Week of March 1, 2021

We wish every day could be PAJAMA DAY!!!

We have some pretty amazing Lego master builders in our class!

N is for Night and Nap!

Mrs. McDonald LOVED our Get Well Soon Cards!

"Rain, Rain go away..."

We 💗 our snuggle buddies!

Ask your little meteorologist to tell you why we have thunder and lightning sometimes.

Our Noah's Ark Posters were so much fun to make!

Weekly Recap:  Although Monday ended up being a Virtual Learning Day, we still ended up doing a lot of what we had planned to this week.  We LOVED Pajama Day and spending our day with our snuggly friends!  We had fun learning about rain and rainbows, learned about Noah's Ark, worked on number 6, made a napping "n" and a night sky and made get well cards for Mrs. McDonald who is still not feeling well.  The children and I have been praying for her speedy recovery every day.  

A Sneak Peak at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be working on Letter Oo this week as well as kicking off some of our March themes.  We will also be wrapping up our Weather Unit with Rainbows and Wind.  We will be doing lots rhyming as we read  Dr Seuss books for Read Across America Day which is on March 2nd.  We are going to have a scissor challenge when we cut out our own leprechaun hats this week!!  I know all the children will be up for it!

Rainbow Day in PreK:  March 5th:  Wear your favorite rainbow color to school and bring in something that is your favorite color for Show and Tell.

Easter Hat Celebration:  March 22nd:  Easter is early this year and so is our Annual PreK Easter Hat Celebration!  Time to get out the Peeps, plastic eggs, flowers, bunny ears and your hot glue gun!!  It's your time to shine in creating the most amazing Easter Hat with your little honey bunny!  You can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like.  I'm sure your little cutie will be proud to wear whatever you create together!  Please see the notice that went home in your child's folder for more details.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Oo
Number of the Month: 7

Color of the Month:  Green
Shape of the Month:  Oval
March Themes:  Counting 0-7, Graphing, Friendship, Transportation, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Opposites, Rhyming, St. Patrick's Day, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes, Differentiating Sizes, Easter and Signs of SPRING! 
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals,  Praying for someone other than ourselves, "God Made the World,"  Easter

Show & Tell:  Friday, March 5th- Rainbow Color Day-  Please bring in one thing that is your favorite color to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

March 5th:  Rainbow Day in PreK-3:  Wear your favorite Rainbow Color to school & Bring in  something your favorite color for Show and Tell

March 17th: Tag Day - Wear St Patrick's Day Colors

March 22nd: (Snow Date - March 24th)  Easter Hat Celebration

April 1st:  NOON DISMISSAL: Holy Thursday (no after school care)

April 2nd:  NO SCHOOL: Good Friday

April 5-9th:  NO SCHOOL: Easter Break

April 16th:  Tag Day - Sports Fan theme

Hope you have an outstanding week!

Paula Dobres

Week of February 22, 2021

We had so much fun making clouds with a new painting technique!

Ask your little artist all about it!

Our little scientists LOVED our color mixing experiment!

And they had soooo much fun painting their rain clouds with the new color they created!

Name puzzles were so much fun to put together!

"What a Beautiful Name" each of our friends has!

We made The Best Nests!

We did a great job learning from home on Friday too!  

It was so fun to see our friends on Zoom!  

And it was super cool to see our special guest, Mrs. McDonald!!!

Weekly Recap:  So this was a much shorter week that we had expected!  We were able to get a lot in regardless though.  We loved mixing paint to make gray!  Ask your little artist what two colors they used.  

We also LOVED the story book The Best Nest and made our own "N" Nests! Here is the link to an animated version of the read aloud that I had planned on showing the children on Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKmgL8NhZ8M.  

Clouds were so much fun to learn about too.  Don't be surprised to see your little meteorologist staring up at the sky and identifying funny cloud shapes!  

We worked on name puzzles in school and during remote learning too!  That was actually great timing for a remote day!  Please let your little puzzle solver continue to build their name puzzles whenever they'd like to practice.  I will not be collecting them back so keep them out at home.  The more they practice, the better!  If you'd like a little extension activity for that remote learning lesson, have your little one physically take each letter in their name, one at a time, and find something around the house with that letter (look at cereal boxes, books, household labels, magazines, etc.)  That should keep them busy for a while and it's a great literacy activity!

A Sneak Peak at Our Upcoming Week: This upcoming week will be a regular week, hopefully!  We will continue to work on letter Nn, Noah's Ark, rainbows and rainy weather.  We will also squeeze in Letter Oo and wrap up some of our February themes.  (Fingers crossed that we will have an uninterrupted week!!!)

Pajama Day:  February 26th: Please have your child wear their favorite pajamas to school and bring in a snuggly friend (teddy bear, doll, stuffed animal, etc.)  as their SHOW and TELL item this week.

