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