Week of January 23, 2023

 

Thank you for continuing to dress your little munchkin for the Winter Weather!  We've been so lucky this Winter to be able to play outside on milder days!!

We did such a great job on our Name Snowmen!!

They are now on display in our classroom gallery!!

Our Five Day Friends LOVED playing with playdough and trying out our new cookie cutters too!!

m is for mouse!

Ask your little munchkin what happens If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!

Here's a hint for something we will be working on this upcoming week...

We are getting so good at our Roll and Cover Math Games!

Our Master Builders are back at it!

Our Five day friends LOVED learning about Chinese New Year aka Lunar New Year!

Ask your little one to tell you the Zodiac Animal for 2023!

They did SO WELL cutting out their lanterns!

We are ready for the Lunar New Year!

Mm is for Markers!

Mm is for Magical Moments with our Munchkins too!

We worked hard on our letter review this week!

Hibernation Concentration continues to be a classroom favorite!

Mm is for Mitten Matching on our Magnet Board!

(We were reviewing our letters as well as working on our fine motor skills without even realizing it!)

M is for Marvelous!!!!

We were able to make all of our Mitten Matches without any help from our teachers!!!

Mm is for Mastering our Public Speaking Skills too!

It may have been raining outside, BUT IT WAS SNOWING INSIDE this week!!

BREAKING NEWS!!!

Congratulations to our new BIG SISTER to be!!!!! (and her family too 💗)

We are so happy for you all!!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all of our families who contributed towards our new classroom vacuum and to Mrs. D. for all your behind the scenes work!!  It is coming in soooooo handy and we are so very appreciative!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be learning Letter Nn, introducing Noah's Ark, focusing on Sunny Weather,  name writing, counting as well as continuing to work on our Winter Unit.  It is promising to be a very busy but FUN week in PreK-3!!

DISCLAIMER:  You may notice that less schoolwork is coming home in your child's folder lately...  The reason for this is that we are playing more learning games, will soon be working on several in class science experiments as well as the the fact that we are holding onto our little scientists' projects and writing samples for a BIG SURPRISE that we are secretly putting together!!!  

Our Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held in The St Therese CHURCH Office (Conference Room) on Thursday. Please note signs posted on doors to help you find our location.  All other conferences Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri will be in our PreK-3 Classroom.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Nn
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, The Epiphany, Praying for Others, Noah's Ark

Show & Tell:  Friday, January 27th -    Please have your child bring in ONE Pajama Day stuffed animal  to Show and Tell our friends about. 

Dates to Remember:

Thursday, January 26th:  PreK-3 Parent-Teacher Conferences in the St Therese Church Office

All other conferences other than Thursday's will be held in our PreK-3 classroom.

DATE CHANGE:Friday, January 27th:  PreK Pajama Party- Wear your favorite pajamas to school!!

Friday, January 27th: 8th Grade Tag Day - Pajama Day

January 29th: Catholic Schools Week Begins - Please see Website or Parent Square for schedule of events

January 30th: CSW: Wear BLUE tag day to show support for NJ State Troopers

January 31st:  Collecting donations for Roxbury Social Services

February 1st: Wear your STS T-shirt

February 2nd: Wear Red, White and Blue tag day for Wounded Warrior Project

February 20th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our conferences this week,

Paula Dobres