Great Job Everyone!
Deion found a Robin!!
Claire found a robin!
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Monday, March 30, 2020
Week of March 30, 2020 (Week 3)
Hope all of our families are staying healthy and safe in this time of crisis.
It was so nice to catch a little glimpse of so many of you on Sunday, even if it was from afar. Now that we have all of the supplies we need it will be much easier to home school. I hope letter S went well today. I heard back from some of you and love the photos you sent! Please keep them coming!
I will continue to communicate and post on this blog but will send lesson plans and links on email. I can't get videos to upload on the blog so emailing the lessons will be much easier.
Our themes for this week:
Letter Ss
Snakes (Facts and Fictional)
Signs of Spring & Robins
Sinking and Floating
Sailboats
Scissor Skills
Silly Socks - (Friday)
Slime - (optional)
Counting
Colors
Friends of Jesus
I will email you the lessons, links and time line.
Silly Sock Day will be this Friday using the ZOOM platform that we used to meet up last Friday. I will be emailing you a ZOOM invite soon so be on the lookout 👀!
I am so sad to report that our Easter Hat Parade will be cancelled this year. If your child has already made a hat, please send me a photo of him/her wearing it and I will add it to the blog for everyone to see. If you haven't made one, no worries. Your child will have another opportunity to make one and parade next year when he/she is in PreK-4!
Please be reminded that all of our lessons and activities are completely optional. Please do not feel pressured to have to complete any of them if you are already stretched too thin with everything else going on right now.
Please stay safe and healthy,
Paula Dobres
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Home Schooling Ideas for Week Two
I hope everyone is healthy and safe during this challenging time. I know it has to be difficult to manage your jobs, home life and homeschooling all at the same time. If you've started running out of ideas, here's something you may want to try this week. Please keep in mind that this completely optional.
The children in our class absolutely love playing games. I try to make them educational without them realizing which adds to the fun. I had an idea which stems off of some of the suggestions from last week. Let's try to play Scavenger Hunt 5 Days, 5 Ways! & some extension ideas as well.
What you will need to supply:
* Two identical decks of "cards" for each day. You can print them, write them, even use Post-its.
* Your child
* Your excitement
Day One:
Make two identical decks of cards with one upper case letter printed on each card A-R. (You can reuse the cards from the Memory Game you may have made with last week's suggestions.) You will not use all the cards at the same time until your child gets used to the game and you need to occupy him/her for a longer period of time. :)
Keep the decks in two separate identical piles.
Without your child noticing, scatter one deck around the house, Easter Egg Hunt style. Make sure each card is within your child's reach and the letters are visible
Now its time to play!
Turn the second set of cards upside down in an easily accessible drawing spot.
Have your child flip one card over, look at the letter, identify the letter name, and then search your house for its pair.
Once the set is made, have your child set it out on a table and then draw a second card.
Repeat until all sets have been made.
Praise your little one for a job well done!!
Day Two:
Repeat the above game with Numbers 0-7 printed on the individual cards.
Extension to the game: Have your child draw a card and show you that number on their fingers. Then reverse the game, you show a random number on your fingers and have your child identify the correct printed number card.
Day Three:
Repeat the game with Shapes and Colors: Circle, Triangle, Square, Rectangle, Oval, Star, Heart. Make each shape a different color.
Extension to the game: Have your child draw a card and find a household object that is the same shape as the card. Then repeat with colors.
Day Four:
Repeat the game with the letters in your child's name. If your child has a short first name, introduce your child's last name as well. Only this time, display your child's name written out as a whole as well as with the individual letter decks so they can see the letters strung together to form actual words... their names!
Extension to the game: Have your child draw a card and find that letter anywhere in your home... books, magazines, cereal boxes, snack bags, toilet paper packaging (lol), etc...
Day Five:
Counting: Repeat the game, only this time you will need three decks. Two decks will be identical and one will not. You can reuse the two decks of number cards from Day Two. Hide the first deck around the house just as you did in the previous days. The second deck, scatter and lay out face up on a table. Make a third deck with individual counting sets - can be dots, pictures of objects, drawn smiley faces, stickers, etc. Each card should have a different number set 0-7. Place a card with nothing on it towards the bottom of the deck to represent zero. (THEY LOVE THE ZERO TRICK!!!) This time, have your child flip one card over at a time, help them count the number of objects, identify the card with the correct number which is face up on the table and then find the hidden match.
