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February 5, 2010 IMPORTANT: OUR VALENTINE PARTY WILL BE FROM 1-1:45 ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR THEY HAVE SCHEDULED A SHOW OF LOVE AT 2 FOR US. IF YOU DID NOT SEND IN $2 TO COVER THE ICE CREAM SUNDAE PARTY, PANCAKES AND POPCORN, PLEASE SEND IT IN THIS WEEK BAKE SALE FOR HAITI Thank you to Mrs. Aquino for selling our baked goods and to everyone who donated treats. We raised $550 for Haiti! Thank you sooooooo much! BOOTS Several children are forgetting boots each day. Please make sure you send them each day or your child will not be able to play outside – it is not much fun to stand against the building. Thank you!! WOW! The children are coming along with their addition! Besides their math books, we also do flash cards and addition bingo to help them. We will start subtraction after vacation. If your child is struggling, please help at home. VALENTINE’S DAY Thank you to Kates’ mom and dad for organizing our party. Thank you if you offered to send something in to make our day special. Our party will be at 1 on February 11th if you would like to join us. PLEASE SEND IN YOUR CHILD’S VALENTINES ON OR BEFORE THAT DAY-THEY WILL BE DISAPPOINTED IF THEY HAVE NONE TO DELIVER. I sent home a class list to help you-if you have misplaced it, please drop me a note and I will send a new one for you. LITTLE MISS U We will meet Little Miss U and her upsy-daisy umbrella next week. Watch for U/V homework to come home. We will be making lollipops for Mr. L since Catholic Schools Week was very busy. RESURRECTION CELEBRATION Please save the date – March 31st at 1:30 (for we have mass at 9) for our Resurrection Celebration! It will be a play about Easter and how Jesus rose up for us. You may invite grandparents or friends. You may take your child with you after the show. The play will be about ½ hour if you need to sneak out of work. If you can’t make it, please find someone special to be there for your child. RELIGION We will talk about The Catholic Church and baptism. Did your child tell you how Father Farano came in and blessed our throats for the Feast of Saint Blaise? FRIDAY Next Friday will be a half-day. Please send a note if your child will be doing something different. We are all in need of a vacation! It has been soooooo long since the children have been able to go out and play in decent weather. Let’s hope the weather warms up enough for them to get out over vacation. I will be in Florida so watch for a post card in the mail! MYSTERY READER Thank you to Mrs. McGrath for being our mystery reader last Friday. A big thank you to Mrs. Jorgensen for having her company donate 10 books to the classroom as long as she reads them to us. She came in on pajama day and read us a pajama story and an L story. UPCOMING DATES February 6 - Winter’s Night Out – hope to see you there! February 11 – Valentine’s Day Party at 1 February 12- Half–day – please send a note if your child will be doing something different February 12-20- School vacation March 31 - Resurrection Celebration - 1 June 18 – Kindergarten Graduation 12:30 LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE SEND IN $2 TO COVER OUR PROJECTS! Thank you! Monday – Pancake Day – enjoy pancakes for breakfast at school! Tuesday - Hat Day - wear your favorite hat to school for only $1 to go to Haiti and decorate heart cookies (donations of chocolate, white , pink frosting and sprinkles would be appreciated!!) Wednesday – wear your pajamas to school for the whole day and we will have a movie and popcorn. Thursday - Beach day - wear your shorts (any kind) UNDER your sweat pants. Bring a beach towel to sit on as we make believe we are at the beach and eat ice cream sundaes! Bake sale at lunch –please send in donations individually wrapped –thank you! Friday-mass and service project for the shut-ins. January 29, 2010 PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND IN $2 TO COVER THE COST OF PANCKES, ICE CREAM, COOKIES AND CANDY FOR OUR SERVICE PROJECT FOR THE SHUT-INS. THANK YOU! READING We will meet Mr. L and his lemon lollipops. We will make lollipops the following week for we have so many “sweet” activities next week for Catholic Schools’ Week – I don’t need them on a sugar high for the whole week! Watch for U homework to come home on Monday. MATH We will continue with addition next week. They are doing great in their independent math books! We’ll start subtraction the following week. RELIGION We will be doing