We had a fabulous CHRISTMAS MORNING IN KINDERGARTEN!!! The students enjoyed eating a pancake breakfast in their pajama's with their 7th grade buddies! Thank you so much to all of the parent volunteers who helped make this possible! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! The Greatest Gift of all is JESUS, the 2nd Greatest Gift is KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN!!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM MRS. SHOOK'S CLASS!!! We had so much fun at our halloween party! This year we went trick or treating to the other lower elementary classrooms and played a game at each room! Thank you so much to all the parents who were able to come and help, and to those who sent in treats, and especially to Mrs. Johnson, who blew up 120 balloons for the game in our classroom! What a GREAT day it was!!!

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

What a wonderful beginning to the school year it has been!!! I always enjoy the beginning of the school year, meeting new students, getting new supplies, starting a new schedule! The students have been learning the beginning letters sounds that are needed for reading, and read several short a words this week. We are playing many letter games to reinforce the upper and lower case letters and sounds! In science, we are learning about animals and how they grow and change. Mrs. Gadwell teaches math, and the students have been making patterns and reviewing the numbers 1-10. Mrs. Gadwell also teaches social studies. Last week the students learned about "Constitution Day" and did many activities having to do with the United States of America!

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Upcoming Events in Kindergarten Life Monday, April 22 - Earth Day Activities Wednesday, April 24 - Invention Convention - Open House - New families - 5:30-6:45 Current Families 6:45-8:00 Tuesday, May 7 - May Crowning - 8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 9 - New Student PARENT MEETING - 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22 - Last day of Kindergarten - Noon Dismissal Graduation - 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 28 - Thursday, May 30 - New Student testing - Sign up for a convenient time on Sign Up Genius website.

100th Day of School

We had so much fun on our 100th Day of School! We colored 100 pictures, stamped 100 stamps, did 100 exercises, connected 100 dots, wrote what we would buy if we had 100 dollars, built a structure with 100 plastic cups, and played with and popped 100 balloons!! Check out the pictures below to see the fun!

Happy Catholic Schools Week! St. Pius has many exciting activities planned to celebrate our special Catholic School!!! Sunday - Open House for New Families Monday - Pajama day, Bagel sale, Service project - donate a used book to our collection for an area hospital!!! Tuesday - Crazy hat/hair day - We will let our parents know why we love St. Pius School today Wednesday - Mix and Match day - Movie day! Thursday - Dress up day - Mass day - We will make card's for Fr. Bob! Winter Carnival Service project - donate non-perishable foods for the local food pantry - Friday - Spirit wear day! - Pep rally

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome back to school! The students and I are so excited to be back to school! We are getting back into the swing of things and are busy reading our next book in the FAST series, Where is Sam? The students are doing a wonderful job reading and sounding out and spelling words! I am very impressed. Please take a moment to walk down the hallway and look at the "New Year's Resolution's" they wrote on their own! We will be going to Mass for the first time as a class on Thursday! We will sit with our 7th grade buddies. Please reinforce proper church behavior with your child when at Sunday mass. The next book order will be coming home on Friday and is due on Friday, January 18th. Please see the sidebar for the link! Next Tuesday afternoon we will be attending an assembly in the gym about Thomas Edison.