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June 12, 2009 Extra clothes – if your child is not returning to Saint Pius next year or if your child has outgrown his/her polo shirts, shorts or sweats, please think about donating them to our room for “accidents” next year. It seems when they go home, they never return. Thanks GRADUATION Graduation will be next Friday, at 12:30 in the parish center (yes, it’s air-conditioned!). Please feel free to invite relatives or friends for our happy occasion. Please send your child to school in dress-up clothes. We will NOT go out for recess. Please send a light snack and lunch since graduation is at our lunch time, so we will need to eat early. They will be very excited and won’t have big appetites. Following the ceremony, the first grade parents invite you to have refreshments they have provided. After you pick up your child, please come back to the room for mail folders, cans and report cards. You may then take them home and enjoy the beginning of summer! BOOKS, BOOKS AND MORE BOOKS! You have been receiving an abundance of books. Some are books that we just didn’t get to and their independent math books are good for enrichment. Put them in a safe place and when you have a rainy day or your child gets bored, pull them out and let them play school. Please read, read, read, write, write, write, play, play, play and pray, pray, pray over the summer. It is the BEST way to prepare your child for first grade. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Thank you for your generous support all through the year! Thank you to Mrs. Pavelec, my wonderful aide who loved your child as much as I did. Thank you to my room mothers’ –Mrs. Genito and Ms. Reed (Riley’s mom) - who made our parties fun and did well above and beyond the call of duty. Thank you to Mrs. Bazinet, Ms. Thomas (Logan’s mom) Mrs. Rodriguez and Mrs. Lamoutte for helping out with centers. Thank you to all of you who were fortunate to have the time to be our mystery readers-we loved it! I appreciate all of the little extras that made my job easier! READING LIST I have attached the most frequently read reading words. They do NOT need to know them for first grade, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt them. SPIRIT DAY Spirit day was FUN! Thank you to everyone who was able to come and spend an hour or the whole day - I blessed you for it! MYSTERY READER Thank you to Mrs. Watson (Michael Losavio’s grandma) for being our last mystery reader. GOOD-BYE, GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS YOU! This is the most difficult newsletter to write-the final one of the year! It seems like just yesterday when I met the children at orientation-where did the year go? Saying good-bye is never easy and when the children leave me on Friday, they will take a part of my heart with them. I always say it is a good year when we start the year with their tears and my smiles and end with my tears and their smiles. It has been a great year! We have laughed together(a lot),cried together and we’ve all grown a little. Thank you for sharing their very first year in school with them. It has been my pleasure (and Mrs. Pavelec’s) to teach them and learn to love them. When the year started, it was a VERY long day. Now, I often hear, “Is it time to go home already?” (that’s not from me!) How time flies when you are having fun-and we are! I look forward to seeing them in first grade and they all better come back and give me hugs! God made each child with his/her own individual personality and I will remember them each in a special way. Don’t blink or they will be in eighth grade, sitting with my new kindergarteners at mass and having donuts with us! My oldest son, Dan, is now a lawyer in N.H. and my “baby” Tim is in his new house, working hard and anticipating his wedding this October. They just grow up too quickly! My only hope is the one thing that they will take from kindergarten to last them a lifetime is the knowledge that I loved each of them very much, just like Jesus. Have a wonderful summer. Send us a postcard if you go on vacation! Mrs. Hynes Mrs. Pavelec 188 Cedarview Lane 309 Osborne Road Watervliet, NY 12189 Loudonville, NY 12211 June 5, 2009 Please send in a water bottle to keep in school. Thank you! SPIRIT DAY June 10 is spirit day. We are asking kindergarteners to donate small bags of chips, popcorn, etc. PSA will be providing hot dogs and hamburgers. Other classes will supply water, drinks and desserts. Your child may wear P.E clothes or their special pink shirts that some children ordered. Please feel free to come help out or just watch! An extra pair of hands is always welcome! GRADUATION Graduation will be on Friday, June 19th at 12:30. The children may wear their dress clothes to school that day. We will have a snack and a light lunch in the classroom before graduation. Please be conscious of what drinks you send in that day (like red or purple!) After graduation, please come back to the room to pick up your child’s can and report card. BOOKS This week, I will be sending home books to work on. They are great for rainy days or if boredom sets in. They are only for fun, so use them for your discretion! BOOKS IN A BAG They have returned all of their “books” for books in a bag. They