Mark Your Calendar:
***End of Year Assessments for the final report card begin week of May 22 and will continue through the last day of school. It will be very important for your child to be in school unless sick.
Thursday, May 25: Farewell Mass for 8th Grade> wear REGULAR SCHOOL UNIFORM
Monday, May 29: No School Memorial Day
**Formal Practices for Kindergarten Celebration take place every day during week of May, 30.
Thursday, June 1: 1/2 Day Noon Dismissal (with formal practice- on stage with Ms. Jones) Kindergarten Celebration held in the Parish Center that evening (detailed information to come). This event is considered our end of the year party where parents are invited. Wear Sunday Best, no flip-flops. Be in classroom by 6:40 pm.
Friday, June 2: 1/2 Day: last day of school noon dismissal. Kindergarten has a private time reflecting on our year together before we head off to summer. With the big event the night before with families, parents are asked not to join us during this special time as we reflect and say good-bye as a school family.
Schedule of Specials:
Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks. Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance): children wear regular uniforms (no PE). Approved shoes and navy socks are required. Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days. Belts are required if there are belt loops. Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.
Academic Themes for the Week
Topic: Beach
Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays. I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place: a treasure box or special basket. Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.
Reading Block: Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Writing a Complete Sentence; identifying middle sounds
Word Study: Continuation with Blends> Continued….word family words assessments
Writing: Completing Sentences; Informational Writing; reading comprehension: Opinion Writing Review
Sight Words: ESGI Assessments on word families and sight words
Math Block: ***assessing coin identification (appearance and amount each represents; counting to 100 by 5’s and 10’s and addition and subtraction) paying with pennies, nickels, dimes or a quarter; addition and subtraction; writing to 100
Science/Social Studies/Art: Beach Life
Religion: Making our personal Rosaries (2 week project)
Enrichment:
AND::::: ABC Countdown continues daily: this week: letters r, s, t, u, v
Mad Scientist:
Foodie Fun:
To Work On At Home:
writing their first and last name
writing numbers to 100
blending sounds together to read words>reading and writing simple sentences
memorize phone number and address
tie their shoes
