K News Notes
Week of November 6, 2026
Things to Know
Parent Teacher Conferences: The sign up schedule for parent teacher conferences in November was in the Nov. 4 Visitation E-News and sent to you in an email. 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.
Food Collection: As part of our Lower School Thanksgiving tradition, each LS class will be filling a box with food items. These boxes will be shared with families that the Minneapolis Visitation Sisters know have a need for food during this holiday season. Kindergarten is dividing up the list so that we get all the asked for items on the list. Please look for a letter in the MONDAY Homework Folder that will list your items. While we appreciate the generosity of the Visitation community, please only send in the number of items listed. The sisters do not have storage for additional food.
Additional Donation Opportunity: If you would like to help the Minneapolis sisters, they are also collecting $25 Cub Foods gift cards. They give these out to families who knock on their door in need of food. Cub Foods and only $25 amounts. I will pass them on to the food box delivery crew.
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.
- 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
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 Ff and Pp- what’s the name, what sound does it make, what picture helps us-and we reviewed Aa, Cc, Ll, Tt, Dd, Rr, Nn, and Ii. We found pictures that began with the sounds. We blended together, then read at. Then we added a beginning sound to make a word. 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 three things that happened in the story.
Math: We continued exploring shapes. We looked at flat shapes-square, circle, rectangle, triangle, hexagon. We looked at how many sides and corners they have. We did an art project that used circles and squares to make a design. We did a what comes next sheet to continue practicing number order.
Religion: We talked about thankful/giving thanks and what are we thankful for?
Science:: We looked at our cut up pumpkin pieces-we see decay and mold and squishy spots!! (Don't worry-it is in a jar with a lid). We planted our pumpkin seeds in dirt. We will see what happens.
STEM: We worked with the Coding Mice. We practiced how to plan out the steps to get them to move from one square to another.
Poem: We started to learn a poem- Hello Mr. Turkey. Then we made a turkey to go with the poem.
Music: We are getting ready for the Christmas concert and continued learning the songs.
Comprehension: We drew a disguise for turkey after we read Turkey Trouble.
Morning Meeting: We did the Knock Knock greeting to practice our last names and A Warm Wind Blows Anyone Who.... for the activity. We continue sharing with each other. The morning work was geoboards-making the design/object on the card.
Chapter Book Read aloud: We finished My Father's Dragon and started Elmer and the 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