Hard to believe the year is almost over.... and what a year it has been! We are all looking ahead fo a super summer! But so much still to accomplish! We have been working on composing and decomposing numbers 11-19 and will soon be counting to 100! by ones and tens! We have been watching some videos about the parables of the Prodigal Son and The Sower! Children are learning some digraphs and vowel teams and we are Splashing into Summer with Scholastic! We took a virtual tour of Washington D.C.  and learned about symbols that represent our beautiful country the United States of America! The bald eagle and the flag were a favorite! We got to visit the White House and see the Lincoln, Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorials!  We will be preparing for our Kinder-garten (get it!) Graduation in the next few weeks and practicing our songs and poems all about kindness and gardens!
June dates:

Friday June 4th- Movie night 8th grade fund raiser
Monday June 14th - Cohort A Graduation at 10:00 in the gym
Tuesday June 15th- Cohort B Graduation at 10:00 in the gym
Wednesday June 16th - Last full day of school
Thursday June 17, Friday June 18th- Half day 
Monday June 21st - Half Day
Tuesday June 22nd- Half Day LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! Happy Summer Vacation
Final Report Cards will be send digially.

We are back from Spring break and quickly approaching or last quarter of the year!This week in Kindergarten we are learning our long vowel sounds, subtracting and decomposing numbers in Math and talking about belonging to God's family the church. Hoping to make a visit to church this month!  We will be participating in a virtual theather production of some Aesop's Fables by the Circle in the Square Theatre. And of course we are celebrating the Earth! The children reused a coffee filter to create a cool earth model and have been learning about reducing and reusing and recycling with Scholastic and read alouds.  I Can Save the Earth by Alison Inches and Viviana Garofoli is one of our favorites! We have even created Earth Day Superheroes like Captain Clean, Plastic Girl or Boy, Sonic Cleanup, Pricess Planter and Garden Girl to name a few. some more fun to come this month: we will be planting and talking about the parts of a plant, exploring the life of a sloth and the life cycle of a caterpillar! Can't wait! Kindergarten Rocks!

Upcoming Dates to note:
April 23rd- Report Card distribution via email 11:30 Dismissal




 

Hello Spring! Kindergarten is patiently awaiting the arrival of Spring and the celebration of Easter!
This busy month of March we have been learning our short vowel sounds and are blending and starting to READ our decodable books!! We are starting Subtraction in Math and learning all about the weather in Science. We will be talking about rainbows, right in time for Saint Patrick's day and hoping for those pots of gold! We will be wearing our green too! For Religion we are talking about the season of Lent and are trying really hard to fill our Kindergarten Kindness bucket by doing good deeds, like Jesus taught us. Some of are favorite books this month are from our Read Across America celebration and  Don't Let the Pidgeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems was #1!!I We also learned about the job of an author and illustrator and have some promising future writers and artists!

Important Dates:
March 11 - Teacher Conferences No School
March 16 and 17 - Feast of Saint Patrick- Wear your Green day!
March 31- Half Day Dismissal for Easter Break till April 12th

Our February News

Monday February 1st begins Catholic Schools Week when we celebrate Faith, Excellence and Service! Kindergarten is learning all about faith! We have been talking about the miracles of Jesus. Our favorite is when Jesus calmed the storm! We are learning our short vowel sounds and how to write a sentence. In Science and Social Studies we will be talking about the Presidents, shadows, and hoping for an early Spring! And we can't forget Valentine's Day. We will decorate 100 hearts to celebrate the 100 day of school! That's alot of love!

Upcoming activities for Catholic Schools Week:

Monday 2/1 School Spirit Day ! Children can wear the school colors Red and White with the gym pants.

Tuesday 2/2-We salute our Essential worker by making Thank You cards to show our appreciation!  Dress down day too.

Wednesday 2/3 Favorite sports team day! Children can wear their favorite sports team tshirt or Jersey or hat. Maybe  they can wear their soccer tshirts! Dress down too.

Thursday 2/4 Literary Celebration! We celebrate out favorite books! Children can bring in their favorite book or let me know so I can find it to share on zoom to read aloud. We can start on Monday, so everyone can get a turn! Today is dress down also.

Friday 2/5 Movie Day with snack! Children can dress down and wear a silly hat or crazy socks or both .We will watch a movie after lunch and children can bring 1 small individual snack. 

Looking ahead:
Friday February 12th 100th Day!
Monday February 15th Presidents Day No School
Tuesday February 16th No School
Friday February 19th 11:30 Dismissal Report Cards distributed digitally in the afternoon
 

January 2021  Happy New Year Kindergarten!

Dear Parents, 
  January is here! And a Happy and Healthy New Year to all. A great big thank you too for the generous gift from all of you.! I am so blessed and grateful to have the pleasure of working with all of you and your amazing children! January brings great excitment at Saint Gabriel! We will celebrate the Feast of the Three Kings, Martin Luther King' Jr., and Catholic Schools week. Kindergarten is currently preparing for our short vowel sounds. We will be talking about Jesus as a young boy, in Religion, and reading a great story, The Mitten by Jan Brett! We will learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction and also talk about arctic animals! In science we learned about where snowflakes come from and Willie Bentley the famous snowflake scientist from Vermont. We also read our first biography Snowflake Bentley! I can't wait to share our Catholic Schools week activities. More info to follow.

Important Dates
January 15th- Half Day Session
January 18th- Martin Luther King, Jr.  Holiday- School not in session
January 19- Cohort B returns in person