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Welcome to Kindergarten 2021-2022October News!
We have completed 1 month of school! Yayyy for Kindergarten! The children have been learning and following rules and routines and are doing a great job! We are learning in Religion about God and his glorious gifts! We have been reviewing and recognizing the upper and lower case letters and we are learning the sounds of our letters Mm, Ff and Ss. We are exploring the themes, Apples and Autumn and we will begin talking about pumpkins too! We will compare and contrast apples and pumpkins in Science and even make Slime! The children have been counting and writing the numbers 0-5. We have been busy bees! October is full of lots of scary, spooky and scholastic fun!
Special dates to remember:
October 11- No School
October 12- Wnter Uniforms begin
October 22- Half Day Dismissal
October 28- Individual Picture Day
October 29- Dress Down for Halloween!
September 2021-2022 Update
September 8th- DIsmissal is at 11:30 for KinWEdergarten! Sorry for the confusion! See you Soon !
September has arrived and "back to school" is here! I am so excited to meet our new Kindergarten students. I am sure we will have a wonderful school year! So here are a few notes for the beginning weeks:
September 8th - First day arrival at the church doors located on the school yard ramp. Children should arrive at 8:00. Dismissal will be at the same location. Wednesday is a half day 12 noon dismissal. Regular dismissal is at 2:30.
- For the first day children will only need a light snack, i.e yogurt, granola bar, fruit, crackers or muffin, and a juice or water. Thurdsay and Friday the children should bring snack and lunch.
- Kindergarten wears a modified uniform consisting of a white polo shirt and blue shorts or gym pants. Please see the Parent Handbook for details.
- Children will need a backpack and lunch bag or box with their name on it.
- Change of clothes in a plastic bag (complete with extra under garments and socks) to be left in the classroom so please label with child's name, should be brought in the first day.
- 2 pocket folders will be needed 1 for homework, notes, completed work and 1 we will keep in the classroom. This can be brought in by the end of the first full week.
- For Art class children will need a box of colored pencils and markers. The children will have Art every Tuesday and Friday.
Please make sure to label all children's belongings as well as clothing. We look forward to meeting you all on Septembe 8th. Enjoy the last days of summer vacation! I can be reached via email at ALeahy@saintgabrielschoolbronx.org. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or thoughts. See you all soon!
Mrs. Leahy
Mrs. Graham
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June is here!!
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
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Bring May Flowers...
Happy Mother's Day, Happy Cinco de Mayo, Happy Memorial Day!
A busy month of May! This month of May brings lots of fun activities in Kindergarten! We are celebrating Mary the Queen of Heaven and mother to all, learning the Hail Mary and all about the Rosary. We celebrated our Mom's with a Mothers Day booklet! We are also planting seeds and caring for them hoping to see a sprout soon! We are creating our Imaginary Gardens in response to a wonderful book, My Garden by Kevin Henkes. We are learning about all types of insects, and also our favorite ocean animals, sharks, sea tutles and dolphins! Math has us counting and writing and decomposing numbers 11-20, learning about 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, and measurements! And we could not forget to honor and celebrate our heroes for Memorial Day.
Some Important Dates to Remember-
Friday May 14th- Half Day 11:30 Dismissal
8th Grade Fund Raiser Movie Night
Friday May 21st- Our 2nd Virtual Circle in the Square Theater performance
Thurdsay May 27th -Half Day 11:30 Dismissal
Friday May 29th - No School
Monday May 31st - No School Memorial Day
June updates coming soon!
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April Showers....Happy 50th Birthday Earth Day!
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
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March News
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 -
February
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
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Happy New Year
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