Pre-K3: Week of December 15, 2025

We have such a beautiful Nativity Display at our St Therese Church!

A Sneak Peek at our Upcoming Week: We will be learning Letter Jj, working on our Gingerbread Man Unit, working on diamonds, the Season of Winter and Christmas Fun!

Gifts of Kindness Please read through the information that came home through your child's folder regarding our PreK-3 Gifts of Kindness campaign taking place throughout this beautiful Advent Season. Please try to catch your little one performing acts of kindness either with kind deeds or kind words. Then please send brief notes into school through your child's folder. We will be reading them aloud to our class on Fridays. We need your help to fill our kindness gift box!!

Parent/Teacher Conferences will be from Tuesday, January 20th through Thursday, January 22nd. I will be sending out an email with more information and a Sign Up Genius link to choose your time slot. 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.

Change of email: My school email address will be changing at the end of this week from PreK-3@StThereseRoxbury to pdobres@stthereseroxbury.org Please make note of it. I will email everyone from the new address once it is finalized. I will still be able to access any incoming emails for a few months but will not be able to use my old address to send out emails. This is especially important while you are on the lookout for the Conference Sign Up I will be sending out soon. Please look out for emails from either address.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Jj
Number of the Month: 4
Color of the Month: Black
Shape of the Month: Diamond
December Units: Counting 0-4, Sorting, AB Patterns, Christmas, Kindness, Feelings, Winter, Name Recognition, Fairy Tale & Nursery Rhymes Unit: Gingerbread Fun

Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Nativity, Advent, "Christmas: Jesus is Born," Tour of our beautiful St Therese Church

Show & Tell: Friday, December 19th: FREE CHOICE WEEK - Please bring in ONE item to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

December 23rd: 🕛NOON DISMISSAL - (No After Care)

December 23rd: 8th Grade Tag day - Wear Christmas Colors and Schoolwide Christmas Breakfast ( please fill out your permission slip)

December 24- January 4: NO SCHOOL - 🎄🎅Christmas Break🎅🎄

January 5th: School Reopens

January 12-16th: Priority Registration for 2026-2027 School Year

January 19th: NO SCHOOL - Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 23rd: 8th Grade Tag Day - Sports Themed

February 13th: 8th Grade Tag Day: Valentine's Day Colors

March 17th: 8th Grade Tag Day: Wear Green for St Patrick's Day

May 22nd: 8th Grade Tag Day: Wear Red, White and Blue

Our Week in Photos:

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

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Father Vic for our incredible St Therese Church Tour!

We learned so much!

We learned about Mary, Jesus' Mommy...

After reading some cool versions of the classic story, we started our Gingerbread Man Unit off with a tasty graphing activity!

Be sure to ask your little literary analyst what their first bite was!!

We loved graphing and recording our first bite results and finishing off our cookies too!

We loved decorating our own Gingerbread Cookies!

Our Five Day Friends had SO MUCH FUN with our Gingerbread Races!

Don't ask too many questions about this upcoming surprise!

Don't ask about this either!

We loved learning about iguanas as we worked on Little i!

Be sure to ask your little conservationist all about these cool critters!

We loved making really cool snowy trees for our Learning Center Hallway Display!

Guess what we used to make our snow extra sparkly???

After reading a really sweet Elf Storybook, our Five day Friends made their own really SILLY ELVES, that look very much like "themsELVES"!!!!

SO SILLY!!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to my daughter, Katie, for coming in to help us out!

Our little munchkins had so much fun with her!

Our Five Day Friends made so many AMAZING playdough Christmas Cookies!

And they had so much fun with some cool Learning Board Activities!

We painted a beautiful Wintery Background for a very special multi-step craft!

Here's the second step... any guesses?!?!

Stay tuned for more clues next week!!

We read a very special storybook about how different cultures celebrate different holidays around this time of the year. Then we made something very special to decorate our homes for our special holiday, CHRISTMAS!!