Daily:  Kindergarteners are expected to act in a Christianly manner each day of school. They must act with respect, kindness, and love to everyone they interact with at St. Anthony’s.They must bring with them each day:

• A backpack

• Library book

• A folder

• A planner (Please let me know if you have missed placed yours)

  • They will have spelling words written in their planners when we start that.

**Each night Kindergarten must read for 30 minutes. This is school wide homework. Please be documenting the books read in their planners each night.

Kindergarten does Lexia for thirty minutes twice a week. Unless I send a note home asking for more Lexia from your child, they are not required to work on it at home. If you or them prefer to work on Lexia while at home, they are free to do so.

Tests:  When the spelling list goes out, Kindergarten will have weekly spelling tests unless told otherwise. Kindergarten has Math and Progress tests for Superkids when they finish their Module or Unit. If a test is failed, please correct and sign test for a 73.

If at any time, you have any questions or concerns about any of the expectations above please feel free to email me or set up a conference with. I would be happy to discuss with you.



Greetings from Miss Sessions’s Kindergarten Safari!
 
Our first semester was WILD but, absolutely AMAZING!!
 
Here is everything we will cover this six weeks:

• Meeting the FINAL new Superkids; Icky – short “I” vowel sound; /i/, Tic, Tac, and Toc – the initial and ending /t/ sound, Fritz – we will work on initial /f/ sound but, also blending letter sounds together, Ettabetta – short “E” vowel sound as well as rhyming, Hot Rod – we will work on initial /h/ and beginning learning about compound words.

• Spelling – we will finish our short vowel sounds with short /o/ and short /u/. Then have a comprehensive test of all the vowel sounds. We will then begin working on consonant blends (th, fl, br, st, etc) towards the end of the six weeks.

• In Math, we have finished numbers 1-20. We having our Unit 1 test coming up, it will be sometime next week. Then we will begin our second Math book, with addition and subtraction.

• Science, we will learn about different types of animals and their habitats. *Each student will need to bring a shoe box for a class project on Wednesday, January 16^th.

• Social Studies, we are still working on our continents: we are starting our second continent, South America!

• In Religion, we will began working on our Mass Journals. We will go through each part of the Mass and write what we do and why.

• The Good Shepherd we working on Jesus’s flight to Egypt, the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, The Baptism of Our Lord, and then we will learn all of our Lenten works: The Cenacle and City of Jerusalem.

 
SEMESTER CHANGES:
 
To better prepare your child for first grade, I began sending homework home during the second semester. Your child will have one Math homework, one Superkids’s paper, spelling words to practice, and reading thirty minutes each night.
 
Homework will be a daily occurrence unless we have a test. The best way to know if your child has homework is to check their folders. If there are papers on the “Return to Home” side of the folder, those papers are due the following day. Homework will began going home on Monday, February 4^th.


AR:
 
This semester Kindergarten is also participating in AR. Each student has a goal of 2 points! (Every book is .5, so it will take four books to complete their goal.) Please be reading the library book sent home each night. Students will test on the books sent home at least once a week. Information about how to log in and check your child’s progress on AR will be sent home in your child’s folder. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me!
 
I have truly enjoyed getting to know this wonderful Kindergarten class. It is a blessing to serve them as their teacher. Each one has a very different personality but, all of them have loving hearts for the Lord. Thank you for sharing your child with me this past semester. I’m looking forward to this next semester! We have so much left to learn!J
 
Sincerely,
 
Miss Kelly Sessions