Welcome to Kindergarten!

Here is what is happening in Kindergarten the week of May 25th - May 29th, 2020

Remote Learning Week 10

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Good morning!

We hope you had a great long weekend. What a fantastic Field Day Mrs. Abbey planned last week! We really enjoyed seeing all the photos and videos. It looked like everyone had an amazing time!

This week will be our last week of sending out assignments. We are looking forward to one more great week of work. We will continue working with the same sight words, read the wonderful book “Ish” and review letter sounds and rhyming. For math we will continue with the number 20 and patterns. We also wanted to dedicate this week to our Dads! Since Father’s Day occurs after school ends, we wanted to be sure all the Dads get their week too!

We still are finalizing all the plans for graduation. So far we have the Graduation Ceremony planned for June 9th at 3:00 p.m. We will have it on the front lawn of the Mercy House. Our plan is to have the children stand social distantly outside on the lawn. They will sing a few songs followed by a short presentation of diplomas. The 8th grade graduates will also be honored at this ceremony. We have been told to ask the parents / family members, to stay in their cars for the ceremony. We are working on making the best and safe plan to celebrate Graduation. Please reach out with any questions or concerns.

We hope you have a great day and we look forward to meeting tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.

As always we continue to be available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Stay safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Friday, May 22, 2020

Happy Field Day Friday!!

What a perfect sunny day to have our field day! We are looking forward to seeing some great pictures. We are continuing to work on plans for graduation. We will have more information about that when we return from the Memorial break on Tuesday.

We hope you can join us on Facebook today at 9:00 a.m. for Friday Chapel with Mrs. Amy True and then for our MSMA Memorial Day Tribute at 10:00 a.m. We hope you all have a blessed and safe Memorial Day weekend.

As always we continue to be available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Stay safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Good morning!

Wow, what a great way to finish the Share Fair presentations! Lucas did a spectacular job! We really can’t say enough about how proud we are of all the children. The all did an outstanding job. We are so thankful for the time you put in to make this possible. Thank you so much!

For the next two weeks of Zoom Meetings we will be practicing our songs for graduation with Mrs. Morris. She has a few more songs she would like to teach the children. We will be sending you the lyrics for the songs to practice.

Today will be our last day of work for this week because tomorrow is Field Day! We hope you had a chance to meet with Mrs. Abbey this week to get ready. She has come up with some really fun activities, and it’s supposed to be a beautiful day! We can’t wait!

We hope you all have a wonderful day and we will see you soon!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe

Lisa and Katie

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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Happy Wednesday!

Good morning. Today we are looking forward to hearing Lucas’ presentation! He will be the last presenter. We are sad they are ending. We really have enjoyed seeing each child so very much!

Today we would love it if the children could share their Creation books. They have been doing such a great job on them, and we think their classmates would love to see them too! We also will sing our creation song again with Mrs. Morris. So tell your children to bring their singing voices. We will see you soon!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe and Have a Terrific day!

Lisa and Katie

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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten families,

Happy Tuesday! What a great start to the week with Vanessa’s terrific tiger presentation! We are looking forward to Lucas’s presentation on Wednesday.

We are still working on our plan for Graduation. We are hoping to have all the students meet at The Mount for an outdoor ceremony on Tuesday the June 9^th, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. Please let us know if this is something your family would not be comfortable with. If all things work out, we are planning on singing some songs during Graduation. One song is the Creation Song we sang yesterday with Mrs. Morris. She would like the children to practice this at home. Here are the lyrics for anyone who needs them:

CREATION SONG by Graythwaite

Day One God’s work be-gun The light and dark He made a-part

Day Two Still more to do The sky and sea were made to be

CHORUS.

And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form

By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

Day Three Came plants and trees As by His hand God made the land

Day Four God still made more The moon for night & sun for light

CHORUS.

And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form

By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

Day Five Birds filled the skies and God de-creed Fish for the seas

Day Six Came liv-ing things, in-clud-ing Man to work the land

CHORUS.

And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form

By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

- - SLOWER - -

Then came the Sev-enth Day when God did REST, and called it “blessed”.
WE rest - - God said to rest! When God did rest, He called it “blessed”.

- Back up to tempo:

CHORUS. And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form
By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

We will be practicing this song and a few others during our Morning Zoom meetings.

