THIRD QUARTER

HAPPY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!!

    We are celebrating our AWESOME school this whole week - January 27-31, 2020. To thank all of our families for choosing St. Edward the Confessor School,  there will be NO WRITTEN HOMEWORK this week!! YAY!! Go Eagles!!

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

     This quarter is a time of special projects. Valentine's Day is February 14. Each kindergarten student will need a set of 29 valentines (28 for students and one for our prayer partner, Mrs. Denise). Help your child put his/her name on each card---no other names, please.
     Our next project is our Science Fair item.  Each child needs to make something at home out of recycled material, NO GLASS.  It is due in school on Wednesday, February 19, for our schoolwide Science Fair. ALL students in grades pre-K3 through 7th grade participate.
     Our last and BIGGEST project is our Krewe of St. Edward parade on Friday, February 21. Our Mardi Gras float rules and guidelines went home on Thursday, January 23. PLEASE follow the rules in constructing and decorating your child's float. Keep it SAFE and SIMPLE!!

     Our WORDS CLUB goal is mastery of ALL 22 groups of high -frequency sight words by the end of the third quarter, March 13. We are very proud of all of our students who have mastered all of our words already. They are doing a SUPER job of reading in the Accelerated Reading Program. Reading is POWER!!! Go, Eagles!

 We will continue testing weekly for mastery of letter recognition(all 26 capital and lower case letters), number recognition(1-50), letter sounds(consonant and short vowels), Words Club mastery of Groups 1-22, shape recognition(circle, square, triangle, rectangle), making the Sign of the Cross correctly, praying the Angel of God, Grace Before and After Meals and Glory Be prayers correctly, writing our first and last name correctly on guideline paper with ALL letters starting from the top and touching the lines. Go, Eagles!!

We attend school mass each week. Boys need to wear long pants for mass each Friday. We are learning our prayers and songs for Mass. We are learning to behave properly and respectfully in church, which is God's house. We will continue to test individually for the Sign of the Cross, Angel of God and our Grace Before and After Meals. We will add the Glory Be, Hail Mary and Our Father to our prayers for mastery.

January is here. We are learning all about the Holy Family; Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Jesus did the same things we do each day growing up in faith in our own families. We will try to listen and be kind like Jesus did.

Other prayers that we pray each and every day include the  Morning Offering, Prayer for Vocations and the Blessing Before and After Meals. We will say the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be each day as we pray the rosary. We pray the Act of Contrition and the prayer to St. Michael, the Archangel,  each day, too. Please take time together as a family to pray a part of the rosary. It is a powerful practice!!

The Children's Rosary Club is every Wednesday in church at 3:15 pm, right after dismissal. Everyone is invited to participate. Moms, dads, aunts, grandparents can attend with their kindergartener. Just walk to church from the pavilion after dismissal with your child. Please take advantage of this beautiful opportunity to pray with your child. Jesus hears the prayers of children FIRST.

 We will continue enrichment testing ALL of our students individually for letter recognition, consonant sounds, short vowel sounds, Words Club words, number recognition (1-100), shapes(circle, square, rectangle, triangle), patterns, money value, prayers  and writing our whole name correctly on the lines. We will master these important skills so that we will be successful first grade eagles. It is always a very busy and exciting time in kindergarten!! Go, Eagles!!!

DISMISSAL

 All children not picked up promptly by 3:15 pm each day will be brought to Aftercare. There is a fee for Aftercare. Please be prompt at Pavilion Pick-up!! You can even come as early as 2:50 pm.

NO PETS AT DISMISSAL--PLEASE!! READ THE HANDBOOK!!  We have children with allergies, fear of animals, etc. Keep your pets at home for the safety of everyone, including your pets!

There is NO running in the pavilion!  There is NO playing in the grassy area. This is VERY dangerous. Adults are so busy visiting with other adults that they are NOT supervising their own children. Please be respectful of our school rules. Thank you so much for you cooperation at dismissal!! Go, Eagles!!