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 

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