Happy Friday!

 We had an awesome week in Kindergarten!

This week was a busy but fun week! We had an awesome time at Picture Day and sitting with our 6th grade buddies for Monthly School Mass!

In ELA this week we took our Unit 1 test! They all did so well at listening, following directions, and looking at their own paper. We are so impressed with how they did as well! I will be sending home those assessments to be signed next week. We also began using our new phonics program FUNdations! Right now we are focusing on letter-keyword-sound and writing letters. We use our helpers "Mama Echo" and "Baby Echo" to help us repeat! I will be sending home an information sheet on FUNdations & at home practice. Our letter of the week was 'Tt'! We met our next letter person Ms. T who has tall teeth! We finished the sentence "I brush my Tall Teeth with ..." in our letter journals, along with the Ms. T puppet. In math we continued our work in shapes by cutting out pictures in magazines and drawing on shaving cream on our desks! In science we learned all about pumpkins, their life cycle, and did a pumpkin volcano experiment outside! In Religion we spoke about taking care of God's gift of the land and created intention links for our school rosary. The students really enjoyed singing in Spanish, playing soccer in Gym, and reading It's Pumpkin Time & making pumpkins in Art!

We had a busy week in centers too! In the Word Work center the students filled in missing letters on an alphabet pumpkin vine and built sight words using letter pumpkins! In the discovery center, the students created a pumpkin with felt, yarn, and pumpkin seeds! They also filled in pre-made sentences about their pumpkins. In the math center we did pumpkin puzzles & an interactive counting seed game on the SmartBoard! They also read a book or played on the iPads in free center :). 

Next Week:

• Monday: Dress Down Day! If your child would like to participate in the dress down day, please send in $1. All proceeds go toward supporting the 7th grade's service project Ryan's Case for Smiles! 
• Tuesday: Popsicle Sale! 7th grade is also selling popsicles for $1 on Tuesday and Thursday next week during recess, to support the cause as well. 
• Thursday: Gym & Library day! Please be sure to send your child in with their library book. They will not be able to check another book out until the previous one is returned. Also, Home & School's Speaker Series at 7PM!
• Friday: JDRF Walk with the Principal! This walk supports juvenile diabetes and we will walk once or twice around the block with the school. Please send your child in wearing their gym uniform. 

We hope you have a wonderful weekend! :) Go Phillies!!

Best,

Miss Ryan & Mrs. Lowe