Hello Wonderful K Families!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We have another exciting week ahead for our amazing class. Please see the information below.
LAST CALL for Chaperones for our field trip! If you have not already sent in your chaperone intent form AND payment, please do so by tomorrow. I will be sending our final numbers and payment to the farm tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow the school snack shop will be open during lunch. It is open only on Tuesdays. If you would like your child to purchase a snack, please send in $ in their homework folder or lunch box LABELED for snack shop.
Tomorrow will be our first Science Adventure day as we celebrate Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday! We have an entire afternoon full of hands-on fun. If you did not fill out the digital permission slip, a physical copy is in your child’s homework folder that MUST be completed and returned by tomorrow so they can participate in the apple taste testing.
This Friday is our first school wide TAG Day, the theme is to come to school wearing Gold/Yellow for Childhood Cancer. If your child dresses down, please send in the $1 donation that morning in their folder, you also have the option to pre-pay for the entire year by sending in $10 (which covers all TAG days for the entire year).
Scholastic Book orders are due by Wednesday (9/28) online. If you are interested in placing an order please do so by using the link below. Thank you for helping our class earn points to expand our class library! 🙂 https://orders.scholastic.com/P8VPV
Reminder that pizza money is due Thursday, exact change only and labeled in homework folders.
This Saturday is the celebration of our patron saint, St. Therese, beginning at the 5:00 pm mass where the Bishop will be at our mass. Mr. Dunnigan is requesting as many students/families attend mass wearing their school uniforms. There is a banquet dinner following the mass that the HSA is sponsoring that will be held in the school gym.
Lunch Parent Help Info: If you would like to come assist our Kindergarten class during lunch/recess we are looking for help on the following days- Please note our schedule varies slightly than as originally indicated on our schedule (especially on Fridays). Also note that the VIRTUS program (Protecting God’s Children) is required to be a lunch volunteer.
Mondays- 11:35-12:15 (in the gym)
Tuesdays- 11:35-12:15 (in the gym)
Fridays- 11:55-12:45 (in the gym)
Here are our themes/concepts of the week:
1) Reading/Language Arts/Phonics:
Letters & their Sounds of the Week (bootcamp): K-O
Name Practice
Drawing & Labeling
2) Mathematics:
Counting & Cardinality: Identifying & Writing Numbers correctly
3) Religion:
Learning our Prayers & Talking to God
Story of Creation- God Gave Us the World
Preparing for the Month of the Rosary
4) Social Studies:
-School Rules & Procedures
-Being a Bucket Filler
-Citizenship Unit- We Are a Family & We Try Our Best!
5) Science:
Apple Science Unit!
Important Dates to Note:
-Tuesday 9/26- Johnny Appleseed Day
-Wednesday 9/28- Scholastic Orders Due ONLINE 🙂
-Friday 9/29- Wear Gold TAG Day
-Saturday 9/30- 60th Anniversary Mass at 5:00 pm
-Monday 10/02- STS Walk-a-Thon
-Wednesday 10/04- Fire Department Visits STS
-Thursday 10/05- Farm Field Trip
-Friday 10/06 & Monday 10/09- NO SCHOOL
Thank you for your time, please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you all have a wonderful week.
God Bless!
Love & Prayers,
Mrs. Tironi
