Week of November 26th

Good Afternoon & Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a fantastic long weekend celebrating Thanksgiving. Thank you to all the families who attended our Thanksgiving celebration, the students did an amazing job performing.

We are off to another tremendous start to a very fun, exciting, and busy month ahead!

Tomorrow will be our next TAG Day to raise money for 8^th grade, the theme for tomorrow is “Sports Jersey Day”. Students may dress down for a $1 donation.

This Friday is Class Picture Day & Individual Retake Day. All students must wear their complete winter uniform this day. If you are interested in having retakes done, please send back the original pictures you ordered and the company will take new ones. Also, please let me know if your child needs a retake as well so we can ensure they get one taken.

This Saturday is Breakfast with Santa. Please see the Friday Folder for more information.

On Tuesday December 18^th we will be having the Santa Shop. All order forms for Santa shop are due Thursday November 29^th- information can be found on the Friday Folder as well.

Here are our themes/concepts for this week:

1) Reading/Language Arts/ Phonics:

-Applying beginning letter sounds to form new words  

-Vowel: Aa & word families

-Sight Words- look, said

-Color Word- Purple

-Reading Comprehension- Characters, plot

2) Mathematics:

-Graphs & Data Conclusion

3) Religion-

-Intro to Advent

-Peacemakers  

-Daily Prayers

4) Social Studies:

- Concluding Native American & Pilgrim Unit

-Intro & beginning Christmas Around the World  Unit

5) Science:

-Needs vs. Wants

Important Dates Ahead:

12/07- First Friday Mass

12/18- Santa Shop (order forms due 11/29)

12/20- K-8^th Grade Christmas Concert 7:00 pm

12/21- Christmas Breakfast & Prayer Service- Half Day with NO after care

12/24-01/01- Christmas Vacation- School reopens Wednesday 01/02

Thank you very much for your time. Have a wonderful week.

Love & Prayers,

Mrs. Tironi

Thanksgiving Week!

Good morning Wonderful Kindergarten Families!

I hope you all had a nice long weekend. 

Just a reminder that this week is all half days, Monday and Tuesday we are dismissing at 12:00 pm. 
There is after care available until 6:00 pm today and tomorrow.

On Wednesday, our dismissal is at 11:45 am and there is NO after care on Wednesday.

There is no school on Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. 

Second grade is collecting new toys and games for the Pediatric Department at St. Joe's hospital. 
Please see the Friday Folder for more donation ideas. All donations are due this Wednesday. 

On Wednesday we will be having our Thanksgiving Show & Celebration. 
Our show will be at 9:15 am in our classroom, then we will be going to the Thanksgiving Table 
Prayer Service at 10:00 in the big school and then come back to our classroom for our mini-feast from 10:40-11:30.  Any families that are attending our party may take your child out of school directly from our classroom,
 to avoid the car rider line. 

Also, Mrs. Backer and Mrs. Walsh have asked me to remind all families that girl scout registration forms
 are due back this week by Wednesday please. 

There are no new popcorn words this week, as we are going to be doing some assessments and 
review of concepts we have learned the past two weeks. 

Thank you for your time, I hope everyone has a fantastic week!
Love & Prayers,
Mrs. Tironi 

Week of November 12th

Good Afternoon,

I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Here are our weekly reminders:

1) Food Drive Donations will be collected until this Thursday- our class item is canned/powdered milk.

2) Our Thanksgiving Show & Feast will be on Friday at 1:15 pm in our classroom. I hope you are all able to come, we have been practicing very hard and they will be putting on a wonderful show.

3) This Friday is Class Pictures & Retakes. All students are required to wear their complete winter uniform.

4) Our class has filled up our first 100 spots on our Kindness Super Star Challenge. Tomorrow we will be voting for a special “Kindergarten Only” TAG day that will take place on either Wednesday or Thursday of this week. I will send out a message to you tomorrow to let you know what day and theme we vote on! : )

5) If possible, please send Disguise a Turkeys in by Tuesday or Wednesday. We are hoping to share them and post them on the bulletin board before our party on Friday.

Thank you for your time, have a wonderful day!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Tironi

Week of November 5th

Good Afternoon,

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We have a great month ahead of us, with lots of exciting events going on. Here are some important reminders & information for you:

1) Our ABC Bootcamp Fashion Show will be on Thursday, we will be sharing the fashion show on Class Dojo. The letter vests that went home last week are due back to school tomorrow. Please be sure your child is decorating their vest, they may do both the front and the back. This is a great family involvement project to work on enforcing all the sounds we have learned the past 26 days.

2) Our Disguise a Turkey Projects will be going home today with a detailed letter for explanation. The point of this project is for your child to create a “disguise” or “costume” for the turkey so he/she will not look like a turkey on Thanksgiving. You can look up many ideas online for inspiration, I showed the class the past Kindergarten’s turkeys as well to help get them started. You can use any types of materials you may have at home. Please send them back to school by next Monday November 12^th. We will be displaying their wonderful creations! : )

3) Reading Folders will also be going home today with our November READO boards and reading logs. Students who brought in their work from October received their free frosty coupon, as well as a classroom prize coupon for completing all assignments. Parents- please be sure to initial on the READO boards so we can be sure they children have completed those activities. Many of the activities take less than 5 minutes to accomplish and can be done while driving or during a dinner time discussion with your child. While it is my philosophy not to overwhelm our Kinders with an abundance of homework, the READO boards and other family projects that we send home are a very important part of year together and do have many benefits for your child.

4) There is no school this Friday, November 9^th.

5) Next Friday November 16^th will be our Thanksgiving Show & Feast Celebration beginning at 1:15 pm. All families (including siblings) are welcome (and highly encouraged) to attend. A formal invitation will be going home this week.

6) There are half days on Monday November 19^th and Tuesday November 20^th with after care available, and a half day on Wednesday November 23^rd with no after care. Kindergarten conferences will be taking place in January, as we do not receive report cards until the end of second quarter. We are closed on Thursday November 24^th and Friday November 25^th for Thanksgiving.

Here are our themes/concepts for this week:

1) Reading/Language Arts/ Phonics:

-Letters (Bootcamp)- Z- review all 26 letters

-Sight Words- can, Jesus

-Color Word- Black

-Reading Comprehension- Plot

2) Mathematics:

-Patterning

-Graphs & Data

3) Religion-

-Thankful Blessings

-The Saints

-Daily Prayers

4) Social Studies:

- Election Day

-The First Thanksgiving

Thank you for your time, I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Love & Prayers,

Mrs. Tironi