Week 28
March 9-13, 2026
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NEWS ON OUR SCHOOL CAMPUS:
WORLD RENEW SERVICE PROJECT:
For our Easter service project, HCS will be collecting money to donate to World Renew. “World Renew partners with local churches and organizations around the world to bring holistic programs that transform communities in every area of need. Our goal is systemic, generational change in five key areas: Peace and Justice, Community Health, Food Security, Economic Opportunity and Disaster Response.” From the About Us section of the World Renew website.
How can you participate? As a family, discuss what your goal is for donation. Encourage your children to participate in earning and the giving of their own money. Provide ways for them to earn money and talk about tithing part of it. Have them look for change around the house to donate. If you as parents would like to make a donation, also include your children in the discussion of what you will be donating and why. Teachers will be sharing this project and information about World Renew and the gift catalog on Monday and over the next three weeks. Donations (cash or check made out to HCS - you can get a donation receipt) will be accepted starting March 9 until March 20. You may send them in an envelope that is clearly marked “World Renew Donation” with your child to give to their teacher. The classroom teachers will be keeping track of donations and assisting the students in picking out what the class would like to “purchase” from the gift catalog. What each grade level purchased will be shared at Easter Chapel on March 25.
EASTER EGGS FOR OUR CLASS:
Both the Kindergarten classes will be having an Easter Egg Hunt on Friday March 27! If you are able, we would love for a donation of 12 eggs from each child to be sent to their Kindergarten teacher, so that we have enough eggs to share with everyone! Please feel free to send Easter Eggs filled with candy, or send plain Easter Eggs, and I will fill them with candy. Thank you so much for your donation!
With Love,
Beth Morse
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:
“Then I heard every creature in heave and on earth and under the earth and on th sea, and all that is in them saying, "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!"
Revelations 5:13
A test will be given on Friday, March 13 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: Revelations 5:12-13 with your child. We will continue to have discussions about this verse in class too.
Calendar/ Announcements
CALENDAR OF EVENTS COMING UP:
MARCH 9: HCS Annual Golf Tournament
MARCH 18: End of the 3rd Quarter
MARCH 25: Easter Chapel: Preschool-8th
MARCH 27: Easter Egg Hunt
MARCH 30- APRIL 6: Easter Break
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 Ww:
We will be learning how to form the letter Ww in class, and will continue to learn all about this letter 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 Friday, March 13. Here are the new Math Facts: 7+0, 7+1, 7+2, 7+3.
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: ask, black, look, drink
Our test on these words will be on Friday, March 13. 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 Friday, March 13, bring in an item that begins with Ww.
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 March 9-13)
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: Unit 5- 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 Ww! Please practice letter Ww identification and recognition and formation. You will see Superkids Letter Ww worksheets coming home this week!
Writing: We will be working on writing the letter Ww and writing sentences on our own by sounding out the words.
Science: Unit E: Lessons 3 and 4
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, ask, black, look, drink (highlighted words will be tested this week).
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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