SOCIALIZING is so crucial to your child's development! Unfortunately, we need to make temporary adjustments. I've been giving this a lot of thought and came up with a simple idea for this week. In an effort to try to keep the children in our class connected, would you please try to send me a photo or two or even a few of your child doing something during our quarantine? I will post the photos on my blog so you can show them to your little sweethearts. Some of you have already shared some with me and they have made my day!! I miss all my little munchkins sooooo much and have been so delighted to see them in your photographs. I'm hoping that sharing the photos with our little classmates will have the same effect on them! In the sharing of your photos with me going forward from now, I am asking that you are also giving me permission to post them on this blog.
I also appreciate any feed back or ideas you may have. Please email me and I will be sure to get back to you in a timely manner.
ABCMouse.com is offering free subscriptions to students during the COVID-19 crisis. Thank you Mrs. Conover for bringing this to my attention. Our class is registered and ready to go for anyone interested.
Lastly, I want to express my most sincere gratitude for all our parents who work in the medical field of whom we have quite a few in our classroom. I am keeping your safety and health as well as that of your families forefront in my prayers.
May God Bless You All,
Paula Dobres
The children in our class absolutely love playing games. I try to make them educational without them realizing which adds to the fun. I had an idea which stems off of some of the suggestions from last week. Let's try to play Scavenger Hunt 5 Days, 5 Ways! & some extension ideas as well.
What you will need to supply:
* Two identical decks of "cards" for each day. You can print them, write them, even use Post-its.
* Your child
* Your excitement
Day One:
Make two identical decks of cards with one upper case letter printed on each card A-R. (You can reuse the cards from the Memory Game you may have made with last week's suggestions.) You will not use all the cards at the same time until your child gets used to the game and you need to occupy him/her for a longer period of time. :)
Keep the decks in two separate identical piles.
Without your child noticing, scatter one deck around the house, Easter Egg Hunt style. Make sure each card is within your child's reach and the letters are visible
Now its time to play!
Turn the second set of cards upside down in an easily accessible drawing spot.
Have your child flip one card over, look at the letter, identify the letter name, and then search your house for its pair.
Once the set is made, have your child set it out on a table and then draw a second card.
Repeat until all sets have been made.
Praise your little one for a job well done!!
Day Two:
Repeat the above game with Numbers 0-7 printed on the individual cards.
Extension to the game: Have your child draw a card and show you that number on their fingers. Then reverse the game, you show a random number on your fingers and have your child identify the correct printed number card.
Day Three:
Repeat the game with Shapes and Colors: Circle, Triangle, Square, Rectangle, Oval, Star, Heart. Make each shape a different color.
Extension to the game: Have your child draw a card and find a household object that is the same shape as the card. Then repeat with colors.
Day Four:
Repeat the game with the letters in your child's name. If your child has a short first name, introduce your child's last name as well. Only this time, display your child's name written out as a whole as well as with the individual letter decks so they can see the letters strung together to form actual words... their names!
Extension to the game: Have your child draw a card and find that letter anywhere in your home... books, magazines, cereal boxes, snack bags, toilet paper packaging (lol), etc...
Day Five:
Counting: Repeat the game, only this time you will need three decks. Two decks will be identical and one will not. You can reuse the two decks of number cards from Day Two. Hide the first deck around the house just as you did in the previous days. The second deck, scatter and lay out face up on a table. Make a third deck with individual counting sets - can be dots, pictures of objects, drawn smiley faces, stickers, etc. Each card should have a different number set 0-7. Place a card with nothing on it towards the bottom of the deck to represent zero. (THEY LOVE THE ZERO TRICK!!!) This time, have your child flip one card over at a time, help them count the number of objects, identify the card with the correct number which is face up on the table and then find the hidden match.
