Week 26
February 23-27, 2026
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NEWS ON OUR SCHOOL CAMPUS:
GRANDPARENTS DAY INFORMATION: FEBRUARY 27:
Following our Grandparents' Day activities on Friday, February 27, the seventh grade class will be hosting an In 'N' Out lunch fundraiser on our campus. Each meal consists of a cheeseburger, a bag of potato chips, and a bottle of water. Consider bringing a blanket and making it a picnic, or you may eat your lunches at any of the picnic tables across the campus. Lunch will be available beginning at 11:30 and tables will be set up outside the 4th and 5th grade classrooms. The cost for each meal is $10; please bring cash or a check (payable to Hanford Christian School).
This fundraiser helps fund the students' trip to Washington DC in the spring of 2027. This is a wonderful trip and an experience they will never forget.
Additionally, our school is hosting a book sale in the gym. When you have finished eating, please check it out. Here is the Google Form Link:
Thank you,
Mrs. Zylsta
NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY:
The library will host a book fair in the gym, Feb.23-27. Students will have the opportunity to preview books and create a “wish list” of books which interest them. They will be able to make purchases during their usual library visit. If you choose to send payment with them, please remember to add appropriate tax. The book fair will also be open after school, Monday -Friday . Refer to the “Warrior” for after-school sales schedule, as well as a code for online sales. HCS will receive a portion of the sales for book purchases!
Librarians,
Mrs. Van Der Kooi
Mrs. Robinson
Thank you to our sweet volunteers who are coming into our classroom! If you would like to volunteer, please let me know! I would love to have volunteers during our center times from 10:00-11:30 daily. Please let the office know if you would like to volunteer at any capacity on our campus. They will give you a background check first, and then will let me know when you can come into our classroom to volunteer! Thank you so much for your sweet offers to help our class already!
EVENT PARKING:
If you pick up your student at the end of the school day in the event parking lot (on the north side of the gym) please promptly pick up your child by 3:10pm. If you are arriving after 3:10pm, your child will be in the office waiting for you.
Morning Routines:
Students may be dropped off at school 7:45am and after to have a nice recess time with friends on the playground before coming to school.
Memory Verse
MEMORY VERSE:
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you."
Matthew 7:7
A test will be given on Thursday, February 26 to see how well your student can remember this verse. This will be placed in the Gradebook. Remembering God's Word helps us in so many areas of life. I will help your student remember the words with actions and guidance, during the test. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Please continue to discuss the school wide memory verses: Matthew 22:37-40 with your child. We will continue to have discussions about this verse in class too.
Calendar/ Announcements
CALENDAR OF EVENTS COMING UP:
FEBRUARY 24: Kings County Spelling Bee 9am: 1st Grade, 1:30 pm 2nd Grade
FEBRUARY 25: Kings County Spelling Bee 9am: 3rd Grade, 1:30 pm 4th Grade
FEBRUARY 26: Kings County Spelling Bee 9am: 5th Grade, 1:30 pm 6th Grade
FEBRUARY 27: Kings County Spelling Bee 9am: 7th Grade, 1:30 pm 8th Grade
FEBRUARY 27: Grandparents Day: Please see the invitation that was sent home, School ends at 11:30, please fill out this Google Form Link
MARCH 2: Open Enrollment begins for Preschool -8th Grade
MARCH 4: Mother's Club Meeting 8:00-9:00
MARCH 6: Book Character Dress Up and Parade Day
MARCH 9: HCS Annual Golf Tournament
HOT LUNCH
Your child is able to order Hot Lunch, and White Milk or Chocolate Milk. Please don't forget to email me when your child is having Hot Lunch and their milk preference before 8:15am. Thank you!
Your FACTS account will be charged for your child's hot lunch orders.
DRESS CODE
Please check the HCS handbook for the dress code rules. Your child will be talked to with an administrator if they are not in dress code.
Please be mindful of the dress code at our school. A full explanation of the dress code is found on P. 9 in the Parent/Student Handbook. Before your child leaves for school, please check that their shorts (6' inseam for 3rd and up) or skirt (for girls) are not too short, their shirts have sleeves and are not too short to show the midriff if their hand is raised, and that they have close toed shoes on. Leggings/bike shorts are only permitted for K-4th grade if the shirt is long enough to cover the bottom. Thanks for your help!
EVENT PARKING:
If you pick up your student at the end of the school day in the event parking lot (on the north side of the gym) please promptly pick up your child by 3:10pm.
ICE CREAM:
Every Friday, our HCS 5th Graders will sell ice cream for 1 dollar. This is a fundraiser for their Hume Lake trip that they will participate in! Thank you for your willingness to support them!
SPIRIT WEAR: On Fridays, your students are encouraged to wear their HCS shirts and outfits! When your child wears their spirit shirt, they will get entered into a school-wide raffle for a prize.