We hope you all have a great day, and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

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Monday, May 18, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families!

We hope you all had a great weekend. This week we will have our last two Share Fair presentations from Vanessa and Lucas. We can’t wait! We also will have four days of school work this week because our amazing Mrs. Abbey has put together a Virtual Field Day on Friday. Mrs. Abbey will have instructional Zoom Meetings held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. You only need to go to one of these meetings. She will tell you all about the great things she has planned. It’s sure to be a super fun time!

This week we will continue talking about God’s Creations for Religion. We have new sight words: like, out, now, ran, and was. We will read, The Three Billy Goats Fluff, for our book of the week lesson. For math we will start Chapter 9, counting and comparing numbers to 20 and we will review 2D and 3D shapes. We are looking forward seeing another great week of your children’s work!

We also wanted to let you know that the last week of May will be the last week of instructional work. We are in the process of planning something for Graduation. We will give you more information on that soon! One thing we would like to get your feeling on is how you would feel about meeting at our school for a socially distant graduation ceremony? If you could please let us know sometime this week, that would be great! This will help us continue with our planning. Thank you.

We hope you have a great day and we look forward to seeing you at 9:30a.m. Take care!

Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

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Friday, May 15, 2020

Good morning and Happy Friday!

Wow! Another great week of presentations! Even with technical issues, these children still managed to stay calm and finish while doing an amazing job! We are so proud of these kids! Thank you for the hard work you have been putting in to make these presentations fantastic! We really appreciate all of you!

We are also so thrilled to see how much work you continue to send in! We really can’t say enough about how incredibly lucky we are to have children with such amazing families. We truly are very blessed! We hope you have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy the sun and have fun!

Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Good morning,

Yesterday Lillian put on a great puppy presentation! We are so very proud of her and all the children who have gone so far! Great job! We unfortunately will not be able to post the presentations on our Facebook page, but we will send an email out each day with the presentation, incase anyone didn’t get a chance to enjoy it. If the parents of the children who are left wouldn’t mind taking a few pictures of your children with their poster board and model - that would be great! We would love to post that on our page for everyone to see. Today we look forward to a great presentation about hedgehogs from Andrew Stone.

We are excited for Mrs. Morris to join us again for a fun morning of singing. We will be singing the Creation song. The lyrics are below. They are also posted on our Facebook page.

We ask that you please keep the Stone Family in your prayers . They are waiting on some test results and could use some extra prayers for a positive outcome. Thank you so much.

We will see you soon. Take care!

Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

CREATION SONG by Graythwaite

Day One God’s work be-gun The light and dark He made a-part

Day Two Still more to do The sky and sea were made to be

CHORUS.

And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form

By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

Day Three came plants and trees As by His hand God made the land

Day Four God still made more The moon for night & sun for light

CHORUS.

And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form

By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

Day Five Birds filled the skies and God de-creed Fish for the seas

Day Six came liv-ing things, in-clud-ing Man to work the land

CHORUS.

And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form

By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

- - SLOWER - -

Then came the Sev-enth Day when God did REST, and called it “blessed”.
WE rest - - God said to rest! When God did rest, He called it “blessed”.

- Back up to tempo:
CHORUS. And it was good just as it should As all cre-a-tion God did form
By the pow-er of His Word the pow-er of His Word.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

Happy Wednesday!

Yesterday we finished cleaning out the classroom and have your children’s belongings bagged and ready for pick up. You can pick them up at school anytime between 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Ring the bell and Mrs. Maureen will meet you in between the front doors. If you have not been taking pictures of your child’s work, could you please drop their work off when you pick up your bags? Thank you so much.

Today we are looking forward to Lillian’s Share Fair presentation on Puppies! We can’t wait! See you soon!

Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

Great start to the week with a fantastic presentation from Violet! Thank you so much to Violet’s family for posting it on our Facebook page. A big thank you to all her classmates for watching it too! Even with a little technical difficultly everyone stayed so patient. We were so proud of you, especially Violet for staying so calm and being able to do an amazing job teaching us all about penguins. Way to go Violet!

Today the kids should work on page two of their creation book! We’d like the kids to keep all the pages of the book together so they can share it with their classmates next week when they all finish.

