Dear Parents,
This is the moment you have all been waiting for!! We WILL be having a Kindergarten Graduation this year!!! We will be holding it Thursday, May 21st at 9am. You must be at the church for 8:30am. It will look different this year because of the time we have lost to practice and be together in person. The kids must dress up for this occasion. Girls in dresses and boys in nice pants and button down shirts or little suits. We will provide the caps and gowns that day. The gowns will be returned to us after the graduation but caps along with the tassels will be for them to keep. The pews will be marked off for social distancing, so there is no limit on who you can invite. The kids will sit with you in the pews and will perform a few things that I believe they will know. They will stand up at their seats to perform. Awards will be brought to them at their seats during the ceremony. I am so very proud of each and every one of them. They have worked so hard and have earned this graduation! Let’s make this a graduation for them to remember forever!! I can’t wait to see you all and can’t thank you all enough for the time and effort you have spent in helping teach your children at home. It has been such a blessing to teach them and to see them grow!! God bless!!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
Time to Turn in Tests!!!
Hello Parents!!
It’s time again to turn in tests. I posted it on our Monday Google classroom post but I wanted to send one more reminder. Between 9:30 and 12:30, tomorrow, May 6th, please drop off your tests. The tests you need to drop off are Number pages 117-118 and 123-124 and also Phonics page 169. That is three tests altogether. Please drop off between those times, no later. Thank you all so much!! God bless! See the kids at 2 on Zoom!!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
About Wednesday, May 6th
Hello Parents,
Just wanted to confirm with everyone that the test drop off is still happening. Please drop off tests tomorrow between 9:30 and 12:30. There will be no Zoom tomorrow. I am very sorry, but I will postpone it. Please let me know if any of you need anything. Praying for our school and families during this time. God bless!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
Time to Turn in Tests!
Dear Parents,
This Wednesday, April 8th, is our drop off day for tests we have taken the last few weeks. There are three tests to be turned in, 2 Phonics (pages 145 and 153) and 1 Numbers (page 109). The drop off times for this is 8am-1pm. Please turn in between these times. It’s important that tests get turned in so that your child has grades for this quarter. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me at esmith@vcagators.net. God bless!!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
Livestream Chapel Service at 8:30am!!!
Hey Kindergarten and Parents!!!
It was good to see some of you on the Zoom chat!
We will definitely have to do more soon!!
I miss all of you!!!
Tomorrow morning, join us for our Livestream Chapel at 8:30am!!!
Here are the links where you can watch
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4dh9wpABgUoSOZ5KXcXkGw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nola.victorychurch/?rf=163278987029264
God bless!!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
Reminder to sign up for Google Classroom
Happy Sunday everybody!
This is a reminder for anyone who has not signed up for google classroom yet. Remember their email will be their first initial, last name @vcagators.net (ex: gwashington@vcagators.net) . If they have siblings at the school with the same first initial it will be their full name such as georgewashington@vcagators.net. The password they will use is victory2020 and our class code is euoxiew. Hope we get everyone signed up by tonight so that you are all set to begin online school tomorrow! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns you can email me esmith@vcagators.net. If it is tech related please follow this link: https://forms.gle/KAgGHmVeRChtfELV6 . God bless!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
Pick Up Supplies by 3
Dear Parents,
If you have not stopped by the school today yet to pick up your child’s supplies, please do so before 3pm today. This is very important. It includes their report card, science books, journals, and worksheets for the next few weeks. Please pick up. Email me or call the school if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. God bless!
Thank you,
Miss Smith
Kindergarten Parent Update Letter
March 18, 2020
Dear Parents,
I hope this letter finds you well. I know times are crazy and things may be a little scary right now, but remember God is bigger than all of this and He will pull us through. We will be starting school online this coming Monday. I hope it brings some order and relief to your day and that it will help the kids stay on track. It is important that they keep on learning but also that they are having fun and getting their minds off of everything going on around them. We will have an online classroom where I will post their daily activities. I will list what pages to do from their schoolwork, I will post review videos. I will teach some lessons online for them to watch, and will post some fun videos for them to see as well. I have also sent the tests home for them to take. Please only take them as scheduled. Make sure to keep a folder of their tests to be ready to turn in later. Classwork can be kept at home when they have completed it. Here is a daily schedule you can follow if needed. Remember our material will be posted each day at 8:30.
