September Newsletter

Kindergarten, Room 2
Upcoming Events
Mrs. Crowley acrowley@sksschool.org
Mrs. Lowe slowe@sksschool.org 9/18: $1 DRESS DOWN DAY!
(Students may wear whatever they
want today!!)

Dear Parents, 9/23: Monthly School Mass 9:00am-

this will be live streamed for those
Our first month of school has finally arrived! We are so excited to begin who would like to tune in!
this journey with your child. Below you will find an overview of our
curriculum for this month and some other general reminders. It is
completely normal to have exhausted kiddos the first few weeks of
school. There are many changes and new routines to adjust to and we Reminders:
will help them every step of the way.
Tomorrow your child will bring
home their first homework
Sincerely,
packet of the year! Look out for
Mrs. Crowley and Mrs. Lowe  this week’s sight words and the
worksheets/Seesaw assignments to
complete this week. The
homework packet will come home
on Tuesday each week and will
What are we learning this month? need to be completed and
returned by Friday. It is best to do
ELA a little bit each night instead of
trying to complete everything all
In reading we will read and discuss several books in addition to other read at once. Please complete all work
alouds throughout the day. Titles will include: What Makes a Family?, How Do in pencil unless otherwise noted!
Dinosaurs Go To School?, Please Puppy Please, Pizza at Sally’s, and The Little Specials Schedule
Red Hen. We will focus on the following comprehension skills: main idea,
characters, and setting. In grammar we will begin to explore nouns and verbs. Monday: SPANISH
Students will also be writing words in their journals to fill in the blank of a
Wednesday: ART
provided sentence. We will help them to sound out the words they want to write!
We will also focus on rhyming words and beginning sounds. Finally, we will Thursday: MUSIC
begin our weekly sight words. Each week the children will bring home a word
ring with the words for the week already printed inside. The words for the week Friday: GYM
will also be listed on the weekly homework sheet. Take a few minutes each day
to review these words. We will also be working on them in class. Please be sure
the word ring returns to school on Fridays.

Math

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We will review numbers 0-10 on a daily basis and focus on number recognition
and one to one correspondence. We will also work through Chapter 1 in our
math text about Sorting/Classifying.

Religion
We will work through Chapters 1 through 3 which focus on different parts of the
Creation story. We will discuss all of the wonderful things God has made. We
will also begin talking about Jesus and his mother Mary. Throughout the year we
will be engaging in various forms of prayer, focus on making the sign of the
cross correctly, and praying reverently.

Science/Social Studies/Seasonal
We will focus our investigations on apples and how they grow. We will also
discuss the scientific skills of observation and making a hypothesis. We will
even do our first science experiment the first week of school! Our Social Studies Other Important
will focus on getting to know each other, friendship skills, and ways to stay Reminders
healthy/social distancing.
*Please remember to pack a lunch,
2 peanut-free snacks per day for
Handwriting/Fine Motor your child, napkins, and a water
bottle. All snacks should be
We will begin working in our handwriting books each day. Also, the students
packed inside your child’s
will work on a targeted fine motor activity each day to develop the muscles in lunchbox.
their hands which help us become strong writers! Activities will include: tracing,
cutting, stringing beads, and using small stickers. *If there is a last minute change in
your child’s dismissal, please be
sure to call the office OR email
Learning Centers both Mrs. Crowley and Mrs.
Lowe.
Each week the students will rotate between 5 centers: Word Work, Math, Art,
Discovery, and Free Choice. Centers will be different each week and connect to *At this time we are already
our curriculum goals. stocked with paper and cleaning
products. To save space, we will
PLAY! This is just as important as everything listed above!!! We will spend wait to request these until later
this year! 
a lot of time outside! In the classroom students will play with different materials
each day that are just for them to use. * Please send in a beach towel
labeled with your child’s name.
We will use this sometimes when
we go outside. Thanks!

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