a unit on Jesus blesses the children – one of my favorites! How appropriate for Catholic Schools Week. CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Next week, we will celebrate Catholic Schools Week. I sent home a sheet with all of our special celebrations. Thank you for making the sacrifice to send your child to Saint Pius. Without your support, we wouldn’t exist. MYSTERY READER Thank you to Chris Jorgensen ( Rebecca’s big brother) for reading us a Spanish book last Friday. We loved it! UPCOMING DATES February 1-5-Catholic Schools Week February 5 - Mass at 9 - please join us February 6 - Winter’s Night Out February 11 – Valentine’s Day Party, 1:30 – please join us February 12- Report cards will come home January 22, 2010 . READING We will meet Mr. P and his pointy patches. Watch for P homework to come home. We will make pizza for a snack one day. MATH We will continue with addition next week. They are doing great in their independent math books! RELIGION We will be doing a unit on Jesus is always with us. CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Next week, I will send home a sheet explaining what we will do to celebrate Catholic Schools Week. Thank you for making the sacrifice to send your child to Saint Pius. Without your support, we wouldn’t exist. OPEN HOUSE Sunday is our open house from 1-3. You are our best publicity we have. Please spread the word to your family and friends. If anyone would like to come in and tell the “new” parents about our school, we’d love to have your support! LAUGH OF THE WEEK We were asking the children how we could raise money for the people of Haiti and Gina responded “Nationwide is on your side – you can save money there!” Hmmm, could it be mom works for Nationwide Insurance? FLAME PSA is sponsoring Flame, a band comprised of people with disabilities. They are local, but have been on Oprah. We are very excited that they will be performing for us next Friday, January 29. UPCOMING DATES January 24 - Open House-tell your friends February 1-5 - Catholic Schools Week February 5 - Mass at 9 - please join us February 6 - Winter’s Night Out FUNNY FACES, FUNNY FEET I hope you enjoyed their balloons that they decorated with their funny faces and funny feet for Mr. F. They certainly enjoyed making them! READING We will meet Mr. R and his ripping rubberbands. Watch for R homework to come home on Tuesday – he shares a page with Mr. Q (No school on Monday). MATH They are doing a great job in their independent math books. If they bring them home BEFORE they are completed-send them back or your child will have to start a new one all over. We talked about how 3+1 is the same as 1+3. We also talked about how you add zero and still have the same number. Ask your child what 1,000 plus zero is! RELIGION When I asked the children to give me a word that started with N, one child replied “Ninevah”. I asked what Ninevah was and she answered “that place where Jonah went”. When I asked for an O word, another child responded “Obed” who was the child of Ruth from our Jesse Tree. How wonderful that they remember the stories from the Old Testament. We could enter them in Jeopardy! CATHOLIC SCHOOL’S WEEK The first week in February is Catholic Schools Week where we will spend the entire week celebrating our uniqueness. Next week, I will send home a list of our special activities we will be doing. MYSTERY READER We have the following dates available for mystery readers. Drop me a note if you can come in for any of them. We also can have grandparents or big brothers or sisters. March 5 March 12 March 25 April 16 April 23 April 30 May 7 May 14 June 11 SNACKS If your child forgets a snack, we will give them one. Please send in an extra to replace it. Thanks! UPCOMING DATES January 18 - Martin Luther King Jr.Day-No school January 24 - Open House-1-3 School Mass, please join us February 1-5 - Catholic Schools Week January 8, 2010 WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF GIRLS SKECHERS, SIZE 12, WHITE WITH PINK HEARTS AND THEY SPARKLE. IF THEY BELONG TO YOU, DROP ME A NOTE, NO ONE WILL CLAIM THEM! