Pre-K3: January 2024

Pajama Day was SO MUCH FUN!!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: We will be learning Letter Oo, introducing the most famous weather forecaster in our country, continuing to learn about hibernation, learning about sunny weather and shadows in our Weather Unit as well as looking ahead to Valentine's Day!

Parent/Teacher Conferences Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy schedules to meet with me to discuss your AMAZING little sweethearts. It was so nice getting to spend some time with our incredible families!

💗Valentine's Day💗: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Wednesday, February 14th. We will be exchanging Valentine's Day Cards in school. Please send in one card per child with only your own child's name on each as the from whom the card is and not the name for whom it is intended. This will make distribution much easier as the children are only just beginning to recognize each other's names. We have 12 children in our class. The children can either make their own little cards or they may be purchased. Please don't spend a lot on them, the dollar stores usually carry class sets. Please do not send in Valentines with food or candy as we have children with allergies in our class. Your children may begin to bring in their cards whenever they are ready up through our celebration day on the 14th. This little homework idea is completely optional: you may want to take this opportunity to have your child write their first initial (or full name if they are able to) on each of their cards and then finish the rest of their name for him/her.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Oo
Numbers of the Months: 5 / 6
Colors of the Months: Black and White / Red, Pink, Gray
Shapes of the Months: Diamond (rhombus) / Heart

January Themes: Counting 0-5, Sorting, AB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Hibernation, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills

February Themes: Counting 0-6, Sorting, AABB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Camouflage, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Calendar, Valentine's Day, Dental Health, Presidents' Day, Groundhog Day

Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, The Epiphany, Praying for Others, Noah's Ark, "God is Love"

Show & Tell: NO Show & Tell this week due to all our planned Groundhog Day activities!

Dates to Remember:

January 28th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details on our school website)

January 29th: Wear “BLUE” to show your support for the Troopers United Foundation! TUF was created by dedicated NJ State Police Troopers to be of assistance to any and all Troopers, Law Enforcement Officers, First Responders, and their respective families, in the event of a tragedy or illness. *This Tag Day donation for the Troopers United Foundation is SEPARATE from the Project Graduation monthly Tag Days.

Wednesday, January 31st: Wear your #CSW24 t-shirt or STS PreK t-shirt if purchased.

Thursday, February 1st: Wear Red, White and Blue for Tunnel to Towers Foundation tag day (see school website for more information)

February 19th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Our Week in Photos:

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

We are learning a new patriotic song...

And waving our special American Flags while we sing!!!

Our Weather Bear is ALWAYS dressed for the Weather!

Did your little scientist tell you about our science experiment this week???

We put a bowl of ice and a bowl of snow outside our classroom door as well as inside our classroom...

And then we made OBSERVATIONS....

And we observed ALL DAY LONG!!!!!

We read a really funny storybook about a MELTING Snowman!

Then we made our own!!

And we "wrote" really good "stories" about him!!

It was so fun!

And then we kept making observations, inside and...

outside too!!

Nn is for never-ending PreK-3 Fun!!

N is also for Nest

Ask your little one to tell you about the sweet story we read!

(If they need a hint, it was about Mr. and Mrs. Bird and moving their nest...)

Did you know that Nn is for NOISE too?!?!

We had so much fun making LOUD and quiet noises with our bodies as well as with our instruments!

Our afternoon friends LOVED making their observations all afternoon too!!!

It was so exciting!!

We started making a snowman melting craft...

Can you guess what it is going to be?

Stay tuned...you will learn more about it next week!!!

Our Five Day Friends were SO EXCITED to see what happened to our science experiment OVERNIGHT!!!!

All we have to say is NO WAY and WOW!!!

And then like true scientists, our amazing observers recorded their findings AND took credit for them by WRITING THEIR NAMES on their scientific journals!!!

(Oh and they worked on their sequencing skills too, but don't tell them they were doing schoolwork!!)