Terrific T-Th Gang

Magnificent M-W-F Kids

Gosh, they are cute! I thought it was time for some class pictures. Hope you like them. (You all know how challenging it can be to get 3's and 4's to be in sync for a picture but I think we did very well.)

This week we have school for two days. I am sure that it will be very lively as the excitement is building all the time. We will basically be continuing the same things as last week and our theme is still Advent/Christmas. We will have a party on Monday with our 6th grade buddies at 9:30 am. On Tuesday we will have a party in our classroom at 1:30. Parents are welcome to come to the Tuesday party.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas. Thank you so much for sharing your children with me! They are precious gifts.

Week of 12/12 - 12/15/11

Our theme this week is Advent/Christmas. We will make gifts for our parents and a class Christmas tree, sort red and green items in green sand, decorate for Christmas, pretend to build toys in a workshop, review our letters, learn about the shepherd's visit to baby Jesus, learn about the legend of the candy cane, and sing Christmas songs.

We are still collecting cranberry sauce through Dec. 14. Thank you for your generosity!

This year we will have two Christmas parties. On Monday, December 19, we will have a party with our 6th grade buddies where we will make sugar cone Christmas trees and have fellowship and play time together. On Tuesday, December 20, we will have a party at 1:30 pm. We will make a small craft and a special Christmas treat to eat. Parents are welcome to come to the Tuesday party, however, the Monday party will be too crowded for extra guests as we will have a large group of 6th graders in our room with us. I hope that this will help every preschooler to feel included, regardless of which days you attend school. In the past we have had only one party and sometimes it was hard for parents to get their children to school when it was not their regular day to come. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Week of 12/5 - 12/9/11

Our theme this week is Castles and Fairy Tales. We will make castle paintings, experiment with the gear set, search for the queen's jewels in sand, have tea in our pretend castle, listen to some classic fairy tale stories, learn about the letter Q, and learn that Jesus was the most special baby ever born.

SPX is collecting food for the Christian Ministers Alliance. Preschoolers are asked to donate cranberry sauce.

Welcome to our new student, Gabrielle! She will be coming on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Week of 11/28 - 12/2/11

Yes, I am blogging early this week in preparation for the holiday weekend! Next week we will be learning about Weather/Seasons. We will make a Weather Through the Seasons Book, make raindrops with eye droppers, play with a "rain storm" in the sensory table, search for numerals 0-5, learn about clouds and storms, learn about the letter O, and begin learning about Advent.

Thursday, December 1 - Wear your favorite college colors if you turned in box tops for the Bedlam Battle.
December 7 -14 - SPX will be collecting food for the Christian Ministers Alliance. Preschoolers are asked to donate cranberry sauce.

If you use up any wrapping paper this Christmas season and would like to donate the long paper tube, I would love to have it!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week in Preschool we will make turkey handprints, pretend to make pumpkin pies and muffins, examine different types of feathers, play with brick blocks, learn about the first Thanksgiving and current traditions, and discover that we give thanks for God for all of our blessings.

Thanksgiving Break - No School November 23 - 25

Mrs. Lisa Bierig is now our teacher's aide on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. Miss Katie Liotta will be our other teacher's aide through December, and she will work Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoons, and all day Tuesday and Friday. The kids and I are so excited to have them both in our room!

Thank you for the donations of copy paper for our school.

As you can see, Fire Safety Week was a big hit! We now move on to another fun theme, PETS, for the week of 11/14 - 11/18/11. We will make fish bowl pictures in Art, learn about the care and feeding of pets, share pictures of our own pets, build dog houses in Blocks, play with birdseed in the Sensory Table, pretend to work at a pet hospital in Dramatic Play, sort animals by habitat, and learn about the letter C. In Religion we will learn about caring for ourselves, God's most special creation.

Tuesday, Nov. 15 - Picture Retakes
Thanksgiving Break - Nov. 23 -25 -No School

If you would like to send a picture of your family's pet(s), we would love to see it!
Please help your child decorate the turkey feather that will be sent home on Monday and Tuesday.

Wearing our Saint crowns

Scenes from the Pumpkin Patch

Sorry for the late blog post. I was having some technical difficulties getting pictures downloaded. Luckily tech support was able to help (aka Mr. Newton!)

This week, November 7 - 11, we will be learning about Fire Safety. We will be making fire trucks in Art, playing with Rescue Heroes in Blocks, playing with emergency vehicles in sand in the Sensory Table, and pretending to be fire fighters in Dramatic Play. At group time this week, we will learn some basics about fire safety like Stop, Drop, and Roll, staying away from hot things, what fire fighters wear and why, and that fire needs air to burn. We will learn about the letter U and continue our writing practice in our notebooks. In Religion we will learn that God made people special.

Monday and Tuesday are vision screening days. Wednesday is Pizza Day so please send money for your child if you have not already done so. Next Tuesday (11/15) is Picture Retakes.

We have two new students on Monday-Wednesday-Friday, Tony Scardino and Jamison Edge. We are so excited to have them!