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🌸 Kindergarten Newsletter – Week of March 23 🌸

Hello Families! 😊
We have another fun and busy week ahead in Kindergarten! Here’s what we’ll be learning and important reminders:

📚 ELA (English Language Arts)

• Unit 7, Week 2

• Letter of the week: Ll

• High-Frequency Words: two, said

• Essential Question: Why do we celebrate people and events?

• Word Families: -in and -op

• Fluency Skills: inflection, intonation, and volume 🎤

• We will practice using inflections and affixes to help understand new words.

• Writing Focus: Complete sentences (capital letters, punctuation) ✏️

• Vocabulary Words: honor, laws, leader

• Spelling Words: log, lap, lip, let, lid

Students will continue working on reading, comprehension, decodable texts, and writing each day. 📖

🔢 Math Homework

• Monday: Page 601

• Tuesday: Page 607

• Wednesday: Page 613

• Thursday: Page 619

📌 No copybook this week
📄 Worksheets: Pages 121–124

✝️ Religion

• Learning about Easter and Holy Days 🌷

🌍 Social Studies

• Topics: History, Culture, and Geography

• Discussing important dates and events

📅 Important Dates & Reminders

📚 March 24 – KB will attend the Book Fair

• If you are using eWallet, please send a note or email to let me know 💌

🧦 March 25 – Mismatched socks on sale for $2.00

🎉 March 27 – $1.00 Dress Down Day
🧦 Rock your mismatched socks!

🥚 March 27 – Easter Egg Hunt

• Please send in 12 prefilled eggs if you have not already 🐣

✏️ Field trip forms are also due!

👵👴📚 Tuesday 3/31: Grandparents Day & Book Fair Visit
⏰ 11:45 AM dismissal.  Grandparents will have the opportunity to take students to the Book Fair. Please let me know if your child will be going home with their grandparent. A special friend may attend if a grandparent is not available.

✝️ April 1 – April 7: Easter Break – No School 🐰🌷 

🌷 April 8: Spring uniforms begin

Thank you for your continued support! 💕
Let’s have a wonderful week of learning and fun!

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🌟 Kindergarten Newsletter – Week of March 16, 2026 🌟

Dear Kindergarten Families,

The students continue to work hard, learn new skills, and show kindness to their classmates. Thank you for your continued support at home, it truly makes a difference! 💛

📅 Upcoming Dates

🍀 Tuesday 3/17: St. Patrick’s Day

      Students should wear regular school uniforms.

🥤 Shamrock Shakes after lunch

💃 Irish Dancers at 1:00 PM 

🧦 Friday 3/27: Rock your socks - wear mismatched socks. 

🥚 Monday 3/23: Please send in 12 filled eggs for our class egg hunt (no basket needed).

📚 Tuesday 3/24: KB will attend the Book Fair.
      If you would like your child to purchase a book, please send cash or a check made out to St. Thomas the Apostle School.

🐣 Friday 3/27: Class Egg Hunt
✏️ Field trip forms are also due!

👵👴📚 Tuesday 3/31: Grandparents Day & Book Fair Visit
⏰ 11:45 AM dismissal.  Grandparents will have the opportunity to take students to the Book Fair. Please let me know if your child will be going home with their grandparent. A special friend may attend if a grandparent is not available.

✝️ April 1 – April 7: Easter Break – No School 🐰🌷 

🌷 April 8: Spring uniforms begin

📚 Homework

➕ Math Homework

• Monday: Page 575

• Tuesday: Page 581

• Wednesday: Page 587

• Thursday: Page 593

✏️ Handwriting: Pages 57–58 (Neatness counts!)

📓 Copybook: No copybook homework this week.

🧠 What We Are Learning

➕ Math

• Chapter 11:

  • Join two-dimensional shapes

  • Build two-dimensional shapes

  • Review for test on Thursday

• Friday: Begin Chapter 12 – Two- and Three-Dimensional Shapes

✝️ Religion

• Appreciate new signs of life 🌱

• Begin learning the Easter story

🔬 Science

• Mammals 🐾

• Seasons 🍂🌸☀️❄️

• The five senses 👀👂👃👅✋

• Plant eaters 🌿

📖 ELA – Unit 7 Week 1

• Letter: W

• High-Frequency Words: have, are

• Word Family: -in

Students will also:

• Begin our Knowledge Focus: Holidays and Celebrations 🎉

• Build vocabulary and relate words to their opposites

• Ask and answer questions using question words

• Apply strategies to learn about holidays and celebrations

• Identify the main topic and retell key details

• Describe the connection between two events in the same text

• Identify and use prepositions

Thank you for helping make our classroom such a happy place to learn and grow! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

Have a wonderful week! 😊

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Kindergarten Newsletter 🍎
Week of March 9, 2026

Dear Kindergarten Families,

We have had quite a bit of lateness over the last few months. ⏰ Please try to have your child arrive by 8:20 AM so that there are fewer interruptions and students do not miss important work. We begin our academic instruction at 8:20 each morning, as our specials and centers take place in the afternoon.

