Sunday, December 31, 2023

Week of January 1, 2024

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We are so excited to start the New Year off with your sweet angels! It's going to be a fun few months ahead!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: We will be hitting the ground running in the new year!!! We will be kicking off our STEAM Unit on Weather as well as learning about Winter and Hibernation this week. We will also be learning The Pledge of Allegiance and starting Calendar Math!

Our Parent/Teacher Conferences will be on Wednesday, January 24th. Please check your email for more information and the Sign Up Genius link to choose your time slot. If you did not receive the link via email, please reach out to me asap so I can resend it. Please note that some conferences will take place in our classroom and others will be in the St Therese Church Office, right down the hall from the Church entrance, just past the restrooms.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Kk
Number of the Month: 5
Colors of the Month: Black and White
Shape of the Month: Diamond (rhombus)
January Themes: Counting 0-5, Sorting, AB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Hibernation, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, The Epiphany, Praying for Others

Show & Tell: NO Show and Tell this week due to the shortened week.

Dates to Remember:

January 15th: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 16th - 19th: PRIORITY REGISTRATION for the 2024-2025 School Year for current STS Families

January 24th: PreK-3 Parent/Teacher Conferences (details were emailed on 12/31)

January 28th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details on our school website)

January 29th: Wear “BLUE” to show your support for the Troopers United Foundation! TUF was created by dedicated NJ State Police Troopers to be of assistance to any and all Troopers, Law Enforcement Officers, First Responders, and their respective families, in the event of a tragedy or illness. *This Tag Day donation for the Troopers United Foundation is SEPARATE from the Project Graduation monthly Tag Days.

Wednesday, January 31st: Wear your #CSW24 t-shirt or STS PreK t-shirt if purchased

Thursday, February 1st: Wear Red, White and Blue for Tunnel to Towers Foundation tag day (see school website for more information)

February 19th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Our Week in Photos:

📸 Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our Week📸

We hope you loved your Christmas Gift as much as we loved making and wrapping it!!

PreK Friends are THE BEST!!!

We had so much fun with our Gingerbread Unit!

We were so excited to tell Father Jun all about it!!

Group HUGS are Awesome!!!

Did you hear all about our Gingerbread Man Bite Test?!?!

And Class Graph too?

It was sooooo yummmmmmy!!

Were you able to guess what your little taste tester bit off first?

We had so much fun making our own sticker Gingerbread Houses too!

shhhhh: Don't tell your little artist that they were working on their fine motor skills!

Our Christmas Stations were so much fun too!

Our Full Week Friends worked on sequencing skills!

And then had so much fun making their Christmas Trees!!

We love learning about The Nativity.

And making our own too...

We have quite the Master Builders in our class this year!!!

We love using our imaginations!!!

Our Full Week Friends had so much fun at The STS Christmas Breakfast!!

We have been LOVING our Holiday Shirts (and smiles) and can't wait to see what you have in store for us in the New Year!!!

🎉🥳Happy New Year!🎉🥳

Looking forward to a wonderful 2024 with your little one!

Paula Dobres

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Week of December 18, 2023

🎵 We Wish You a Merry Christmas! 🎵

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Mrs. McDonald, Mrs. Selser and I would like to wish you all a very

Merry Christmas and a New Year full of happiness and blessings!

Weekly Recap:

We had such a fun and busy week despite being hit with our first wave of illnesses in PreK-3. We have had such a good track record so far!! 🙏We've been praying for our friends who are taking a little while to bounce back from this virus. Thank you to all of our families who are being extra cautious before sending their recovering little ones back to school. Hopefully all your efforts will help our other little friends get through this wave unscathed. Let's hope we are on the tail end of this and that everyone is healthy for Christmas!!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:

We will be "wrapping up" some of our loose ends for the month of December! I don't want to give too much away!! Look in your little one's backpack this week to see what I mean!

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. Please keep them coming... any kind of paper note works!!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Review Aa-Jj
Numbers of the Months: 4
Colors of the Months: Blue
Shapes of the Months: 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," Nativity, Advent, St Therese Church Tour

Show & Tell: NO Show and Tell this week

Dates to Remember:

December 21st: 8th Grade Project Graduation Tag Day: 🎅🎄Wear Christmas Colors🎄🎅

December 21st: NOON Dismissal (No After Care)

***DATE CHANGE!!***December 22nd-January 2nd: NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break

January 15th: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 16th - 19th: PRIORITY REGISTRATION for the 2024-2025 School Year for current STS Families

January 24th: PreK-3 Parent/Teacher Conferences (details coming soon)

January 28th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details coming soon)

February 19th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Our Week in Photos:

📸 Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our Week📸

(Sorry about all the photos... I had such a hard time editing them out!!)

We started off the week with some patterning fun!!

We have been playing so nicely inside!!

Can you guess what we are painting?

Hint, hint: It's a Jj word!

We had so much fun putting the finishing touches on them!!

We really do LOVE painting in PreK-3!!

This was the first step in a cool craft we made this week!!

And we LOVED putting the finishing touches on them too!

ssshhhh... Don't tell your little artist that they were working on their fine motor and gluing skills!!

Some of us even made patterns (aka: math skill development)!!!

They all looked so beautiful!

Have you heard about our AMAZING DANCE PARTIES?!?!

The shirts this year!!!!

We are doing so well on our letter writing and letter matching too!!

Did you hear about our Jack-in-the-Box Fun?!?!

(Did you notice what letter each of our Jack-in-the-Box players' names begin with?!?)

Did you hear about our jump roping fun????

sssshhhh... Don't tell your little academic athlete that we were working on our gross motor skills as well as letter Jj sound recognition!!

It was SO MUCH FUN!!!

Our Master Builders are so creative!!

We are getting SO GOOD at finding our names on our attendance board!

Number 4 may have been our favorite number to learn so far!!!

Can you guess why?!?

Our Five Day Friends had SO MUCH FUN making their silly elf puppets!!

Ok... don't ask about this!!

You will know more about it this week!!!

(You know... part of "wrapping things up" for the month of December....)

Show and Tell continues to be a HUGE HIT!!!

We loved taking a Class Trip to our very own St Therese Church!

The Nativity is so beautiful.

Ask your little one when Baby Jesus will be added to the display...

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Father Jun for giving us such an amazing tour!!

We learned so much about our beautiful St Therese Church!

A big thank you to Officer Feeney for helping our class walk over to the Church and to Officer Feeney, Lieutenant Rocco and Father Jun for helping us safely cross the parking lot on our way back!!!