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I hope you all had a joyous vacation (and not too much sickness). Thank you for all of my wonderful gifts. Mrs. Pavelec and I were overwhelmed with your generosity! May God bless you abundantly for your thoughtfulness. CHRISTMAS PARTY Our Christmas party was fun! Thank you for all of the treats you sent in and for joining us. The grab bag was fun to watch. A big thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Putnam for organizing it! PHONICS We will review next week. READING Our new reading words are: to, me, go and do. Please review all of our reading words up to now: the, my, a , that, and, I , is, said, we, are, you and have. I will be screening them on those words for report cards which will come out the first week of February. MATH We finished our unit on patterns and started addition. Next week, I will give them their first independent math book. They will have time each day to work on it. When it is finished, I will send it home. It has a January calendar on the front. When they finish, they will get a February one. The children LOVE their books and will beg me to let them do them instead of play time!!!!!!! JESSE TREE I hope you enjoyed their booklets. EPIPHANY Last Sunday was Epiphany, the feast of the three kings, when they brought presents to Jesus. Ask them their names –Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar – they really interpret them in their own way! WINTER’S NIGHT OUT You may continue to send in gifts for our Winter’s Night Out basket. Thank you to everyone who has sent something in so far. PRAYERS, PLEASE Please keep Mr. McGloughlin (upper wing, afterschool) in your prayers as his dad is quite ill and Mrs. Milano(3rd grade) as her mom is also very sick. FLAT STANLEY We read a story about Flat Stanley today. Your child is bringing home a paper Flat Stanley to send to someone. When Flat Stanley comes back to you, please send him to school to share with us. Thank you!!!!! PLEASE RETURN YOUR RE-REGISTRATION PACKKET ASAP. WE HOPE YOUR CHILD WILL RETURN, BUT UNDERSTAND IF YOU ARE UNABLE. WE ONLY NEED NUMBERS. THANK YOU!!! UPCOMING DATES January 15- 11 am dismissal –please send in a note if your child will be doing something DIFFERENT from their regular schedule January 18-No school-Martin Luther King January 24-Open House-spread the word February 1-5 Catholic School’s Week February 6 – Winter’s Night Out December 18, 2000 PRAYERS, PLEASE! Joshua Unverhau, a student at Saint Pius who has MD, fell at home and broke his leg. He has had surgery and is recuperating at Albany Medical Center. Please keep him in your prayers. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!1 CHRISTMAS PARTY Our Christmas party will be on the afternoon of December 22nd. Please send in a wrapped, book (COST $3 OR LESS) for a grab bag. Please sign YOUR child’s name on the tag so your child will not get his/her own book. Girls will exchange with girls and the boys will exchange with the boys. READING We will review next week. Please read over vacation. I won’t be able to read with them, give them hugs or pray with them – you get to do double! PHONICS AND MATH We will review all week. JESSE TREE We will talk about Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus. Please read the whole story with your child – you will be amazed at how much they know! WINTER’S NIGHT OUT! Winter’s Night Out is one of our largest fundraisers of the year. Kindergarten is collecting anything you would like to send in. Please try to donate. If you would like to send in a check instead of shopping, please do. As always, thank you for your generosity! UPCOMING DATES December 22 - Party - 1:30-please join us! December 11, 2009 CONCERT Thank you for coming to the concert! Didn’t they sound like angels? They are! Thanks to Mrs. Stokes for doing a wonderful job! I hope you enjoyed eating the cookies as much as we did decorating them! Thank you for sending in all the decorations and especially Mrs. Galvin, Mr. Gallagher and Mrs. Pavelec for baking the cookies! CHRISTMAS PARTY Our Christmas party will be on the afternoon of December 22nd. Please send in a wrapped, book (COST $3 OR LESS) for a grab bag. Please sign YOUR child’s name on the tag so your child will not get his/her own book. Girls will exchange with girls and the boys will exchange with the boys. Our room parents will contact you if you have volunteered to send in something. READING We will meet Little Miss O (my personal favorite) who is an optimistic optimist! We will be making ornaments all week. Watch for O homework to come home! PHONICS AND MATH We will review all week. JESSE TREE We will talk about David,Solomon, Jonah and John (Jesus’ cousin). RECESS I goofed last week when I said that we would be going out for recess if it is above freezing – the correct information is – if it is above 20 degrees. Please send in snow