If your child will be absent, sick, or late, please send an email to me and the nurse so we are aware. 📧

Uniform Reminders 👔

• Boys: The back of the hair should not come past the collar of their shirt or cover their ears. I have been spoken to a few times regarding the length of some of our boys’ hair. ✂️

• Ties must be worn with the boys’ uniforms.

• Girls: Please make sure there is a patch on their jumpers. 🪡

Snack Reminder 🍎🥨
Many children have not been bringing snacks lately. I do keep some Goldfish crackers for emergencies, but we are running low. Please remember to send a snack each day with your child.

Upcoming Dates 📅

• Wednesday 3/11: $1 Dress Down Day 👕

• Monday 3/23: Please send in 12 filled eggs for our class egg hunt (no basket needed). 🥚

• Friday 3/27: Class Egg Hunt 🐣 Field trip forms due!

• Tuesday 3/24: KB will attend the Book Fair 📚. If you would like your child to purchase a book, please send cash or a check made out to St. Thomas the Apostle School.

• Tuesday 3/31: Grandparents Day & Book Fair Visit 👵👴📚 – This is also a 11:45 noon dismissal. Grandparents will have the opportunity to take students to the book fair. Please let me know if your child will be going home with their grandparent. A special friend may attend if a grandparent is not available.

• April 8: Spring uniforms begin 🌷

Homework ✏️

Math

• Monday – p. 551

• Tuesday – p. 557

• Wednesday – p. 563

• Thursday – p. 569

ELA Workbook: Page 56

Copy Book: Write the word family words three times each (neatness counts):
fan, can, ban

What We Are Learning 📚

Math 🔺
We started Chapter 11: Two-Dimensional Shapes. Students are learning about triangles, rectangles, squares, hexagons, and circles. We also discussed sides and vertices.

ELA – Unit 6, Week 3 🔤

• Letter: D

• High Frequency Word Review: big, for, jump, no, one, with, you

• Essential Question: How do we know what is right?

• Vocabulary: brave, game, snares, tipi

Skills we are practicing include:
return sweep, end marks, blending, producing and recognizing rhymes, reading with expression, retelling key details of a story, and using question words.

We will also be completing the Unit 5 Assessment this week.

Religion ✝️
We are learning about Lent, Holy Days, and the idea of beginning anew.

Science 🔬
We are learning about animals, including mammals, reptiles, birds, and plant eaters (herbivores).

Thank you for your continued support! ❤️

Mrs. Hughes

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Kindergarten Newsletter
Week of March 2nd

Dear Families,

We have a busy and exciting week ahead in Kindergarten! Here is a look at what we are learning:

📚 ELA

This week we will focus on the letters G and review previously learned sounds.

High-Frequency Words: jump, one
Word Family: -ot

Students will practice reading and spelling the following words:
got, lot, dot, bot, hot, cot

Reading skills we are working on:

• Reading left to right
  
  

• Understanding page sequence
  
  

• Blending onset sounds
  
  

• Distinguishing syllables
  
  

• Reading with expression and appropriate pacing
  
  

• Understanding that words convey meaning
  
  

• Identifying similarities
  
  

• Using question words
  
  

• Understanding opinions and opposites
  
  

Essential Question: How do we know what is right?

Vocabulary Words: ignored, notice, practiced, represent

🔬 Science

We are learning about mammals and their characteristics.

✝️ Religion

We will continue learning about Lent and its meaning in our faith.

🔢 Math

We are starting Chapter 10, where students will:

• Count by 10s and 1s within 100
  
  

• Count by 10s starting from a given number
  
  

📝 Math Test on Friday

📅 Dates to Remember

• 3/2 – Read Across America Day / Dr. Seuss Week – Green Eggs and Ham Day
  
  

• 3/4 – Wacky Wednesday – Have your child come dressed wacky!
  
  

• 3/5 – Wear Crazy Socks
  
  

• 3/17 – St. Patrick’s Day Milkshakes
  
  

• 3/18 – Report Cards
  
  

• 3/19 – St. Joseph’s Day
  
  

• 3/24–3/31 – Book Fair (I will let you know when KB will attend.)
  
  

• 3/27 – Rock Your Socks Day - wear crazy socks
  
  

• 3/31 – Grandparents Day / Half Day of School
  
  

• April 1 – Easter Break Begins
  
  

🚌 Field Trip – May 15th

Field trip information will go home with your child this afternoon.

Thank you for your continued support! It’s going to be a wonderful week of learning!

Mrs. Hughes 🍎

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🌟 Kindergarten Newsletter

Week of February 9–13

Hello Kindergarten Families!

