Sunday, December 10, 2023

Week of December 11, 2023


πŸŽ„Merry ChristmasπŸŽ„

Weekly Recap:  

I am so proud of all of our little PreK Performers!  Getting up on stage is never easy for anyone and getting up on stage for the very first time in front of such a large audience had to be extra challenging for our three and four year olds!  They all did so well!  I hope you all enjoyed our show and left STS with some Christmas cheer in your hearts. 

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: 

We will be finishing up Letter Jj, working on Number 4 and kicking off our Gingerbread Unit this week!  We will also be having a schoolwide HSA pajama day on Friday to raise money for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  

Gifts of Kindness  Thank you for helping our class gift Baby Jesus with your children's kindness.  They are all very excited to use their kind and caring words and acts to help celebrate the Advent Season.  Please keep them coming... any kind of paper note works!!

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Finishing Letter Jj
Numbers of the Months: 4
Colors of the Months:  Blue
Shapes of the Months: Star
December Themes:  Counting 0-4, Sorting, AB Patterns, Christmas, Kindness, Feelings, Winter,      Name Recognition
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Christmas, "Jesus is Born," Nativity, Advent, St Therese Church Tour 

Show & Tell:  Show & Tell:  Friday, December 15th: FREE CHOICE WEEK!!  Let's keep the public speaking practice going!!  Please send in ONE item for your little public speaker to show and tell their friends about.

Dates to Remember:

December 15th: HSA School Wide Pajama Day to raise money for CHOP
December 21st: 8th Grade Project Graduation Tag Day: πŸŽ…πŸŽ„Wear Christmas ColorsπŸŽ„πŸŽ…
December 21st: NOON Dismissal (No After Care)
***DATE CHANGE!!***December 22nd-January 2nd:  NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break

January 15th: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr Day
January 15th: PRIORITY REGISTRATION begins for the 2024-2025 School Year for current STS Families
January 28th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details coming soon)

Our Week in Photos:

πŸ“Έ Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our WeekπŸ“Έ 


We started the week off celebrating Officer Feeney's Birthday!
It was so fun!
If you happen to see Lieutenant Rocco on Monday, 12/11, please wish him a Happy Birthday as well!
(He's the officer that usually does our 2:30 dismissal carline.)


We loved learning about real Igloos and then making our own paper ones!
Ask your little one what letter igloo starts with and what the igloo blocks are made of!
Hint, hint... they are NOT made of ice!!!


sssshhhh... Don't tell our igloo builders that they were working on their fine motor skills!!!





Thanks for keeping the amazing shirts, outfits and sweet smiles coming in everyday!


Ii is for Instruments!!!


Look who got in on all the fun!


Father Jun even led us on our Marching Band Parade!


We did so well on our Letter I Handwriting!


PreK-3 Dance Parties are Incredible!!!


And immense fun!!





We did so well with our name reindeer!!



We love playtime!


Our Five Day Friends loved making their own Santa!


They did so well writing "HO HO HO" too!!



J is for Jaguar!







Our Five Day Friends did great on our Letter Review too!!


And had so much fun playing house!!



We finished off the week with some playdough fun!




Hope you have a joyous week,
Paula Dobres

Saturday, December 2, 2023

Week of December 4, 2023


πŸŽ„"It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas"πŸŽ„

Weekly Recap:  

We worked so hard learning Letter Ii and decorating our classroom for Christmas with our beautiful masterpieces!!   

A Sneak Peek at Our Upcoming Week: 

We will be PRACTICING, PRACTICING and PRACTICING for our Christmas Show!  We will also be finishing up Letter Ii and starting to learn Letter Jj as well as working on our Name Recognition and continuing to be kind to one another as well as to our world.

πŸŽ„πŸŽ…πŸŒŸCHRISTMASπŸŒŸπŸŽ…πŸŽ„Our PreK Combined 3's and 4's Christmas ShowπŸŽ„is on Friday, December 8th at 9:00am in the Main Gym.  (Snow Date on 12/11) Please read through our Show Reminders that came home through your child's folder.

