Thanks again for helping your little ones learn from home!

I hope everyone enjoyed learning from home these past two weeks!

I am so excited to see everyone in person again!  This week we will be working on Letter Ll, Snowy Weather, Winter, Ground Hog's Day, Number 5, Scissor Skills and Diamonds!  It will be a very busy, very messy and very fun week!

Please refer to my email regarding what supplies and materials should be returned to school on Monday and for a note about materials for future remote days should the need arise.  

Valentine's Day: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Friday, February 12th since the holiday falls on a Sunday this year.  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 7 children in our class.  The children can either make their own little cards or they may be purchased.  That is entirely up to you.  Please do not send in Valentines with food or candy as we have children with allergies in our school.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards whenever they are ready through our celebration day on the 12th.  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.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: 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,  Praying for someone other than ourselves

Show & Tell:  Friday, Jan 29th -  Please bring in one thing that either starts with the Ll sound, is white, black, diamond shaped or weather related to show and tell our friends about.

Dates to Remember:

January 31st through February 5th:  Catholic Schools Week

January 29th:  Tag Day- Rainbows

February 12th: Tag Day - Valentine's Day Colors

February 15th:  NO SCHOOL: Presidents' Day

Have a Lovely week,

Paula Dobres

Week of January 18, 2021 Remote Learning

OUR FRIENDS LEARNING FROM HOME!

Great job everyone!

I hope everyone had fun learning remotely this past week.  Thank you so much for helping your little one keep up with PreK-3.  If you do not have the time, which is completely understandable, just send everything back with your child and we will be sure to catch them up.  I know this sudden switch to remote learning is difficult for everyone so no worries whatsoever.  

Valentine's Day: We will be celebrating Valentine's Day in PreK-3 on Friday, February 12th since the holiday falls on a Sunday this year.  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 7 children in our class.  The children can either make their own little cards or they may be purchased.  That is entirely up to you.  Please do not send in Valentines with food or candy as we have children with allergies in our school.  Your children may begin to bring in their cards whenever they are ready through our celebration day on the 12th.  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.

Calendar Corrections:  Please update your calendars.  Catholic Schools Week is now scheduled to begin on January 31st and our new projected PreK-3 Graduation date is June 11th.

PreK Parent/Teacher Conferences:   I'm looking forward to discussing your child's progress with you this week over Zoom.  Please check your email for login information.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: 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,  Praying for someone other than ourselves

Show & Tell:  Friday, Jan 22nd -  Free Choice over Zoom.  I will email you the information with our Friday lessons email.

Dates to Remember:

January  20th- 22nd:  Virtual Conferences

January 31st through February 5th:  Catholic Schools Week

January 29th:  Tag Day- Rainbows

February 12th: Tag Day - Valentine's Day Colors

February 15th:  NO SCHOOL: Presidents' Day

Have a great week,

Paula Dobres

Week of January 11, 2021

We LOVED celebrating Mrs. McDonald's Birthday with her!!!

Our trip to the Church to see the Manger display was so much fun!

We LOVED our milk and cookies treat from the HSA!

Pretending to be HIBERNATING HEDGEHOGS was so COOL!

Night, night little hedgehogs... see you in the Spring!

We had so much fun PAINTING this week!

We hit the ground running this week with a fun kick off to our new STEAM Unit on Weather.  Our little meteorologists were so excited to dress our Weather Bear for the weather and to learn our new Weather Song.  (Expect to hear some new tunes this month!)

We are also learning to recite The Pledge of Allegiance.  Don't be surprised to be expected to say it along with your little Patriot any time they see the Flag!

We pretended to be hedgehogs and had so much fun hibernating for the Winter before completing an adorable hedgehog craft.  Be sure to ask your little hibernator all about it!  The photos above should spark some fun memories for them!! 

We also worked on our first author study this year - Jan Brett!  The children absolutely LOVED her stories.  Be sure to ask them all about our favorite character of hers- Hedgie the Hedgehog!

A great BIG THANK YOU to our amazing HSA for providing us a fun cookies and milk snack and cool craft to celebrate Three Kings Day! 

Calendar Corrections:  Please update your calendars.  Catholic Schools Week is now scheduled to begin on January 31st and our new projected PreK-3 Graduation date is June 11th.

PreK Parent/Teacher Conferences:   I'm looking forward to discussing your child's progress with you next week over Zoom.  

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: 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,  Praying for someone other than ourselves

Show & Tell:  Friday, Jan 15th  Free Choice over Zoom.  I will email you the information with our daily lessons.

Dates to Remember:

January 11th:  Virtual Learning begins for two weeks - please refer to the emails I sent

January 18th:  NO SCHOOL:  Martin Luther King Jr Day

January  20th- 22nd:  Virtual Conferences

January 31st through February 5th:  Catholic Schools Week

January 29th:  Tag Day- Rainbows

February 12th: Tag Day - Valentine's Day Colors

February 15th:  NO SCHOOL: Presidents' Day

Happy New Year - Week of January 4, 2021

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  We miss your sweet little ones and can't wait to hit the ground running when they return to school on Monday!

A Sneak Peak at Our Upcoming Week:  We will be celebrating The Epiphany on Monday and finishing up some things that we had planned on doing during our "snow days."  Our HSA had planned an adorable craft with a milk and cookies snack which we will participate in on Wednesday.  I will email you the permission slip if you have not already filled it out. This week will be a big review week - letters, shapes, numbers.   We will kick off our STEM Unit on Weather as well as learn about Winter and Hibernation.  We will also be learning The Pledge of Allegiance!  

Our VIRTUAL Parent/Teacher Conferences will be  January 20th through January 22nd.  Please check your email for more information and the Sign Up Genius link to choose your time slot.

This Week's Focus will be on:
Letter of the Week: Review of Aa-Jj and a peek at 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,  A Visit From My Family

Show & Tell:  Friday, January 8th -  FREE CHOICE WEEK  - please bring in anything you would like to Show and Tell our PreK-3 friends about.

Dates to Remember:

January 4th:  School reopens

January 5th:  Mrs McDonald's Birthday!!! 🎂🥳

January 18th:  NO SCHOOL:  Martin Luther King Jr Day

January  20th- 22nd:  Virtual Conferences

January 24th-29th:  Catholic Schools Week

January 29th:  Tag Day- Rainbows

February 12th: Tag Day - Valentine's Day Colors

February 15th:  NO SCHOOL: Presidents' Day

Looking forward to a wonderful 2021 with your little one!

Paula Dobres