SOCIALIZING is so crucial to your child's development! Unfortunately, we need to make temporary adjustments. I've been giving this a lot of thought and came up with a simple idea for this week. In an effort to try to keep the children in our class connected, would you please try to send me a photo or two or even a few of your child doing something during our quarantine? I will post the photos on my blog so you can show them to your little sweethearts. Some of you have already shared some with me and they have made my day!! I miss all my little munchkins sooooo much and have been so delighted to see them in your photographs. I'm hoping that sharing the photos with our little classmates will have the same effect on them! In the sharing of your photos with me going forward from now, I am asking that you are also giving me permission to post them on this blog.
I also appreciate any feed back or ideas you may have. Please email me and I will be sure to get back to you in a timely manner.
ABCMouse.com is offering free subscriptions to students during the COVID-19 crisis. Thank you Mrs. Conover for bringing this to my attention. Our class is registered and ready to go for anyone interested.
Lastly, I want to express my most sincere gratitude for all our parents who work in the medical field of whom we have quite a few in our classroom. I am keeping your safety and health as well as that of your families forefront in my prayers.
May God Bless You All,
Paula Dobres
Monday, March 16, 2020
Week of March 16, 2020 SCHOOL CLOSED
Sadly, St Therese will not be in session this week or next. I will post any updates on our blog. If you are NOT receiving alerts from the main office, please let me and/or the main office know ASAP so we can resolve the issue.
In the meantime, I thought I'd share some photos to bring a smile to your face during these difficult times...
Despite everything going on in the world around us, we still managed to have a great week in PreK-3! We loved making our Leprechaun masks and really enjoyed wearing them!!
Race cars and Rockets were so much fun to create and play with as we continued to work on our Transportation Unit!
Our class has unanimously chosen their favorite story character that we've met all year, and we've read about sooooo many so far, LITTLE RABBIT FOO FOO!!!!! He's a naughty one! They asked me to read the book over and over and over again! Their reactions were the same with every reading... pure delight and enjoyment! I'm really going to miss those sweet smiles these upcoming two weeks!
I know these next couple of weeks will be challenging at home so if there is anything I can do to help, please email me. I would be happy to offer suggestions and ideas for continuing to build on your little one's educational and social skills. I will check my email daily.
I hope you all received the letter that Mrs Reed and I put together offering some suggestions as to things you may want to do with your preschooler at home. It went home through your child's folder on Friday and I emailed it to the families of the children who were not in school on Friday. If you did not receive it, please email me and I will send you a copy.
Praying for your family's health and safety,
Paula Dobres
In the meantime, I thought I'd share some photos to bring a smile to your face during these difficult times...
Despite everything going on in the world around us, we still managed to have a great week in PreK-3! We loved making our Leprechaun masks and really enjoyed wearing them!!
Race cars and Rockets were so much fun to create and play with as we continued to work on our Transportation Unit!
Our class has unanimously chosen their favorite story character that we've met all year, and we've read about sooooo many so far, LITTLE RABBIT FOO FOO!!!!! He's a naughty one! They asked me to read the book over and over and over again! Their reactions were the same with every reading... pure delight and enjoyment! I'm really going to miss those sweet smiles these upcoming two weeks!
I know these next couple of weeks will be challenging at home so if there is anything I can do to help, please email me. I would be happy to offer suggestions and ideas for continuing to build on your little one's educational and social skills. I will check my email daily.
I hope you all received the letter that Mrs Reed and I put together offering some suggestions as to things you may want to do with your preschooler at home. It went home through your child's folder on Friday and I emailed it to the families of the children who were not in school on Friday. If you did not receive it, please email me and I will send you a copy.
Praying for your family's health and safety,
Paula Dobres
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Week of March 9, 2020
We had so much fun celebrating Dr Seuss' Birthday this week. We made Cat in the Hat hats and read lots of Dr Seuss books. We also practiced our rhyming skills! Qq was without question a fun letter to learn with Queens, Quilts, Quick, Questions and Quacking as some of our focal points.
I hope you enjoyed looking through your little author's masterpiece on Weather! They worked on those special projects for two months! They were so proud to sit in the "Author's Chair" in front of the class to share all of their hard work with their classmates!
This week promises to be another exciting one in PreK-3 as we continue to work on our Transportation STEAM Unit as well as letter Rr! We have a Ridiculous amount of activities planned for both this week!! HINT, HINT... Be sure to ask your little "Racer" all about it!
