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What's "Hop-Pening" in Kindergarten: St. Joseph's School

The document provides an overview of the activities and lessons for the Kindergarten class at St. Joseph's School for the week of January 23-27, including celebrating Chinese New Year, reading activities, math lessons involving shapes and numbers, and an upcoming Catholic Schools Week mass. It also includes reminders about upcoming events and requests for volunteer help and supplies.

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What's "Hop-Pening" in Kindergarten: St. Joseph's School

The document provides an overview of the activities and lessons for the Kindergarten class at St. Joseph's School for the week of January 23-27, including celebrating Chinese New Year, reading activities, math lessons involving shapes and numbers, and an upcoming Catholic Schools Week mass. It also includes reminders about upcoming events and requests for volunteer help and supplies.

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Learning Makes Me Hoppy

l St. Josephs Schoo


Week of January 23-27

Whats Hop-pening in Kindergarten


Ooki-tooki-unga...
We sang an Inuit fishing song this week and pretended to row boats and eventually catch a whale...not to worry, we delivered the whale safely to Sea World. We each had Inuit names that had special meaning. We made a little Inuit figure and attached our photos to it. We wrote our names and what we liked in our Inuit world. These are in the hallway. We also made scrimshaws. The fisherman would carve whale teeth as they traveled. We used bars of soap and toothpicks to carve them. We also made inukshuks, traditional Inuit rock sculptures that marked the location of good fishing or hunting spots or stored food. We looked at images in books and we viewed a video online. We painted with a sand/paint mixture to create our snowy scene. Then we used paper rocks to create an inuskshuk.

Math
We sorted and graphed our shoes this week. Boy, were they surprised when I asked them to take off their shoes!! We also played with a new math material called geoboards. These are boards with pegs on which we stretch geobands, rubber bands, to make shapes and designs. We loved these!! We also formed numbers with sugar cubes, or ice blocks, to form numbers. We also counted and placed ice blocks on numbered igloos.

Religion
We are remembering how special we each are and how God gave us many talents.

TUESDAY RECESS HELP


We are in need of a parent/family member to supervise the noon hour recess time from 1212:30 for the rest of the school year. You can bring your children from home if needed. Thanks!

Science
Our student of the week made a paperclip float. WOW! Come try it at open house in our classroom!

MILK JUGS!!
We have counted 243 milk jugs! We still need more!! Thank you!!

Social Studies
We celebrated Chinese New Year on Monday. It is the year of the Dragon. We made dragon puppets and moved our own puppets as we watched videos of Dragon parades. We listened to a story of why the Chinese wear and decorate with red on this holiday. We also used a sheet with an attached dragon head and had a little parade down the hallway. We each had a chance to be at the front of the dragon.

February Family Project...


Each child will be asked to bring in a collections of 100 things on 2/7, the 100th day of school. This can be anything...matchbox cars, barrettes, raisins, pennies, etc. The sky is the limit. I am also in need of some parents to help blow up 100 balloons. Let me know if you are interested and I will send home balloons for you!

Reading
We read the story titled Immis Gift. We discussed cause and effect this week. The main character in our story kept catching colorful items like little birds and flowers. We journaled about what we might catch if we put our fishing poles into an icy fishing hole. Some caught aliens, cookies, and other fun things. We focused on the /d/ and the / k/ sound. We practiced positional words with the help of Nanuk, a stuffed polar bear. We moved him under, behind, etc. an igloo.

Upcycled Snowmen!
The snowmen are wonderful! They will be on display for open house...They will be sent home on Monday...feel free to stop in and pick them up in the morning if you wish!

Catholic Schools Week Mass


Hope to see you all on Sunday @10:30 mass. Dress Up with your St. Joes Spirit Wear Gear. Moms and Dads can wear their Spirit Wear too!

Jump Rope for Heart

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Dont forget...each K5 student is responsiWe will be celebrating Valentines Day on Tuesday February 14th at 1pm. Please join us if you can!!

ble for brining one package/box of 3 or 5 oz. paper cups by Tuesday, 1/31. Thanks. Also, students should be wearing Spirit wear with their athletic clothing for the
day. If you dont have spirit wear, try to wear blue and white clothing!!

Book Collection
We will be collecting those new and gently used books this week. There are marked bins in the school for you to drop off!!

Book Fair
Stop in and visit the book fair taking place in the library...lots of wonderful selections to choose from! All the teachers have bags, feel free to purchase a book for our classrooms from those as well. :)

Next Weeks Theme Catholic Schools Week & Groundhogs!! Next Weeks Words: find, look, see, up

Mrs. K-Mart Cancelled :(


Mrs. K-Mart was unfortunately cancelled on Friday due to a difficult lunch period in which Kindergarten was being a bit wild and very noisy. Mrs. K-Mart will be rescheduled pending 5 good lunch reports from Mrs. Shawver. We are going to try hard to listen to reminders to quiet down, to keep our hands to ourselves, and in general save our sillies for recess!!

Important Dates
Sunday, January 29:

Catholic Schools Week Open House! 11:30-1:30

Monday, January 30:

Library books are not due! Wear PJs and bring a favorite book to school!

BOOTS
My general rule for boots is if you sent them to school with your child, your child will be asked to wear them at recess.

Tuesday, January 31:

Career Day Dress for your Future Career!

EXTRA Socks and Gloves


Please consider sending 2 PAIRS of extra socks and gloves/mittens, one for each recess, with your child. Place them in a labeled baggie.

Wednesday, February 1: Wacky Wednesday!! Dress Wacky: hair, clothes, etc. Show & Tell **Free Choice **

Thursday, February 2: Jump Rope for Dress Down in Spirit Wear or Blue and White

Wish List/Things You Can Save


We do not need tp tubes or paper towel rolls! See the website for updated items!

Mystery Readers
We have openings for February!!

Friday, February 3:

Home & School Cultural Day: Ballet @ 1pm Uniform Day

Valentines Party

Mrs. K-Mart???

Questions or comments? Please email [email protected] or call 262-662-2737

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