Week of January 19, 2026

🎂🧁Happy Birthday to our SWEET Friend!!🧁🎂

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be beginning to learn Letter Mm, continuing to work on Number 5, continuing to learn more about Winter and focusing on Cloudy Weather!

Parent/Teacher Conferences will be from Tuesday, January 20th through Friday, January 23rd.  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. 

💗Valentine's Day💗We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Friday, February 13th. (Valentine's Day falls on a Saturday this year, 2/14.)  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 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 class.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards whenever they are ready up through our celebration day on the 13th.  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.

❄❅❆⛄🥶Dress for the Weather: 🥶⛄❆❅❄ Please pack your child with a warm hat and mittens (or gloves if they can manage them independently) as we will play outdoors if weather permits and we sometimes take Nature Walks outside to learn about trees, weather, seasons, etc.. 

Catholic Schools Week: Please see the flyer below or look on Parent Square for further details.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week:  Letter Mm
Number of the Month:   5
Color of the Month:  Blue
Shape of the Month:  Star

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 23rd -  FREE CHOICE WEEK:  Please have your child bring in ONE item of their choice to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

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

January 20th-23rd:  PreK-3 Parent-Teacher Conferences 

January 25th-30th:  Catholic Schools Week - Event Calendar came home in folders and is posted online

January 23rd:  8th Grade Tag Day - 🏈⚾🎾🏓Sports Themed ⚽🏀🥍👟

🍪🥛 February 2nd:                                           

Pre-K Pajama Day🥛🍪

February 4th:  ❆PreK Pajama Day Snow Date❆

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

February 16th: NO SCHOOL- Presidents' Day

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

April 2nd: NOON DISMISSAL - Holy Thursday

April 3rd:  NO SCHOOL - Good Friday

April  6th-10th - NO SCHOOL - Easter Break

April  24th - FAMILY FIELD TRIP for PreK-3, PreK-4 and Kindergarten -to The LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER  - More information coming soon  !

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

Our Week in Photos:

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

What did PreK-3 wear to school today?!?!

We glued our WINTER photos onto what we wore to school...

Then Graphed and Discussed our RESULTS!!

And then published our findings in our Learning Center Gallery for all to see!

Our Snow Globes are on display now too!

(Our PreK-4 Friends added their Winter Crafts to this display as well!)

🦁  L is for LION!!  🦁

l is for lamp too!

Our Five Day Friends did so well on all of their Ll practice!

They LOVED an oldie but goodie Lollipop song and made some delicious smelling lollipops too!

Ll is for LICKING LOLLIPOPS!! (or pretending to do so!)

Our Five Day Friends also did so well on our Learning Centers this week!!

Our Five Day Letter Ll fun continued with one of our FAVORITE mediums... PLAY DOUGH!!

❄❅❆We continued to learn about Winter!❄❅❆

We had so much fun with our SNOWBALLS!!!!!!

(Sssshhh!!! Don't tell your little snow angels that they were working on their gross motor skill development!!!)

Play Time is SO MUCH FUN!

We did so well putting our NAME Snowmen together!

They are now on display in our Classroom Winter Wonderland!

We compared Warm Sunny Days to Cold Snowy ones and chose our favorite!

Then we GRAPHED our results!

Stay tuned for more on this...

We learned all about our SUN!

Ask your little astronomer to tell you what our sun actually is!!!!

(Hint, hint: ⭐)

We connected the dots from 1-10 to make a special SUN too!

We "wrote" stories about our favorite things to do when it is sunny and warm outside.

🌞We came up with so many great ideas!🌞

We put our finishing touches on our cool suns!

They are now brightening up our classroom sky!!

Using tubes to make Ll's was loads of FUN!

🤣Our LOL SHOW and TELL had us all Laughing out Loud!!🤣

The laughing continued as we made our new class JOKE book!!

It is already in circulation and heading home for your family to enjoy soon!!

All joking aside, our impressive scissor skills are no laughing matter!

WOW were we impressed!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our conferences this week,

🌞Paula Dobres⛄