Saturday, February 10, 2024

Week of February 12, 2024


P was for a Perfect Spring Preview!! 


Weekly Recap:  We painted our week away using so many painting techniques!!  The Three Little Pigs and This Little Piggie kicked off our Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales Unit!

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week:  We will continue to learn Letter Pp with a Valentine's Party and will be learning about President's Day, Peacocks and new Patterns!!!

💗Valentine's Day💗: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Wednesday, February 14th. We will be exchanging Valentine's Day Cards in school.  Please send in one card per child with only your own child's name on each as the from whom the card is and not the name for whom it is intended.  This will make distribution much easier as the children are only just beginning to recognize each other's names.  We have 12 children in our class.  The children can either make their own little cards or they may be purchased.  Please don't spend a lot on them, the dollar stores usually carry class sets.  Please do not send in Valentines with food or candy as we have children with allergies in our class.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards whenever they are ready up through our celebration day on the 14th.  This little homework idea is completely optional: you may want to take this opportunity to have your child write their first initial (or full name if they are able to) on each of their cards and then finish the rest of their name for him/her.

Carline:  Thank you for your cooperation as we work out some kinks in our carline procedures.  We placed cones on the fire lane in front of the Learning Center to create a little walkway between your vehicles and the teachers and students as we help your children into your cars.  Please pull right up to the stop sign if you are the first car in our pick up line.  We will help three children into their cars at a time.  Please buckle your child in before moving your vehicle.  Once those three cars drive off, we ask that the next three cars drive all the way to the stop sign and right behind the lead vehicle.  We will follow the same procedure through the end of the carline.  Thanks again for your anticipated cooperation.  It is for everyone's safety.  

🐇🐰Easter Hat Parade🐰🐇 - March 22nd at 11:15am (rain date 3/25):  Easter is in March 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 came home in your child's folder for more details.  (I thought I'd give everyone an early heads-up since the dollar stores are already full of Easter items!)

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Pp continued
Number of the Month: Number 6
Colors of the Month:  Red, Pink and Gray
Shape of the Month: Heart

February Themes:  Counting, Numbers 0-6, Sorting, AABB Patterns, Feelings, Winter, Weather, Camouflage, Name Recognition, Name Writing, Scissor Skills, Calendar, Valentine's Day, Dental Health, Presidents' Day, Groundhog Day

Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Praying for Others, "God is Love"

Show & Tell:  Friday, February 23rd -  FREE CHOICE WEEK!!  Please bring in one item to Show and Tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:
February 12th: 🏈Delayed Opening🏈 - Super Bowl Prize (Please see Mr. Dunnigan's Blog)
February 19th: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

March TBD:  🌈R is for Wear your favorite Rainbow Color Day!!
March TBD:  🧦S is for Silly Sock Day 
March 22nd: 🐇🐰PreK Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt 11:15
March 25th:  Easter Hat Parade Snow Date

March 28th:  NOON DISMISSAL- No After School Care
March 29th- April 5th: No School- Easter Break

April 8th:  School Reopens

April TBD:  Combined Preschool and Kindergarten Field Trip (details coming soon!)

Our Week in Photos:

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


P is for Pig





We did so well sequencing This Little Piggie!


Did your little piggie tell you what about what we did to their little piggies when we were retelling the nursery rhyme?!?!  It had us all giggling but the classroom may have gotten a little stinky in the process!!



Mother Nature blessed us with some AMAZING PICTURE PERFECT Sunny Days this week!!
We were finally able to go outside to find our previously missing SHADOWS!!!




And then we hit the Playground to see our Shadows RUN and RUN and RUN!!




LOOK!!! Even the ball has a shadow!!


And Mrs. Dobres' phone does too!!

















P is for PAINTING!!!!


Watercolors are so much fun!!
We painted something we are going to use for a special craft next week!!





Did you hear about our scientific experiment?!?!


We mixed red and white paint!!  AND....




Can you guess what new color we made?!?!



We painted something we were going to make later in the week...



Can you guess what we made?
They will soon be on display in our Hallway Gallery!!



We used a different painting technique on our hearts!!






Can you guess which two colors we used to make PINK???



It was so much fun and they came out so beautifully!!



We LOVED Painting with our hands!!
(Yet another technique!!!)



And we made the coolest Valentine's Bags!!


Can you guess which shape we used LOTS and LOTS of to make our Love Bears?!?!






Our Five Day Friends had so much fun playing games on our Learning Board!  Hibernation Concentration was so cool!!

And we did so well on our Shadow Puzzles too!!


Did your smart little cookie tell you what shape our new cookie cutters are??





We are such amazing master builders...
This was a little warm up exercise for some house building coming up at the end of the week!!



Can you guess what AMAZING SNACK begins with Letter P???
Hint, Hint... it makes the lots of POPPING noises while it cooks up!!!



It was so much fun to build Letter P with!!




We made the most delicious P's EVER!!!


Did your little piggie tell you about our new favorite story in PreK-3???
We worked in groups of three to build our three houses!!


We started with a straw aka yarn house...



Do you think the BIG BAD WOLF was able to blow it down???


Then we moved onto stick houses...




What do you think happened to those?!?!



Next came our BRICKS!!!




Ask your little piggie what happened then when the BIG BAD WOLF tried to "Huff and puff and blow their brick houses down!!!!"


We LOVED our Love Week Show and Tell!!











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Thank you for sharing your precious little love bugs with us!!
Paula Dobres


















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