Kindergarten: September 2023

Monday, September 25, 2023

Week of September 25th

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

Monday, September 18, 2023

Week of September 18th

Hi Everyone!

The class has been doing such a great job this month, we are very proud of them all and it is evident that we are going to have such an amazing year together!

I apologize for my delay in sending my weekly update/blog post, it’s been a

wonderful but busy start to our year so far. Typically my goal is to send out

our blog/weekly update every Monday that will give you an idea of what we

are working on, as well as inform you of any important info for the week ahead. 🙂

Important Info:

This week we will be beginning our Apple Science unit, leading to our big celebration of Johnny Appleseed Day next Tuesday, Sept 26th. We will be doing some fun apple themed science centers, including an apple taste test. Since students will be eating the apples, I do need to have a permission slip from each family before your child can eat them. Please use the following link to complete the permission slip (no later than next Monday please!) https://forms.gle/uVZJZ2P2cVVSDj566
Tomorrow our 8th graders will be running the School Snack Shop at lunch time. If you would like your child to purchase a snack/juice, please send in $ in a labeled envelope or baggie in their homework folder tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow afternoon (after school) is the Warrior Challenge for Childhood Cancer Awareness. If your child is signed up and participating, they may wear their gym uniform tomorrow to school.
A reminder that our Farm Field Trip is coming up on Thursday, October 5th. If you haven’t already sent in the required permission slip and/or chaperone forms, please send it in no later than this Friday.
Today we sent home Scholastic Book Order magazine if you are interested in book orders for the month of September. This is completely optional of course. However, if you would like to order, please place them online only. You will see our online code on the cover. Books will be sent home in your child’s backpack after they have been delivered.
ABC Bootcamp is off to an AMAZING start! Please continue to have your child send in one show & tell every day for the letter of the day. As we get closer into October, I will send home directions for our Fashion Show! A BIG thank you to Mrs. Farrell, Bishop’s mom, for donating a set of brand new paper bags for us to use for our vests. 🙂
A reminder that pizza money is due by Thursday morning. Mrs. Nowel will continue to reuse your labeled envelopes/baggies each week as you send them in, back & forth to you.
We will be having our first school wide TAG day next Friday, September 29th. The theme will be to wear Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The prayer books we have sent home today are for your child to keep at home to practice the prayers that we say here at school. We will begin praying one decade of the rosary every morning during the month of October, so if you could practice the Hail Mary & Our Father while at home, that would be greatly appreciated.