Thank you to all the parents for your help and sharing your children with me. This is another wonderful class. I am so blessed to be here at St. Mary School. I'm sure you will also enjoy your school experience here. This year as part of our language arts curriculum our class will learn the beginning basics of reading. We will study the letters out of order which insures that the children really know them, as well as they will be able to read, spell, and print some simple words after just the first 9 letters. This will help to build confidence and excitment about reading. We will study the letters in the following order: c,o,a,d,g,m,l,h,t,i,j, k,p,ch,u,b,r,f,n,e,s,sh,th,w,wh,y,v,x,z,th,qu Please review them with the children and practice at home as we study them in class. The children will have homework in reading after the first of the year. Their take home reading will require an adult to read with them each night Monday thru Thursday and keep a log. I will give you more information on this as we begin the homework program. Fun activities to do might be to add a magnet letter to your refrigerator as we study it, then start to build words as more letters are added. Read together and point out words that start with the letter being studied. Your children work very hard for me all day in class, they will need to run and play at the end of the day so they will be ready to settle in and do more the next school day. All children will need to know their full name, home address including city and state, and phone number. Please work on this at home as well as how to tie a shoe. The schedule of special classes at this time: Monday* Music Tuesday Religion 1PM Mrs. Krick the Bible Story Teller Wednesday* Religion Spanish Thursday Library, Afternoon Music Art Friday P.E. Computer Lab *Please send children wearing their gym shoes. With 30 students we do not have time to change shoes in class. Thanks for your help in this. We attend Mass once a month in addition to All School Mass and special prayer services as arranged. Parents are always welcome to join us. We sit in the front 4 rows on the Left side of the church. Listen to the Hotline message for dates and changes in schedules. I'm looking forward to a great year ahead. Thanks for all you do. It is clear that you have done an awesome job preparing them for Kindergarten.