Kindergarten

Welcome to Sacred Heart Kindergarten Home Page!

All you need to know about the class each week will be posted on this site.  

Our school theme this year is Are you ready to be a disciple of Jesus?

Additionally, each month we will look at a saint who represents our theme and a virtue we are trying to strengthen and demonstrate through our actions and words.

Our saint this month is our saint is St. Simon of Cyrene.

Our focus for this month is accompaniment. 

Here's what next week's schedule looks like: 

Winter uniforms are still required until April 7.  Please make sure your child is dressed in the winter uniform until then.  

Please return your child's RED folder on their regular day.   

Sunday, March 29 Palm Sunday Masses at Sacred Heart Church are at 8, 10:30 and 6 pm

Monday, March 30 Spanish

Tuesday, March 31  Art/Music, Library,

Wednesday, April 1 - 8:30 Mass, all are welcome, dismissal at 11:30

Thursday, April 2 Holy Thursday, no school, see link above for service times

Friday, April 3 Good Friday, no school, see link above for service times

For the full school calendar check out the school weekly newsletter.

Church website with information about Masses and prayer times are linked above.

For the monthly lunch menu look in the center section of the yellow folder.

Subject focus for this coming week: 

Religion: This week we will look at Holy Week.  We will use art to explore the last week of Jesus before his crucifixion.  We have been exploring virtues throughout Lent, forgiveness, love, friendship, patience...  The children are so full of wisdom in these subjects, they know that they want to follow the 2 great commandments: Love God and love others.  Thank you for sharing your children with us!

If you would like to learn more about the Catholic faith, Sacred Heart has a subscription to the streaming site FORMED.org.  To access it you can log on to https://formed.org and sign up.  It will ask for your zip code, 17603 and Sacred Heart will pop up, enter your name and email and you will be in.  There is content for adults and children.

ELA: We are focusing on decoding: seeing the letters, saying the sounds they make then pulling the sounds together.  We call it stretching out the word.  It must be done slowly and carefully to catch all the sounds.  We know that a word is not real without a vowel.  We are using the secrets to help us with digraphs and vowel sounds.  If you notice your child is missing letter names and/or sounds, practice makes better.  

Concepts of print to know: By now, all the children should be using a capital letter for the first letter of their name and all the rest are lower case. I will ask them to correct their name if it is not written with a capital letter at the beginning and all lower case following.  We are looking at before, after, beginning, end, middle, these are all concepts that your child needs to understand as they learn to recognize letters, words and sentences. We are looking at story order. We have a few children who are not solid with reading from left to right and top to bottom. Using your finger to follow the path of words in stories you read can help. We are looking for periods to end our sentences. Most of the children are proficient with recognizing words, where they begin and end.  A few are still not understanding the space between words helps to differentiate each word.  While you are reading with your child, occasionally point to the word so they can see each word individually.  

Heart Words: my, the, in, is, for, a, go, to, it, I, am, here, go, and, at, we, like, be, not, can, are, do, you, did, will, too, with, all, me, so, no, was, now, have, said, come, down, say, they, that, what, where, must, ate, our, who, this, we, he, she

RED Folder Instructions:  Please try to consistently return the RED folder each week and help your child practice with the activities inside.  We like to say, practice makes better, and this is true with reading and math concepts.  It doesn't need to be long practice times, but practice several times each week.  This will give you a snapshot of how your child is progressing with the skills and concepts they are learning, also. Thank you for helping me with the skills your child needs to practice.

Read every day!   (RED)That is the way to fluent reading.  Each week, your child will get 2 books to read to you.  Please do not read to your child, help them read to you.  They are learning to sound the words out and recognize heart words.  They may need a little help for the first few weeks but allow them to try first.  If you are noticing they are not recognizing the heart words, help them practice them with flash cards and by writing them.  Have your child reread the books multiple times during the week and they can read to anyone!  There will be a math activity each week for you to play with your child.  These activities will help to make the skills solid.  Please return the RED folder on the day written on the outside of the folder.  I will fill it with new activities and return it to you that same day. If your child forgets to return the folder on their day, send it back when you can and I will try to get it ready to come home that same day.   Please let me know if you have any questions.

Math: This week we are looking back at shapes, 2D and 3D.  Many of the children are not recalling the names of the 3D shapes and are missing the attributes that identify them. When we looked at them earlier in the year, we did not have our books. We will use the chapter in our book to recall and hopefully master the identification of them.  Looking around your world and asking your child to identify cubes, cylindars, spheres, cones, rectangular prisms and triangular prisms will help them see these shapes are a big part of our lives.

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