pants and boots every day or your child will not be able to play in the snow. Thanks! UPCOMING DATES December 22- Mass at 9, please join us, party - 1:30 - please join us! December 4, 2009 CHRISTMAS CONCERT Our Christmas Concert will be on Thursday at 6:30. Please send your child to the classroom by 6:15, in their dress-up clothes. CHRISTMAS PARTY Our party will be on Tuesday, December 22nd. Please send in a $3 book for a grab bag. Please sign YOUR child’s name on the tag so your child will not get his/her own book. Girls will exchange with girls and the boys will exchange with the boys. Book orders are due on next Friday, December 11 for you to order a book if you would like. THANK YOU! Thank you for offering to send in all the cookie supplies and for baking the cookies. We are certainly looking forward to decorating them for you! Please stop back after the concert and pick up your cookies. Mr. C We will meet Mr. C who likes cotton candy on Monday. What a treat – we will have our Christmas Concert and decorate Christmas cookies on Thursday. Watch for C homework to come home. Please make sure when you send in homework, your child has either drawn or cut out pictures with the beginning sound. Then you need to label the pictures. Some children are still bringing in papers without any pictures. Thank you! MATH We’re going to start on patterns. In January, we will start addition. JESSE TREE Have they been telling you stories of the Old Testament? I hope so! This week, we read about Adam & Eve, Noah’s Ark, Abraham and Isaac. Next week we will read about Joseph, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Ruth, Jesse, David and Solomon. Each day that we read a story, we put an ornament on our Jesse Tree. We will send it home when it is all finished – at the Christmas party. IF it comes home before then, please send it back or your child will have to start one all over. Thanks! READING Our new reading words are: we, are, you and have. Please review them with your child. WINTER ATTIRE If the temperature will not be above freezing for the day-we will NOT go outside for recess. If there is snow (boots, please) or not and the temperature is moderate, we will be going out. Please be sure that your child has a hat and mittens each day. Thank you! BABY BOTTLE BOOMERANG I hope you all enjoyed your bookmark with the precious baby on it from birthright. How appropriate that it came the same day we read the story about baby Jesus!!!!!!!!!! MYSTERY READER Thank you to Mrs. Lawlor for being our mystery reader. THANK YOU! A very big thank you to Mrs. Galvin for donating the book “What is Heaven Like”? to our classroom from the book fair! UPCOMING DATES December 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception –please join us for 9 o’clock mass and send in all presents for the Giving tree December 10 - Christmas concert - 6:30 in the parish center December 22 - mass at 9 - please join us! Christmas party - in the afternoon December 23 - NO SCHOOL - BISHOP HUBBARD HAS GRANTED US THE DAY OFF December 24 - January 3- Christmas vacation November 20, 2009 THANK YOU! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to come and talk with me about your child. It was a joy to meet with you! Many of you commented on how well the children say prayers, write their numbers at home and enjoy reading their new books in “books in a bag”. Another idea – put in an extra word and see if they can “catch” you making a mistake! If they are having trouble with their reading words, try doing a memory game with them. READING We will meet Mr. T and his tall teeth. We will talk about turkeys and Thanksgiving. Watch for T homework to come home! MATH and RELIGION! We will review in all areas and discuss Thanksgiving. PRAYER AND SHARE On Tuesday, we will attend the 9 o’clock mass and then have our sharing of goodies in the gym. Please send in something to share and join us for mass or treats. The “leftovers” will be sent to Equinox. Please join us for mass or goodies-we love to see you! THANKSGIVING DINNER Thank you for signing up for donations to feed a family from the parish for Thanksgiving. Please send in all donations on TUESDAY so Mrs. Pitkin can deliver them. May God bless you and your family for your generosity! If you didn’t sign up and would still like to participate-please send in a gift certificate from Price Chopper or Hannaford. See the list below to see what you signed up to bring in-all food should be UNCOOKED. THANKS!!!! BABY BOTTLE BOOMERANG The last money dribbled in for our baby bottle boomerang. We raised $ 264 in just one week! The children sorted it all! What fun we had while we learned. