Monday, January 26, 2026

Week of January 26, 2026

Spontaneous letter building with blocks is incredible!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be finishing up Letter Mm and beginning to learn Letter Nn, celebrating one of our favorite weather forecasters (hint hint... SHADOWS are in our classroom forecast for this week!) and we will be wrapping up some of our January Themes!

Parent/Teacher Conferences:   Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy schedules to meet with me.  We are so fortunate to have such incredible families in our class!  It is no wonder that your sweet little munchkins are all so special!!  Great Job PreK-3 Families!!!

💗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.

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:  Finishing Letter Mm and Starting to learn Letter Nn
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 30th -  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 25th-30th:  Catholic Schools Week - Event Calendar came home in folders and is posted above as well as online.  Please note that Sunday's Mass and Open House have been rescheduled due to the snow storm.

🍪🥛 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 SCHOOLPresidents' 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📸 


Our Five Day Friends read a REALLY FUNNY storybook about getting dressed for Winter Weather and then worked on choosing appropriate Winter Clothing.


We also learned a special song about melting away snowmen (aka: subtraction skills!!)





We reviewed upper and lower case letters too!




And then worked on our Gross Motor Skills with some FROZEN YOGA!!




And worked on our Fine Motor "PINCHING" with some blocks playtime!


We learned about our American Flag and started learning a special Patriotic Song!!



We did so well on Number 5!!



Then we worked on our Mugs!!










Let the Marshmallow Math Madness begin!!


First we counted 5 marshmallows...




Then we MUNCHED on them!!
Mmm, Mmm, Mmm!!



Then we counted them again and added them to our MUGS!!




🫎M is for MOOSE!!🫎













Our Five Day Friends did so well on their Winter Patterns!







They did great writing Number 5's too!



Snowmen Roll and Cover was so fun!


So was counting 5 beads onto each of 6 snowflake points!





We are getting SO GOOD at connecting the dots!!


Playtime is so fun!







🐭m is for mouse!🐭












Our heads were in the clouds this week as we continued to work on our Weather Unit!







We love FREE CHOICE Show and Tell!! 









PreK-3 Dance Parties are the BEST!!




Hope you have a Marvelous week,
Paula Dobres

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