Gifts of Kindness  Thank you for helping our class gift Baby Jesus with your children's kindness.  They are all very excited to use their kind and caring words and acts to help celebrate the Advent Season.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Finishing Letter Ii and Starting Jj
Numbers of the Months: 4
Colors of the Months:  Blue
Shapes of the Months: Star
December Themes:  Counting 0-4, Sorting, AB Patterns, Christmas, Kindness, Feelings, Winter,      Name Recognition
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Christmas, "Jesus is Born," Nativity, Advent, St Therese Church Tour 

Show & Tell:  NO SHOW and TELL this week due to our Christmas Show 

Dates to Remember:

December 5th (Tuesday): Santa Shop (Optional)- 5 Day Friends will shop with our class.  3 Day Friends are welcome to come into school and shop with a parent.  Our class is going at 9:15.
December 8th 9:00am: πŸŽ„PreK Combined 3's and 4's Christmas ShowπŸŽ„Your child will be dismissed directly to you after the performance.  Preschool will NOT BE in session after the show and Before Care will NOT be available.
December 15th: HSA School Wide Pajama Day to raise money for CHOP
December 21st: 8th Grade Project Graduation Tag Day: πŸŽ…πŸŽ„Wear Christmas ColorsπŸŽ„πŸŽ…
December 21st: NOON Dismissal (No After Care)
December 22nd-29th:  NO SCHOOL - Christmas Break

January 15th: NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr Day
January 15th: PRIORITY REGISTRATION begins for the 2024-2025 School Year for current STS Families
January 28th: STS Catholic Schools Week Begins (details coming soon)

Our Week in Photos:

πŸ“Έ Here's A Little Snap Shot of Our WeekπŸ“Έ 


We started the week off by learning Letter I and some fun Insect Facts!






Then we got to work on our Christmas Stockings!
We traced our names and SEWED!!!


We have some pretty incredible sewing skills!!!



ssssshhhh!!! Don't tell your little seamstress that they were working on their fine motor skills!!






Our Masterpieces are now hanging on our Classroom Fireplace...


Then we GLITTERED!!!!!


And glittered!


And glittered!!!


And glittered some more!!!


Here are our masterpieces, hanging in the Learning Center Hallway Gallery with our Houses and Family Stories that we made last week...


We LOVED making Father Jun a Birthday Card!


And LOVED giving it to him on his BIRTHDAY!!
Happy Birthday Father Jun!!!


Our Five Day Friends loved making a special Heart for Jesus Christmas Ornament after reading a very special Christmas Story Book.



We also worked so hard on our Letter Ii Books!
The teachers were sooooo Impressed!!


Sssshhhh!!!  Don't ask about this SURPRISE!!


We are working on something TOP SECTRET!!!


(But these pictures were way too cute not to include in my blog this week!!)



Our Five Day Friends cooked up soooo much FUN!!!


We loved decorating our Classroom Christmas Tree!!


As well as learning about our special Nativity right next to it.


Our Birthday Gifts of Kindness Box is right next to our tree too!








We wrapped up learning about Fall with a special writing activity that will be coming home at the end of our Seasons Unit... in June!


We kicked our Winter Unit off a bit early but on the same day as our FIRST SUCCASUNNA SNOWFLAKES!!!!


Our Snowy Masterpieces are now on display in our Classroom (Closet Door) Gallery!




We did so well writing the word "Winter" on our tree tags too!!
Skinny markers are so much fun to write with!


i is for iguanas!
We LOVED learning cool iguana facts too!!



Our Afternoon Friends love playing Letter Games on our Learning Board!


We took a Field Trip to the St. Therese Church Nativity with our Five Day Friends.
We will be taking another trip there with our full class this week!!!
And... we have a special SURPRISE planned for them too!!


We continued to work on our patterning skills this week and painted a pattern on a candy cane!!






We started learning our color of the month with some PLAYDOUGH FUN!!!



We especially LOVED our Christmas cookie cutters!







We finished off the week with a GREAT Christmas Show Practice!
Please take note of your little performer's stage position.  This photo shows our stage order for the BIG DAY!!  Please use it as a guide as to where your child will be performing and use it to choose where to sit on Friday.  We had one absent student that will be standing in the gap on the left... (3rd position from the left.)
⭐πŸŽ…πŸŽ„⛄❄πŸ‘Ό

Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday,
Paula Dobres














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