Week of January10, 2022

Happy Birthday to our two sweet friends!!!!

Ask your little taste testing mathematician for the "Heads Up" on our Gingerbread First Bite Test and Graph!!  It was a unanimous first bite!!!  

(The first time that has happened in all my years doing this!)

Decorating our own Gingerbread People was so much fun!

Sticker Gingerbread House Scenes were so cool to create!

Mitten Matching Games were so exciting! (Some were gloves too! lol)

What a pair!!

Mitten Matching with our ABC's was fun too!

We started learning about Hedgehogs as we embarked on our first Author Study of the year!  More details to follow...

First step in a spiky craft...

Mitten Letter Bingo really got us thinking this week!!!

It may be frigid outside but, Warm Mittens, Hats, SMILES and HEARTS were very abundant inside this week!!!!

Weekly Recap:  Even though this ended up being a short week with a Delayed Opening and Snow Day, we were still able to pack in lots of learning fun!  Our little luv bugs came back to school READY TO LEARN!!!  We loved reading different versions of The Gingerbread Man and having tons of  gingerbread fun!  The Gingerbread Girl was a HUGE HIT too!  We kicked off our Winter and Weather Units with some mitten fun as well!  And we had soooo much fun celebrating two of our fabulous friends' birthdays!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: We will be continuing to learn about Winter, Snow and Hibernation this week.  We will also be resuming our letter of the week curriculum with an in depth study of Letter Ll, lol!  

Our VIRTUAL Parent/Teacher Conferences will be on January 24th.  Please check your email for more information and the Sign Up Genius link to choose your time slot if you have not already done so.  If none of the available times work for you, please email me so we can choose a time that would work for both of our schedules.  

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Letter Ll 
Number of the Month: 5
Colors of the Month:  Black and White
Shape of the Month:  Diamond (rhombus)
January Themes:  Counting 0-5, Sorting, AB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Hibernation,                                          Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Praying for Others

Show & Tell:  Friday, January 14th -  Please bring in something "FUNNY" for our "LOL" theme and don't forget about our school wide Sports Tag Day!  Please bring in ONE THING you would like to Show and Tell our PreK-3 friends about and don't forget to wear a "sports" themed something.  Our LOL show and tell can be a physical object or can even be verbal or abstract - a joke, silly dance, telling about a silly time or experience, etc.!  If your child decides to tell a joke or to tell about or act something funny out, please just send in a written recap so we can prompt him or her if they need a little help getting started.  Thanks!!

Dates to Remember:

January 14th:  Tag Day - Sports/Game Day

January 17th:  NO SCHOOL:  Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 18th-26th:  Priority Registration for Current STS Families

January  24th:  Virtual Conferences

January 30th- February 5th:  Catholic Schools Week

February 14th: Tag Day - Valentine's Day Colors

February 21st:  NO SCHOOL: Presidents' Day

Looking forward to Laughing Out Loud with our funny friends this week!

Paula Dobres