Week of April 29, 2024

PreK-3 Group HUGS are the BEST!!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be finishing up Letter Ww and learning Letter Xx, focusing on Transportation by water and air in our Transportation Unit, and continuing to learn about the Life Cycle!

🌞PreK Summer Fun in the Sun Week🌞:  May 20th through May 23rd:  Details coming home soon!  This year's themes include Water Day 5/20, Bikes/Wheels Day 5/21, Camping Day 5/22 and PreK Olympics 5/23!!  Please be sure to return your permission slip asap and be on the lookout for a Sign Up Genius coming from the PreK-4 email account.  These special days and activities will be for both of our PreK classes.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letters Ww and Xx
Number of the Month: Number 8
Color of the Month:  Purple
Shape of the Month: Rectangle

April STEAM Units:  Transportation and  Life Cycle

Themes for the Month:  Counting, Graphing, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Opposites, Rhyming, Signs of SPRING, Nursery Rhymes, Fairy Tales, Earth Day 

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Praying for someone you care about, "God made the Earth," Protecting God's Creatures, and "Taking Care of Our World"

Show & Tell:  Friday, May 3rd: FREE CHOICE WEEK!  Please bring in one item to Show and Tell our friends about.  

Dates to Remember:

May 10th:  HSA Plant Sale

May 17th:  Tag Day - Wear Pink/Purple for National Cancer Research Month- Mary's Place by The Sea in NJ fundraiser

May 20th-23rd:  PreK Summer Fun Week!  (volunteers needed - details coming home soon)

May 24th:  Tag Day:  WEAR RED, WHITE and BLUE to Raise Funds for Eighth Grade Project Graduation  

May 24th: Schoolwide NOON DISMISSAL (No aftercare)

May 27th:  NO SCHOOL: Memorial Day

May 29th:  STS Field Day (details coming soon)

June 6th: Last day of PreK 

June 7th:  🎓PreK-3 Graduation🎓 at 10:00am 

Our Week in Photos:

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

We started off the week celebrating our incredible world!!

Our little conservationists sorted things that help and things that hurt our Earth.

Then we worked on a similar activity in our Scholastic Magazines...

And learned all about how God made our beautiful world and how we need to help take care of it as well as all of God's amazing creatures!

We finished our Worlds...

They came out so beautifully!!

Then we put our love for our world in action by planting our own seeds!!!

Please don't ask too many questions though...

We are working on something TOP SECRET!!!!!

Ask your little horticulturalist what the recipe for growing seeds is and the most important ingredient in particular!!  

(Hint, Hint!!! If they need some prompting... good soil, clean water, sunshine and  most importantly...lots of LOVE!!) 

Speaking of taking care of God's Creatures..

Here's our caterpillar update!!

They keep eating and eating and growing and GROWING!!!

(Kind of like our own little munchkins!!)

We made our own Very Hungry Caterpillars!!

They will be coming home soon!

Our Five Day Friends continued the Earth Day fun with a trash sort!

(Our scissor skills are coming along so nicely!!!)

And so are our sorting skills!!!

Our little environmentalists LOVED the original Lorax movie!!

It's my very favorite Dr Seuss Book and Movie!!

Then we took our much anticipated trip to Space Farms Zoo...

where we saw so many special critters!!

There were LIONS...

And (sleepy)TIGERS...

AND BEARS... OH MY!!!

And there were so many STS cuties...

And there were teachers in the wrong SCHOOLHOUSE too!!!

It was so much fun for everyone!!

Let's not overlook how great our own STS GREAT OUTDOORS is too!!

Our Five Day Friends learned about another very special animal this week...

It starts with a "W"...

Any guesses???

W is for Walrus!!!

What a magnificent creature!!

We also made a very special card for a very special person!!!

Ms. Hopkins loved it so much that she put it right up on her office door for everyone to see!!

Then on Friday, we learned about one of the most magnificent animals living in our amazing world!!!

WHALES!!!

We especially loved learning all sort of cool facts about them...

Like did you know that their fin can be as tall as Mr. Dunnigan?!?!

And that they can hold their breath for as long as between our snack time and lunch times????

BTW... Painting the spray coming out of their blowholes was our favorite part of this craft!!!

Our little marine biologists' sound effects were my personal favorite!!!

Then we learned all about AIRPLANES!!!

And made our very own!!!

Maybe one day one of our future aerospace or chemical engineers will invent a more environmentally conscience fuel for this method of transportation... But until then, its still a super cool method of transportation!! 

And who knows... maybe one of these cuties will become a pilot one day too?!?!

We ended this very special week with this wonderful photo!!!

What a beautiful representation of God's truly spectacular creation!!!

Hope you get lots of XOXO's from your little one this week!!

🌍💕Paula Dobres 💕🌎