Favis, Giselle Hallin, Madeline Higgins, Shaina Kim, Katie Lovich, Staci Medina, Ilona Matchniff, Vanessa Sebastiani, Kara Traynor

Homework

Math: Complete and return daily math worksheets.

BRING! Please send from home items that begin with the letter “Oo” (long and short sound) on Mon, Tues, Wed and Thur. In class we’ll look at the items, say the name of them, and listen to the beginning sound.

Handwriting: The letter “Oo” handwriting worksheet

Word Group: Complete and return “-ed” daily worksheets.

Review for the quiz on Friday.

Friday: Bring the “Oo” book back to school on Friday. Follow instructions from the previous Kinder News.

READING: Please turn in the January calendar.

This Week We Are Learning:

Religion:

respect

appreciate neighbors and community members

Sunday gospel

Phonics:

Letter Oo

Word group: ed

Math:

Identify full, half full and empty containers

Place a tag on a pictograph

Compare lengths

Order objects by length

Social Studies

Opposite spatial words

Science

Unit assessment

Language Arts

Identify title, author and illustrator’s name on the cover of a book

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK PHOTOS:

100TH DAY OF SCHOOL PHOTOS:

KinderNews 2.1.10

Report Cards: Report cards were mailed home this weekend. Remember that these are readiness grades which indicate if your child needs more time to develop in certain areas. If you have any questions, you are welcome to schedule an appointment for a conference. If you have not received the report cards by the end of the week, please visit the school office.

Religion: Please send a picture of your family to school this week to accompany a picture they drew of their family.

Word group: This week we will learn about the word group –an (can, fan, man, pan, ran, van).

Catholic Schools Week:

The following link is a copy of the Catholic School week schedule. It will be an exciting week with many activities planned. catholic school week schedule.pdf

Monday: The morning assembly will be at 10:00 and not at 8:00. Community and parish members will be visiting the school.

Wednesday: Student will have no homework. Students will wear black and/or white for free dress. We will also have a buddy activity in the afternoon.

The school will have Open House from 6:00-7:30pm.

Thursday: Students will wear international costumes celebrating their heritage. Students can also wear red, white and blue clothes for the day if they do not have a costume or clothing that indicates their heritage (ex: shirt with country’s name on it). We will have an international parade at the end of the day.

Friday: We will have a special teacher for the day: Mr Malcolm Cleare.  He won teacher for a day during the fall fundraiser.  He is planning a special activity for the students! 100^th day of school: The 100^th day of school will be on Thursday, February 4^th. We will celebrate in the afternoon (12:45-2:15) with first and second grade. We will need parent volunteers to help prepare before and during the day. Our room mom will be sending more information and help coordinate the day.

Friday: Students will wear their full uniform on Friday (there will be a mass at 10am).  There will also be no ice cream.

Valentine’s Day: On Friday, February 12^th we are celebrating Valentine’s Day. Students are welcome to bring cards for a card exchange. I have included a list of names below. You can purchase cards or be creative and make your own. There are 23 students in the class, 13 boys and 10 girls. This is a good writing experience for the children. Please help them pace it and write a few cards each day. Remind them to write as neat as they can since they are giving this away, but remember that we just started writing and mistakes such as reversed letters are accepted. Have fun!!!

Boys: Isaiah Alamillo, Brendan Bermejo, Franklin Castillo, Malcolm Cleare, Ali Fakih, Nick Heidy, Jordan Hines, Sean Kamifuji, Brendan Khuri, Keegan Martin-Cox, Antonio Michaels, Angelo Scotto, Miles Trachtenberg

Girls: Ariana Drake, Sabina Favis, Giselle Hallin, Madeline Higgins, Shaina Kim, Katie Lovich, Staci Medina, Ilona Matchniff, Vanessa Sebastiani, Kara Traynor

Homework

Math: Complete and return daily math worksheets.

BRING! Please send from home items that begin with the letter “Qq on Tues, Wed and Thur. In class we’ll look at the items, say the name of them, and listen to the beginning sound.

Handwriting: The letter “Qq” handwriting worksheet

Word Group: Complete and return “-an” daily worksheets.

Review for the quiz on Friday.

Friday: Bring the “Qq” book back to school on Friday. Follow instructions from the previous Kinder News.

READING: Please turn in the January calendar.