may keep their bags to play with. If you still have a book at home, please return it. Thank you for all of your support with that program! LIBRARY BOOKS All library books should be back. If you have not returned yours, please search high and low to locate and return them so we don’t have to ask you to pay for them. Thanks! MYSTERY READERS! Thank you to Abby Lamoutte’s grandma for being our mystery reader on Friday!!!!!! THANK YOU! Thank you to Mrs. Losavio for sending in treats for our treasure chest and to Mrs. Lamoutte for sending in extra snacks and drinks for when children forget them. You are so appreciated!!!!! UPCOMING DATES June 10 - Spirit Day (rain date-June 12) June 19 - Graduation, 12:30, last day of kindergarten FREE DRESS DAY MONDAY – JUNE 1- PLEASE WEAR SNEAKERS – IT IS A P.E. DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 29, 2009 WATER PLEASE! The extended forecast is for 80 degree weather next week. Please send in a water bottle for your child to keep in school, so we can stay hydrated! HOMEWORK! Did you enjoy your child’s homework booklets? Did it bring back many memories of nights working on them? How far they have come! BUTTERFLIES Our room was bursting with new life! Our butterflies hatched over the weekend and we let them go on Monday. SPIRIT DAY June 10 is spirit day. Your child may wear P.E clothes or their special light pink shirts that some ordered. Please feel free to come help out or just watch! An extra pair of hands is always welcome! GRADUATION Graduation will be on Friday, June 19th at 12:30. The children may wear their dress clothes to school that day. We will have a snack and a light lunch in the classroom before graduation. Please be conscious of what drinks you send in that day (like red or purple!) BOOKS Starting next week, I will be sending home books (that we haven’t gotten to) to work on. They are great for rainy days or if boredom sets in. They are only for fun, so use them for your discretion! BOOKS IN A BAG They should have returned all of their “books” for books in a bag. They may keep their bags to play with. If you still have a book at home, please return it. Thank you for all of your support with that program! SUMMER BIRTHDAYS If your child has a summer birthday, we will celebrate them in June. Please let me know if I have missed any child. Thanks! LIBRARY BOOKS All library books are due back by Friday, June 5th. Please search high and low to locate and return them so we don’t have to ask you to pay for them. Thanks! UPCOMING DATES June 10 - Spirit Day (rain date-June 12) June 19 - Graduation, 12:30 WATER, PLEASE Please send in a water bottle for your child to keep in school, to use during the day. With the hot weather coming, we want your child to stay hydrated. A plain plastic water bottle from the store would be good – I don’t want a special one from home that may get misplaced. Thanks!! SNACKS I only allow the children one snack each day (otherwise, we would be eating snack for an hour instead of a half-hour!). Since they are getting bigger, it is not enough for some of them. You may send in 2 snacks in a zip lock bag and I will allow your child to have that. I just can’t have a child have an apple, a granola bar and cheese-its. BOOKS IN A BAG I am sending home your last “book in a bag” for kindergarten. Please return them next week. Thank you for all of your reading-I have the best readers ever!! I will send home the empty bag for your child to play with. Thank you! MATH We will start a new unit on money. The children have a very difficult time recognizes the coins-it is normal-by 8th grade, they will all be able to count money!! Please practice at home. We will continue to work on addition and subtraction in our independent math books. They are all doing SUPER! RELIGION We will continue doing stories about Mary.. I can spend all of my time reading bible stories-what job could be better? NEW LIFE Our room will be bursting with new life next week while we watch our butterflies will come out of their chrysalids. How exciting for us to watch! MASS When we went to mass on Thursday, we talked about the Ascension into heaven. RACE FOR EDUCATION Our race for education was fabulous! Thank you for coming to cheer them on! If you receive donations for it, please send them in. I will keep you posted on how much we made. MYSTERY READER Thank you to Mr. Kraft for being our mystery reader last Friday. UPCOMING DATES May 25 - No school - Memorial Day June 10 - Spirit Day June 19 - graduation, 12:30 - last day of kindergarten May 15, 2009 RACE FOR EDUCATION Our race for education will be Monday at 9. Please come and cheer us on if you are available! PRAYERS, PLEASE Please keep Mrs. Mullahy and her family, in your prayers as her brother passed away. We made cards to help her feel better. MATH We are starting a unit on money. It is a fun unit and we will continue to work on addition and subtraction. RELIGION We will be working on papers about Mary for the whole month. We will talk about how important she is. How beautiful our “May Crowning” was. We colored in a paper for the crowning and did a “stained glass picture” for Mary. We are writing in our journals about her and will send them home at the end of the year. You won’t believe how wonderful they are