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 Fruits of the Holy Spirit

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 Saint Martin of Tours.

Our focus for this month is generousity, sharing our time, talent and treasures with others happily.  All year, we will be trying to grow the fruits of the Holy Spirit in ourselves.  Check out this link to see ways we can grow the fruit of the month.

Please return your child's yellow folder every day!   

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

Monday, November 2: STREAM; 

Tuesday, November 3: Music

Wednesday, November 4: Tech, Gym

Thursday, November 5:  Art

Friday, November 6: Mass @ 8:30 all are welcome, 

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

Sacred Heart 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.

Looking ahead:

Subject focus for this coming week: 

Religion: This week we will look at saints.  Sunday we celebrate All Saints Day, a day to remember those who have gone before us, and we believe, in to everlasting life with God. Monday we look at All Souls Day, a day to remember all who have died, to pray for them in the hopes  that they too are in Heaven.  We are all called to be saints.  God loves us, even sending His only Son to suffer and die to pay for our sins.  He wants us to spend eternal life with Him.  We will, also, look at families.  God created us to be part of a family and each member is important.  We will look at ways to help our families be loving and strong. This is the reason we give our children jobs or chores around the house, it gives them a sense of belonging and responsibility to help the family!

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: This week we will name the letters that make the sounds we have been reviewing.  These are the beginning skills of writing.  We will distinguish the vowels from the consonants and recognize the vowel sounds are very important for the meaning of words. An example would be cat vs. cot.  We are continuing to review letters and their sounds.  We are peeling off the first letter of words and then putting it together again (fox = f + ox = fox).  We are working on listening to the sounds in words and conneting the sounds to letter names to write words. We are learning the concepts of print, knowing how print works (directionality, parts of a book, letters and words, etc.).  We are learning functional vocabulary such as describing words, how things are the same or different and looking at rhyme.  With writing, we continue to practice  leaving a space between words to identify the beginning and ending of words, as well as a punctuation mark at the end.

Heart Words:  Through our phonics program, Countdown, we have been introduced to words we will call Heart words, words we will need to know by heart.  Currently we have looked at : the, my, in, I, a, for, is.

Math: This week we will continue to look at writing the numbers correctly.  Do not be alarmed if your child begins to write numbers, or letters, in reverse.  That is a normal progression as the children are learning new things, they are concentrating more on being correct with the new information and the things they have know they don't concentrate on.  We are also looking at identifying sets of objects that have more/less/equal amounts as other sets.  This can be practiced at home randomly, when you have a few items with toys, food, crayons, etc.

Wish List:  baby wipes

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