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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
It was a short, but very busy, fun packed two days in Pre-K 3! We wrapped up our Thanksgiving theme and will be going all in with Advent and Christmas when we meet again next Tuesday! We reviewed A, B, C, and D. We continued working on number 1, shape square, and color Yellow. We discussed Thanksgiving-the First one, why we still celebrate, what our favorite Thanksgiving food is, who is in our family, and what our Thanksgiving plans are. We did all of our Thanksgiving songs and dances, watched “Veggie Tales Thanksgiving”, and read Pete The Cat’s First Thanksgiving . Our Religion Lesson was Chapter 24-Thanksgiving. We did our Scholastic Big World lesson, “A Time For Giving”. We “read” the lesson together, listened to the “Read Aloud”, watched the video “Hooray For Thanksgiving”, did the “Turkeys” Dance Break, and played the “My Thanksgiving Dinner” game on the Smartboard. We had the “BEST DAY EVER” today. First, we went to Mass like the BIG kids that we have become, because, after all, Thanksgiving is about “giving thanks” to God for all that we have! Then we went to Music to practice our songs for our Christmas show (YEP, no down time here!!!). Next, we dressed as Turkeys and met our Pre-K 4 friends in the St. Francis Room for a Thanksgiving feast of: Chicken Nuggets, Cheese sticks, Pirate Booty (corn), cucumber sticks, apples, rolls, and cookies! We “gobbled” all the way down and back! It truly was a wonderful (and busy) day! Thanks to the homeroom moms for organizing the feast and to all who donated their time and our supplies!
I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am thankful for your awesome children you have shared with me! Enjoy this family time, and we will meet back here on Tuesday!!! Get ready for a whirlwind three weeks of Christmas celebration, starting with sending in your child’s ornaments on Tuesday for our class tree!
A few closing thoughts:
I Really need your help with this one! I kid you not when I say that we have had spilled water bottles EVERY DAY for the past two weeks. Many are not “kid” friendly. Some are not sealed right. Some don’t have a close and seal lid. And some I think may be drank out of on the way to school and not closed afterwards. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make sure water bottles are age appropriate and sealed tightly with the correct spout for drinking! Thank you!
Rest mats came home today to be washed over the Thanksgiving break and returned next Tuesday.
Remember to check folders nightly.
Please have your child in school by 8:00. Children arriving after then are held in the foyer and marked late, resulting in them missing prayers, pledges, and announcements.
Please ensure that your child goes to the bathroom at home before coming to school. Too many friends are not making it to our bathroom time. This is especially important now that we go to the gym for Prayers and Announcements at arrival time. The toilets/sinks down there are much bigger and harder to reach.
Remember that if you need to pick up your child early, it needs to be at 11:45, before we get into children’s lunchtime, staff lunchtime, bathroom time, and nap time. Please understand that this is for the safety of your child and so we are not walking the halls at random times while our big friends are learning…not to mention the dreaded taboo of waking sleeping three-year-olds during happy nappy. Thanks for understanding =)
If you could kindly let me know if someone in your house is away (or for any reason you feel may have your child a little “off”), it would be a big help so we can give extra hugs and reassurance!
Please continue to monitor your child’s health/symptoms. We are in the flu and allergy season! We are really working on coughing and sneezing into our “GERM CATCHERS” (elbows). For the health of us all, please keep your child home when they exhibit symptoms or are not feeling well. They don’t yet understand how to cough/sneeze into elbows, blow noses, etc.
Please send your child with a coat now that the weather is getting chillier, and practice putting coats on (The Flip) and taking them off, fixing their sleeves.
We are really working on independence with activities of daily living (shoes, toileting, opening lunch items, cleaning up, packing/unpacking, etc.). Please encourage this at home. Please practice especially opening and closing the Bento boxes! My mottoes are: “If you don’t try, you will never learn” and “I will help you with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING...as long as you TRY first”!!! Hint...they can do WAY more than they let on =)
Just a reminder to send lunch choices that your child likes and can eat independently and relatively “easily”. Please send napkins daily and utensils as needed.
Please save Popcorn for a home snack. Popcorn is not recommended for children under four and can be a choking hazard. Please cut grapes in half for the same reason.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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