Week of December 14, 2020

These Gingerbread Cookies didn't run fast enough for us!!

It was so fun to take a bite of our Gingerbread Cookies and graph what we ate first!

Thumbs up for the yummy cookies!

Painting our own cookies was so cool too!

We are Patterning Pros in PreK-3!

Learning about Jellyfish was so cool!

We love playing with our classroom toys!

Can you guess what our new FAVORITE PreK toy is?!?  Ask your little one to tell you!  Hint, Hint: It starts with the letter Jj.

Weekly Recap:  I can't believe that this class loves something more than glitter!  It's our Jack-in-the-Box!!!!  They were all completely mesmerized and it never lost its excitement... not even after the twentieth time playing it!  If you're still looking for Christmas gifts, this one would be a sure hit!  There's something to be said about the oldie but goodie classics!

We had so much fun learning about jaguars and jellyfish as we worked on letter Jj.  Our Gingerbread Unit is off to a fun start as well.  We loved our Gingerbread cookies!!  We worked on number four, counting and patterning as well.  We also LOVED seeing Maddox and singing him "Happy Birthday!"  He's our first 4 in PreK-3!!  Hope you had a Happy Birthday my little sweetheart!!!

A Sneak Peak at Our Upcoming Week:  This week will be a big review week - Letters, shapes, numbers.  We will continue working on name recognition as well as preparing for Christmas and our Christmas Show!!!  I will email everyone mid-week with login information.  

Please be on the lookout for STS school alerts in the event of inclement weather.  The forecast is looking iffy for the middle of the week.

Gifts of Kindness  Thank you for helping our class gift Baby Jesus with your children's kindness.  They are all very excited to use their kind and caring words and acts to help celebrate the Advent Season.

PreK-3 Christmas Show:  Our Show will still go on (just a bit differently).  Please refer to the note that came home and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.  Also, please check your email on Tuesday or Wednesday for more information.

Our VIRTUAL Parent/Teacher Conferences will be in January.  More information will be coming home through the folders in the upcoming weeks.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Review of Letters Aa-Jj 

Number of the Month: 4

Color of the Month:  Blue

Shape of the Month:  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," Advent

Show & Tell:  Friday, December 18th -  FREE CHOICE WEEK (again!) - please bring in anything you would like to Show and Tell our PreK-3 friends about.

Dates to Remember:

December 18th (snow date Dec 21st):  10:00 PreK Christmas Show with virtual audience 

December 18th:  8th Grade Tag Day: Ugly Christmas Sweater
December 23rd: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
December 24- January 3rd: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break

January 4th:  School reopens

January 18th:  NO SCHOOL:  Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 24th-29th:  Catholic Schools Week

Hope to see you at our little show!

Paula Dobres