Week of January 8, 2024

Happy Birthday to our Sweet Friend!!

And Happy Birthday to our Amazing Principal too!!

(He loved our card and hung it in his office!  All of our kiddos' names are covered in this photo.) 

 A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will focus on SNOW in our Weather Unit this week!  We will also be learning Letter Ll and looking forward to "Laughing Out Loud" during Friday's Show and Tell!!

Our Parent/Teacher Conferences will be on Wednesday, January 24th as well as before school everyday that same week.  Thank you so much for your rapid responses.  I think everyone has already signed up for a time! Please note that Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri conferences will take place in our classroom and all Wednesday ones will take place in the St Therese Church Office, right down the hall from the Church entrance and just past the restrooms.  

❄❅❆⛄🥶Dress for the Weather: 🥶⛄❆❅❄ Please pack your child with a warm hat and mittens (or gloves if they can manage them independently) as we will continue to play outdoors if weather permits and we sometimes take Nature Walks outside to learn about trees, weather, seasons, etc.. I'm hoping to head out to take Winter Photos of our little munchkins on Monday since we are forecast to get some snow.  PLEASE dress them appropriately!!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Ll
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:  Friday, January 12th -  LOL SHOW and TELL 🤣:  Please have your child bring in ONE "Funny" item or joke...  We will be learning Letter Ll this week and focusing on Laughing- "LOL" for our Show and Tell.  Ideas include learning a joke (send it in written down if your child needs prompting), a funny photo, a funny toy, funny song (we have access to YouTube if you send me a link), etc.  Looking forward to continuing to celebrate the new year with a smile on our faces!

Dates to Remember:

January 9th: We will be celebrating Mrs. McDonald's Birthday! (It was on 1/5)

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 26th:  🧸 PreK Pajama Day!! 🧸 (Information came home on Friday)

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📸 

Speaking of Birthdays... Guess who became a BIG BROTHER on New Year's Day?!?! YAY!!!

And while we are on New Year's Surprises... 

Our Five Day friends had so much fun celebrating "NOON" Year's!!

And we learned 12:00 on our class clock!!

The party continued in the Hallway with our PreK-4 Friends!!

It was such a fun way to kick off our New Year!!

Speaking of Kicking things off...

We learned our first letter in 2024!!

K is for Kangaroo!!

Did you know that they can really KICK hard?!?!

Ask your little kicker to make a K with their body for you!!

Making K's with Paint Sticks is so Cool!!

It was so kind of our little inhouse doctor to give his friend a checkup!

k is also for king!

We learned about The Epiphany on Friday and drew a path for the Three Kings to make their way to Baby Jesus with their gifts.

Then our Afternoon Friends took a Field Trip to see Baby Jesus in the St Therese Church Nativity

and the Three Kings bowing before him.

We kicked off our Weather Unit with learning about Hibernation and Hedgehogs!

Painting them was step one of our craft!

Day two was putting on the finishing touches!!

They are now HIBERNATING in our classroom burrow!

(Zoom in to see your little hedgehogs name on their craft!)

We had SO MUCH FUN pretending to be hedgehogs and crawling our way through our tunnel and into our snow covered burrow!!!

(SSSSShhhhhh!!!! Don't tell your little hibernator that they were working on their gross motor skills while working on this science lesson!!)

Ssssshhhhh!!! Don't wake us up until Spring!!

Oh, speaking of Spring...

We pretended it was and celebrated with a PreK-3 DANCE PARTY!!!!

Our Sleepy Hibernation was OVER!!!

IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

Our Afternoon Friends even pretended that it was WARM and played outside for a few minutes!!

^Here's a preview of our Camouflage Lesson...^

We are so excited to continue to learn about SNOW this week!!!!

In the meantime, take a look at some of our snowy handywork!

(Zoom in on the bottom right to see your little snowman's name...)

🤣Hope you have a week full of laughter and fun!🤣

           Paula Dobres