Also Ms. Katie and I will be going to school today pack up any items your children may have left. When we are done we will label your child’s materials, and leave them with Mrs. Maureen for you to pick up. We will let you know when they are ready for pick up. We know the school closing happened very quickly, so if there is anything you can think of that you definitely want to make sure we don’t miss, please let us know. For your safety, Everything has been disinfected in the entire school, and we will be wearing gloves and masks when we pack up. Take care and have a great day!

Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday
Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Good morning Kindergarten Families,

We hope you had a great weekend and a very Happy Mother’s Day! This week we are excited to continue our Share Fair presentations! Today we will hear from Violet. We can’t wait!

This week for religion the children will be making a book of God’s 7 Days of Creations. Each day the children will do one page of the book. We will discuss this at our morning meeting today. We will continue working on the sight words from last week. For math we will talk about Measurement and working on Chapter 8. Our focus book will be a class favorite, Scaredy Squirrel. The worksheets will begin to introduce who characters are in a book and what the setting is. We also will learn what a Noun is. A lot of new things this week, but I’m sure your children will do an amazing job! We will have a lesson in the morning meeting to help with the work.

We look forward to another great week of remote learning. Please reach out if you have any questions. See you soon!

Violet - 5/11 - Monday
Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday
Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Friday, May 8, 2020

Good morning and Happy Friday!

What a super first week back! It was filled with terrific presentations and great work. Your children continue to amaze us!

Next week we will continue with presentations from Violet on Monday, Lillian on Wednesday, and Andrew Stone on Thursday. We hope you have a wonderful weekend and we wish all the Mother’s a very Blessed Mother’s Day!

Violet - 5/11 - Monday
Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday
Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

Fiona gave another fantastic presentation yesterday. We couldn’t be happier with how these presentations are going! We can’t wait to see Andrew Samaras’ today!

Today Mrs. Morris is going to join us to sing a special song with the children for Mother’s Day. Tell your children to have their singing voices ready.

We are really happy with how much reading your children are doing. We are thrilled to see all the badges they are earning for reading! Keep it up!! We look forward to seeing you all at 9:30 a.m. See you soon.

Violet - 5/11 - Monday
Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday
Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Good morning and Happy Wednesday,

It’s been a great start to the week. Thank you all for getting your children’s work in. We hope getting back into a routine after vacation is going well. We know some days work might be harder than others. On the hard days it is okay if your child needs a break. We think we all need one sometimes. So don’t feel bad about missing a day of work here and there. We are all doing our best!

We are looking forward to another great Zoom meeting and having Fiona present her Share Fair project this morning! We will see you soon! We hope you all have a wonderful day!

Andrew Samaras - 5/7 - Thursday
Violet - 5/11 - Monday
Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday
Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families!

It was so nice seeing all the kids on Zoom yesterday. We were happy to hear every one had a great vacation. Brody did an amazing job starting off the Share Fair presentations. Way to go Brody! We look forward to Fiona’s on Wednesday!

Just a reminder to please continue taking pictures of your children’s work. These pictures are how we are able to keep track of your child’s progress. We can’t determine their grades without them. Thank you so much for doing such a great job so far.

We hope you all have a terrific Tuesday! See you tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.

Fiona - 5/6 - Wednesday
Andrew Samaras - 5/7 - Thursday
Violet - 5/11 - Monday
Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday
Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday
Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay safe!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Sunday, May 3, 2020

Good Evening Kindergarten Families,

We hope everyone had a wonderful vacation and enjoyed some great family time! We are very excited to start the Share Fair presentations tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. with Brody! We will start our morning off with calendar and then go right into the presentation to make sure we have enough time. The meeting should be about an hour long. While a child is doing their presentation, we ask that all participants have themselves muted themselves until the end. Then we will let anyone ask questions they might have. We know this is definitely not the way we planned it, but really wanted the children, not only to get an opportunity to share all of their hard work, but also prepare them for future presentations. For most this will be their first time presenting, so if your child is struggling, you can definitely lend a helping hand. Here is the presentation schedule again in case anyone misplaced it:

Brody - 5/4 - Monday

Fiona - 5/6 - Wednesday

Andrew Samaras - 5/7 - Thursday

Violet - 5/11 - Monday

Lillian - 5/13 - Wednesday

Andrew Stone - 5/14 - Thursday

Vanessa - 5/18 - Monday

Lucas - 5/20 - Wednesday

Also we have the syllabus for the week with all the worksheets you will need. We have new Sight words: at, brown, black, have, and are. We look forward to great journal writing! The book of the week is,

Chickens Aren’t The Only Ones, by Ruth Heller. We thought this would be a great book to follow Mrs. Reynolds duck hatching! We will be focusing on graphing and representing numbers 11-19 for math. Also we will talk about how blessed we are to have such amazing moms to love and take care of us.

