Week of January 6, 2025

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  I am so excited to start the New Year off with your sweet angels!  It's going to be a fun few months ahead!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be hitting the ground running in the new year!!! We will be kicking off our STEAM Unit on Weather with an "in depth" study of SNOW as well as learning about Winter and Hibernation this week.  We will also be starting our first author study in Language Arts as well as learning The Pledge of Allegiance in Social Studies and starting Calendar Math!

Parent/Teacher Conferences will be from Tuesday, January 21st through Thursday, January 23rd.  Please check your email for more information and the Sign Up Genius link to choose your time slot.  If you did not receive the link via email, please reach out to me asap so I can resend it.  Please note that some conferences will take place in our classroom and others will be in the St Therese Church Office which is right down the hall from the Church entrance, just past the restrooms.  

Nap Mats: 
Please return your nap mat with your child when we return to school on January 6th.  I only have a couple of extras on hand so please do your best to remember to return them.  If your child was absent on the last day of school before Christmas Break, I took your child's nap mat home to wash so no worries about your little one having a clean mat.

Donation Request: 
We are asking for donations of disinfecting wipes as we are starting to run low.  We would appreciate any you would be willing to donate.  Thank you!  We are still well stocked on tissues and baby wipes thanks to everyone's generosity at the start of the school year.

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 10th:  FREE CHOICE WEEK - Please bring in one item to show and tell our friends about.

Important Dates to Remember:

January 6th: School Reopens
January 13th-17th: PRIORITY REGISTRATION begins for the 2025-2026 School Year for current STS Families
January 20th: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr Day
January 21st-23rd: PreK Conferences (Please see email that came home in December with a Sign up Genius.)
January 24th: Eighth Grade Project Graduation Tag Day: Sports Day!
January 26th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details coming soon)

🍪🥛January 29th: Pre-K Pajama Day🥛🍪

February 17th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Our Week in Photos:

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

We started off the week learning letter K and all about Kangaroos!!!

Little k is for king!

We finished up our Gingerbread Man Unit with some fun Sticker Scenes!!

(ssshhhh!! Don't tell your little Gingerbread Boys and Girls that they were hard at work on their fine motor skills!!)

Our Five Day Friends loved making and painting their own Christmas Trees!!

Thank you Mrs. S. for the fun ornaments!  We loved coloring them with our skinny markers!!

Our Christmas Centers were such a BIG HIT!

We LOVED our Field Trip to Church to see the HUGE Nativity Set!

Someone was missing though... Ask your little angel all about it!

And then we loved coming back to our classroom to make our own!

We also noticed the beautiful wreath hanging on our Church as well as our Learning Center door! So we made our own wreaths too!!

We made the silliest Elves!

And just when we thought things couldn't get any sillier... we opened up DRESS UP!!!

Our School Wide Christmas Breakfast was so fun and YUMMY!!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to our Incredible HSA and Parent Volunteers!!

Happy New Year Everyone!

🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉

Paula Dobres