OUR HOMEWORK:
High Frequency Words (Sight Words) /Math Facts
Letter Pp:
We will be learning how to form the letter Mm and Pp in class, and will continue to learn all about these letters this week. I would love to partner with you to help you work at home with your child on this letter writing.
MATH FACTS: 0+1, 0+2, 0+3, 0+4, 0+5, 1+1, 1+2, 1+3, 1+4, 2+1, 2+2, 2+3, 3+1, 3+2, 4+1, 3+0, 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 4-3, 3-3, 3-2, 3-1, 5-4, 4-4, 4-3, 4-2, 4-1 (A test will be given with these Math Facts that is timed for 2 minutes.)
In addition to the 2 minute math test, we will be learning these new Math Facts and testing on them on Thursday, February 26. Here are the new Math Facts: 5+1, 5+2, 5+3, 5+4, 5+5.
Please help your student learn these facts by memory by showing them items from home that they can add together. For example, 5 cheerios, and then subtract 4 on the plate, and 5-4=1. Other items that can be used are M&Ms and toys as well. Please practice these facts orally and physically daily to help your child remember them. 4 is a number that is very important in Math.
NUMBERS 0-10: Please continue to practice these numbers. These numbers all start at the Strawberry Line and I would love to partner with you to help your child write these numbers from the top of the line. Please let me know if you have any questions about this. Our songs:
1: Come right down and that is all to make the number 1.
2: Curve around and slide to the right to make the number 2.
3: Curve in and around again to make the number 3.
4: Down, over, down some more to make the number 4.
5: Down, around, put on a hat, to make the number 5.
6. Curve around and curl it up to make the number 6.
7. Slide to the right and slant it down to make the number 7.
8. Make an S and close the gate to make the number 8.
9. Make a circle and then a line to make the number 9.
10. Make a one and then a zero to make the number 10!
HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: will, went, they, seven
Our test on these words will be on Thursday, February 26. The students will be asked to orally read out loud these words for a grade in the Gradebook. Please email me if you have any questions about this and I would love to partner with you! One fun idea is to have your child find these words in the church bulletin, and circle them and read them aloud. Another idea is to have your child go on a Hide and Seek hunt for these words in the living room. They can be on flashcards, and your child can find them and say the word aloud as they find them in your house. These are words we have already learned and this will be a test to see if your student knows them long term, and can recognize them in sentences.
Penmanship: A penmanship rubric for our daily handwriting in Kindergarten through 2nd grades was sent out. This rubric will be used from now on, and your child will receive their penmanship grade in their folder on Mondays for the previous week. This will create a standardized penmanship grade that the students can understand clearly and achieve well. Please let me know if you have any questions about this penmanship grade.
Optional Show And Tell and Daily Mail/Reading
*SHOW AND TELL: On Thursday, February 26, bring in an item that begins with Pp.
OPTIONAL IDEAS TO CREATE A HOME AND SCHOOL CONNECTION:
Daily Mail: Please write a sentence (with the guidance at home that I talked about during conferences) to me, illustrate it, and then share in front of the class. (We have a nice mailbox in our classroom where the students love to place their mail. They can tell you all about it!)
Daily Reading: Please bring one of the books back that I sent, after reading it with your parents, and then your child will read it in front of our class.
Specials: Begin this week
Our specials this week are: (Week of February 23-27)
Monday: Music, Spanish, PE: Please have your students bring tennis shoes for PE without black bottoms on the shoes to protect the gym floor.
Tuesday: Library and Art
Wednesday: Computers!
Thursday: PE: Please have your students bring tennis shoes for PE without black bottoms on the shoes to protect the gym floor.
Friday: None
What we are learning!
Bible: Jesus teaches to the crowds, and explains parables.
Math: We are ending Unit 4 this week with Unit 4 test. We will begin Unit 5 this week. As you see worksheets come home with your child's math work, please help them practice forming the numbers and the quantities. You will see worksheets from Math Expressions coming home this week. We will continue learning how to identify and write the numbers 0-10.
Reading: We are practicing identifying the letters in our names and writing our names, and learning letter Pp! Please practice letter Pp identification and recognition and formation. You will see Superkids Letter Pp worksheets coming home this week!
Writing: We will be working on writing the letter Pp and writing sentences on our own by sounding out the words.
Science: Weather and the Sky God created
High Frequency words: had, has, his, hot, get, let, tell, well, fast, if, off, of, got, not, at, sit, is, did, it, its, I, a, and, the, us, cut, but, full, can, go, you, like, to, my, for, see, we in, said, was, best, big, red, on, no, him, must, upon, help, pull, stop, put, will, went, they, seven (highlighted words are this week's high frequency words)
We are having an "OWL" of a
time in Kindergarten!
Your students are such a blessing to me, and to their classmates! We are loving every minute of time in class together!
In Christ's love,
Mrs. Morse
email: bmorse@hanfordchristian.org
Office Hours: 7:00am - 4:00pm * I will respond to emails within 24 hours, during my office hours.
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