spelling! BUTTERFLIES Our caterpillars have spun their chrysalids. It will take 7-10 days for them to emerge as butterflies! We’ll keep you posted! MYSTERY READER Thanks to Mrs. Bazinet and Mr. Harrington for being our last 2 mystery readers! UPCOMING DATES May 18 – Race for education at 9 am May 21 – Mass – Ascension Thursday - please join us at 9 May 22 – half- day, 11 am dismissal May 25 - No school - Memorial Day June 10 - Spirit Day June 19 - Graduation, 12:30 - last day of kindergarten May 8, 2009 HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY A very happy mother’s day to all of our wonderful moms. You are very blessed to have a precious child of God ( and some are more blessed than others to have more than one child!) Cherish the time you have with them – they grow up way toooooooo fast!!!!! SPRING CONCERT Our spring concert will be on Tuesday evening, May 12 at 6:30pm. The time was changed for many parents were unable to attend during the day. Please have your child wear dress-up clothes on that night. Please have your child in OUR ROOM by 6:15, so we can line-up. Thank you and ENJOY! MR. Y AND MR. Z We will meet our two final letter people next week! Mr. Y like to yawn - I hope the children don’t fall asleep! Mr. Z has zipping zippers. We will have a “zipper club” for those who can zipper! LAST HOMEWORK PAPER WILL COME HOME. PLEASE RETURN IT PROMPTLY, SO WE CAN ASSEMBLE THEIR HOMEWORK BOOKS. THANK YOU!!!!! MATH We are working on time-then we will do money-the two things we, as s, never seem to have enough of! It is a fun unit and we will continue to work on addition and subtraction. RELIGION We will be working on papers about Mary for the whole month. We will talk about how important she is. How beautiful our “May Crowning” will be on May 12. Please join us if you can. BUTTERFLIES We have received our caterpillars and the children each got to put one in a little container with food. After they eat all the food, they will spin a chrysalis (7-10 days). Then, 7-10 days later, they will emerge. We will keep them for a few days and then release them. What a wonderful science experiment about the life cycle. Our butterflies should emerge in a couple of weeks - I’m sure you will hear about it!!!!!! PLEASE SEND IN A NEW GLUE STICK-WE ARE ALL OUT AND STILL HAVE PLENTY OF PROJECTS LEFT TO DO!! UPCOMING DATES May 12-May Crowning – 10 am May 12 – Spring concert – 6:30 pm – please be in our room by 6:15 May 15 - Race for Education – kindergarten will race from 9-10 if you would like to join us! May 21 – Ascension Thursday mass at 9 - please join us May 22 – half day, 11 am dismissal May 25 - No SCHOOL-Memorial Day June 19 - Graduation, 12:30-last day of kindergarten May 1, 2009 PLEASE SEND IN NEW GLUE STICKS AND SHOE BOXES! CONGRATULATIONS! Congratulations to Billy Lamoutte ( Abby’s big brother) for making his First Holy Communion tomorrow! MR. J We will meet Mr. J who has jumbled junk. We will talk about Jesus’ Miracles – what better job could I have? No homework-Mr. J shared a page with Little Miss I! MATH We will start a new unit on time. The children love it and we will continue it next week. It is a fun unit and we will continue to work on addition and subtraction. RELIGION We will be working on papers about Mary for the whole month. We will talk about how important she is. UNIFORMS During May and June, the children may wear summer uniforms. The boys do NOT need to wear dress shirts and ties, but may wear P.E. polo tops with their school pants on days that we do not have P.E. On P.E. days, the boys and s may wear shorts (if it is warm.) MYSTERY READER Thanks to Mrs. Genito (Michael’s mom) for being our mystery reader last Friday and Mrs. Bazinet for coming in today for Elizabeth’s birthday. I am spending the weekend at the dude ranch. Watch for a postcard in your mailbox. I promise this one will get here before I get home! I made 2 mistakes on it – see if your child can find them! UPCOMING DATES May 12 – May Crowning – 10 am – please join us if you can May 12 - Spring concert –TIME CHANGE – 6:30 May 15 - Race for Education May 20 - Mass-please join us May 22 - half-day-11 a.m. dismissal May 25 - Memorial Day-No school June 19 - Graduation, 12:30, last day of kindergarten April 24, 2009 PLEASE SEND IN EMPTY SHOEBOXES AND NEW GLUE STICKS FOR A SPECIAL PROJECT! THANK YOU!!!! SCOTIA- GLENVILLE TRAVELING MUSEUM Scotia – Glenville traveling museum came to see us on Wednesday. Did you love the bird that they made out of a sea shell and feathers? We love learning about new things and this presentation was on “Oceans Alive”. Mr V and Mr. X We met Mr. V and Mr. X this week. Mr. V has a violet velvet vest and Mr X is all mixed up! Did the children tell you I wore mis-matched shoes and earrings – they loved it! We read Amelia Bedelia stories for she gets things all mixed up! Next week, we will meet Mr. Q who is quiet – I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!! MATH We are having fun measuring with interlocking cubes. We will work with rulers next week. We are will continue to review our addition and subtraction with our independent math books. RELIGION We talked about making good choices. What an important lesson to learn!
Kym Hynes
St. Pius X
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