We are looking forward to another great week of learning and seeing all your children at Zoom. We are so very thankful for Zoom. We miss your children so much, and we really look forward to seeing them in our meetings! Have a good night and we will see you at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Take care!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Friday, April 24, 2020

Good morning!

Happy Friday! This has been a great week filled with some amazing work! We hope you enjoy your vacation next week. Stay healthy, safe, and have fun! We look forward to starting Share fair presentations when we get back.

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Take care!

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Remote Learning Week 6

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Good morning,

We hope everyone had a great Earth Day Yesterday.

We wanted to let you know how very happy we are with your children’s journal writing. Their writing skills have improved soooo much. We love how they are really starting to get the letter sounds to build words. It’s very exciting to see! We also are happy to see how many of your children are receiving badges for all their reading! We are so thankful for all your support during remote learning. Your children are ALL doing so well!

Today we will continue talking about prayer by having your child trace their hand to make the five finger prayer. This is a great lesson for children to think about whom they could be saying prayers for each day. The wonderful Mrs. Maltby will be joining us during our meeting and reading a great story. We look forward to seeing you soon. Have a great day!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay Safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Good morning and Happy Earth day!

We are looking forward to another great Zoom meeting at 9:30 a.m. today. We have come up with a schedule for the Share Fair Projects. Here are your children’s days and dates:

Brody - 5/4 Monday
Fiona - 5/6 Wednesday
Andrew Samaras - 5/7 Thursday
Violet - 5/11 Monday
Lillian - 5/13 Wednesday
Andrew stone - 5/14 Thursday
Vanessa - 5/18 Monday
Lucas - 5/20 Wednesday

We are really looking forward to watching the children present their projects! We know how much work you and your children have put into this, and we think the children will love being able to share their animals, as well as listening to their classmate’s presentations. Please let us know if these dates work for your family. If they don’t we will do our best to make changes that will work for everyone. We hope you all have a great day! See you soon!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay Safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

We hope everyone had a great day yesterday! What a beautiful sunny day to start off the week. We love all the work that you submit. Thank you for working so hard to get your children’s assignments in. You ALL are doing an amazing job!

We see that most of you have logged on to Reading A-Z and your children have been doing a great job picking stories and taking quizzes. If anyone isn’t enjoying using this site, we will do our best to get books to set aside for your child. Please just let us know and we will work on it right away.

Earth Day is Wednesday so we thought it would be great to talk about ways we can help the Earth. Please have your child know one way they can help the Earth to share in our Zoom class meeting tomorrow. The book, “How to help the Earth, by the Lorax” is a great resource to help them come up with some ideas.

We appreciate your understanding about yesterday’s Zoom class meeting and we are looking forward to seeing everyone today at 9:30 a.m. We will see you soon!

Please keep Mrs. True and her family in your prayers at this difficult time.

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay Safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Monday, April 20, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

We hope you had a great weekend. We apologize about the last minute cancellation of today’s Zoom meeting. We hope that everyone will be able to make it tomorrow.

This week for religion we will be focusing on prayer. Today the children have a sheet that asks them what they will pray for. The three prayers are:

We pray to say thank you for.....
We pray to please bless.....
We pray to help me with......

We would like to share these prayers on Tuesday during our morning meeting.

Starting this week we will have a new book to read/listen to each week. There will be a daily lesson to go with it. This week the book is, “Hey, Little Ant.” We think this will be a good way to strengthen comprehension and writing skills.

With vacation starting next week we have decided to push back the Share Fair project presentations until after we get back. We will have the children’s presentation schedule posted this Friday. We hope this will give families enough time to prepare.

If you have any questions about the work for the day, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

We also wanted to thank you all for the amazing video you made for the teachers. We are so very blessed to teach children who have such thoughtful and caring families. We miss our students so much. This really was so special and touched our hearts. Thank you so much! God bless you all!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay Safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Good morning and Happy Thursday!

