January

Some Important Dates (check main site for more info):

Just a reminder there is no candy as a snack in school.  Also Mrs. Bienz’s class should not have any snacks with peanuts or nuts in them for snack within the classroom. 

Thursday, Jan. 16 - ONLY FOR KINDERGARTEN - Box Top Dress Down

Friday, Jan. 17 - Snowman Project - we need parent volunteers - See below

Monday, Jan. 20 - No School 

Sunday, Jan 26 - Kick Off to Catholic School Week.  12 o’clock Mass, open house to follow.

Jan 27 - 31 - Catholic School Week - More info to follow.
Our buddies in 8th grade are representing Ireland for their class olympics.  Their colors for Wednesday, January 29 are green, white, and orange.  We can dress down to support our 8th grade church buddies.

On Friday, January 17th at 8:40 am, kindergarten will be making their annual class snowmen. We are in need of some parents to help us. If you are available to help, please send in a letter or email us. (Kbienz7172@SPSSmith.org / LCronin7172@SPSSmith.org )
On January 17th the kindergarten students can dress down in clothes that can get glue on them. Please wear sneakers. If you volunteer to help, please dress down as well.  Every child needs to send in send in a dollar marked “snowman project” by Wednesday January 16th. Since January 17th is a Box Top Dress Down, if you have handed in your Box Tops, your Kindergarten student may dress down on Thursday Jan. 16th instead.

Reading

Please continually review with your child nightly. Please read for at least 10 minutes nightly.

Week of Feb. 24th
Letter of the Week: Rr
Spotlight Words: will, be, into, that, your, who
Word Family: _og (bog, dog, fog, clog, frog, log, jog, hog)

Word Family -Week of March 2nd 

Letter of the Week: 
Spotlight Words:  go, for, here, they, soon, up
Word Family -

Spotlight Words we have learned

I, like, the, and, see, we, a, to, with, my, come, me, what, you, are, now, is, of,  where, many, how, find, from, this, came, but, on, 

Word Families we have learned

_ump (bump, clump, dump, grump, jump, lump, pump, stump, thump)
_uck (buck, Chuck, cluck, duck, luck, pluck, puck, stuck, struck, truck)
_ug (bug, chug, hug, lug, mug, rug, slug, snug, tug)
_in (bin, din, fin, pin, spin, tin, win)_ip (dip, clip, flip, hip, lip, rip, sip, slip, tip, trip)
_ill (bill, chill, dill, fill, gill, hill, Jill, mill, pill, quill, still, will)
_it (bit, fit, hit, lit, knit, pit, quit, sit, )
_all (ball, fall, hall, mall, stall, tall, wall)
_ag (bag, drag, gag, nag, rag, sag, stag, tag, wag)
_ap (cap, gap, lap, map, nap, sap, slap, snap, tap, trap, yap)
_an (ban, can, Dan, fan, Jan, man, Nan, pan, ran, tan, van)
_at (bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat, splat, vat)

Math: Subtraction

Students will be able to subtract from ten.

Religion 

Lent - 
A time to grow closer to Jesus through prayer, fasting, and almasgiving.


 

Celebrating 

Dr. Seuss

Week of March 2nd 

Monday - Red Across America Day

Wear Black and we will make Hats 

Like Dr. Seuss' Famous Cat

Tuesday - One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Wear a red or blue shirt

Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday

Wear your clothes backwards, 

inside out, or mixed up

Thursday - Oh the Places You’ll Go

Wear a college or high school shirt or jersey

Friday - Fox in Socks

Wear your craziest socks to school