Good Morning ~ Jan 22th 2014
I have made some changes to this that I hope you take a second to read.
****First I apologize for the duplicate home works for 2 days this week. The
week I went to the Kindergarten Conference, my aids made the homework
and I didn’t realize they had used those 2!
***Secondly, Thursday is PJ Day at for Catholic Schools’ Week. Your
student is permitted to wear their PJ’s to school Tomorrow, Thursday
January 30th!
I’m sending this home early so everybody knows about open house and the
events of next week.
Welcome to Catholic Schools Week!
This Sunday, the 26th is Open House
Noon Mass is for Students
&
Open House is 1-3:30pm
 Monday ~Opening pep rally (9:30 am) and Spirit
wear
 Tuesday ~Teacher appreciation and Prayer
partner Bingo (10 am)
 Wednesday ~ Parent appreciation and Career
Day, K only dresses up for Career Day
 Thursday ~ Student Appreciation, drop
everything and read and Friday ~CSW wrap up
and students get to wear church clothes to
school
Out of uniform days.
 Spirit Wear: St. Thomas More Clothing or Red & White
 Career Day: Please have your child choose a career they
would like to do when they grow up and dress as that career
person
 PJ Day: Please wear appropriate pajamas
 Dress-up day: Clothes they would wear to church
 A reminder that the students have gym on Wednesday and Thursday, so if
you think of it, please throw gym shoes in their bag if they wore boots!
 Please be sure that your child is putting their first and last name on all
homework!
 Marvelous Me this week is Nicholas Phillips!
 Valentine’s Party is on an early dismissal day, so the party is switched to
Noon!
(While I’m on that topic, if you happen to do things WAY ahead of time,
please do NOT do Valentine’s cards for the class. This will actually be part
of their homework the week before Valentine’s Day! You are welcome to buy
them, but please don’t let them fill them out yet.)
Unit: The Solar System
This week we are studying about Mercury.
Characteristics of Mercury:
Inner planet
Closest planet to the sun
Second smallest planet
No living things
No water
Hard to see with a telescope
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~Paper Mache Planets~
In 2 weeks, the week of the February 3rd &10th, we will begin making our
Paper Mache planets by putting a first layer on Wednesday the 5th from
9-10. We will let them dry for a couple days and put a second layer on
Friday, the 7th from 9:30-10:30. We will paint the following Monday and
Wednesday at 9am! Please email me if you can come in to help on any or
all of the days! You are also welcome to send in a note containing the
time and day you would like to help! There are 28 kids and 10 different
rolling objects to make, so I’d really like to have 10 parents each day!
(please plan on coming 15 min early and staying 10-15 minutes later.) If
you are capable of doing multiple days, please be sure to note that in your
emails! I will send a final schedule home next week so everyone knows
where to be and when! We will also be adding Monday the 4th to paint the
planets!
Finally, please send in a shirt your child can wear, that you don’t care if it
gets messy!
Email me any or all of the dates you can come in:
Wednesday the 5th at 9am
Friday the th 7th at 9:30 am
Monday the 10th at 9am
Wednesday the 12th at 9am
Thanks again!
Handwriting
These are the letters we have
accomplished and the students
should be writing them with super
accuracy!
L l
d C c
I i T t O o A a D
E e F f
U u
S
s
Language Arts
I will be testing the students on their sight words next week, so please be sure
you go over them a few times to be sure they are ready!
You may also here the students talking about blends and clusters in the
next few weeks. One of the areas of our calendar period is Language
Arts, where we write the events for the day. From these events I pull out a
spelling or language lesson for the day. For example; the last few weeks
we really focused on end marks ( . =periods, ?= question marks and
!=excited marks). This week did our very first blend of “st.” A blend is
when 2 letters go together but don’t lose their identities. We also did
diagraphs or clusters like, the “h” brothers: sh, th, wh, ch with the speech
teacher on Wednesday. This is when 2 letters grouped together make a
whole new sound! Each day we will do so little activity with these
groupings and hopefully the students will not have to struggle to come
up with both letters while spelling. We have conquered s + t = “st” /p +
l = “pl” / b + r = “br”!
Library
We will not be having library this week because of the
Catholic Schools Week activities. Please send in books
as usual and I will try to check out books for the
students that have returned them.
Religion
EVERYTHING is
religion….It’s
Catholic Schools
Week!!!
Upcoming Events
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Friday/Tonight: is Ladies’ Night out.
Saturday: the 25th. Father Daughter Dance 7-10
February 5 Red’s Fest out of Uniform Begins
February 14th: Early Dismissal
February 14th: Valentine’s Parties at Noon
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What job would you like to do when you grow up?
Who is our Marvelous Me this week?
Name 2 characteristics of Mercury ?
Homework
Monday: LA ~ Career Worksheet
Tuesday: Unit ~ Planet Pictures
Wednesday: LA ~ Parent Appreciation Day….No Homework, but I’m including a copy of
our song for your student to sing to you!!!!
Thursday: Math ~ Count the objects
Enjoy your Catholic Schools’ week and
Thank you for choosing MORE for your
child!
Ms. Mulvey