We just wanted to start off by letting you know what a great job you have been doing getting your children’s work in! We know that this is such a big change for everyone, and we truly appreciate all the time you have been putting in. Thank you so much!

From the feedback we received yesterday it seems like a three day Zoom meeting schedule would work best for most families. We were thinking that Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday would be the best days. On Fridays, we have Chapel at 9:00 a.m. and we don’t want to keep anyone from being able to attend. With that said if any family would like some extra meeting time, we would be happy set up a special meeting. We certainly don’t want any of the children being upset. We will continue our meetings for the rest of the week as planned, and we will start the new schedule next week.

Just a reminder if you would like to pick up a math book from school, you can do so today between 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. We will still continue to have assignments online as well, for the families that prefer that. We hope you all have a terrific Thursday!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay Safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Good morning!

It was so great to see the kid’s happy faces, yesterday, and hearing about how they Celebrated Easter!

We wanted to ask each family how you feel about our Morning meetings. We love meeting with the children every day, but we want to make sure this is something that works for all of our families. We decided to create a survey to see what will work best for everyone. We came up with three ideas. If you could please let us know which one works best, that would be great. You could send your choice in with your child’s work. Thank you!

Keep meeting every morning
Meet 3 days a week
Meet 2 days a week and have one day where we talk one on one with your child.

Also we know that the Big Ideas Math Website has been a struggle for some families.

We wanted to make sure you know that you can pick up a Big Ideas Math workbook at school today or tomorrow. Mrs. Maureen also printed out some extra journal pages for anyone who needs extra writing sheets.

We also wanted to remind you that April vacation is April 27th – May 1st.

If you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out! Have a great day!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Stay Safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten families! We hope you had a terrific Easter Break.

Yesterday we sent out a syllabus that includes your children’s work for the week. Hopefully you all got a chance to get familiar with the math and reading Websites. On the syllabus you should be able to get to the sites by just clicking on the links. We also wanted to let you know that after trying the math site this week, if you’re not enjoying the site, Mrs. Maureen has put aside the math workbooks for anyone who would like them. You may pick them up this week on Wednesday or Thursday.

Because we are unable to practice our Share Fair presentations in person, we thought we would start having one child each day present their Animal Project during our morning meetings. We plan on starting this next week. We will send out a list of which day your child will have their turn. We know they have put in so much hard work and we are really looking forward to seeing their presentations!

We are excited to continue our morning Zoom meetings at 9:00 a.m. every day this week. We will see you soon!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Be Well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Monday, April 13, 2020

No School - Easter Monday

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Good morning,

It was so great meeting up on zoom yesterday! We love that all the children get a chance to participate and start off our day as if we were in school.

Today is the last day of class work before we have Easter break. Thank you Parents for your continued support and making sure your children keep up with their work. EVERYONE has been doing an amazing job!

Every Monday morning we will distribute a syllabus for each week’s class work. Next week we are excited to add in some online learning! Hopefully everyone had a chance to check out the Websites.

We pray everyone has a very blessed Easter! Take care!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Be Well and Happy Easter,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Good morning,

We hope you all had a chance to get outside yesterday and enjoy the beautiful weather! Hopefully the syllabus is working for everyone this week. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Also we have the Reading A-Z completely set up! For now it would be great for you to login and get familiar with the site. You can choose any books you would like to read for the week. Starting next week we will be sending reading assignments out through the app. We are here if you have any difficulty getting on to the site.

We are very excited to start our morning Circle Time Zoom meetings at 9:00 a.m. everyday. We think it will be great for the kids to see each other and to have a daily morning routine. We will see you soon! Take care!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Be Well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Monday, April 6, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

We hope you and your family had a great weekend and a Blessed Palm Sunday.

This week we had planned on starting to use our online resources, but where this is only a three day week, we decided to wait. We want to take this time to become more familiar with the Websites, and start next week after the Easter break.

Attached to this letter is a three day syllabus. Worksheets for each day are attached to this email and available for you to print. They will also be posted to the Kindergarten Webpage https://www.mtstmaryacademy.com/classrooms/kindergarten/

We also changing our Zoom time to 9:00 a.m., everyday, starting tomorrow. We would like to use that meeting for a morning circle time. We will be going over calendar, weather, reading a book, and talking about your child’s work for the day. We are very excited to start each day like we used to when we were in school. Please let us know if 9:00 a.m. is not a good time for you and we will do our best to accommodate everyone.

