Welcome to Kindergarten!

 

Dear new students and families,

 

I am so excited to welcome all of you to our KB classroom this year! We have so much to look forward to this year and I can’t believe our first day of school has already come and gone so quickly! It was a pleasure to meet your children and so many of you as you helped them make their way down the hallway to our classroom!

I will provide you with important information about our classroom and the school on Back to School Night, which will be held on September 14^th. Until then, I will provide you with information outlining a typical day in our classroom. (I know how fun it is to know what your child is up to at any given time during the school day!)

 

At 7:45 our school doors open. Students enter classroom, unpack their backpacks and turn in any important notes and papers. It is very important that all papers, notes, money orders, etc. be placed in the red communication/homework folder. We will not be looking in students’ book bags. However, will be collecting the students’ folders each morning they are returned to school. We will send school notices and information pertaining to our classroom home in these folders every Tuesday and Thursday. (When sending money in to school, please send it to school in a sealed envelope. Parents should write the amount and what the money is for on the outside of the envelope. If sending a check, please write your child’s name somewhere on the check).

 

*Our first week of school we send these red folders home frequently since we have many important forms to send home that will need to be filled out quickly.

 

Finally, students go to their tables and complete a morning work activity. (Morning activity may involve manipulatives, toys, written assignments, or books)

 

At 8:00 – 8:10 we have announcements and prayers and the school day officially begins after prayers.

 

8:30 attendance (if student is not in classroom after prayers, they are marked absent). Last year we began using a new sign-in procedure for tardy students. If you arrive after the patrols have gone in at 8:05 a.m. please park your car in the lower lot behind the church. A parent MUST walk your child up to the morning entrance under the awning in the back. An 8^th grade patrol will remain at this door until after prayers to let tardy students in the building. A parent must sign their child in. No cars are allowed to drive up to the gym/Christopher Hall upper lost to drop off children.

 

Pledge of Allegiance and students sing a patriotic song such as “America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee)” and greet each other with a special good morning song.

 

Morning message (greet students and explain standards we will cover that day in child friendly language).Morning message is posted throughout the day so that standards and the daily schedule remains visible at all times). Morning message will be very interactive and will provide students with an opportunity become familiar with sight words, writing the date, using context clues to fill in blanks with words that make sense, etc.

 

Helpers chart (jobs will change each week so that students have frequent opportunities to take responsibility for their classroom through various jobs)

 

 

Calendar Time

 

8:45 – 9:15 Religion. We always begin religion class with two very special prayers, The Our Father and the Hail Mary prayer. We will also be learning to pray the rosary.

 

9:20 Math (our first math chapter will focus on patterns and shapes).

 

10:00 snack and class bathroom break

 

10:15 – 10:30 morning recess

 

10:30 – 11:30 Reading and Language Arts

 

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch and Recess (Thank you, Thank you for becoming lunch angels!! Also, please remember to pack a trash bag – this can be a plastic grocery bag, plastic newspaper bag, etc. – so that your children can take their trash home in their lunch box).

 

12:30 - Bathrooms by table and sharing or teacher read aloud (5 students will be assigned sharing each week. I will send a note home Tuesday in the red communication folder). Each Friday 5 students will bring something in to share with the class.)

 

Specials

Monday: Computers

 

Tuesday: P.E -- On P.E days the children should come to school in their P.E uniform. They may also wear their spring school uniform (de Chantal shorts and polo) with sneakers if they choose.

 

Wednesday: Music

 

Thursday: Library

 

Friday: Art).

 

We will have occasional rest time in the afternoon throughout the year (especially during the month of September). Students should bring in a blanket in a plastic bag. Blankets should have student names written on them.

 

On days we do not rest, we will have social studies and science in the afternoon.

 

I look forward to seeing you again at Back to School Night and feel so blessed to be able to share this kindergarten year with you!

Love, Ms. Moore