Thank you for donating can food items for the Food Bank on Spirit Day! You received a weekly progress report in your child’s folder on Friday. Please sign it and return it on Monday. Just a reminder, please check your child’s folder daily and take out the papers.

It is hard to believe midterm for this quarter is on Wednesday. The last day of the quarter is Friday, October 16^th. I will send home a list of skills your child will be assessed on for first quarter . Your child will need to know their home phone number or one parent’s cell phone number and address. It would be helpful if you would help your child learn these two skills. Your child will be assessed on tying shoes at the end of the school year.

I will send all the towels home on Monday. I meant to send the towels home on Friday, but time got away from me. No need to return the towels to school. As you know, there was child with nits (lice eggs) in our class. Please check your child’s head closely today. The classroom has been treated.

Sneak Peek into the Week:

The letter of the week is Oo, Mr. Opposite. The homework sheet will be in your child’s folder on Monday. The homework will be due on Thursday.

Religion-God gives us light.

Writing daily

Reading- We are learning the color words, days of the week, and names of our friends in class. The following words are on the word wall; and, can, go, God, I, like, love, play, see, the, to, we, will

We will start a unit on family. The kids will learn the following words; mom, dad, sister, brother, baby, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle and cousin.

I will send home a piece of cardstock in a page protector for you and your student to put some family pictures on both sides of the cardstock. There will also be an information sheet for you to fill out about your child. The pages will be put in a 3 ring binder and shared with the families in our class. This is always a fun way to get to know the families in our class!

Math- Geometric shapes- circle, square, rectangle, triangle, cone, sphere, cylinder, cone, and rectangular prism. The students will practice drawing a circle, square, and rectangle and a triangle.

Science- Our five senses, sight

Social Studies- Families

Monday- Music and PE

Tuesday- PE

Wednesday- Art

Thursday- Computer and Counselor

Friday- Music and library, after your child reads his/her library book each day, please have your child put the library book back in their backpack. Your child will never forget their book for library and they will not lose their library book. Thank you for your help with your child’s library books.

Thank you for your support! Enjoy the beautiful day!

Carm

Thank you for coming to the Open House on Thursday! We have had a great three weeks of school! The kids are really starting to learn the routines and the expectations in kindergarten! You received a weekly progress report in your child’s folder on Friday. Please sign it and return it on Tuesday.

You received a Scholastic book order form this past Monday. I will order the books on Tuesday, instead of Monday. Please turn in orders by 5:00PM on Tuesday. You may also send the orders with a check in your child’s folder on Tuesday.

We have a 2:00 early dismissal on Wednesday, September 9^th. It is called Spirit Day. The students are allowed to wear their gold OLLIS spirit shirt with jeans, jean shorts, blue uniform shorts, or blue uniform pants. Spirit Day is also “Giving Day”, please send in a can food item to donate to the Food Bank. There will be a blue Food Bank barrel in the hallway outside the kindergarten rooms. We have a friendly competition to see which grade can bring in the most food items.

Sneak Peek into the Week:

The letter of the week is Tt, Tall Teeth. The homework sheet will be in your child’s folder on Tuesday. The homework will be due on Friday because of the short week.

Religion- Finishing God’s Creation, God’s gifts of our five senses.

Writing daily

Reading- We are learning the color words, days of the week, and names of our friends in class. The following words are on the word wall; and, can, God, I, like, see.

Math- Finishing sorting, start shapes

Science- Our five senses

Social Studies- Who are we

Monday- Music and PE

Tuesday- PE

Wednesday- Art, Early Dismissal (2:00) Spirit Day is Giving Day!

Thursday- Computer and Counselor

Friday- Music and library, after your child reads his/her library book each day, please have your child put the library book back in their backpack. Your child will never forget their book for library and they will not lose their library book. Thank you for your help with your child’s library books.

Thank you for your support! Have a wonderful holiday weekend!

Carm

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! We were able to get in more of a routine with the daily schedule this last week! The students are working hard learning the routines and expectations in kindergarten!

Back to School Night- Thursday, September 3^rd at 6:30 in OLLIS gym.

All School Mass- Friday, September 4^th at 8:00.

Pep Rally for Fall Sports- Friday, September 4^th at 2:15.

Monday, September 7- Labor Day, No School

Wednesday, September 9th- Spirit Day, 2:00 early dismissal, kids are allowed to wear gold spirit shirt with jeans or jean shorts.

I sent home a permission form for your child to participate in a taping by KOMU. It will be a short clip of the students saying the Pledge of Allegiance and it will be shown on KOMU. KOMU calls it the “Daily Pledge,” and it will be aired around 6:45am. I will let you know when our taping will be shown. If you do not want your child to participate, please just write me a note to inform me of your decision.