This Week We Are Learning:

Religion:

respect

Appreciate the teachers God has given them

Learn they can teach too

Sunday gospel

Phonics:

Letter Qq

Word group: an

Math:

Identify a 1 cup measuring cup

Identify full, half full and empty containers

Pay for items up to $1.00 with dimes

Cover a design in more than one way

Place a tag on a pictograph

Social Studies

Opposite spatial words

Science

Unit assessment

Language Arts

Identify title, author and illustrator’s name on the cover of a book

KinderNews 1.25.10

Religion: In religion, we have been learning about our families. We’ve learned how to help our families and to thank God for our families. The students have drawn a picture of their family. Please send a picture of your family to school this week.

Wednesday: We will have a buddy activity this Wednesday afternoon.

Sunday: Sunday is the start of Catholic’s School week. The Kindergarten students are encouraged to attend the 10:30am mass on Sunday, January 31^st. The following link is a copy of the Catholic School week schedule. It will be an exciting week with many activities planned.

catholic school week schedule.pdf

Word group: This week we will learn about the word group –ad (dad, lad, pad, rad, sad, mad).

100^th day of school: The 100^th day of school will be on Thursday, February 4^th. We will celebrate in the afternoon with first and second grade. We will need parent volunteers to help prepare before and during the day. Our room mom will be sending more information and help coordinate the day.

Homework

Math: Complete and return daily math worksheets.

BRING! Please send from home items that begin with the letter “Jj” on Mon, Tues, and Wed and letter “Xx” on Thur and Fri. In class we’ll look at the items, say the name of them, and listen to the beginning sound.

Handwriting: The letter “Jj” and “Xx” handwriting worksheet

Word Group: Complete and return “-at” daily worksheets.

         Review for the quiz on Friday.

Friday: Bring the “Jj” book back to school on Friday and the letter “Xx” book next Monday. Follow instructions from the previous Kinder News.

READING: Don’t forget to mark the January Reading Calendar and read with your child for at least 15 minutes a day.

This Week We Are Learning:

Religion:

Fairness

Appreciate the friends God has given them

Learn to cooperate with each other

Sunday gospel

Phonics:

Letter Jj, Xx

Word wall: in, is

Math:

Identify numbers 0-20

Identify numbers 10-20

Identify a 1 cup measuring cup

Identify full, half full and empty containers

Social Studies

Opposite spatial words

Science

Unit assessment

Language Arts

Identify title, author and illustrator’s name on the cover of a book

KinderNews 1.19.10

Hats for Haiti: Help us support the victims of the earthquake in Haiti by participating in “Hats for Haiti” on Friday, January 22^nd. Students will pay $1.00 to wear a hat to school on that day. Please try to bring in the donations by Thursday.

Friday: I will not be at school on Friday because I will attending a math workshop at the Frostig Center in Pasadena. The substitute for the day will be Debbie Diss.  She will also be the substitute before spring break when I leave for my honeymoon. This workshop is a 2 day workshop and I will also be gone on Friday, February 26^th (same substitute). The workshop has been postponed to February so I will be at school on Friday. 

Word group: The students did a great job on their test last Friday. Since this week is a short week this week, we will not learn a new word group this week. Next week we will learn about the word group –an.

Homework

Math: Complete and return daily math worksheets.

BRING! Please send from home items that begin with the letter “Gg” on Tues, Wed and Thur. In class we’ll look at the items, say the name of them, and listen to the beginning sound.

Handwriting: The letter “Gg” handwriting worksheet

Friday: Bring the “Gg” book back to school on Thursday. Follow instructions from the previous Kinder News.

READING: Don’t forget to mark the January Reading Calendar and read with your child for at least 15 minutes a day.

This Week We Are Learning:

Religion:

Fairness

Become aware of how they can help their families

Thank God for their families and pray for them

Phonics:

Letter Gg

Word wall: you, in

Math:

90^th day of school

Weigh objects using nonstandard units

Combine sets by counting on

Identify numbers 0-20

Social Studies

Unit 2 introduction

Science

Recycle, reuse

Language Arts

Identify left and right

KinderNews 1.11.10

Word Group:

Beginning this week, the kindergarten class will begin learning word families. 

The children are now familiar with most of the letter sounds. This month we are beginning to apply phonics skills toward reading. We will do this by matching, writing, and reading word families. These are words that end with the same letters and sounds.

