K News Notes
Week of September 4, 2026
Things to Know
WOW!! Week 2 was good. A few tears at drop-off but this is not unusual the 2nd week. The excitement of week 1 wears off!! Thank you for supporting your child and us as we continue our adventure of Kindergarten.
- Back to School Night: will be this Thursday 6:00-7:30 pm. This is a parent only event. We will begin in the large auditorium and then visit classrooms to hear from the teachers. Each teacher will present twice so you can attend 2 different classroom presentations if you have multiple children. The Parent's Association will have a social gathering to end the evening.
- Picture Day Info: Picture Day is Friday, Sept. 11. Our pictures are scheduled in the morning (before lunch!!) and all children will have their photo taken for the yearbook. Your child can be in uniform or out of uniform. Please note-what they wear to school is what they will wear all day. Children will not be changing clothes after the photos.
- Absences: If your child will be absent from school please fill out the attendance form in the Vis school app. If you are picking your child up early-you must pick them up in the Heart (door 5) and sign them out at the desk. Thank you!!
- Safety: If an adult needs to escort a child into the building or pick them up early, they will need to enter through Door #5 and check in at the front desk using our Raptor security system. For the safety of our students, no visitors or guests will be permitted into the building without a name tag and badge. We greatly appreciate all families honoring these safety and security procedures and helping us maintain a welcoming environment for our students."
Up Coming Dates
F Sept. 4: No school-Labor Day break
M Sept. 7: No school-Labor Day break
Th Sept. 10: Back to School Evening 6:00 pm -parents only event
F Sept. 11: Picture Day-you can be in or out of uniform
Th Sept. 17: Homecoming Sports Night-LS fun after school
F Sept. 18: Formal Uniform for flag raising
F Sept. 25: Out of Uniform $1.00
Last Week at a Glance
Language Arts/Morning Work: Last week we listened for rhyming words, isolated beginning sounds, joined two words together, and punched out the ending sound. In the Morning Message we looked for words that had the same beginning sound. For word work we matched rhyming words. We practiced holding a pencil the “Kindergarten way” and printed horizontal, vertical, and slant lines. We also practiced the names of the lines-top, dash. base, dot.
Math: We explored the numbers 4-5-6 using counters and matching pictures with numbers. We practiced "what comes next?" with numbers out of order. We are building our number sense. We played Kindergarten Yahtzee with a partner.
Religion: We learned the Kindness prayer. We wrote a prayer as a class-God Gave Us This Wonderful World. We each did one part of the prayer. Check it out in the hallway!
Science: We colored a cover for our science notebook. We started a unit on trees. We made a list of what we know about trees and read The Busy Tree and A Grand Old Tree. Then we did a tree observation on the playground and wrote/drew about what we saw.
Writer’s Workshop: We did a Name Walk-writing and reading each other’s names.
STEM: We did Creation Stations (beginning engineering); creating something at each station and then drawing a picture of it.
Art: We added paint to the window drawing we started last week.
Morning Meeting: We did the “toe touch” greeting and Punchinello Funny Fellow for the activity. The morning work was shapes, numbers and letters with Legos.
LS Assembly: We had our first LS Assembly with grades K-5. Mrs. Hallin talked about what makes our LS special and went over LS rules.
Chapter Book Read aloud: We started Frog and Toad books.
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). I will share details about this and the schedule at Back to School Night.
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
10:50-11:20 Lunch
11:25-11:55 Recess
12:05- 12:45 Art, STEM, Religion, Read a loud
12:50-1:20 French, Spanish, Chinese
1:20-2:00 Small Group, Choice Time
2:00-2:30 Science, Social Studies
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