Here’s what we will be learning and celebrating this week in Kindergarten:

📚 ELA (Reading & Language Arts)

• Short U sound
  
  

• High-Frequency Words: big, with
  
  

• Word Family: -un
  
  

• Grammar:
  
  

  • Understanding the form and function of pronouns I and me
    
    

  • Identifying and using verbs
    
    

  • Using common being verbs in sentences
    
    

• Concepts About Print:
  
  

  • Page sequence
    
    

  • Reading left to right
    
    

  • Understanding that words are represented by letters
    
    

• Vocabulary Words: electricity, improved
  
  

• Essential Question:
  Why do we use technology?
  
  

• Fluency Skills:
  
  

  • Characterization and identifying feelings
    
    

  • Pacing, inflection, and self-correcting while reading
    
    

➗ Math

• Chapter 9
  
  

  • Show and count to 20
    
    

  • Count and write the number 20
    
    

  • Count on from a given number
    
    

  • Count to find how many
    
    

🌍 Social Studies

• Presidents’ Day
  
  

✝️ Religion

• St. Valentine
  
  

• God wants us to use our senses
  
  

🎉 Special Events & Reminders

Friday, February 13 – 100th Day of School!

• Please have your child wear their 100th Day shirt that they made.  This is a dress down day for kindergarten.
  
  

• Please send in 100 pieces of a snack for counting.
  
  

• A “10 groups of 10” counting worksheet will be sent home tomorrow to help with counting.
  
  

Valentine’s Party – Friday Afternoon

• Please send in 18 Valentine cards with only the “from” filled in.
  
  

• Snacks will be provided using the Kindergarten fee money.
  
  

🏠 Homework for This Week

Math

• Monday: Page 459
  
  

• Tuesday: Page 465
  
  

• Wednesday: Page 471
  
  

• Thursday: Page 477
  
  

ELA

• Letter U worksheet
  
  

• Copy Book: Write the sentence written in the copy book three times each day
  
  

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Dear Kindergarten Families 💕,

Happy February! ❄️ Here’s a look at what we’ll be learning and important dates to remember for the week of February 2, 2026.

📚 ELA (English Language Arts)

• Letter of the Week: B 🔤

• High-Frequency Words: and, you

• Essential Question: Why do we use technology? 💻

• Written words match spoken words

• Sentences are represented by words and letters

• Distinguish syllables 👏

• Identify and create rhymes 🎶

• Foundational skills fluency: character traits & feelings

• Describe character, setting, and major events in a story 📖

• Pronouns

• Draw inferences to learn about technology

Vocabulary Words:

• future

• appeared

• vanished

➕ Math

• Chapter 8

• Understand numbers 16–19

• Count and write 18 & 19

• Chapter review

• 📌 Math Test on Friday

✝️ Religion

• Proper genuflecting before entering the pew

• Church rules ⛪

• St. Michael Prayer

• God gives us our senses—students will discover that our 5 senses are gifts from God 🙏

🔬 Science

• The 5 senses 👀👂👃✋👅

• Seasons 🍂❄️🌸☀️

📅 Important Dates & Reminders

• 2/13 – 👕 100th Day of School!

  • 100th Day shirts & snacks due

  • 💌 Valentine’s Day Celebration

  • Please send in 18 valentines

    • Only your child’s name on the “from” line

    • Please do not address valentines to individual classmates

• 2/16 – ❌ NO SCHOOL

• 2/18 – ✝️ Ash Wednesday

• 2/22 – 🌿 First Day of Lent

• 2/27 – 🍪 $1.00 Dress Down & Bake Sale

Homework Assignments

Week of February 2, 2026

Math

• Monday: Page 431
  
  

• Tuesday: Page 437
  
  

• Wednesday: Page 443
  
  

• Thursday: Page 447
  
  

👉 Please complete only the one math page assigned for each day. I have only taught the lesson for that specific assignment.

Reading / Phonics

• Letter B worksheet

Writing

• Copybook: Write the assigned sentences 3 times each.

Thank you for all your support and cooperation! 💖 Please reach out if you have any questions.

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🌟 Kindergarten Weekly Newsletter

Week of January 20, 2026

Dear Families,

Below is an overview of what we will be learning this week, along with important announcements as we prepare for Catholic Schools Week.

