Week of September 20, 2021

We had another birthday in PreK-3!!!

Puzzles are so much fun!

Ask your little mathematician to show you zero fingers...

We loved painting apples... the first step in our multi-step craft!

Learning about "apple stars" and pips was so cool!

"a is for apple"

"A is for alligator!"

Playground fun!

Our apple taste test was soooooooo yummy!!!

Illness:

So it seems as though the PreK-3 Bug has made its rounds around our class!  I cannot thank all of our vigilant families enough for keeping their sick little ones home and getting them tested as needed. It is so refreshing to have parents like yourselves keeping the health and safety of everyone else in mind when making these decisions. I know it’s hard to keep your preschooler home this early in the school year but it really is for the best when they are not feeling well. I’m happy to report that the Covid tests I know of were all negative!  It’s hard to believe that this bug spread so quickly especially with all the extra safety precautions that we have in place but it just goes to show how these things can spread and affect so many so quickly.  All that being said, our school nurses would like you to report all illnesses and Covid tests directly to them as they are tracking the health and safety of everyone at our school.  I appreciate your emails to keep me in the loop as well but if you only have time to contact one person, please make that the school nurse.

Weekly Recap:

We had such a fun first full week of PreK this week!  

Letter Aa, Number 0, All About Me, Show and Tell, Alligators, Apples, Sense of Taste: Apple Taste Test, Color Yellow, and Play Dough were just some of the highlights!  We loved dancing and singing "The Alligator Chomp" as well as our "Silly Dance Contest!"

A Peek at our Week Ahead:

This upcoming week promises to be just as much fun as we explore The Season of Fall, Letter Bb, our Sense of Sight and Number 1!

Please remember your Teddy Bear for Show and Tell on Friday as well as to wear yellow/gold in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness that day.  Your $1 donations for St. Jude's Children's Hospital are greatly appreciated.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Bb
Numbers of the Month:  0 and 1
Color of the month: yellow
Shape of the month: circle
Themes: All About Me, Making Friends, Apples, The Five Senses, Season of Fall
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals

Show and Tell:  Friday, September 24th-  Please bring your Teddy Bear to school for Letter Bb fun!  ***PLEASE LABEL WITH YOUR CHILD's NAME***


Dates to Remember:

Friday, September 24th:    Tag Day - Wear Gold or Yellow for Childhood Cancer Awareness

October 8th and 11th- NO SCHOOL - Teacher Professional Day & Columbus Day

Have a Blessed week,
Paula Dobres

Week of September 13, 2021

We celebrated our first Birthday in PreK-3 this week!!!!

Making New Friends! 

We 💗 YELLOW playdough!

We have quite the builders in our class!!

Story books are awesome!

It was all sunshine and smiles on our playground this week!!

Work Time Fun!

Weekly Recap:

We had such a fun week learning all about ourselves as well as one another!  We have been working hard on a special surprise that the children will be bringing home soon. Be sure to have your little author and illustrator share it with you (HINT, HINT!)!

The children all did such a wonderful job sharing their amazing Super Star Posters with one another!  They were so excited to see similarities between each other. I can't wait to see their reactions when they see their posters on display in our classroom on Monday!  Everyone did such a great job coming up with a poster as unique as the child!

We also had a blast reading and acting out one of our favorite books, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and learning about our names and initial letters!  We decorated our own initial letters and they are now on display in our Learning Center Hallway Gallery for all to see!

A Peek at our Week Ahead:

This week we will begin our Letter of the Week curriculum with letter Aa.  We will also be starting our STEAM Unit on The Five Senses and learning about number 0!  Be sure to ask your preschooler all about it!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Letter Aa
Numbers of the Month:  0 and 1
Color of the month: yellow
Shape of the month: circle
Themes: All About Me, Making Friends, Apples, The Five Senses
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals

Show and Tell:  Friday, September 17th-  Please bring in something that has a letter Aa on it or something that starts with the letter Aa sound.  (examples: airplane, angel, photo of someone whose name starts with letter A, apple, astronaut, ape, alligator, ant, Auntie, arm, artist, avocado, alphabet, etc.  If you cannot find something at home, you can always print a picture of something to send in.)***PLEASE LABEL WITH YOUR CHILD's NAME***

Dates to Remember:

September 17th- School Pictures (Wear your beautiful SMILE!)

October 8th and 11th- NO SCHOOL - Teacher Professional Day & Columbus Day

Hope you have an amazing week,
Paula Dobres

Week of September 6, 2021

 

We had a great first day of school on Friday!  Mrs. McDonald and I were so impressed with how quickly all the children adjusted to being in their new classroom.  Good job prepping them for school moms and dads!!!  It is going to be a wonderful school year!!

We had so much fun painting, playing, coloring, singing, dancing, picnicking, playing on the playground and of course starting to make new friends!

This week we will be working on our "All About Me" (and each other) Unit!  We cannot wait to see what you and your children come up with on your Star Posters for Show and Tell on Friday!  We will also continue to learn our new classroom routines.  The children are all catching on really quickly already!

Please be sure to look in the "Friday Folder" on our STS Website for important information and forms from the Main Office and Nurse's Office.

Please LABEL EVERYTHING that belongs to your little one.  It is very difficult for us to keep track of what belongs to whom (especially when six of our girls wore denim jackets on Friday! lol)

Thank you all for returning our school forms so quickly as well as all of your very generous donations of tissues, baby wipes and disinfecting wipes!!  Please let me know if either of these adorable bags belong to your family. 

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Singing the ABC song, First Letter of Our Names, Letter Aa next week
Numbers of the Month:  0 and 1
Color of the month: yellow
Shape of the month: circle
Themes: All About Me, Making Friends, Apples, The Five Senses
Religion: Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals

Show and Tell:  Friday, September 10th-  Please bring in your All About Me Star Poster.  We can't wait to learn more about each other!  ***PLEASE LABEL WITH YOUR CHILD's NAME***


Dates to Remember:

September 6th- NO SCHOOL - Labor Day
September 17th- School Pictures (Wear your beautiful SMILE!)

October 8th and 11th- NO SCHOOL - Teacher Professional Day & Columbus Day

Looking forward to an amazing school year,
Paula Dobres