Week of February 3, 2025

Shadow Adventures were all the rage this week!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be discussing the Groundhogs' predictions and comparing them to our own predictions.  We will also be learning Letter Pp and kicking off our February Themes!  We will be focusing on "God is Love," as we focus on the power of love and kindness.  We will also be kicking off our months long Language Arts Unit on Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes. 

💗Valentine's Day💗: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Friday, 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 13 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 preschool.  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 Pp
Number of the Month: 6
Colors of the Month:  Red, Pink, Gray
Shape of the Month:  Heart

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

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Praying for Others, "God is Love"

Show & Tell:  FRIDAY,  February 7th:  💗LOVE WEEK!!!💗   Please bring in one item you LOVE to Show and Tell our friends about.

Important Dates to Remember:

February 17th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

April 7th: Combined PreK-3, PreK-4 and Kindergarten Field Trip to The Crayola Factory (Details coming home soon!)

April 11th: TENTATIVE - Easter Hat Parade at 11:15am (Details coming soon)

April 17th: Noon Dismissal NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE

April 18th- April 25th: No School - Good Friday and Easter Break

April 28th: School Reopens

Our Week in Photos:

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

                                                                         

O is for Owls!

                                                                           

o is for octopus too!!

                                                                       

Oo is for Cheeriooooooooos!!!

                                                                           

Cheerios made amazing Octopus Suction Cups!!!

                                                                      

                                                                           

We learned that octopuses are really smart animals so some of us thought our very smart class octopus would love to be read to!! LOL

We learned that octopuses have some coooool moves and practiced some ourselves by doing some cool Octopus Yoga!!

We finished up our Author Study on Jan Brett!

We really LOVED reading her "Hedgie" storybooks and watching her interesting interviews!!

She is such a talented Author and Illustrator!!

Thank you for your amazing books and for our beautiful certificates Ms. Brett!!

We kicked off Pajama Day with Father Jun Blessing our beautiful Rosary Beads.  We also learned that our bedtime prayers are so special.

We loved spending Pajama Day with with our sweet snuggle buddies!

We made a really cool Snuggle Buddy Graph!!

Then we used our photos to make another Snuggle Buddy Graph!

Our PreK-4 Friends also contributed to our Graph.  The results are hanging in our Learning Center Gallery!  Be sure to check it out next time you are in our building!

Time for a Pajama Day Dance Party!!

Snuggle Buddies are AMAZING dance partners!!

We loved reading Goodnight Moon and then making our own "Green Room" crafts and then working on our STEM  bed making activity!!  WE ARE SO CREATIVE!!!

Snuggle Buddy Musical Chairs and Gross Motor Games were sooooooo much fun too!!!

All of our Pajama Day fun made us soooooo tired....

Night, night sweet little snuggle bugs...

We learned that a very special animal was going to be woken up on February 2nd from his hibernating slumber!!!!

So we started a special Groundhog Craft in his honor this week!

Then we learned all about SHADOWS and why the Groundhog was waking up in the middle of Winter!!!!

And then we headed outdoors to find a VERY BRIGHT LIGHT SOURCE.... OUR SUN!!!

And to see what discoveries we could make!

Look what we DISCOVERED on our Adventures!!

We did so well matching Shadows!

We finished up our Groundhog Craft and turned it into a SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT!!!!!

Be sure to ask your BRIGHT little scientist ALL ABOUT IT!!!!!

We even discovered that some of our flashlights made light  O's too!!!

We worked on our fine motor skills this week too...

by using playdough to make lots and lots of O's!!!!!

It was   OH   SO   COOL!!!!!

When we can't play outdoors (aka a snowy, cold playground),

we have lots and lots of fun playing indoors!!!

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Please be sure to dress your little adventurer for the weather this week... hats and mittens too, as we are hoping to get back outside to play since the weather forecast is looking pretty promising!!

Hope you have a picture perfect week,

Paula Dobres