Week of January 5, 2026

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 20th through Friday, 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. 

Donation Request: 

We are asking for donations of baby wipes as we are starting to run low.  We would appreciate any you would be willing to donate.  The children use them throughout the day to clean their hands so we go through lots of them on a daily basis.   We are still well stocked on tissues and disinfecting wipes thanks to everyone's generosity at the start of the school year.  Thank you!!

Update on my son: 

Thank you all for your prayers and positive thoughts.  Andrew's surgery was successful and he recovered quickly.  He is doing well, back to all of his normal activities and heading back to college a week from now without any medications or restrictions.  He's going to be closely monitored by his doctors in the coming months but his doctors feel confident that they were able to fully correct his heart condition.  I am so grateful to his incredible medical team, to everyone who prayed for him and most of all to God for watching over him.  Thank you🙏💖

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week:  Letter Kk
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 9th:  FREE CHOICE WEEK - Please bring in one item to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

January 5th:  School Reopens

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

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

January 20th-23rd:  Parent-Teacher Conferences 

January 25th-30th:  Catholic Schools Week - Event Calendar coming soon

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

🍪🥛January 30th: Pre-K Pajama Day🥛🍪

February 2nd:  ❆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

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

Our Week in Photos:

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

We started off our week with putting the finishing touches on our WINTER birds!

They will soon be gracing our classroom skies!

J is for Jaguar!

Do you know what  Jack-in-the-Box begins with??????

LOTS AND LOTS OF JOYFUL LAUGHTER!!!!!

Jj is for JUMPING over the jump rope!

We decided to jazz up our Number 4's!

When it is just too cold to play outside, we play INSIDE!!!

Reindeer (Math) Games are so much fun!

We LOVED reading The Gingerbread Girl and comparing the story to all the others we have read so far!

Then, we had so much fun making our own Sticker Gingerbread Stories!

Our Five Day Friends loved making their own Gingerbread People!

Our Five Day Friends did so well on their #4 Counting Christmas Trees!!

HO, HO, HO!

Our Jolly Old Saint Nicholas' came out so joyous!

Christmas Tree Shape Matching Puzzles were so cool!

We did so well on our Christmas Tree Letter Review!

Movement Games were so JAZZY!!

We are doing so well on patterning!

j is for jellyfish!

(and jiggling too!!)

Just look at these adorable joyous jellyfish!

Our J handwriting skills are pretty impressive!

We did so well on Jj phonics too!!

Our Public Speaking Skills are just jaw-dropping!!

Hope you loved our Handy Christmas Trees!

We wrapped up our week singing our "Away in a Manger" Christmas song and

 making our own Christmas Nativity Scenes!

I hope all of our families had a joyous Christmas and restful Christmas Break!

Happy New Year Everyone!

🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉

Paula Dobres