Welcome to Mrs. Jitosho's Class! 

Welcome to the Kindergarten class at St. Leander Catholic School. My name is Beverly Jitosho. I am so glad that your child is in my classroom. I am looking forward to a wonderful and productive year!


 

Dear Parents,
 I look forward in meeting with each of you during our Parent-Teacher Conference approaching in the month of October, so we can discuss your child’s progress and set personal goals for Kindergarten’s Learning Expectations in our spiritual, academic and social life here at Saint Leander School. I would also, like to share with you specific Life Skills Expectations and review your child’s progress in meeting grade level Common Core Standards.  I hope that you’ve reviewed your child’s weekly classwork that comes home in their personal folder, which includes both Formative and Summative assessment of their daily classwork.
 
Our class is still developing their skills in listening and learning to follow simple directions when they take turns and share ideas and opinions during our Circle Time.  We continue to encourage each child to make good choices and use their words to solve problems that may occur inside and outside of the classroom.
 
First, in Reading and Language Arts, we have learned more about letters and sounds with the use of our weekly Letter Books. The class has made amazing progress with identifying and recognizing each letter as it is introduced in our language development. We’ve just finished our first Letter Book and now we are beginning the process of blending and sounding out reading vocabulary words. This is the beginning of the reading process, so be patient and supportive of your child. This will help them build more self-confidence as your child learns to recognize letters of the alphabet and its sound.
 
Next, in Math this first trimester we are learning more about the concepts of Counting. Counting Objects, Counting Zero to Five, We applied the concepts of counting, sorting, classifying and patterning taught in our first chapter.  Our class has used the website, http://www.abcya.com where the students enjoy playing various Math Games: Counting Fish, Counting and Dot to Dots and Number Match and Fuzz Bugs which help enrich the students’ skills and give them greater confidence with patterns and sorting and classifying objects. 
 
 
In the coming weeks, in Kindergarten the class will learn how to Graph their favorite kind of apples by size, shapes and colors. With the use of a Circle Map we will collaborate and use descriptive words to tell about the many different colors, shapes, and sizes; how apples look, taste, feel and what it sounds like as we munched and crunched our yummy apples.
As little Scientist the Kindergarteners will participate in observing their   apples in water and making predictions whether Apples will sink or float? We will also investigate and learn the many parts of an apple both inside and out.
 
In Social Studies, we are learning that we have Leaders at Home and at School. We’ve also discovered that our Community Helpers are also our Leaders in our Community and wants to take care of us and keep us safe.
 
 
Lastly, in Religion, we are learning more about God’s love for us and God’s creation of the Earth, Skies, People and Animals. The class is enjoying listening, viewing and discussing some favorite Bible stories during Religion class time. We are Flying High like “little Birdies” because we know that God never stops loving us! The class knows that God created our Families to take care of us! So, we are learning more about how our families should show love by caring, helping and sharing in their daily lives.
 
 
I would like to thank you parents for all of your support in making your child’s transition into Kindergarten smooth and successful. Also, thank you for attending our Back to School Night presentation. The Kindergarteners are working very hard and I am very proud of their progress and hard work thus far.
 
Sincerely,
Mrs. Beverly Jitosho
Mr. Robert Talley