Pre-K3

PreK Groundhog Pajama Day was so much fun!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: We will be learning Letter Oo, learning about two Outstanding Presidents, focusing on Valentine's Day and God's Love for each and every one of us, mixing up some more scientific discoveries, finishing up our rainy day studies and working on our scissor and name writing skills!

💗Valentine's Day💗: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Friday, February 13th. 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 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.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Oo
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: NO Show and Tell this week due to Valentine's Day Fun!

Important Dates to Remember:

February 9^th: Schoolwide DELAYED OPENING🏈 PreK doors open at 10:00am, Before Care in the Main Building begins at 9:30am
February 13^th: Valentine Cards due and 8th Grade Tag Day: 💖Valentine's Day Colors
February 16^th: NO SCHOOL- Presidents' Day

March 17^th: 8th Grade Tag Day: 🍀Wear Green for St Patrick's Day
March 27^th: (rain date 3/30) 🐰PreK Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt🐰 (information coming soon)

April 2^nd: NOON DISMISSAL - Holy Thursday
April 3^rd: NO SCHOOL - Good Friday
April 6^th-10^th - NO SCHOOL - Easter Break

April 24^th:

FAMILY FIELD TRIP for PreK-3, PreK-4 and Kindergarten – to The LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER –

Please RSVP as soon as possible.

May 4th (rain date 5/11): PreK Walking Field Trip to the 📚Roxbury Public Library📚(Volunteers Needed)
May 22^nd: 8th Grade Tag Day: Wear Red, White and Blue

May 22^nd: Noon Dismissal – No After School Care
May 25^th: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
May TBD: 🌞PreK Summer Fun Week🌞 (Volunteers Needed)

June 12^th: TENTATIVE 🎓PreK-3 Graduation Ceremony 10:00am🎓(may change due to snow day use)

Our Week in Photos:

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

We started off our Groundhog Pajama Day working on our scissor skills!

Then we worked our way through really fun centers with our PreK-4 Friends!

We designed our own Groundhog Pajamas!

Then we made really cool Groundhog Puppets wearing them!

Then we competed in some really cool Dress the Groundhog Races!

Then we "shook things up" with a really cool trail mix snack!

Then we learned how to play Musical Chairs and had fun playing other movement games too!

It was such a fun day despite The Groundhog's terrible prediction of 6 more weeks of WINTER!!!

We learned about Noah's Ark and how God made it rain for 40 days!!!

We did so well pairing our animals onto Noah's Ark!

Our Afternoon Friends did such a nice job on their Noah's Ark Writing and Coloring page too!

Our Five Day Friends LOVE Learning Centers!

And they LOVE Play Dough too!!

After reading a wonderful storybook about a special nest, we made our own!

We did so well building our own NESTS!!

We loved learning Number 6!

And especially LOVED counting six heart stickers and decorating our 6's with them!!

(Ssshhh! Don't tell your little mathematician that they were working on their fine motor skills too!!)

We then turned our attention away from Math and set our minds on SCIENCE!!!

We conducted yet another scientific experiment in PreK-3!

We started with a lot of one color and a little of another...

Then we MIXED and MIXED and MIXED!!!

Can you guess what we created?!?!

RAINCLOUDS!!!!

These dark gray clouds were the theme throughout most of our storybooks this week!!

(Too bad they weren't around on Monday, when the Groundhog saw not a cloud in the sky and his shadow instead!!)

We did so well adding raindrops to our rain clouds later in the week!!

After learning that "God is Love" and that LOVE comes in many, many forms, we worked on a TOP SECRET Surprise! Don't ask too many questions about his one yet!!