Bridgit Mikkelson - Junior Kindergarten

It's Catholic Schools Week! We will have an exciting week with Rainbow day and college apparel day, and we will be finishing the week up with Mass on Thursday. The letter of the week is Q and we will talk about being quick and quiet! We will learn about Queens, especially Mary, the Queen of Heaven. It should be another great week in Junior Kindergarten!

This week we will be studying the letter P. We will get to talk about penguins, princesses, pink, Priests, patterns, pencils, the Pope, puppets, polar bears, puzzles, and peaches! Monday is the annual March for Life, so we will pray for all the pro-lifers marching and read about Horton and "a person's a person no matter how small"! In Religion we will focus on prayer and learn about Priests. 

We have a short week in Junior Kindergarten. This week we will be studying the letter O. We will make a cute octopus and talk about owls, olives, oranges, and ostriches. We will continue working on patterns and counting and we will begin discussing opposites like on and off! We will also be learning more about winter as we read some books on snow. In Religion we will read about the Widow who offered everything she had to Jesus and we will discuss her attitude in giving. 

Welcome back! This will be a VERY short week in Junior Kindergarten! We will just be finishing up our study of the letter M this week with some M&M science, measuring, matching, marching, and reading about mice and mothers. In Religion we will be learning about Moses. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!! 

Last week of school before Christmas!!! We have an exciting, full week planned in Junior Kindergarten! This week we have school Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and then we will be off until January 4 for Christmas vacation. On Wednesday the school will be going to Lessons and Carols at the Church from 11:30-12:30. Please pick your child up from the Church at 12:30 on Wednesday 12/21.

It's the second week of Advent. We will continue learning about Advent as we prepare for Christmas in Junior Kindergarten. We will also be learning about the letter K as we talk about Jesus being King. With K we will talk about kangaroos, kites, kittens, keys, kids... On Tuesday we will get to celebrate St. Nicholas' Feast Day with a special treat for the children!  Thursday is the Immaculate Conception, and we will once again be attending Mass with the rest of the school. Mass begins at 8:30, so please make sure your child is here a little early Thursday or meet us at Church.  

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I can't believe it's already Advent! This week we will be learning the letter J, which will be great as we focus on waiting for Jesus to come. We will talk about jelly beans, jeeps, jam, juggling, jumping, and Jack and Jill. We will read about Joseph and Jonah in Religion and make Advent wreaths. Have a blessed Advent! 

This week we will have a nice short week learning about Thanksgiving. We will continue working on counting, sorting, patterns, and our letter sounds as we match turkeys, and fill thanksgiving plates with food! We will read about Thanksgiving and turkeys, and we will make some fun Thanksgiving crafts. Enjoy your long Thanksgiving weekend!!!  

We have already learned 9 letters this year in Prek! We are going to take a break this week and review the letters we have learned so far A-I. We will focus on differentiating among these letters that we have learned, especially the vowel sounds. By the end of the week hopefully the whole class will also have mastered writing each letter correctly. Throughout the week we will also spend time focusing on counting and one to one correspondence. Of course we will also begin preparing for Thanksgiving next week =)

Last week we had a wonderful All Saints Day party! Thank you to everyone who helped.  This week is the letter I! We are already on our third vowel, and the students have been doing great. This week we will talk about iguanas, inchworms, igloos, and insects, play instruments, and learn about Abraham and Isaac in Religion. The students will continue learning about estimating in Math this week. We will practice writing Ii and continue practicing our numbers. We will really focus on differentiating among the vowels we have learned so far (which can be tricky!)