Today we will post a circle time and a book read on our Facebook page. It should be posted by 11:00 a.m. We know this is a new process, please let us know if something isn’t working for your family, and we will do our best to address any concerns.

Thank you again for your patience and have a great Monday!

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

Be Well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Friday, April 3, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families and Happy “Fans of Our School Friday!”

We can’t wait to see your School Spirit today! Today we finish our two week paper packet work. All of you have done such an amazing job on your work! I know we have said this before, but we are so very thankful that we have students with such amazing families. Thank you so much for doing such a great job getting all of your children’s work sent in and taking photos and videos. This is a time when we all need patience and understanding, and each of you has been very supportive. We thank you so much. We are very blessed.

Next week we have a three day week before we break for Easter. In Monday morning’s letter, we will send a three day syllabus for your children’s daily work. Our plan is to start our regular morning Circle Time, Monday, live on Facebook. We will send the time and details on Monday as well.

^{As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.}

We pray that you have a happy and safe weekend!

Take care,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Good morning! Happy “Take a walk Thursday!”

We know it’s not the nicest day out, but a walk could be fun with your umbrellas and rain boots!

This week we have been setting up a few new resources to enhance our remote learning. We have set up accounts on Kids A-Z Reading and Big Ideas Math. Our goal is to have all of our students signed in and ready to go starting next week. If you’re having trouble logging in please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are happy to help!

Since our packets will be complete this week, next week we will have some assignments online, as well as some worksheets that we will attach in our morning letters.

We also have set up and invited you to our class Facebook page. Please let us know if you did not receive an invite. On this page, we will be planning a time to do a Live Circle Time. We will go over calendar, weather, and read a story. More information will be sent about Circle Time once we have the schedule set. Thank you for your understanding.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on Zoom today at 11:30 a.m. We can’t wait to hear about your favorite book! See you soon!

We hope you all have a wonderful day reading some great stories!

Take care,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families!

Happy “Watcha reading Wednesday!” Seeing you show your school spirit, each day, has been the best part of the week! We can’t wait to see what books you will be reading today.

We heard that counting by 5s has been a bit tricky. We found some fun, helpful songs to sing (see the three links below). We’ve also attached a puzzle that you can print as well.

Thursday is our day to Zoom again at 11:30 a.m. We will kick off our meeting with this question: “What is your favorite book?” Next we will be reading a short book about counting money. Finally we will sing the ‘Count by 5 Fitness Fiesta Song!’

Counting by 5’s Resources:

We hope you all have a wonderful day reading some great stories!

Take care,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

**Reminders – We will NOT have school/remote learning on: Thursday, April 9^th, Friday, April 10^th and Monday April 13^th To Celebrate Easter.

***WE WILL HAVE APRIL VACATION – APRIL 27-MAY 1

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Good afternoon Kindergarten Families,

We are excited to try out a new reading Website called Kids A-Z. This is a great resource to keep your children reading at grade level! Your child will have books in their library for them to read and answer comprehension questions when finished. The books in their library are picked by your child’s reading level. As their reading skills improve, their level will move up. We would like your child to use this site daily for their reading. We hope this helps with any of your reading concerns. This Website will have your children excited about reading. Please reach out if you are having any issues signing up.

Here are the steps to sign in:

Step 1: Log on to http://www.kidsa-z.com
Step 2: Click on username (first,last) - Example: katesegal
Step 3: Passwords are no caps, (last name, 2020) Example: segal2020
Step 4: Enter Reading Room
- Pick a book
- There are three icons
  - Press Head Phonesto have the book read to you
  - Press Book to read book on your own
  - Press Question Mark to complete comprehension questions

Take care,

Katie and Lisa

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families!

We hope everyone had a great day yesterday! We loved seeing your “Make it “photos! Definitely a great way to start off Spirit Week. Today is “TRY SOMETHING NEW TUESDAY!” Try a new food or make a new craft. Try something you’ve never tried before! We can’t wait to see some more great photos. Today is our Zoom Meeting day at 11:30 a.m. We are very excited to see and hear about something that is special to you all. We hope you have a great morning. Keep up the terrific work you all have been doing! See you soon.