We also have a new hallway display in full "BLOOM" in the Learning Center that we worked on with our PreK-4 friends. Be sure to check it out next time you are in our building!
This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Rr
Number of the Month: 7
Color of the Month: Green
Shape of the Month: Oval
Themes for the Month: Counting 0-7, Graphing, Friendship, Transportation, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Opposites, Rhyming, St. Patrick's Day, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, Differentiating Sizes, Signs of SPRING!
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Lent, Praying for someone you care about
Show & Tell: Friday, March 13th - Please bring something that starts with the Rr sound, is oval shaped or is green to show and tell our friends about.
Dates to Remember:
March 16th Wear GREEN to school for St Patrick's Day Fun (which is actually March 17th)
March 20th Land of Make Believe Payment due
April 3rd Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt (more info to follow)
April 9th NOON DISMISSAL - NO Aftercare
April 10th-17th NO SCHOOL - Easter Break
May 13th Land of Make Believe Trip (more info to follow)
May 15th Land of Make Believe rain date
May 22nd Noon Dismissal
May 25th NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day
May TBD Summer Fun Day (Tentative Date 5/27 - parent volunteers welcome)
June 3rd Last Day for Three Day Children
June 4th Last Day for Five Day Children
June 5th PreK-3 Graduation (Moving Up Ceremony)
Hope you have a relaxing week,
Paula Dobres
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Week of March 2, 2020
Three Little Pigs Straw Houses:
Three Little Pigs Stick Houses:
Three Little Pigs Brick Houses:
Penguin Puppets:
Rainbow Watercolors Peacock Tails:
Popcorn P's:
Pajama Day:
Pp was the Perfect letter to learn about this week! The Three Little Pigs, Peacocks, Penguins, Polar Bears, Popcorn, This Little Piggie, and of course our PAJAMA PARTY were some of the highlights! We also continued to learn about Rainbows and had so much fun painting our peacock tail feathers with our rainbow watercolors! And our Little Piggies loved building houses that THE BIG BAD WOLF tried to blow down! Ask your Precious little Preschooler all about it!!
We read a very funny and heartwarming story about a Lucky Leprechaun, who of course loves rainbows as they all do, but who discovers what it truly means to be LUCKY! Be sure to ask your lucky little one all about it and be sure to check out our Hallway Display next time you are in our Learning Center. You will certainly feel like the LUCKIEST person in the world when you check it out, I know I do!! (Also, be sure to look closely at the Leprechauns' hats on display... the children cut them out themselves!!!)
This week we will be zooming right into our new Transportation STEAM Unit working on traffic lights and cars. We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss' Birthday on Monday with lots of Rhyming Fun! We will also be learning letter Qq as well as kicking off our other March themes while we wrap up our Weather Unit with a BIG SURPRISE which will hopefully be ready to come home this week!
This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Qq
Number of the Month: 7
Color of the Month: Green
Shape of the Month: Oval
Themes for the Month: Counting 0-7, Graphing, Friendship, Transportation, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Opposites, Rhyming, St. Patrick's Day, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, Differentiating Sizes, Signs of SPRING!
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Lent, Praying for someone you care about
Dates to Remember:
April 3rd Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt (more info to follow)
May 13th Land of Make Believe Trip (more info to follow)
June 3rd Last Day for Three Day Children
Show & Tell: Friday, March 6th - ****FREE CHOICE WEEK**** - Bring in anything you'd like to Show and Tell our friends about.
Dates to Remember:
March 16th Wear GREEN to school for St Patrick's Day Fun (which is actually March 17th)
March 20th Land of Make Believe Payment due
April 3rd Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt (more info to follow)
April 9th NOON DISMISSAL - NO Aftercare
April 10th-17th NO SCHOOL - Easter Break
May 13th Land of Make Believe Trip (more info to follow)
May 15th Land of Make Believe rain date
May 22nd Noon Dismissal
May 25th NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day
May TBD Summer Fun Day (Tentative Date 5/27 - parent volunteers welcome)
June 3rd Last Day for Three Day Children
June 4th Last Day for Five Day Children
June 5th PreK-3 Graduation (Moving Up Ceremony)
Hope you have an unquestionably quiet and quintessential week,
AND STAY HEALTHY!!!
Paula Dobres
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