Contact information: nknoke@school.stteresacalcutta.com

                                           

         
        11/1 & 11/2- No School!

       11/9 Scholastic Book Orders due for November

       11/ 13 Safe Enviroment Lesson

       11/14 Home and School General Meeting 7:00

       11/16 50th Day Celebration: paperwork will be going home  
       shortly.
 
       11/16 Brown Bag Lunch Day-cafeteria will be closed

       11/21-11:30 Dismissal (please check with your school                   district for bussing)

        11/22-11/23 No School- Happy Thanksgiving 

Story Craft: We are asking each student to bring in 1 EMPTY paper towel roll or 2 EMPTY toilet paper rolls for a craft that we will be doing at the end of the month.  Please sent them in at any time.

50th Day Celebration:  Friday, 11/16 is Kindergarten's 50th Day of School.  It has been a tradition to celebrate this day 1950s style.  Please be on the look out for paperwork about this day!

Friday 11/16-Brown Bag Lunch: All students must pack a lunch on this day!  The cafeteria will be closed due to a Child Care event.  Please remember that we are peanut and tree nut free classroom so please DO NOT pack anything containing these products.  Thank you for your cooperation with this!

PEN PAL PICTURE - due 11/19 - We are being matched with Kindergarten students at Saint Aloysius in Pottstown to become Pen Pals with them this school year.  We will be corresponding with them several times throughout the school year and will get to meet them in person on the last day of Kindergarten in June.  The students are very excited to begin this activity!  Before our first correspondence, we are asking each student to send in a 4X6 photo (max size) of themselves. Photos will be sent with our first mailing to Saint Aloysius and will not be returned.  Please send all photos by Monday 11/19.  Thank you!




 MOTHER TERESA HELPING HANDS FOOD DRIVE - food items are being collected for STC parish families in need & STC Soup Kitchen.  Each class is asked to bring in specific items.  KINDERGARTEN  is being asked for donations of GRAVY and/or CRANBERRY SAUCE.  Please send in CANS only - NO GLASS CONTAINERS - between October 27th - December 16th.  Thank you in advance for your generosity

Snacks:
Please remember to pack your child a healthy, peanut/tree nut free snack in the morning with a small water only. No juice boxes please.

Rest Time:

Rest time is one favorite part of the day, for both the students and teacher :).  If your child would like to bring in one, quiet, stuffed friend to snuggle with, they may.  They will keep it in their backpacks and get them out at rest time.  Please no pillows or blankets.

Changes of Clothes

Please put in a gallon size ziplock bag a complete change of seasonally appropriate clothes (socks, underwear, etc.)  and put it in your child's backpack.  These will remain in the backpacks unless they are needed or a change of season happens.  Thank you for your help with this.

Daily Communication Folders:  
 
A blue folder will come home with your child DAILY.  Please check and empty it each day and return it to school.  This is one way we will communicate to you at home.

Classroom Information:

Special Schedule:
Monday- Music
Tuesday- Library & Gym
Friday-Technology

Communication (Parent/Teacher): 1. School Website and Teacher Page - I update my webpage on a weekly basis and will have it ready, at the latest, Monday morning. Please check my teacher web page each week. This is important information pertaining to our classroom and your child. There is also important information on the school website. Please get into the habit of checking both pages. 2. Folder: Each child will have one folder that will come home daily. Updates, homework, and any other classroom or school communications will be included in this folder. Please check it and return it to school everyday.

School Uniforms: Please make sure to look over the student handbook regarding the school uniform. Also, please label all sweaters, sweatshirts, jackets, school bags, etc. with your child's first and last name. Also please work with them on how to zip or button up their jackets and school sweaters. Girls: If your daughter is wearing the school jumper please have her wear a pair of small shorts underneath. Boys: If your son is wearing a belt, please practice with him how to buckle and unbuckle his belt.


Bathroom: We go to the bathroom everyday at snack time which is around 9:30, again before lunch at 11:30 and right after lunch around 12:30. Please remind your child to raise their hand if it is a true emergency, so we don't have so many interruptions.

Snacks: Please remember to pack your child a healthy, peanut/tree nut free snack in the morning with a small water only.