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for those moms and new babies that birthright supports!!!!! SMILE OF THE WEEK We went to mass on Wednesday – the mass was for Joe’s grandfather so Joe got to sit with his brother and grandma – what a treat! When we left, Father Farano thanked everyone for coming. Matthew B. responded “thank you for having us!” NO NEWSLETTER NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!! UPCOMING DATES November 24 - Mass and prayer and share November 26-29 - No school-Thanksgiving December 10 - Christmas concert, 6:30 at night THANKSGIVING DONATIONS-FAMILY OF 6 Turkey_Alexis Hope Arango Stuffing-Kate Putnam Potatoes /gravy Matthew Galvin Sweet potatoes_Mia Aquino Cranberry sauce_Joe Baranowski Vegetables_____Tori Faragon Rolls and butter_ Juice/coffee___Erin Lamooutte Pie___Jalena Krikorian_________________________ My specialty___Rebecca Jorgensen Basket to put everything in______________________ Gift certificate for Price Chopper or Hannaford_Gina Ramundo Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!!! November 13, 2009 REVIEW We will review next week. No homework – it would be a good time to catch up on back homework if you have it. They were very excited about their postcards and finding their reading words-I do whatever works! MATH We will continue our unit in math next week which will concentrate on the numbers 10-20. I’m pleased with their numbers-we only have a few reversals and it’s only November! Every morning, when they finish their morning work, they write their numbers on the back of their page. Most can go to 30 and some can go to 100! RELIGION In Religion, we will read about Jesus and his Holy Family. It is nice for them to relate to Jesus as a person. Next week, we also will talk about Thanksgiving. CONFERENCES I attached your conference time to your child’s mail folder. If the time isn’t going to work for you, drop me a note. I look forward to seeing each and every single one of you. Please try to keep it to 15 minutes for other people are waiting-I know I could talk for an hour about each child, but we’re really on a tight schedule. Please bring any questions with you that you might have. SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR. Our Scholastic book fair will be next week (in the library). We will “browse” on Monday and purchase books on Wednesday and you may send in money any day to purchase books. If you would rather pick up the books, when you come in for conferences you may. The children will circle the books they would like. We have explained it is only a WISH list and you are under no obligation to buy anything. The book fair will be set up in the library all week and you are welcome to stop at any time. As a class, we will be purchasing books on Wednesday, November 19th. THANKSGIVING DINNER Last year, we supplied food for a parish family for Thanksgiving. I would like to do it again this year. I will have a sign-up sheet in the hall during conferences so you may choose something to send in. I know I ask a lot, but I hope everyone could at least send in a can of something. Jeannie Pitkin, our outreach worker will deliver them for us. This year, we will only be supplying food for one family-so we will be adding gift certificates to Price Chopper and Hannaford to our list. All food and gift certificates need to be brought in on Tuesday, November 24th so we can deliver it. MYSTERY READER Thanks to Rachel Carney (Elizabeth’s big sister) for being our mystery reader last Friday. LAUGH OF THE WEEK We were talking about insects this week and Patrick found a lady bug on his paper. What a lucky day! UPCOMING DATES November 19 - No school - conferences November 24 - Mass and prayer and share November 26 – 29 - No school - Thanksgiving December 10 - Christmas concert, 6:30 at night November 6, 2009 MAIL Since we met Mr. M this week, your child will be getting mail from me over the weekend. Watch for a post card from Ridin-Hy with their reading words! READING We will meet Little Miss I who is an incredible inventor. Watch for I homework to come home on Monday. If you have back homework, this would be a good time to catch up on it. Thank you! MATH We will continue our unit in math next week which will concentrate on the numbers 10-20. I’m pleased with their numbers-we still have a few reversals, but