Week of November 25, 2019

We had another busy week full of  learning fun!  We loved reading Run Turkey Run and working in small groups to "hide" our turkeys from the class farmers - Mrs Matthews and myself!  It was such fun STEAM lesson to teach and observe our incredible little engineers and architects participate in!!
Take a peek at the photos above to see if you can spot our hidden turkeys...

Letter Hh was a blast to learn about... Hiccups, Hippos, Hat Stacker Memory Game, Horses, Pin The Tail on the Horse, Harvest and Houses are just a few of of the happy highlights!  Be sure to ask your Hard worker all about it!

We are starting to learn about the Real Meaning of Christmas and continuing to practice for our Christmas Show.  It isn't ideal to intrude on one of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving, with all of our Christmas lessons, but this year with Thanksgiving being so late, I'm forced to overlap... Hope this helps to clarify why you are starting to see some Christmas themed work starting to come home.

ARTWORK ON DISPLAY for one more week:  Our PreK artists' masterpieces are on display in the Roxbury Public Library!!!!  Be sure to stop by the Children's Section to see our amazing St Therese Preschool bulletin boards on display.  PreK-3 created beautiful Indian Corn and PreK-4 made amazing Crows!  You will be able to identify your child's artwork by their initials written on the bottom of their masterpieces!!  Feel free to take this opportunity for a quick photo opp!!  (THANK YOU for sharing your amazing photos with me, I LOVE THEM!!)

Christmas Show:  PLEASE mark your calendars!!  Our Show will begin at 8:45am on December 13, 2019 in the All Purpose Room of the Church.  Plan on it taking about an hour or so.  The routine will be very different for this special day.  All children will arrive a little later right to the Church and will be dismissed directly to you right after our Show and refreshments so you can spend the rest of your special day together with with your amazing little Preschool Performer!!  (Information and an invitation went home last week.)  Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions you may have.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Ii
Number of the Month: 3
Color of the Month:  Brown
Shape of the Month:  Square/Star
November Themes:  Counting 0-3, Sorting, AB Patterns, Thanksgiving, Families, Homes, Manners
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Thankfulness, "My Family Cares For Me"

Show & Tell:  No Show and Tell  due to the shortened week

Dates to Remember:
November 25th:  Regular School Day for Preschool (Noon dismissal for Main School)
November 27th: 11:45 Dismissal for all PreK students- No After School Care
November 28-29:  NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break

December 7th: HSA Breakfast with Santa
December 13th: 8:45 AM- PreK-3 Christmas Show (more information to follow)
December 16th: tentative CHRISTMAS SHOW SNOW DATE (I'm in the process of confirming)
December 20th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
December 23- January 1st: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break


Hope you have an incredible week!
Paula Dobres

Week of November 18, 2019

We learned all about The First Thanksgiving in PreK-3 this week.  We learned about the Pilgrims and Native Americans and how important it was to work together and how grateful they were for each other's help and friendship.  We loved wearing our Native American and Pilgrim creations! 

We also worked on AB Patterns this week and had a blast patterning everything from crayons, pencils, glue sticks, blocks, cubes, letters and anything else we could get our hands on!  I think we may have some patterning prodigies on our hands!!

ARTWORK ON DISPLAY:  Our PreK artists' masterpieces are on display in the Roxbury Public Library!!!!  Be sure to stop by the Children's Section to see our amazing St Therese Preschool bulletin boards on display.  PreK-3 created beautiful Indian Corn and PreK-4 made amazing Crows!  You will be able to identify your child's artwork by their initials written on the bottom of their masterpieces!!  Feel free to take this opportunity for a quick photo opp!!  (THANK YOU for sharing your amazing photos with me, I LOVE THEM!!)

Christmas Show:  PLEASE mark your calendars!!  Our Show will begin at 8:45am on December 13, 2019 in the All Purpose Room of the Church.  Plan on it taking about an hour or so.  The routine will be very different for this special day.  All children will arrive a little later right to the Church and will be dismissed directly to you right after our Show and refreshments so you can spend the rest of your special day together with with your amazing little Preschool Performer!!  I will be sending home more information in the upcoming weeks but please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions you may have.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Hh
Number of the Month: 3
Color of the Month:  Brown
Shape of the Month:  Square
November Themes:  Counting 0-3, Sorting, AB Patterns, Thanksgiving, Families, Homes, Manners
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Thankfulness, "My Family Cares For Me"

Show & Tell:  On Friday, November 22nd, please bring in something you are thankful for to show and tell our friends about. (Family photo, special book, special toy, clip art of favorite food, etc.)

