Week of February 10, 2020

Valentine's Day Craft

I LOVE my little SWEETHEARTS!!!

My fingers are crossed that all of our little ones have recovered from last week's PreK Flu outbreak!  I hope to see everyone back in school this week.  Mrs. Matthews and I have been disinfecting EVERYTHING in our classroom!  And we will work with all the children to get them caught up on everything they may have missed.

We had so much fun this week learning letter Nn and making some cute nests and starry night skies.  Our Noah's Arks are still drying in our classroom and will be sent home soon.  We also started working on some Valentine's Day crafts that we can't wait to show our families!  We are learning a cute new song as well and hope to be able to sing it for our families on Valentine's Day.  Be sure to mention it to your little sweetheart on Friday!

This week is promising to be a busy and fun one!  We will be learning letter Oo, continuing to work on number 6, focusing on Love and Valentine's Day as well as learning about President's Day!  We will be learning about clouds and rain in the next couple of weeks as well.  And of course we will be celebrating and exchanging cards on Friday.  (Please see below.)

Valentine's Day:  A notice went home through the children's backpacks but here's a little recap:  We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Friday, February 14th in our classroom.  We will be exchanging Valentine's Day 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 10 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 school.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards whenever they are ready through our party day on the 14th.  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: Oo
Number of the Month: 6
Colors of the Month:  Red and Gray
Shape of the Month:  Heart
February Themes:  Counting 0-6, Sorting, AABB Patterns and ABC Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Camouflage,  Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Calendar, Valentine's Day, Dental Health, President's Day
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals,  Noah's Ark, "God is Love" and
                                             Praying for someone other than ourselves

Show & Tell:  NO Show and Tell this week due to Valentine's Day

Dates to Remember:
February 3rd through February 14th:  Bring Valentine's Day Cards to school
February 14th:  Valentine's Day Party  (Due to space restrictions, open to Room Parents only)
February 17th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day
May 13th (Rain date of May 15th):  Land of Make Believe Trip  (more info to follow)


Hope you have an Outstanding week,
Paula Dobres