 

The activities for each word family will include:

• Picture-word matching cards
  
• A small book
  
• Worksheets
  
• Sentence strips (homework: sentence strips can be separated from the picture to create a matching game. Words can be separated from the sentence to create a game that requires the child to put the words together to make the sentence the picture is showing.)
  

The first word family we will work with is –at.

c-at    cat

b-at    bat

h-at    hat

m-at    mat

r-at    rat

f-at    fat

Other word families will include, -an, -ad, -et, -ed, -en, -op, -ot, -og, -ip, -it, -ig, -un, -ug, -and –ub.

The ending is the key word that your child will memorize. By adding the beginning sound he or she will learn how to sound out the words. Please review all the materials that come home. The lessons will be more fun for your child if he or she is familiar with the process, and are encouraged from home to learn. Remember that children are learning at different paces. Some children will learn how to sound out words faster; others will read by sight or have difficulty understanding the process of reading but enjoy it anyways. Don’t push the reading, take the time your child needs. The most important thing is to make it fun.

 

We will have a small quiz every Friday in order to assess their knowledge of the word group. The quiz will have pictures of the words they are learning. It will be their job to write the word of the picture next to it. The extra daily homework will help make the quiz easier. Please see me if there are any questions. Thank you!    

Book order: Scholastic book orders are due Friday, January 15^th.

Thursday: The student council has planned for Thursday to be Winter Wonderland. The students will have free dress with a Winter Wonderland theme (scarves, hat).

Friday: Students will have spirit dress on Friday. Students can also bring $1 for ice cream.

Monday: There is no school on Monday, January 18^th.

Homework

Math: Complete and return daily math worksheets.

Word Group: Complete and return “-at” daily worksheets.

         Review for the quiz on Friday.

READING: Don’t forget to mark the January Reading Calendar and turn in the December Reading Calendar.

This Week We Are Learning:

Religion:

Fairness

Appreciate that God has given us families to love and care for us

Phonics:

Letter Ff, Vv, Ww, Ss, Zz, Ee review

Word wall: love, a

Math:

Pay for items using dimes

Match number cards to a set of objects

Compare sets of objects

Weigh objects using nonstandard units

Social Studies

Unit review

Science

How the school building gets water

Language Arts

Identify left and right

KinderNews 1.5.09

Welcome back to school! Happy New Year! I hope you all had a restful vacation. This week we’ll spend time reviewing rules and expectations in the classroom. After two weeks of vacation and excitement the weeks before the holidays, it is needed. Talk to you children about your expectations of them. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me.

 

Students will not be wearing their spirit shirts this Friday (1/8/2010). It is mass Friday and students are to wear their complete uniform.

Homework

BRING! Please send from home items that begin with the letter “Ee” short sound on Mon/Tues. Please bring in letter “Ee” long sound on Wed. and Thurs. In class we’ll look at the items, say the name of them, and listen to the beginning sound.

Math: Complete and return daily math worksheets.

Handwriting: The letter “Ee” handwriting worksheet

Friday: Bring the “Ee” book back to school on Friday. Follow instructions from the previous Kinder News.

READING: Don’t forget to mark the January Reading Calendar and turn in the December Reading Calendar.

This Week We Are Learning:

Religion:

Fairness

Praise God for their senses

Phonics:

Letter Ee(focus is on letter sound, shape, associate words/pictures with the beginning sound, letter formation)

Word wall: to, love

Math:

Dimes

ABB pattern

Pay for items using dimes

Social Studies

Unit review

Science

How the school building gets water

Language Arts

 

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas holiday and break! See you in the new year!

I am posting some pictures from the past month.  These are pictures from activities such as making gingerbread houses, making marshmallow snowman, decorating gingerbread boys/girls, reading letters from the North Pole, and the students performing in the Christmas program.

Enjoy!

Here are a picture of the family our class adopted for the Christmas season.  They were very thankful for all the great gifts we provided the family. Thank you for the participation!

Sent from my iPhone

last few days before break…

WEDNESDAY:

• The students did a great job during the practice at Church.
• When we returned from practice, we had a special delivery from the North Pole.  The students wrote letters to the North Pole with their 5th grade buddies last Friday.  Today, the 5th graders read the letters to the students.  Photos of all the Christmas activities will be posted soon.

