Week of March 18, 2024

Happy Birthday to our Sweet Friend!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be finishing up letter Tt, continuing to work on our Transportation STEAM Unit, checking our Leprechaun Trap, focusing on Spring and continuing to learn about Easter! 

DONATION REQUEST:  We would really appreciate any donations of baby wipes for our classroom.  We are starting to run low and we use them many times throughout our school day.  Thank You!! 

  🐷🐮🐍Space Farms Zoo & Museum Field Trip🐯🐻🐦  

Mark Your Calendars! We will be taking a combined PreK-3, PreK-4 and Kindergarten Field Trip on Wednesday, April 24th with a rain date of Friday, April 26th!!  Invoices will be coming home this week.  Please return the bottom portion with your payment by March 25th.  Checks should be made out to St. Therese School.

🐇🐰Easter Hat Parade🐰🐇 - March 22nd at 11:15am (rain date 3/25):  Easter is in March this year and so is our Annual PreK Easter Hat Celebration!  Time to get out the Peeps, plastic eggs, flowers, bunny ears and your hot glue gun!!  It's your time to shine in creating the most amazing Easter Hat with your little honey bunny!  You can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like.  I'm sure your little cutie will be proud to wear whatever you create together!  Please see the notice that came home in your child's folder for more details. 

Here are some examples from years past:

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Tt
Number of the Month: Number 7
Color of the Month:  Green
Shape of the Month: Oval

March Themes:   Counting 0-7, Graphing, Friendship, Transportation, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Opposites, Rhyming, St. Patrick's Day, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, Differentiating Sizes, Lent, Easter and Signs of SPRING!

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Praying for Others, Good Deeds, Lent and Easter

Show & Tell:  No Show and Tell this week due to our Easter Hat Parade!!

Dates to Remember:

March 18th-28th:  Cereal Box Food Drive for Roxbury Social Service 

March 21st:  World Down Syndrome Day - Wear your brightest and boldest socks!

March 22nd: 🐇🐰PreK Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt 11:15

March 25th:  Easter Hat Parade Snow Date

March 28th:  NOON DISMISSAL- No After School Care

March 29th- April 5th: No School- Easter Break

April 8th:  School Reopens

April 24th (rain date 4/26):  SPACE FARMS PreK and Kindergarten Field Trip 

Our Week in Photos:

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

T is for Tigers!

T is for Transportation and Traffic Lights! 

We loved playing "Red Light, Green Light" and dancing along to cool cars songs too!!

Our automotive engineers loved the cars storybook we read and had so much fun "inventing" their own cars!

🚗🚘BEEP, BEEP!!🚘🚗

Our masterpieces will soon be on display in our Classroom Gallery!!

Our little environmentalists had so much fun on our springtime field trip around our Learning Center and found so many signs of Spring!!

We loved making our Arm Trees full of Spring Blossoms!!

They will soon be on display in our Classroom Gallery!!

We learned about Robins this week too!!

And did so well painting them with two different colors!!

Once they dried, we put all the finishing touches on them!

Did you know that they are one of the earliest signs of Spring where we live?

We told Father Jun all about them...

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Did you know that where he grew up it is Summer all the time?!?

We are going to be robin detectives and see if we can spot some outside!!

Be sure to be on the lookout at home too!!

Our masterpieces will soon be on display in our Learning Center Hallway Gallery!

Speaking of Spring...

We certainly did love the Spring Weather Preview this week!!

We played outside EVERY DAY!!!

We ran and ran and ran...

And we played and played and played!!!

And sometimes we stopped to pose for a photo or two!!

Oh, and we had fun playing inside too!!

Dancing Games are so much fun!!

Our Five Day Friends did so well with our Rhyming Games and Scissor Skills this week!!

We LOVED acting out our "Five Little Shamrocks" Poem too!!

Our Dot Marker Rainbows were so cool to create!!

Workbook practice was so cool too!

And our Rhyming Learning Board Games were tricky but so much fun!!

We did so well on our Letter Review Shamrock page too!

Thank you for continuing to make me laugh with our kiddos' amazing t-shirts this year!!!

Our Public Speaking Skills are coming along so nicely!!

We loved making our Leprechaun Masks and modeling them too!!

Then we worked on our TRAP!!!

Did you know that Leprechauns LOVE GOLD and SHINY things?!?!

We are felling pretty lucky!!

We WANT to share his POT OF GOLD!!!

We can't wait to check our TRAP on MONDAY!!!!

🌈🍀Happy St. Patrick's Day!!🍀🌈

Hope you have a lucky week! 

Looking forward to seeing everyone on our Easter Hat Parade Route on Friday,

Paula Dobres