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.

1. 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. 

2. 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.

3. 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. 

4. 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). 

5. 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 

6.  Reminder that pizza money is due Thursday, exact change only and labeled in homework folders. 

7. 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. 

8. 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 

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:

1. 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

2. 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. 

3. 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. 

4. 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. 

5. 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. 

6. 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. 🙂

7. 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. 

8. 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. 

9. 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. 

Here are our themes/concepts of the week:

1) Reading/Language Arts/Phonics:

• Letters & their Sounds of the Week (bootcamp): F-J

• 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

4) Social Studies:

-School Rules & Procedures 

-Being a Bucket Filler 

-Citizenship Unit- We Are a Family & We Try Our Best!

5) Science:

-Hygiene & Germs- Keeping ourselves & others healthy

-Start of Apple Science Unit! 

Important Dates to Note:

-Monday 9/25- Scholastic Book Orders Due ONLINE

-Tuesday 9/26- Johnny Appleseed Day

-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

Week of May 15th

 

Good Afternoon! 

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend &

a Blessed Mother’s Day. Thank you all SO much

for making me feel so loved & appreciated last week

for Teacher’s Appreciation. I am truly blessed

beyond words for all of you and your incredible

children in my class this year. I am SO sad that

we only have 17 school days left together. :( 

Please read below for lots of important info

about the week ahead:

1) Our Spring Music Concert is coming up this Thursday

at 6:30 pm. Students are asked to be dropped off by 6:15 pm

dressed in their “Sunday Best”. Kindergarten students will be

dropped off in the 2nd grade classroom. K-4 will perform first

at 6:30 pm and will be dismissed after. 

2) We are preparing for our next BIG event (aside from

Graduation)- our TOP SECRET- Terrific Surprise Tuesday

coming up on May 30th. Please see the SignUpGenius link below

for more information and also if you are interested in helping us

make this day truly magical! 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0549AFA929AAFB6-topsecret2

3) Reading folders went home today with new weekly words &

materials. For the spelling homework- please create a word search

with our new words (silent e) but do NOT complete it, as students

will be doing that Friday morning with friends. 

We are now officially done adding NEW sight words-

we will spend the rest of the year reviewing ALL the words we have learned this year (80 in total!) 

4) This Friday is our next school-wide TAG day- the theme is

Red, White & Blue Patriotic. Students may dress down with

their $1 donation. We will also be celebrating my birthday

on Friday afternoon as well. :) 

5) Summer birthday celebration letters went home with the

date we will be celebrating our summer birthday friends.

Please let me know if the date your child has been given does

not work for you. We look forward to celebrating with all

our friends! 

6) Kindergarten Graduation Invitations are going home today

as well in homework folders. Please try to RSVP to me with

your number of guests no later than next Friday, May 26th.

I will be sending out one last SignUpGenius next weekend to

assist with Graduation. 

Students will also have a very special line to a

Kindergarten Poem that they will say during our

Graduation show. These lines will be going home

TOMORROW with them in their homework folder.

Please practice their line with them every day. 🙂

7) I will be placing the Scholastic Book Order this evening-

if you are interested in purchasing any books please do so

before 9:00 pm- this is our last order for the year. Thank you! 

Here are our themes/concepts for the week:

1) Reading/Language Arts/Phonics:

• Spelling Words: cake, bake, rake, kite, bike

• Sight Words: REVIEW ALL

• Reading Skill: Characters, Fiction & Nonfiction

• Writer’s Workshop- Simple Sentences, Nouns & Verbs

• Syllables & Blending Sounds- CVC-e Words (long vowels)

2) Mathematics:

• Money Unit 

 

3) Religion:

• We Belong to the Church

• Honoring Blessed Mother Mary

• Rosaries  

4) Science:

• Life Cycles 

5) Social Studies:

• Wonderful World- Maps Skills, Globes, Continents 

Important Dates Ahead:

-Thursday, May 18th- K-8th Grade Spring Music Concert 

-Friday, May 19th- Patriotic TAG Day & Mrs. Tironi Birthday Celebration 

-Friday, May 26th- Half Day 12:00 pm dismissal NO ASC 

-Monday, May 29th- School Closed Memorial Day 

-Tuesday, May 30th- TERRIFIC SURPRISE DAY!