THURSDAY:

• Students can dress as an elf or Santa’s helper.  Students can wear red or green shirts with their school pants or other pants that are not jeans.  Students can also wear a Santa hat.
• The Christmas program will start at 6:30.  Please be at the Church by 6:15.
• We will meet inside the church.  I will be meeting and gathering the Kindergarten students at the front of the church on the left side (when you are facing the altar) by the Baptism pool.
• Students have been assigned a color they will need to wear for the Nativity play.  Students were assigned the color green, red, blue, white, or yellow. Students can wear a nice shirt with jeans or nice slacks or girls can wear a dress.
• The program will begin with Kindergarten and PreSchool students singing “Away in a Manger”.
• Students will then perform the Nativity play with 7th grade.
• The Kindergarten students will then sing “Little Drummer Boy” on their own.
• The Kindergarten students will then be dismissed to their parents to watch the remainder of the show.

FRIDAY:

• No spirit dress.  Students will wear their full uniform.
• There will be mass in O’Ryan hall at 10am.

Kinder News – 12.14.2009

We have a very busy schedule planned for this week. Please read the information posted very carefully and often.
Christmas program (Thursday evening):

• The Christmas program will be on Thursday at 6:30pm.
• Please let me know as soon as possible if you are unable to attend.
• I will be meeting everyone at Good Shepherd Church (505 N. Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210).
• Please meet at the side of the Church next to the Parish Hall. (This may change after we have our school practice on Wednesday.)
• The Kindergarten class will be performing a Nativity play with the 7^th grade class. Students will be angels and shepherd during the play. Students will be assigned what color they need to wear.  Please dress them in nice clothes in the color they are assigned.  Ex: a red dress or a nice red shirt. Students will be assigned from colors BLUE, YELLOW, GREEN, RED, or WHITE.
• Kindergarten will sing first with Pre School (Away in a Manger). Please practice this song at home. A YouTube video of a karaoke version of the song has been added at the end of the post. This will allow the students to practice the song while practicing their reading skills.
• Kindergarten will then sing on their own (Little Drummer Boy). Please practice this song at home. A YouTube video of a karaoke version of the song has been added at the end of the post. This will allow the students to practice the song while practicing their reading skills.
• Please let me know if you are able to help direct students during the performance.
• Students will be dismissed to their parents after the Nativity play and watch the remainder of the program with their families.

Monday: Monday is the door decorating contest. All the classrooms will have one door decorated. I will be posting pictures of the doors if you are unable to see them.

Tuesday: Raffle tickets for the fall fundraiser are due.  The due date has been extended one more day.

Wednesday:

• The drawing for the fall fundraiser has been changed to Wednesday.  Good luck!
• We will be walking to the church at 1pm with the 7^th grade class. We will be walking before the other students in the school in order to practice the Nativity play. Please let me know if you can walk with us. Permission slips were signed at the beginning of the year. Students will return to school before dismissal time.
• During our buddy activity last Friday, the 5^th graders helped us write letters to the North Pole asking the elves questions. We will be reading their responses on Wednesday after returning from Church.
• If you were planning on passing out treats to the students in the class, please bring them to the class before Wednesday. Some students will not be in school on Thursday and Friday and would like all the students to participate in sharing and receiving gifts. (Reminder: there are 24 students in the class. Treats will only be passed out if there is one for each child.)

Thursday: Students are to dress as elves/Santa’s helpers. Ex: students can wear a Santa hat, green pants.

Friday:

• No spirit dress.
• There will be a mass at school at 10am. I am planning on taking the Kindergarten students.
• After care will be available.

Homework

MATH: Review or complete the math sheet your child is bringing home daily.

Bring: Bring items that begin with letter “Zz” on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Handwriting: Students will bring home a letter “Zz” handwriting sheet on Monday.

Minibook: The letter “Zz” minibook will be sent home on Tuesday and due on Thursday.

READING: Don’t forget to mark the Reading Calendar. Please read with your child for 10 minutes or let your child read to you.

In Class We Are Learning

Phonics

Letter Zz

Word wall word: to, love

Math

Sorting

Match number cards to set of objects

Estimate collections

Copy line segments, shapes, and designs on a geoboard

Religion

Caring

Advent

Christmas

Discuss Sunday’s gospel

Social Studies

Unit 1 assessment project

Language Arts

Identifying left and right

Away in a Manger: Students will only need to practice the first verse.

Little Drummer Boy: