Mrs. Dougherty 

WEEKLY NEWS

December 1st through 19th, 2025

The next three weeks are going to fly by with all of our fun Christmas activities. Our theme and letter for all three weeks is "Christmas Celebration" and the letter Cc. It is a busy three weeks with so many fun activities. We will not only be learning about the letter Cc and Christmas, but also about the season of Advent. 

Here are some important dates: 

December Dates to Remember

• November 21st: Green Triangles are due!

• December 3rd: 1:30 pm Dismissal

• December 7th: Breakfast with Santa

• December 9th: Santa Workshop - Please have your child bring in their money to shop.

• December 11th: Preschool Christmas Concert at 10:00 am in the Church.

• December 14th: 10:30 am Family Mass

• December 15th: Grinch Day (If your child attends school on Monday more info will come home regarding this)

• December 17th: Class Christmas Party! I am still looking for a few volunteers for this party and the Valentine's Day Party. Here is the link if you would like to help: St. Linus 4 Year Old Preschool: Mrs. Dougherty's Class Party Sign-Up Reminder: Any parent that volunteers should have already sent in and completed all the mandatory volunteer training. 

• December 18th: Polar Express Day (If your child attends school on Thursdays more info will come home regarding this)

• December 19th: 11:30 am Dismissal 

Week of: November 10th & 17th, 2025

Theme: Turkey Talk

Letter: Tt

For the next two weeks we will be learning all about the letter Tt, Thanksgiving, and Turkeys!

For our art projects we will make a turkey out of the letter T, paint a "Thankful Turkey" at the easel using feathers with things we are thankful for, make Thanksgiving placemats, and a fun turkey headband. During our second week we will start getting our room ready for Christmas by making ornaments for our class tree. This way when we return from Thanksgiving Break our room will be in Christmas mode!

We will also be working on our November Journals, letter Tt Packet, a lot of counting and graphing Thanksgiving items, and printing practice of our names. 

Next Wednesday, November 19th will be our class Thanksgiving Feast. I will host a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Feast with the kids and we will get to watch the movie too. 

Along with learning Thanksgiving songs, we will also continue our phonics lessons each morning at circle time. The kids have been doing great recognizing beginning and ending sounds, as well as rhyming words. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for such a great class. Just a reminder that we are off the entire week of November 24th. 

Week of: November 3rd, 2025

Theme: Leaves are Falling!

Letter: Ll

The last two weeks have been so much fun getting ready for Halloween! We have carved pumpkins, painted ghosts, did some fun science experiments, and learned all about the letters Pp and Hh. We even guessed the number of candy corn in a jar and congratulations to Charli who came closest!

This upcoming week we will start learning about Leaves and enjoy taking walks and looking at all the colors changing on the trees, as well as observe the shapes, sizes, and textures of all the leaves we see. We will work on learning about letter Ll too. 

A few weeks ago, we started our phonics curriculum. Each morning we go over a set of rhyming words, beginning sounds, ending sounds, sentence structure, and breaking compound words apart. The children are doing wonderful and love participating! 

Week of: October 6th & 14th, 2025

Theme: Doctors & Dentists ~ Our Community Helpers

Letter: Dd

Over the next two weeks we will be learning a lot about our Community Helpers and how they help our community.
Reminder, 11:30 am dismissal on 10/9 and no school on 10/10 & 10/13. I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend. 

During our first week we will be enjoy being construction workers in our sensory bin while we move and build sand and colorful rice with our mini construction vehicles. Our art projects will be a dinosaur out of the letter Dd, Firefighter hats, and a fun police car project. During centers we will be busy working on our October journals, letter Dd packet, Religion chapter 5 "The Good Shepherd," and a lot of fun community helper activities. 

We have been lucky to have such nice weather and enjoy the courtyard each day! All of September photos have been added to the Fall Pictures folder, so make sure to take a look!

Week of: September 22nd, 2025

Theme: Apples, Apples, Apples (Week #2)

Letter: Aa

It is homecoming week! Below is a list of each daily theme. 

Monday: PJ Day, plus a movie and popcorn!

Tuesday: Neon Day. In the afternoon we will be going out to the field to watch a staff vs 8th grade softball game. 

Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday. Today we will also play all school BINGO and a fun Trivia game. 

Thrusday: School Spirit Day! In the afternoon we will head to the field to watch the Poms performances and play some games. 

Friday: NO SCHOOL!

Along with all of our homecoming activities we will also finish up our apple theme! This week we will be making more apple art projects, our own apple fun fact book, make homemmade applesauce, and celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday on Thursday. 

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Week of: September15th, 2025

Theme: Apples, Apples, Apples (Week #1)

Letter: Aa

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This week we will start our two-week Apple Unit! It is such a fun theme and a great way to start our Fall Season. If each child could bring in one apple this week to help with all of our apple activities we will be doing, it would be greatly appreciated. 

A few activities we will be doing this week: 

• Apple Songs

• Letter Aa packet

• Alligator Art Project out of the letter A

• Apple Tasting

• Apple Fingerprints

• Making apple trees out of cardboard tubes, popsicle sticks, and pom poms. 

• September Journals

• Apple Science Experiment!

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Week of: September 8th, 2025

Theme: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?

Letter: Bb

Last week the children did a wonderful job with our first letter packet! You will see a half sheet of paper attached to the letter packet. At the end of the week I ask each student individually if they can name the letter, the sound, and give me a word that begins with our letter. Please do not worry if your child is unable to do all three. This is a just a quick informal evaluation to let me know how they are doing. Also, if your child does not attend 5 full days of preschool, the packet may not be finished, especially in the beginning of the year. They are welcome to finish it at home, but they do not have to return it to school.

This week is all about the letter Bb! We will be reading, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and acting it out with puppets throughout the week. We will work on our letter Bb packet, chapter 2 in Religion, lots of activities with colors too. For our art projects, the students will be making a Bee for our alphabet project and a fun brown bear craft with paint and a fork! 

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Week of: September 5th, 2025

Theme: Meeting & Making New Friends

Letter: Mm

We had so much fun last week and are already getting into our daily routine. The children are doing wonderful listening and following directions and I can tell it is going to be a great year! 

Happy Birthday (Sept. 1st) to Jaxon and Lucy!

This week we will be doing a lot of fun things and starting our first letter of the week! Here's a look at some things we will be doing:

• Paint with marshmallows

• Letter M, Mouse, Art Project

• Making Muffins

• M & M Graphing and sorting

• Monster Craft

• Ch. 1 in Religion "Jesus' Special Friends"

• Letter Mm Packet

• Make Monkey Puppets

• Start our September Journals

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Week of: August 25th, 2025

Theme: Back to School

Letter: Will start our first letter next week. 

This week we will be spending a lot of time getting to know our friends, classroom routines, and all of the fun things we do in our classroom. Throughout the week we will be learning about our new classroom jobs, presenting our show n' tell bags, read "Classroom Jitters" and make our own Jitter Juice, create some fun art projects, and so much more! I have a lot of games to play at circle time to help us get to know each other better too. 

Specials will start this week! Please remember if your child attends school on Friday, to please make sure they are in gym shoes for P.E. class with Mr. Dillon.