K News Notes
Week of October 30, 2026
Things to Know
Picture Retakes: Nov. 4 is picture retake day. Please email me if you want your child to have picture retakes. Then I will know to take them to the photographer. If you are doing retakes your child can be in or out of uniform. All other students should be in uniform.
Parent Teacher Conferences: The sign up schedule for parent teacher conferences in November will be in the Nov. 4 Visitation E-News. Conferences are M & T Nov. 23-24 3:30-7:30 pm. They are in person. I want to meet with everyone so please use that link to sign up for a conference.
Mass: Last Wednesday we attended our first Mass. They did a great job of watching, listening, and singing. Thank you for sending your child in formal uniform.
Save the Date!!: December 3rd 6:00 pm is our K-5 Christmas Concert. Kindergarten does participate in this event. More information about what to wear, etc. will be coming soon. Invite grandmas, grandpas, aunts, etc. to attend.
Backpack Clean Out: Please help your child empty out their backpack each evening. We need to have room each day for our work, Homework Folder, sweater/sweatshirt, and library books. A pair of underwear is fine. They do not need to bring a change of clothes to school each day.
Uniform Shorts: Uniform shorts return in the spring. Uniform pants until then please. Girls should be wearing leggings to keep us warm when we are outside. This includes out of uniform days.
- Paper Tubes: Please save toilet paper and paper towel tubes (empty) for us. In the coming months we will do several projects that use tubes and need to start gathering them now. Thank you!!
Up Coming Dates
W Nov. 4: Picture retake day
F Nov. 6: No school
F Nov. 13: Out of uniform $1.00
Th Nov. 19: Formal uniform-Thanksgiving Mass
M-T Nov. 23-24: LS conferences 3:30- 7:30
W-F Nov. 25, 26, 27: No school Thanksgiving Break
F Dec. 4: Spirit Dress
Last Week at a Glance
Language Arts/Morning Work: Last week we continued listening for rhyming words, llstened for beginning sounds, and added an ending to make a new word. We practiced the letters Rr and Nn- what’s the name, what sound does it make, what picture helps us-and we reviewed Aa, Cc, Ll, Tt, Dd and Ii. We found pictures that began with the sounds. We did Rhyme Around the Room where we looked for rhymes. Small groups are working on reading short stories or mastering sounds/letters. After listening to a story we drew the setting and characters and talked about what happened at the beginning-middle-end of the story.
Math: We continued a unit on shapes. We explored solid or 3D shapes-cube, cylinder, cone, and sphere. We explored rolling, stacking, and sliding using the shapes. We talked about curved sides and flat faces and sorted the shapes. We looked at flat shapes-circle, square, triangle.
Religion: We talked about the parts of Mass (getting ready to go to our first Mass) and looked at pictures of what we would see-alter, Father, chalice, host, plate, music people, piano, etc.
Science:: We finished our pumpkin research; talking about- pumpkins can, pumpkins have, pumpkins are. We cut our pumpkin up and looked at the inside. We read Pumpkin Jack and put our pumpkin in a jar to watch it decay. We observed our tree for October and then drew and wrote about how it has changed. The leaves are now red!
Social Studies/STEM: Country study-we journeyed to Costa Rica through the VR goggles. We saw a volcano, the rainforest, animals, and trees.
Music: We are getting ready for the Christmas concert and began learning the songs.
Comprehension: We drew pictures of the story order after we read Room on the Broom.
Snack: We made a special snack-a spooky spider. Ask your child what we used!!
Morning Meeting: We did the Spooky Spider greeting and Cosmic Kids Yoga-short brain break yoga for the activity. We continue sharing with each other. The morning work was Halloween I Spy.
Chapter Book Read aloud: We finished Magic Treehouse #2: The Knight Before Dawn and began My Father's Dragon.
Our K Schedule
Below please find our K schedule. Hopefully, your child has mentioned some of the parts of our day. We follow a 3 day rotation (Blue, Red, Yellow).
8:00-8:30: Morning Meeting
8:30-9:15. Math
9:15-9:30 Snack
9:30-10:10 Phy Ed, Music, Assembly, Reading
10:15-10:45 Phonics/Printing
10:50-11:20 Lunch
11:25-11:55 Recess
12:05- 12:45 Art, STEM, Religion, Read a loud/comprehension
12:50-1:20 French, Spanish, Chinese
1:20-2:00 Small Group, Choice Time
2:00-2:30 Science, Social Studies rotate
2:30-2:40 Closing, Pack up, Prayer
2:40 Dismissal
Getting in Touch With Me
Please do not hesitate to email if you have any questions or concerns.
Kelly Schumacher