Mrs. Mary Urbaniak Kindergarten Teacher murbaniak@stmarysspokane.org (509) 924-4300 ext. 217 Hi! I am Mary Urbaniak and I teach Kindergarten at St. Mary's Catholic School. I grew up in and attended school at St. Charles Parish. I earned my BaE and MaE at Eastern Washington University. I have been teaching at St. Mary's since 2003 and also have children that attend the school. My family have been members of the St. Mary's Parish since 1996. I feel truly blessed to be able to work and worship in my faith community.

• 8/31/11
• 9/5/11 
• Thursday, 9/8 Back to School Night 6:30 in the Gym
• 9/12/11
• 9/18/11
• 9/26/11
• 9/27/11- September Family Project due.
• 10/4/11
• 10/5/11- Fun Run and Permission slips due with $$
• 10/6/11- K and 1st field trip to pumpkin patch- dress for rain.
• 10/10/11
• 10/17/11
• Thursday, 10/20- Family Pumpkin Project due 
• 10/24/11  
• Saturday, 10/29- Halloween Carnival in school gym
• Monday, 10/31- Halloween. Black and orange free dress, party in class 1:15-2:45
• 10/31/11
• Tuesday, 11/1- All Saints Day Mass 8:30
• Wednesday, 11/2- November Family Projects home
• 11/7/11
• Friday, 11/11- Veteran's Day. No school or edu-care.
• 11/14/11
• Tuesday, 11/15- November Family Projects due.
• Wednesday - Friday, 11/16-18- Early dismissal. Parent- teacher conferences.
• 11/21/11
• Wednesday, 11/23/11- Grandparent's/Special Person Day. Mass at 8:30, performance to follow. Early dismissal.
• Thursday and Friday- no school.
• 11/28/11
• 12/5/11 
• Thursday, 12/8/11- Immaculate Conception Mass, Family Project due.
• 12/12/11
• Thursday, 12/15- Christmas Program in church. 6:30- best dress up clothes.
• Friday, 12/16- 8:15 rosary, class Christmas party to follow immediately.
• Christmas Vacation Challenge
• 1/2/11 
• 1/9/12
• 1/16/12
• 1/23/12 
• 1/24/12 January Family Project due
• 1/28 - 2/4  Catholic School Week- please see school bulletin for details. 
• 2/6/12
• 2/9/12- February Family Project due
• 2/14/12- Class Valentine Party
• 2/15/12- 100th Day!!!
• 2/17/12- no school  In-service Day.
• 2/20/12- no school- President's Day 

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 Monthly Family Projects

• September
• October
• November
• December
• January

Book It Forms and Information

• Parent Letter
• Reading Log

Link to Manuscript Handwriting Website

http://www.usu.edu/teachall/text/langart/programs/hwrkshts.htm

Weekly Songs

• See the squirrels
• Leaves Are Falling
• Autumn Leaves are Falling Down
• Little Leaves 
• Halloween Night
• I'm A Great Big Turkey
• Who Am I?
• MLK Song-Hand in Hand
• Groundhog Day- Look All Around
• The Rainbow Song-Color Words
• I Like Fish- Dr. Suess
• On St. Patrick's Day
• The Funny Little Bunny 
• Spring is Here
• 5 senses
• He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
• In My Garden
• Dig and Hoe
• Three Brown Bears
• Pretty Butterfly
• Sun On Me
• Sing a Song of Sunshine

Kindergarten Sight Words

• Sight word list 1
• Sight word list 2
• Sight word list 3
• Sight word list 4
• Sight word list 5
• Sight word list 6

All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in Kindergarten.  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:

• Share everything.
• Play fair.
• Don't hit people.
• Put things back where you found them.
• Clean up your own mess.
• Don't take things that aren't yours.
• Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
• Wash your hands before you eat.
• Flush.
• Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
• Live a balanced life- learn some and think some and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
• Take a nap every afternoon.
• When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
• Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup- they all die. So do we.
• And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all- LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.  The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.  Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government your world and it hold true and clear and firm.  Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole word - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.  Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

By Robert Fulghum