Dates to Remember:

November 17th:  STS OPEN HOUSE 12:30-2:00pm
November 22nd:  STS Tag Day - Wear your favorite sports fan gear
November 27th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
November 28-29:  NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break

December 7th: HSA Breakfast with Santa
December 13th: 8:45 AM- PreK-3 Christmas Show (more information to follow)
December 16th: tentative CHRISTMAS SHOW SNOW DATE (I'm in the process of confirming)
December 20th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
December 23- January 1st: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break


Hope you have a happy week, I know it will be a hilarious on in PreK-3,
Paula Dobres

Week of November 11, 2019

We had a great week learning letter Gg!  Giraffes, gumball machines, turkeys, pumpkin pie, painting, squash and thanksgiving are a few of the areas we focused on!  Next time you are in our Learning Center, be sure to peek in at our amazing turkeys!  But just in case you don't get a chance, here is a little sneak peek at our "handy" masterpieces!

Be sure to ask your little turkey all about it and to sing you the special song we are learning this month... "Five Fat Turkeys Are We!"  Don't be surprised if you hear your cutie singing some Christmas songs at home in the upcoming weeks too... we are already learning them for our Christmas Show!

ARTWORK ON DISPLAY:  Our PreK artists' masterpieces are on display in the Roxbury Public Library!!!!  Be sure to stop by the Children's Section to see our amazing St Therese Preschool bulletin boards on display.  PreK-3 created beautiful Indian Corn and PreK-4 made amazing crows!  You will be able to identify your child's artwork by their initials written on the bottom of their masterpieces!!  Feel free to take this opportunity for a quick photo opp!!  (Please share the photos with me, they will make my day!)

Christmas Show:  YES, we are already planning our PreK-3 Christmas Show!  It will be here before we know it so PLEASE mark your calendars!!  It will begin at 8:45am on December 13, 2019 in the All Purpose Room of the Church.  Plan on it taking about an hour or so.  The routine will be very different for this special day.  All children will arrive a little later and will be dismissed directly to you right after our Show and refreshments so you can spend the rest of your special day together with with your amazing little Preschool Performer!!  I will be sending home more information in the upcoming weeks but please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions you may have.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Review of letters Aa through Gg
Number of the Month: 3
Color of the Month:  Brown
Shape of the Month:  Square
November Themes:  Counting 0-3, Sorting, AB Patterns, Pumpkin Science, Thanksgiving, Families
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Thankfulness, "My Family Cares For Me"

Show & Tell:  FREE CHOICE WEEK On Friday, November 15th, please bring in anything you would like to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

November 11th:  NO SCHOOL - Veteran's Day
November 27th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
November 28-29:  NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break

December 7th: HSA Breakfast with Santa
December 13th: 8:45 AM- PreK-3 Christmas Show (more information to follow)
December 16th: tentative CHRISTMAS SHOW SNOW DATE (I'm in the process of confirming)
December 20th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
December 23- January 1st: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break


Have a wonderful week,
Paula Dobres

Week of November 4, 2019

We had a "spooktacular" week in PreK-3!  We learned all about pumpkins and carved our very own Jack-O-Lantern!  Do you know what pumpkin ribs are?  Your preschooler does!  Do you know what is inside a pumpkin and how it feels?  Ask your preschooler, he/she does!!  We had so much fun measuring, weighing and investigating our class pumpkin before we turned it into our jack-o-lantern!

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to MRS SELSER AND MRS ROZANSKI for an fabulous Halloween Party and for all of their help getting our preschoolers ready for their big parade! 

Thank you for coming out to see our Halloween Paraders and for cheering us on as we sang our Halloween songs!  We all had so much fun!

We loved learning about foxes and frogs as we learned the letter Ff this week!  We also learned about All Saints Day.  We were so excited that our incredible school was named after a Saint too!

Christmas Show:  YES, we are already planning our PreK-3 Christmas Show!  It will be here before we know it so PLEASE mark your calendars!!  It will begin at 8:45am on December 13, 2019 in the All Purpose Room of the Church.  Plan on it taking about an hour or so.  The routine will be very different for this special day.  All children will arrive a little later and will be dismissed directly to you right after our Show and refreshments so you can spend the rest of your special day together with with your amazing little Preschool Performer!!  I will be sending home more information in the upcoming weeks but please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions you may have.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Gg
Number of the Month: 3
Color of the Month:  Brown
Shape of the Month:  Square
November Themes:  Signs of Fall, Counting 0-3, Sorting, AB Patterns, Pumpkin Science, Thanksgiving, Families
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Thankfulness, "My Family Cares For Me"

Show & Tell:  On Friday, November 8th, please bring in something that starts with the "Gg" sound (for example: giraffe, gorilla, grapes, gummy snack, golf ball, game, a "good" book, something "green", a gem, a picture of a great girl, grandparent photo, grandparent story, a picture of  a great time, etc.) or something brown or something square shaped to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

November 8th: HSA Tricky Tray
November 11th:  NO SCHOOL - Veteran's Day
November 27th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
November 28-29:  NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving Break

December 7th: HSA Breakfast with Santa
December 13th: 8:45 AM- PreK-3 Christmas Show (more information to follow)
December 20th: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
December 23- January 1st: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break


Hope you have a "G"ood  week.  I know it will be an "G"reat one in PreK-3!
Paula Dobres