General Reminders

• Click on the FILES tab kindergarten documents

• Make sure your child has a towel in his/her lunch box every day.

• Lunches and snacks need to be in separate bags.  The whole snack must fit in one bag.  The whole lunch, including the towel, must fit in the lunch box.

• Snacks need to healthy food.  It is not treat time.  Children should not be bringing chips, cakes, cookies, etc. each day for snack.

• Please make sure your child's name is on EVERYTHING!  Snack bags, lunch boxes, backpacks, sweatshirts, sweaters, coats, etc...

• When you are sending money/checks into school, please put it in an envelope or zipper bag.  Please make sure your child's name and what the money is for is written on the envelope or bag.

• Please check your child's folder every night and take out all of the papers, especially on Fridays.  Don't send folders back to school the next day full of papers.  Keep a folder at home to keep track of the papers at home.  

• Students may not wear ankle socks to school.  Students must wear plain, white crew socks when wearing shorts.  Crew socks must also be worn on PE day.  Girls may wear the white or maroon knee high socks when wearing the jumper or skort.  

• Please pull up to the curb out front and drop off your children in the drop off zone.  Pull up as far as you can.  DO NOT STOP AT THE DOOR.  You should not be parking behind the school or on the sides of the school and walking to the door.

• When you pick up from the Kindergarten only lane at dismissal, remember you must leave immediately.  You do not have time to talk and play once the children come outside.  We have 5 minutes to clear that lane for regular dismissal.  

Uniform Reminders

Warm Weather uniforms: These can be worn until October 16 and begin again on April 15.  Students can wear tan shorts and skorts with sneakers with polo tops.  Girls can also wear the peter pan collar shirt with tan shorts or skorts.  For PE they wear the maroon shorts and gray t-shirt.  

Regular uniforms:  Boys can wear the gray pants, polo shirt, and black dress shoes.  Girls can wear the jumper, peter pan collar shirt, knee socks, and black dress shoes.  Girls can also wear the gray pants. Both boys and girls can wear the sweatshirt or uniform sweater with these options.  

PE uniforms must be worn on Mondays.  PE uniforms are the maroon shorts, sweatpants, gray t-shirt, sweatshirt, and sneakers.  Please make sure your child wears the gray t-shirt and not just the sweatshirt.

Spirit Wear Days

• Must wear a spirit wear shirt.  If you do not have one, please wear your regular uniform for that day

• No Crocs, backless shoes, or flip-flops

• Sneakers must be worn if PE day

• Must have on a uniform bottom if you have no spirit wear bottoms

• No pajama pants, including SJS pajama pants

• School spiritwear only; this includes shirts from clubs and school activities

• No SJAA sports uniforms are allowed

Snack & Lunch Reminders

Please make sure your child has a clean towel inside of their lunch box each day.  Please include all utensils.  Make sure the containers you send can be opened by your child.

Please make sure your child's snack is in a separate container.  DO NOT pack it inside the lunch box!  

Please make sure your child still brings a lunch box and towel on Hot Lunch Days.  We need the towel and the box is needed for leftovers!

LETTER/WORD OF THE WEEK

Letter of the Week: Long /i/

Word of the Week:  "has"  "play"

When we focus on the letter of the week, your child should be mastering the name and sound the letter makes.  I will also teach the proper way to write the letter. 

Words in Our Card Box:  I  can  the  we  see  a  like  to  and  go  you  do  my  are  with  he  is  little  was  she  for  have  of  they  said  want  here  me  this  what  too  help  has  play

zero  one  two  three  four  five  six  seven  eight  nine  ten

red  blue  yellow  green  pink  purple  brown  white  black  purple

January  February  March  April  May  June  July  August  September  October  November  December

Sunday  Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday

MATH

We will finish our math book this week!  We are going to use some supplemental materials and go back over numbers above 20.

We will start to review math facts to 5 and then 10.  We will learn how to do addition drills.  We will also begin to use addition flash cards to practice memorizing the facts.  You can begin to also use flash cards at home to help with the memorization.

BIRTHDAYS   

Happy May Birthdays to...           

                           Aubrey on the 10th

                                                      Brooks on the 28th

STAR OF THE WEEK

                      We are finished!

s Star of the Week presentation will be on our Seesaw Blog on Monday.   

Click the link below.     

https://app.seesaw.me/blog/ka20232024