Mrs. DeBardino's Kindergarten Class

Thursday, October 29, 2026

October 26th - 30th

What a busy week leading up to Halloween! This week, many of our students began adding two-digit numbers with our Montessori Bank Game! Some students worked with a partner by gathering the correct materials needed to build their number, then combined the materials to figure out the correct answer to their math problem.

This week we had our second lesson on American Sign Language with the Neumann students. The lesson was on feelings. The students practiced the signs they learned last week and then learned new ones this week such as, happy, sad, mad, and surprised. We worked in small groups to review what we learned. The students are really having a fun time and learning so much!

This week we celebrated our school wide Service Commissioning prayer service. Each grade has been designated to a cause or group in which they provide service. The Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten classes partner together as the school drive coordinators. This year we will start our service with a Toys for Tots drive. Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to the holiday season.

In celebration of the season and holiday, the students watercolored fall pictures and painted our pumpkins that we "picked" from the HCA pumpkin patch!

Mrs. Barrera invited the Early Childhood classes to participate in a very cool science experiment! Mrs. Barrera created Elephant Toothpaste inside a jack-o-lantern! We mixed hydrogen peroxide, water, food coloring, yeast, and dish detergent. When we added the last ingredient, the mixture started to bubble and grow! It made a big, foamy mess! Even though the bubbly mixture didn't foam out of the pumpkin, it was still so cool to see it bubbling out of the beaker. We concluded that the pumpkin was a little too big! Still a fun and exciting experiment!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We had a lot of fun during the Halloween Mission Party! Stay tuned next week for lots of exciting pictures from the day!

EVENTS AND REMINDERS

Monday, November 2nd - No School

(Teacher In-Service)

Wednesday, November 4th - Early Childhood Grandparent's Day

Thursday, November 5th - Kindergarten to the Book Fair

(You can send in money or use the EWallet to purchase books)

Friday, November 13th - No School

(Lower and Middle School Conferences)

Have a great weekend!

Sharon DeBardino

GO EAGLES!

Friday, October 23, 2026

October 19th - 23rd

In math, the students continue to work hard learning place value using the Montessori materials such as ten sticks and units. Students worked on building two-digit numbers and counting by tens with the ten sticks.

We had a guest reader in the kindergarten class this week! Dr. Kellich visited the kindergarten class and read a very special story, "The Scarecrow and the Spider." The story is about a lonely scarecrow who doesn't have any friends. He meets a small spider and the two of them bond and become friends. They help each other and come to the realization they are never alone. God is always with us! The students loved the story which has become a tradition for Dr. Kellich to share with the kindergarten students year after year. Thank you, Dr. Kellich!

This week we welcomed three Neumann University students to Holy Child Kindergarten to kick off our five-week study of American Sign Language! One of the students read a story about a little girl who is deaf and how she interacts with friends and lives a normal life by communicating by signing. Throughout the story, our Neumann friends showed us a few different signs such as yes, thank you, love, and friends. Next, they explained to the class why people use sign language to communicate and what it means to be deaf or hearing impaired. We are all looking forward to the upcoming weeks when our Neumann friends join us once a week to introduce us to several units on sign language!

This week our Weekly Reader talked about different foods we can make from a pumpkin. After reading our booklet, we created our own bar graph of our favorite pumpkin foods! Some of us had a few favorites, including myself! After completing the graph, we were able to answer questions such as, which food had the most votes, and which food had the least.