it’s only November! Every morning, when they finish their morning work, they write their numbers on the back of their page. Most can go to 30 and some can go to 100! Check their papers each day to see how far your child can go! RELIGION In Religion, we will talk about “My church family is a sign of God’s love. CONFERENCES I will attach your conference time to your child’s mail folder next Friday (sorry, I planned on doing it today, but Mrs.Lasch didn’t have time to get them to me). If the time isn’t going to work for you, drop me a note. I look forward to seeing each and every single one of you. Please try to keep it to 15 minutes for other people are waiting-I know I could talk for an hour about each child, but we’re really on a tight schedule. Please bring any questions with you that you might have. SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR. Our Scholastic book fair will be the week of conferences (November 16-20, in the library). You may send in money any day to purchase books. If you would rather pick up the books, when you come in for conferences you may. The children will circle the books they would like. We have explained it is only a WISH list and you are under no obligation to buy anything. The book fair will be set up in the library all week and you are welcome to stop at any time. VETERAN’S DAY We will talk about the Veteran’s next week. Thanks to them, we have our precious freedom. We will make some cards for them and Mr. Galvin ( who works at the VA hospital) will deliver them. THANKSGIVING DINNER Last year, we supplied food for a needy family in our parish for Thanksgiving. I would like to do it again this year. I will have a sign-up sheet in the hall during conferences so you may choose something to send in. I know I ask a lot, but I hope everyone could at least send in a can of something. Jeannie Pitkin, our outreach worker will deliver the food for us. This year, we will only be supplying food for one family-so we will be adding gift certificates to Price Chopper and Hannaford to our list. All food and gift certificates need to be brought in on Tuesday, November 24th so we can deliver it. RELIGION TABLE We have a Religion table in our room. When a child needs a “time-out”, we are going to send the child to the prayer table to ask for guidance. What a much more positive way-and we will get the same results. Did you know that discipline comes from the word disciple? I tell them daily that they are my disciples, for they are all my helpers, just as the disciples were Jesus’ helpers. So, discipline is to become like a disciple - we are trying! LAUGH OF THE WEEK We have been trying to learn the Pope’s name and the Bishop’s. I told them to think about Old Mother Hubbard to remember the bishop’s name. When we saw Mr. Evers in the hall, I asked them to tell him what the bishop’s name was and one little girl replied “Bishop Old Mother Hubbard”! UPCOMING DATES November 11- No school – Veteran’s Day November 19-No school-conferences November 24-Mass and prayer and share November 26-29-No school-Thanksgiving December 10-Christmas concert, 6:30 at night October 30, 2009 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Thank you to our room parents for organizing and helping at our Halloween party! It was wonderful! BABY BOTTLE BOOMERANG Please try to return your “baby bottle” next week. If you are unable to donate-that is fine-just return the bottle so we can re-cycle it. May God bless you for your donations!!!!! MATH We will start a new unit in math next week which will concentrate on the numbers 1-20. I’m pleased with their numbers-we only have a few reversals, but it’s only November! RELIGION In Religion, we will discuss “ My family is a sign of God’s love.” CONFERENCES I will attach your conference time (November 19th) to your child’s mail folder next Friday. If the time isn’t going to work for you, drop me a note. I look forward to seeing each and every single one of you. Please try to keep it to 15 minutes for other people are waiting-I know I could talk for an hour about each child, but we’re really on a tight schedule. Please bring any questions with you that you might have. Mr. M We will meet Mr. M and his munching mouth on I on Monday. We will read and make Mike Mulligan’s steam shovel (complete with sand), talk about magnets and will dance to Mony, mony! We will have a marvelous week!!!!!!!!!!! READING We’ll review all of o
Kym Hynes
St. Pius X
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