- 8:30- Worship (I will post some of their favorite songs)
- 8:45- Watch Phonics review and Math review videos
- 9:00 Start Phonics, numbers, and handwriting pages
- Take a break when finished (let them color, do play doh, play outside, etc,) just ideas
- Read with them for maybe 15 minutes in their readers. (I will list page numbers for that day)
- Take a lunch and play time break
- I will post a science lesson maybe every other day.
- I will also include other videos with fun things for them to do and recommend online things they can check out that are fun and educational.
This is not a concrete schedule you have to follow. It is just an idea of what will be in Google classroom each day and your child can complete in whatever way works for them. As long as they are learning and completing their work. I am praying for all of you. I hope I can talk to the kids soon. I miss them so much! I can’t wait to hear from all of you. Stay safe and healthy! God bless!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
Class News March 9th-13th! Revival Week
Newsletter for March 9th-13th
March 9, 2020
Dear Parents,
This week is REVIVAL WEEK!!!! We will be having a chapel service every day this week. We start each day at 8:45am and parents are welcome to come. This is the best week of the year and we are excited to see how God shows up! Because it is revival week, I will not schedule any tests this week. Our tests will be on Thursday, March 19th of next week. We will learn our next memory verse this week though which is X- “Exceeding great and precious promises are given unto us.” 2 Peter 1:4. Please practice this week.
Next Friday is Parent Teacher conferences. The date of that is March 20th. Please sign up in the office for your time. If you have a busy schedule, please sign up early. Spots will fill up fast and it is mandatory to come to those. We will be finishing up the third quarter. That means graduation is right around the corner and I will send out all the information about that in the next few weeks. I hope you can make it to some of our Revival services this week. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me at esmith@vcagators.net. I hope you have a great week! God bless!
Love in Christ,
Miss Smith
March 2nd-6th Class News
| Last Week: We went to the Children’s Museum on a field trip. I think the kids had lots of fun! I will probably do this field trip every year now! Thank you to all of the chaperones for all your help!
Phonics: We have begun learning long vowel sounds and how to mark them as well as how to mark short vowel sounds. Short Vowel Rule: If there is one vowel in a word, it makes the short vowel sound (cat, hen, hit, top, cut) and I put a smiley face on top.
Long Vowel Rule: If there are two vowels in a word, the first vowel says its name and the second vowel is silent. (tape, read, kite, hope, cute)
We have also begun Special Sounds. I have sent home the first list of special sounds. Special sounds are sounds in words that will not follow our vowel rules and make their own sounds. We will circle special sounds when it comes to their work.
Numbers: We are continuing going over number families, telling time, now to the half hour, and now we are counting pennies, nickels, and dimes. Practice counting by 5’s and 10’s. As well as studying numbers that come before and after other numbers.
Memory Verse: W- “What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.” Psalm 56:3
They must practice every night.
Events: March 9th-13th– REVIVAL WEEK (chapel every day this week starting at 8:30am) Parents are welcome to come.
We will have a number oral evaluation on Thursday and a Phonics test on Friday.
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Don’t Forget: I will send home our class snack schedule. Please do not forget to check the schedule every day. I will start sending home a big bag in your child’s school bag when it is their snack day. You can send the snack back in the big bag. It will also work as a reminder. I also ask you to check your child’s folder every day. This is how we communicate. I ask that you sign the boxes where it says parent’s signature, so I know you are checking their folders. Make sure to subscribe to receive our class email on our school website as well as to receive Wednesdays Word. That way you are receiving the email and you will get a hard copy in your child’s folder. I will send home the snack bag with your child when their day is the next day. It is a large dark blue Disney bag. Please remember your snack days. Please keep work I send home at home. Don’t forget to sign chart each night. Revival week is next week!!!! Also please follow this link and take this quick survey if you have not already. https://forms.gle/nhrPePRsRSCff4mF8
Homework: Monday: Review W memory verse. Review the whole special sounds chart. In reader “I Learn to Read: Book 1” read over pages 2-3. Do Homework packet for Monday.
Tuesday: Review W memory verse. Review whole special sounds chart. In reader “I Learn to Read: Book 1” read over pages 4-5. Do Homework packet for Tuesday.
Thursday: Review W memory verse. Review the whole special sounds chart. In reader “I Learn to Read: Book 1” read over pages 6-7. Do Homework packet for Thursday.
We will practice with “I Learn to Read: Book 1” until all our reading groups are finished with Book 2 and I send them home. I will also send home a list of sight words for them to memorize.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me at esmith@vcagators.net. You may also send notes in your child’s folder. |
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