Week of December 16, 2024

 

🎄🎅"HoHoHo... Merry Christmas!"🎅🎄

Weekly Recap:  

We had such a fun and busy week despite being hit with our first wave of  illnesses in PreK-3.  We have had such a good track record so far!! 🙏We've been praying for our friends who are taking a little while to bounce back from this virus.  Thank you to all of our families who are being extra cautious before sending their recovering little ones back to school.  Hopefully all your efforts will help our other little friends get through this wave unscathed.  Let's hope we are on the tail end of this and that everyone is healthy for Christmas!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: 
We will be learning Letter Kk, finishing up our December themes and gifting Baby Jesus gifts of kindness.

Nap Mats: 
We will be sending Nap Mats home at the end of the week.  After you wash them, please be sure to attach them to your little one's backpack so that we get them back when we return to school on January 6th.  I only have a couple of extras on hand so please do your best to remember to return them.  Thank you.  

Conferences: 
I will be emailing everyone soon with a Sign Up Genius for you to choose a time slot that works best for your family.  Please be on the lookout.  

Donation Request: 
We are asking for donations of disinfecting wipes as we are starting to run low.  We would appreciate any you would be willing to donate.  Thank you!  We are still well stocked on tissues and baby wipes thanks to everyone's generosity at the start of the school year.

Gifts of Kindness:
Please try to catch your little one performing acts of kindness either with  kind deeds or kind words.  Then please send brief notes into school through your child's folder.  We will be reading them aloud to our class this week.  We need your help to fill our kindness gift box!!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Kk
Numbers of the Months: 4
Colors of the Months:  Blue
Shapes of the Months: Star

December Themes:  Counting 0-4, Sorting, AB Patterns, Christmas, Kindness, Feelings, Winter,      Name Recognition
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Christmas, "Jesus is Born," Nativity, Advent

Show & Tell:  NO Show and Tell this week due to our Christmas Breakfast on Friday. 

Dates to Remember:

December 19th: 8th Grade Project Graduation Tag Day: 🎅🎄Wear Christmas Colors🎄🎅

December 19th (Thursday): Pizza Lunch🍕

December 20th: Schoolwide Christmas Breakfast

December 20th: NOON Dismissal (No After Care)

December 23rd- January 5th:  NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break

January 6th: School Reopens

January 20th: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 13th-17th: PRIORITY REGISTRATION begins for the 2025-2026 School Year for current STS Families

January 21st-24th: PreK Conferences (Sign up Genius coming soon)

January 24th: Eighth Grade Project Graduation Tag Day: Sports Day!

January 26th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details coming soon)

Our Week in Photos:

📸 Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our Week📸 

🧁Happy Birthday Lieutenant Rocco!!!🧁

It may have been cold outside but things were definitely warm and toasty inside!

J is for Jaguar!

"j" is for jellyfish too!

Please don't ask too many questions about this craft!! 

We LOVED reading lots and lots of Gingerbread Man storybooks!!

And then had so much fun making our own!!

We had so much fun taking a "First Bite" of our Gingerbread Cookies!!!

And then GRAPHED the RESULTS!!!

Did you guess what your sly old fox bit first?!?!

(Did our "little hint" help?!?!)

We did so well learning Number 4!!

GLITTERING them was definitely our FAVORITE PART!!!

We started a special craft that will be coming home soon!!

Making Santas was SO MUCH FUN!!!

Our Five Day Friends did so well on their Letter Jj Books!

Gingerbread Yoga was such a big hit!!

And so were our Gingerbread and Santa Movement Games!! 

We worked on our Name Writing Skills this week too!!

Did you know that Jj is for Jack-In-The-Box too?!?!

Our Gingerbread People Shape Review was so cool!

Our Five Day Friends LOVED making their own Gingerbread Creations!!

Our sequencing skills are really coming along nicely!!

And so are our Public Speaking Skills!!

Not to mention how AMAZING our JUMPING skills are too!!!

Did you know that Jj is for Jumping over our Jump rope?!?! 

I was AMAZED by our J Handwriting Skills too!!

Afternoon Dress Up is SO MUCH FUN!!!

Even the teachers couldn't help getting in on the fun!!

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We wish you all a very Merry Christmas

 and a New Year full of happiness and blessings!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

🎄🎅⛄🎄🎅⛄🎄🎅⛄

Paula Dobres