As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

**Reminders – We will NOT have school/remote learning on: Thursday, April 9^th, Friday, April 10^th and Monday April 13^th TO Celebrate Easter.

***WE WILL HAVE APRIL VACATION – APRIL 27-MAY 1

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Monday, March 30, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families!

We hope everyone had a great weekend! Today kicks off our first day of Virtual school Spirit week, “MAKE IT MONDAY!” We can’t wait to see all the creative things you make. Please post pictures, of what you made, on our Facebook page Friends of Mount Saint Mary Academy.

In today’s packet there is a cross necklace for your children to scratch the darkness off and reveal the bright beautiful colors. Just like Jesus being in the dark tomb and then he resurrected bringing back light to the world. There is also an extra sheet for them to create any picture they want. You could use it for make it Monday!

We continue to miss all of you so very much, but we are so very thankful that you are all staying healthy. Have a great creative day. We look forward to Zooming tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. We can’t for everyone to share their “something special!” Take care.

As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

**Reminders – We will NOT have school/remote learning on: Thursday, April 9^th, Friday, April 10^th and Monday April 13^th To Celebrate Easter.

***WE WILL HAVE APRIL VACATION – APRIL 27-MAY 1

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families!

Happy fabulous Friday! It has definitely been a few interesting weeks. We are so incredibly thankful for everyone’s patience and willingness to make remote learning a success. You and your children are amazing! We really enjoyed our Zoom meetings this week. We have missed your children so much, and getting a chance to see their smiling faces has brought so much happiness to Ms. Katie and I! We will continue to have the meetings on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s at 11:30 a.m. until remote learning comes to an end. For Tuesday’s meeting we would like the children to do a show and tell. Please have your children show us something that is very special to them and have them share with us the reason why. We hope you all have a blessed weekend with your family. Take care.

**Reminders – We will NOT have school/remote learning on: Thursday, April 9^th, Friday, April 10^th and Monday April 13^th To Celebrate Easter.

***WE WILL HAVE APRIL VACATION – APRIL 27-MAY 1

As always we are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

We will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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For Music Class - Mrs. Morris would like us to listen to:

Songs of Silence

Mozart Concerto #3

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Good morning and Kindergarten Families!

It’s going to be a terrific Thursday! We are looking forward to our Zoom meeting today. We can’t wait to hear what everyone’s favorite thing is to do in the spring! We sent out invites for 11:30 a.m. Please let us know if you didn’t receive one so we can resend it to you.

Before we started remote learning, your children got a chance to see Mrs. Reynolds’, the Science teacher’s, duck eggs. They were all excited to see how the ducks would be developing in the eggs and then watching them hatch. Mrs. Reynolds has been posting cool photos and videos on Facebook - Friends of Mount Saint Mary Academy. The hatch date is April 8^th or 9^th. Mrs. Reynolds’ said we should start to see movement the week of March 30 – April 3. We think the kids would really enjoy watching them. Here is the link to use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v8f5K8JzgY.

We hope you have a great morning, and we can’t wait to see you all at 11:30 a.m.

As always we continue to be available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

We will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

Stay safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Good morning and Happy Wednesday Kindergarten Families!

It was so great seeing all your smiling faces yesterday during our Zoom meeting! We would like to schedule future Zoom meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. Please let us know if that will work for your family.

We continue to be thrilled by all the Terrific work we receive each day. We are so blessed to have students with such amazing families. We hope you have a great day and look forward to seeing you at 11:30 a.m. for our Zoom meeting tomorrow!

We thought it would be fun to have a question to answer for the kids each time we have a Zoom meeting.

Thursday’s question is: “In Spring Time - What is your favorite thing to do?” We are excited to hear each answer!

Just a reminder that we are available by email or text every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. for any questions or concerns. We also will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

Take care,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Zoom Conference Call

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Happy Snowy Tuesday Kindergarten Families!

It’s definitely nice staying home today! We are so excited to have our Zoom Conference meeting at 9:00 a.m. We have missed seeing your smiling faces so much! We can’t wait to hear about all the fun you have been having at home. We are so impressed with your fantastic packet work! Keep up the good work! We will talk to you very soon! Have a terrific day!

