Week of February 25, 2019

After the shortest school week yet this year, we are going to be hitting the ground running this week!  So much to do, so little time!!

We will be wrapping up our unit on Weather in the upcoming two weeks.  We have been so busy learning all about Weather and can't wait to share our newly acquired  knowledge with you... We have a little surprise in the making!   We will also be keeping our fingers crossed that the Groundhog got his prediction correct... WE WANT SPRING WEATHER!!!

Rainbows are our science theme for the week.  Please have your child wear his/her favorite rainbow color to school on Friday for a special project.

We will also be celebrating Dr Seuss' Birthday on Friday instead of on his actual birthday, March 2nd, since it falls on a Saturday.  It's time to rhyme!!!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Oo

Number of the Month: 6 and Review of 0-6

Colors of the Month:  Red and Gray

Shape of the Month:  Heart

Themes for the Month:  Counting, AB Patterns, Graphing, Weather, Feelings, Rainbows, Dr Seuss,  Name writing, Scissor skills, Opposites, Rhyming  

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Making "Good" Choices, Noah's Ark  

Show & Tell:  Friday, March 1st:  Please wear your favorite Rainbow Color to school and bring something that is your favorite rainbow color in to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember: 

March 6 - Ash Wednesday  - Regular School Day
April 19-26 - Easter Vacation,  School Closed  (School re-opens April 29th)

Week of February 18, 2019

A great big thank you to Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Mulvihill for such an amazing Valentine's Day Party!  We all had so much fun playing games and making crafts.  The crafts are drying in our classroom and will be coming home this week.

The children enjoyed delivering their Valentine's cards to each other's Valentine's Bags.  I hope they had fun opening them at home.

We will be wrapping up our unit on Weather in the upcoming two weeks.  We have been so busy learning all about Weather and can't wait to share our newly acquired  knowledge with you... We have a little surprise in the making!   

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Oo

Number of the Month: 6 and Review of 0-6

Colors of the Month:  Red and Gray

Shape of the Month:  Heart

Themes:  Counting, AB Patterns, Sorting and Classifying, Graphing, Winter, Weather, Feelings, Valentine's Day, Name writing, Scissor skills 

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Making "Good" Choices, Noah's Ark  

Show & Tell:  Friday, February 22nd:  Please bring in something Red or Heart Shaped to show and Tell our friends about. 

Dates to Remember: 

February 18th:  NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Week of February 11, 2019

We had another fun week of school packed with new learning!  

A great big thank you to Mrs. Dodenhoff, a former St Therese parent, for coming in to teach our class all about dental health!  We had so much fun learning about good healthy habits and how to best protect our teeth from those nasty little "sugar bugs!"

We were scientists once again in PreK-3  making lots of rainy observations with our rain cloud experiment.  We also had a "Rain, Rain Go Away" parade singing and playing our instruments!  When we were done, the most AMAZING thing happened to the rain clouds outside!  Ask your preschooler to tell you all about it!   

This week is promising to be another fun one in PreK-3.  Be sure to ask your Little Valentine all about it!

Valentine's Day:  We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Friday, February 15th in our classroom since we are not in session on the actual holiday (Feb 14th).  We will be exchanging Valentine Cards.  Please send in one card for each 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.  That is entirely up to you.  Please do not send in Valentines with food or candy as we have children with allergies in our classroom and school.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards starting on February 8th all the way through our party on the 15th.     

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Nn

Number of the Month: 6 and Review of 0-6

Colors of the Month:  Red and Gray

Shape of the Month:  Heart

Themes:  Counting, AB Patterns, Sorting and Classifying, Graphing, Winter, Weather, Feelings, Valentine's Day, Name writing, Scissor skills 

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Making "Good" Choices, Noah's Ark  

Show & Tell:  No Show and Tell this week due to our Valentine's Day Party

Dates to Remember: 

February 8th-15th:  Send Valentine's Day Cards to school

February 15th: Valentine's Day Party with our Room Parents

February 18th:  NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Week of February 4, 2019

We have some exciting news in PreK-3...  We have a new student, Luca!  The children were so warm and welcoming towards Luca this week.  What an amazing group of children!  Luca fits right in!

We continued learning about weather this week with an in depth study of one of the most famous weather forecasters, THE GROUNDHOG!  Hope you had a chance to check the news reports with your preschoolers on Groundhog Day...  If you didn't, just ask your Preschooler all about it on Monday!  Hint, Hint... It is great news for all of us warm weather lovers!!!!!

We had so much fun making groundhog shadows.  Ask your little one to show you on his/her groundhog craft.  All you need to supply is a flashlight!

I was so impressed with how well everyone did with practicing their scissors skills!  We will continue to practice throughout the rest of the school year.

This week we will focus on dental health as well as rain clouds and letters Ll and Mm.  BUSY week ahead... let's all keep our fingers crossed that the weather will cooperate this week!!

Valentine's Day:  We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Friday, February 15th in our classroom since we are not in session on the actual holiday (Feb 14th).  We will be exchanging Valentine Cards.  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.  That is entirely up to you.  Please do not send in Valentines with food or candy as we have children with allergies in our classroom and school.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards starting on February 8th all the way through our party on the 15th.     

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Ll and Mm

Number of the Month: 6 and Review of 0-6

Colors of the Month:  Red and Gray

Shape of the Month:  Heart

Themes:  Counting, AB Patterns, Sorting and Classifying, Graphing, Winter, Weather, Feelings, Valentine's Day and Dental Health

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace Before Meals, Making "Good" Choices,  "I Take Care of Myself"

Show & Tell:  Friday, Feb 8th  Please bring in something you "LOVE" to show and tell our PreK friends about.

Dates to Remember: 

February 6th: Catholic Schools' Week Open House (rescheduled date)

February 8th-15th:  Send Valentine's Day Cards to school

February 15th: Valentine's Day Party with our Room Parents

February 18th:  NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day