St. Joan of Arc School

I hope everyone enjoyed our Kindergarten family mass! I love seeing the excitement on the children’s faces.
This week we will be learning two new high frequency sight words, look and all.  We will continue to do many different literacy activities with these words.  I am so proud to say that all of the students in […]

I hope everyone stayed warm on this chilly weekend!
We have a shortened week this week and will be learning two new high frequency words, with and up.  Every day in K3 during the afternoon Literacy Enrichment time, our children practice either “Write the Room” or different ways in which we incorporate writing into learning our […]

A big thank you to all our Dads/Grandpas that came to our Annual Donuts for Dads celebration.  The children were so excited to sing to you after our many rehearsals!  I’m sure you would agree with me that they did a fabulous job! Also, a great big thank you to Mrs. Cooney for taking pictures […]

This is a very exciting week for kindergartners.  Halloween is quickly approaching!  We have been practicing very hard for our Annual Donuts for Dads surprise performance.
This Friday is Donuts for Dads, this is an event held for all kindergarten dads.  It will be held in the PAR from 8:00-9:00 AM.  Please park in the rear […]

This is going to be a busy and exciting week in kindergarten!
We are being introduced to three new word wall words.  These words are “she”, “for”, and “they”.  The children seem to be practicing these words and are continuing to recognize them in their reading.  Keep up the great work!  We will have three more […]

I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend!
This is a short week, but you will find some busy kindergarteners!  We will be introduced to three new letter sounds this week, /Uu/ /Yy/ and /Kk/.  The students will continue using “sound boxes” and different word building activities with all the letter sounds we have learned so far.  […]

Hello families!
This week in Science, we are working on the three forms of matter, solid, liquid, and gas.  The children seem to be having a great time learning such “big kid” concepts.  I am hoping the children have come home telling their families about molecules. We have been learning that in a solid, the molecules […]

Well, we are fully into the swing of things and are becoming great readers in Kindergarten!  A big thanks to all our parents who volunteered to be reading parents.  The children are so excited to read to new faces.  I’m sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised at each of the student’s reading progress.
This week we will […]

Happy Fall!  I hope everyone enjoyed our beautiful weekend!
This week in Kindergarten we are going to be introduced to three new letters, /Ww/, /Oo/, /Rr/.  We will continue with more letter/picture sorts, beginning sounds, and also word building activities.
Our new sight words this week are “of ” and “in”.  Please remember to continue practicing these […]

Kindergarten Auction Item
This year each kindergarten class will create a toy box for the auction.  Please send in a small (wallet sized) recent photo of your child along with a suggested donation of $5.00 to the school office in an envelope marked “Kindergarten Auction Item.”  Be sure to include your child’s name and room number.  […]