📘 ELA (Unit 4, Week 3)

• Letter of the Week: H
  
  

• High-Frequency Word Review: little, play, a, has, he, is, she
  
  

• Skills & Concepts:
  
  

  • Capitalization
    
    

  • End punctuation
    
    

  • Recognizing rhyme
    
    

  • Phoneme isolation and categorization
    
    

  • Using expression when reading
    
    

  • Prepositions
    
    

  • Opinion writing
    
    

  • Comparing and contrasting adventures in stories
    
    

• Vocabulary Words: guided, leaped
  
  

🔢 Math (Chapter 8)

• Representing numbers 11–19
  
  

• Identifying groups of 10
  
  

• Counting, writing, and understanding numbers 11–13
  
  

• Vocabulary words: five, addition sentence
  
  

✝️ Religion

• Prayers: Hail Mary, Our Father, St. Michael Prayer
  
  

• Preparing for church and blessing ourselves
  
  

• Learning that God gave us emotions
  
  

• Activities and discussions for Catholic Schools Week
  
  

❄️ Science

• Finishing up our Arctic Animals unit
  
  

📌 Important Reminders

• No homework this week 🎉
  
  

• Attached you will find the Catholic Schools Week schedule (Begins Sunday, 1/25/26)
  
  

• Penny Pool: Please send coins with your child to drop into the water jugs located around the school during Catholic Schools Week.
  
  

• Book Fair: Kindergarten will attend Monday (1/26) morning during Catholic Schools Week
  
  

  • Please send money or sign up to use the Scholastic eWallet
    
    

• Friday (1/31) of Catholic Schools Week:
  
  

  • Grandparents Day
    
    

  • Half day of school
    
    

  • Please let me know:
    
    

    • If your child will be going home with grandparents
      
      

    • How many sets of grandparents will be attending
      
      

  • If you have multiple children at the school, grandparents will visit the youngest child’s classroom, and older siblings will join us there
    
    

Thank you for your continued support and involvement. Catholic Schools Week is always a special time for our students, and we are looking forward to a wonderful week together!

Warm regards,
Carrie 😊

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🌈 Kindergarten Newsletter

Week of January 12, 2026

Dear Families,

We are looking forward to a wonderful week of learning! Below is an overview of what we will be working on in Kindergarten.

📚 ELA (Reading & Writing)

• Letter of the Week: C
  
  

• High-Frequency Words: little, play
  
  

• Skills we are practicing:
  
  

  • Matching written words to spoken words 🔤
    
    

  • Reading fluency with phrasing 📖
    
    

  • Asking & answering questions ❓
    
    

  • Expressing opinions 💬
    
    

  • Using end punctuation ✏️
    
    

  • Independent writing
    
    

  • Reading practice 📘
    
    

➕ Math

• Chapter 7:
  
  

  • Using a group of 5 to subtract
    
    

  • Understanding related facts
    
    

• We will be reviewing for our math test on Friday 📝
  
  

✝️ Religion

• Theme: God Gives Us Feelings
  
  

  • Students will deepen their awareness of the many feelings God has given us ❤️😊😢
    
    

• We are preparing to begin going to Church at the end of the month ⛪
  
  

• Students are practicing:
  
  

  • Genuflecting
    
    

  • Our prayers 🙏
    
    

  • Self-control
    
    

🏠 Homework

• Letter C worksheet
  
  

• Copy Books: Students should write their High-Frequency Words three times each
  
  

• Math:

•    Monday: Page 353

  • Tuesday: Page 359

  • Wednesday: Page 365

🐧 Social Studies & Science

• Learning about Arctic animals ❄️🐻‍❄️

📅 Reminders

• January 19 – 🚫 NO SCHOOL

• January 25 – 🎊 Catholic Schools Week begins

Catholic Schools Week will end with a half day on Friday, January 31, which is also Grandparents Day 💙 (more information to come)

Thank you for your continued support at home. Have a wonderful week! 🌟

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Dear Kindergarten Families,

🎉 Happy New Year! 🎉
We are excited to welcome everyone back and begin a new week of learning. Here’s a look at what we will be working on:

📚 ELA

• Short vowel O

• High-Frequency Words: he, has

• Essential Question (Unit 4): Why do people tell stories? 📖

• Skills: rhyming fluency, creating mental images 🧠, phoneme categorization, blending, return sweep, prepositions, and identifying new meanings for familiar words

• Vocabulary Words: crash, spotted, directed, spun

➖ Math

• Chapter 7: Subtraction

• Understanding subtraction, “take from,” and number patterns 🔢

• Math Vocabulary: parts, whole, number sentence

✝️ Religion

• We will discuss how God gives us feelings

• Identifying our many feelings 😊😢😡

• Understanding that God knows how we feel

🐧 Social Studies & Science

• Learning about Arctic animals ❄️🐻‍❄️

📅 Reminders

• January 19 – 🚫 NO SCHOOL

• January 25 – 🎊 Catholic Schools Week begins

• Catholic Schools Week will end with a half day on Friday, January 31, which is also Grandparents Day 💙 (more information to come)

• We will begin attending Mass on the last Thursday of every month ⛪

Thank you for your continued support. We’re looking forward to a wonderful week of learning and fun!

Mrs. Hughes

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