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Monday, March 23, 2020

Happy Monday Kindergarten families!

We hope everyone had a safe and fun weekend! Katie and I are excited to try out Zoom Video Conferencing tomorrow. We have invited you to join our meeting. If you click the link, Lisa sent, it will ask you to download the free Zoom app and then you can join the meeting! We are so excited to see all of your children! We have missed them so much. This will give them a chance to see each other and talk as well! We plan on trying to do this on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Also we will be reading a story on the Friends of Mount St. Mary Facebook page in a couple of days. Please show your children!

Today you should all start on the new packet labeled Week One. The days are labeled again so you will know what to work on each day. Please continue to take pictures showing your children’s work each day. We love seeing how they are doing! We appreciate all you are doing and we pray that your families continue to stay healthy! Have a great day and we will see on Zoom in the morning! If you haven’t received an invite, please let us know, and we will make sure you get one!

Just a reminder that we are available by email or text every week day from: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. for any questions or concerns. We also will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Week of March 16th - 20th, 2020

Friday, March 20, 2020

Happy Friday Kindergarten families!

We know there have been some major changes, and we are so incredibly thankful for all of your patience and hard work this week. We are really looking forward to start using Zoom to meet up as a class every morning next week. We still are working on getting it all set up, and we will be sending you invitations (links) via email to join. It will be so great to see your children. We have missed them so much!

We hope you all have a great weekend and enjoy some extra family time together.

REMINDER - Today is the last day to pick up packets for the next two weeks.

We are available by email or text every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. for any questions or concerns. We also will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

We would like to end the week in prayer

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

It has been so great hearing from a lot of you over the last few days! You have been doing an amazing job on your work packets as well as on your share fair projects! We love the videos and pictures you have been sharing! We miss you all so much. We are going to try and video chat with all of you starting next week! We can’t wait to see your work today! Have a great day with your loved ones!

Just a reminder that we are available by email or text every week day from

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. for any questions or concerns.

We also will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

Be well,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Good morning Kindergarten Families,

We hope you all are continuing to stay healthy. Thank you to all the parents who have been emailing and texting pictures of your children’s work each day. They have been doing such a great job! Today your children should be working on their “Wednesday” packet. Please continue to take pictures of your child’s daily work and submit them via text or email each day.

We are available by email or text every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

We will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

We also have finished all the remote learning packets for the next 2 weeks. You may start picking them up TODAY from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Pick up will be available until Friday. Thank you again for your patience during this time. We miss seeing your children, but we are happy you are all safe and continue to be healthy!

If you have any questions please email us or text us directly.

Stay safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Good morning Parents,

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We hope all of you continue to stay healthy. Today your children should be working on their “Tuesday” packet. In order for us to keep track of the completed work, while we are in remote learning mode, please take pictures of your child’s daily work and submit them via text or email each night. Please hold on to all completed hard copies as we will grade them once this virus passes.

We are available by email every week day from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Will check email during the day and evening and respond as soon as we can.

Thank you for your patience during this time. We miss your children!

If you have any questions please email us or text us directly.

Stay safe,

Lisa and Katie

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

**The packets for the next two weeks will be available for pickup on Friday, March 20th, 2020 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.**

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Remote Learning Week 1

Monday, March 16, 2020

Good afternoon Parents,

We would like to start out by thanking you for your patience and flexibility as we transition to our remote learning curriculum.

We wanted to reach out to reassure you that we will continue learning through remote instruction model. Your child’s education is our top priority. Last week we sent home packets of work to be done daily. Along with that work, children should be reading each day. We provided some reading books at your child’s level and we encourage you to read with your child. Below is an amazing educational site that will be a great resource to keep your children excited and engaged about learning. Also, we will provide any family in need of an iPad with one (just email us back if you need one.) We will continue to provide you with materials for instruction. These packets will involve crafts and activities for your child. We will also be sending home the last few questions for the Share Fair to finish, including the pages they have already worked on.

**The packets for next week will be available for pickup on Friday, March 20th, 2020 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.**

If you have any questions please email us or text us directly.

Wishing you and your family health and happiness,

Lisa Desrochers and Katie Connors

desrochersl@mtstmary.org / 603-391-4586

connorsk@mtstmary.org / 603-401-4831

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