"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" in PreK-3!
How exciting!!!!
Our beautiful angels are now on display in the Learning Center Hallway Gallery. Our PreK-4 friends are making stars to add to this beautiful display too! Be sure to look closely at our angelic faces!
We learned whose birthday Christmas actually is!
Be sure to ask your little one to tell you all about it.
Decorating our classroom Christmas Tree was so much fun! We especially like to turn off the classroom lights to look at our Christmas Tree lights!
Christmas Centers are so cool!
We made 3D stars with lots of glitter!!! They are still drying in our room.
Once they are ready, we are going to hang them from the ceiling!!
Learning about igloos was so interesting and making our own was so much fun!
Be sure to ask your little builder what real igloo bricks are made of... you may be surprised!!
Our Winter Trees are now on display in our PreK-3 Gallery!
The white glitter makes them look so sparkly and snowy!
We have a new color play dough this month - ask your little sculptor to tell you what color it is!
Weekly Recap: Wow, have we been trying to be so kind! Our gifts of kindness box is really filling up quickly! Thank you for participating at home as well. Please keep the slips coming throughout the Advent season!
We learned something new about our little angels this week... THEY ALL LOVE GLITTER!!!!! (They had no idea that we were working on their fine motor development as they glittered the days away!)
We had fun learning letter Ii and cool facts about insects, iguanas and igloos! And as if on cue, Mother Nature made it SNOW for us right before we made our Winter Trees!!! We ran outside to see and feel the magic!!! (Sorry... I was too excited to remember to take photos. It was a truly magical moment!)
A Sneak Peak at Our Upcoming Week: This upcoming week is going to be equally messy and fun as last week! Be sure to ask your little artist all about his/her mystery stains on their clothes and hands. We do our best to clean up after all our fun, but some things are a little harder to remove than others so please continue to dress your child in washable play clothes during our regular school days, especially this week... We will be reading lots of Christmas books, practicing our songs, learning different versions of The Gingerbread Man, working on letter Jj and number 4 among many other things!
Gifts of Kindness Thank you for helping our class gift Baby Jesus with your children's kindness. They are all very excited to use their kind and caring words and acts to help celebrate the Advent Season.
PreK-3 Christmas Show: Our Show will still go on (just a bit differently). Please refer to the note that came home last week and let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Our VIRTUAL Parent/Teacher Conferences will be in January. More information will be coming home through the folders in the upcoming weeks.
This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Jj
Number of the Month: 4
Color of the Month: Blue
Shape of the Month: Star
December Themes: Counting 0-4, Sorting, AB Patterns, Christmas, Kindness, Feelings, Winter, Name Recognition
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Christmas, "Jesus is Born," Advent
Show & Tell: Friday, December 11th - FREE CHOICE WEEK - please bring in anything you would like to Show and Tell our PreK-3 friends about.
Dates to Remember:
December 18th (snow date Dec 21st): 10:00 PreK Christmas Show with virtual audience
December 18th: 8th Grade Tag Day: Ugly Christmas Sweater
December 23rd: NOON DISMISSAL for all students- No After School Care
December 24- January 3rd: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break
January 4th: School reopens
January 18th: NO SCHOOL: Martin Luther King Jr Day
January 24th-29th: Catholic Schools Week
Hope you have a joyous week!
Paula Dobres