Reminder: The air conditioner works a little too well in my class, so please send your child’s OLLIS fleece to school so they may wear it in the class. Please make sure your child’s name is on the fleece and let your child know where his/her name is located on the fleece. I have told the kids to look for their name before they put the fleece in their backpack at the end of the day.

A Sneak Peek into the Week: Skills we will focus on with each subject.

The letter of the week is Ii, Incredible Inches. (Letter People Puppet) The homework sheet will be in your child’s folder on Monday and it will be due on Thursday.

Religion- God Made All Things

Reminder about homework: Make sure all pictures are colored and labeled.

Reading- This week we will focus on reading color words and continue to recognize written names of classmates, letter recognition and sounds. The kids have 2 books in their book bags to learn the words I, see, and can.

Writing- Drawing a picture then labeling the picture or writing a sentence about the picture. Will learn about chopping (sounding) out words and spacing words apart in a sentence.

Introduce narrative writing- A narrative story is a true or imaginary story that has a beginning, middle and end. Introduce the elements of the story; topic, details and pictures.

Math- Use manipulatives to sort by color, size and shape.

Science- Reviewing the outer body parts.

Social Studies- Continue to go over rules/expectations and learning about our friends in class. Family and school helpers.

Please call or email me if you have any questions or concerns about school.

Have a super week!

Carm

We had a great first week of school! I am getting to know the students and they are learning the expectations in kindergarten. We have mostly focused on learning the rules and expectations this week. The students are enjoying learning some of the expectations through an app called Sock Puppets. Next week we will hopefully get in more of a routine with each day.

The students attended all the special classes except for counseling during the first week.  They even went to church on Friday for the all school mass! I was very proud of how well they behaved considering it was the first mass as a class! We have practice making the sign of the cross, saying the Daily Prayer and the Blessing before Meals.

On the first day of school, the students colored a small paper book about the five rules in class. The five rules will be used by each teacher in the whole school. The rule book was sent home this week. Please have your child tell you the rules. My personal favorite is rule number 5!

We have been really focusing on the cafeteria behaviors. The students made a lunch box with a list of good and bad choices to use in the cafeteria. I really want the kids to focus on the good choices. I sent the lunch box home on Thursday. Please review the expectations with your child over the weekend.

The air conditioner works a little too well in my class, so please send your child’s OLLIS fleece to school so they may wear it in the class. Please make sure your child’s name is on the fleece and let your child know where his/her name is located on the fleece. I have told the kids to look for their name before they put the fleece in their backpack at the end of the day.

In your child’s green folder, I sent home a red information sheet about the fall fundraiser starting on Friday, October 9^th. Please return the part of the form with your child’s T-shirt size before Friday, September 4^th. The Read-A-Thon committee is also looking for more volunteers. If you would like to help with the Read-A-Thon, there is a meeting in the OLLIS library on Thursday, August 27^th at 6:00pm or you may contact Monica Korba. ([email protected])

A Sneak Peek into the Week: Skills we will focus on with each subject.

We will start our letter homework this week. The first letter is Ll.  We use Letter People puppets to teach each letter. The letter person’s name for the letter Ll, is Mr. Longest Laugh. On Monday, I will show the kids how to complete the letter page homework. I gave you a sample page with directions in the packet you picked up on the supply drop off day. It has four boxes on the page. The first box, your child will write their name and the date. Below the date, your child will write the uppercase and lowercase L. Your child will think of 3 objects that start with the letter L. He or she will draw, color and label each object. One object per box. You will have the homework sheet on Monday and it will be due on Thursday.

Religion- Introduction to the Bible, prayer, priest, church and the church year.

Reading- letter recognition and sounds, introduce words I, see, can and many other words in daily reading and writing. Recognizing names of classmates.

Writing- Introduction of writing- drawing a picture then labeling the picture or writing a sentence about the picture. Will learn about chopping (sounding) out words and spacing words apart in a sentence.

Math- Use manipulatives to sort by color, size and shape.

Science- Reviewing the outer body parts.

Social Studies- Continue to go over rules/expectations and learning about our friends in class.

To all my volunteers who want to volunteer weekly or every other week, I am going to take one more week to get my daily routine adjusted before I start to schedule you as a volunteer. If you have a day and time which works best for you, please email me the times. I already have two parents pulling the pages from the religion and math books! Thank you Gretchen Siebert and Tracy Elsenraat!

Please call or email me if you have any questions or concerns about school.

Have a super week!

Carm

Parents,

I am so excited to start the first week of school!  I am eager to get to know each of the kids in class.  The first week we will mostly learn the daily routines in our kindergarten class.  We will go to the all school mass on Friday.  It was very nice to meet most of the kids and parents on Friday!