Thank you so much for your time & attention. Have a Blessed Week!

Love & Prayers,

Mrs. Tironi

Week of May 8th

 

Good Afternoon!

I hope everyone had an amazing weekend.

We are continuing through our Final Countdown-

please check that calendar daily for the fun events! 

We have another incredible week ahead,

please review the info below:

1) Tomorrow we will be having our Friendship Fruit Salad

for the Final Countdown activity. This will take place at snack time

and the students will receive a few pieces of the following fruit,

oranges, raspberries, pears, mixed fruit, cherries, pineapple,

blueberries, and one tube of yogurt. Please let us know if you

would rather your child NOT eat their fruit salad. 

2) On Friday we will be having an Ice Cream Party for our Final

Countdown activity. We are looking for some assistance in

purchasing supplies. If you would like to help us out,

please see the sign up genius link below. Thank you so much! 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0549AFA929AAFB6-icecream

3) Tomorrow for Teacher Appreciation Week it is “Favorite

Sports Day”. Students may wear a shirt with their teacher's

favorite sports team  (for us it is- Mets, Yankees, Pirates,

Patriots, Giants, Volleyball). This is completely optional and not

required. If students do not have a shirt with these teams they

may wear any STS shirt WITH their regular uniform bottoms

(skorts/shorts/pants). As per Mr. Dunnigan, it is not a full dress

down or TAG day. 

4) Next Thursday, May 18th is our Spring Music Concert.

It will be split into two sessions with Kindergarten-Fourth Grade

performing at 6:30 pm. K-4 students will be required to be at

school no later than 6:15 pm that evening. Students are asked to

dress in their “Sunday Seasonal Best”. After 4th grade performs,

K-4 students will be escorted back to their classrooms (we will be

meeting in grade 2 again just like Christmas Concert) and they

must be picked up by parents there. You are free to leave at that

time after picking up your child. The band will perform at 7:30

and then 5th-8th grade following at 7:45. 

5) On Tuesday, May 30th the HSA will be providing ALL

students with a Kona Ice Treat. ALL students must have a

completed permission slip in order to participate. Please see

the link below to print & return this slip no later than 5/23. Thank you! 

https://files.ecatholic.com/23092/documents/2023/5/kona%20ice%2023.pdf?t=1683200712000

6) Reading folders & weekly homework is going home today. It is due back on Friday. This week we are focusing on the “ee” digraph. 

7)  Snack shop is open tomorrow and pizza money is due by Thursday. 

8) Reminder: SAVE THE DATE- Our Kindergarten Graduation

will be held on Wednesday, June 7th at 9:00 am. Please note

this is Kindergarten’s LAST day, they come for Graduation ONLY

& then they officially finished for the school year!

The big school’s (Grades 1-7) last day is Thursday, June 8th.

Here are our themes/concepts for the week:

1) Reading/Language Arts/Phonics:

• Spelling Words: see, bee, feet, seed, green

• Sight Words: no, with, they, eat, came 

• Reading Skill: Characters, Fiction & Nonfiction

• Writer’s Workshop- Simple Sentences, Nouns & Verbs

• Syllables & Blending Sounds- CVC Words (short vowels)

2) Mathematics:

• Money Unit 

 

3) Religion:

• We Belong to the Church

• Honoring Blessed Mother Mary

• Rosaries  

4) Science:

• Life Cycles 

5) Social Studies:

• Wonderful World- Maps Skills, Globes, Continents 

Important Dates Ahead:

-Tuesday, May 9th- Sports Team Shirts 

-Thursday, May 11th- May Crowning 1:00 pm 

-Thursday, May 18th- K-8th Grade Spring Music Concert 

-Friday, May 19th- Patriotic TAG Day (schoolwide) & Mrs. Tironi Birthday Celebration 

-Friday, May 26th- Half Day 12:00 pm dismissal NO ASC 

-Monday, May 29th- School Closed Memorial Day 

Thank you so much for your time & attention. Have a Blessed Week!

Love & Prayers,

Mrs. Tironi