Rainbow Day in PreK:  March 5th:  Wear your favorite color to school and bring in something that is your favorite color for Show and Tell.

Easter Hat Celebration:  March 22nd:  Easter is early this year and so is our Annual PreK Easter Hat Celebration!  Time to get out the Peeps, plastic eggs, flowers, bunny ears and your hot glue gun!!  It's your time to shine in creating the most amazing Easter Hat with your little honey bunny!  You can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like.  I'm sure your little cutie will be proud to wear whatever you create together!  Please see the notice that went home in your child's folder for more details.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Nn and Oo
Number of the Month: 6

Colors of the Month:  Red, Pink and Gray
Shape of the Month:  Heart
February Themes:  Counting 0-6, Sorting, AABB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Calendar, Camouflage, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Valentine's Day, Dental Health, Presidents' Day
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals,  Praying for someone other than ourselves, "God is Love,"  Noah's Ark

Show & Tell:  Friday, Feb 26th- Pajama Day-  Please bring in one snuggly pajama day friend (teddy bear, doll, stuffed animal) to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

February 26th:  PreK Pajama Day 

March 5th:  Rainbow Day in PreK-3:  Wear your favorite Rainbow Color to school & Bring in your something your favorite color for Show and Tell

March 17th: Tag Day - Wear St Patrick's Day Colors

March 22nd: (Snow Date - March 24th)  Easter Hat Celebration

April 1st:  NOON DISMISSAL: Holy Thursday (no after school care)

April 2nd:  NO SCHOOL: Good Friday

April 5-9th:  NO SCHOOL: Easter Break

April 16th:  Tag Day - Sports Fan theme

Hope you have an outstanding week!

Paula Dobres

Week of February 15, 2021

💗💗Our Little Sweethearts!💗💗

Building Abraham Lincoln's Log Cabin was so cool and sticky too!  

Did you notice him peeking out the window?

George Washington was so much fun to learn about and to make!

WE LOVE BUILDING WITH BLOCKS!

And scattering them too!  lol

We LOVED delivering our Valentine's!

We 💘 our friends!

Our Musical Hearts Game was so cool to play during our Valentine's Day Party!

Ask your little sweetheart all about it!

We have some pretty amazing crab walkers in our class!!

"m is for mouse!"

🎵🎵"Brush, brush, brush your teeth..."🎵🎵

"M is for Moose!"

We LOVE our RED play dough!

Weekly Recap:  It was so nice to have a full week of school!  We worked hard, had lots of fun and learned so much!  Did your little one teach you the tooth brushing song?  We loved reading Moose's Loose Tooth and making our own "M Moose"!  We also worked on number six when we added chocolate chips to our "m mouse" to recreate If You Give a Mouse a Cookie!  And then there was all the Valentine's Day fun and learning about two our our country's greatest Presidents!  What a fun week!

A Sneak Peak at Our Upcoming Week: This upcoming week will be short but very, very busy!  We will work on letter Nn, Noah's Ark and rainy weather.  We are DONE with snow in PreK-3!  Can someone inform Mother Nature?!?!  Our focus will be on Rain, Rainbows and Wind to finish up our Weather Unit in the next few weeks.

Pajama Day:  February 26th: Please have your child wear their favorite pajamas to school and bring in a snuggly friend (teddy bear, doll, stuffed animal, etc.)  as their SHOW and TELL item that week.

Easter Hat Celebration:  March 22nd:  Easter is early this year and so is our Annual PreK Easter Hat Celebration!  Time to get out the Peeps, plastic eggs, flowers, bunny ears and your hot glue gun!!  It's your time to shine in creating the most amazing Easter Hat with your little honey bunny!  You can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like.  I'm sure your little cutie will be proud to wear whatever you create together!  Please see the notice coming home in your child's folder for more details.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Nn
Number of the Month: 6

Colors of the Month:  Red, Pink and Gray
Shape of the Month:  Heart
February Themes:  Counting 0-6, Sorting, AABB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Calendar, Camouflage, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Valentine's Day, Dental Health, Presidents' Day
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals,  Praying for someone other than ourselves, "God is Love,"  Noah's Ark

Show & Tell:  Friday, Feb 19th- FREE CHOICE WEEK: Please bring in one thing, it can be anything you'd like, to show and tell our PreK-3 friends about.

Dates to Remember:

February 26th:  PreK Pajama Day 

March 17th: Tag Day - Wear St Patrick's Day Colors

March 22nd: (Snow Date - March 24th)  Easter Hat Celebration

April 1st:  NOON DISMISSAL: Holy Thursday (no after school care)

April 2nd:  NO SCHOOL: Good Friday

April 5-9th:  NO SCHOOL: Easter Break

April 16th:  Tag Day - Sports Fan theme

Have a Nice week!

Paula Dobres