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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Do you believe it is Easter already? I feel like we were just wishing each other Merry Christmas, and now it is time for Easter break!! Even though we only had two and a half days this week, it was packed with Easter fun and discussions of the Religious part of Easter! We read The Story Of Easter and God Gave Us Easter. We talked about each day of Holy Week in simple terms (Holy Thursday-Jesus had last dinner party with his special friends, Good Friday-the day that Jesus died on the cross, wondering why it is called “Good” when Jesus died…my answer “because God gave it a happy ending”, Holy Saturday-the day of waiting for Jesus to rise, and Easter Sunday-the day Jesus came back to life). Our Religion lesson was Chapter 29, “We Celebrate Easter”. We read the story and then did the connect the dots/coloring of Easter symbols. Mrs. Buchheit, one of our Homeroom Moms, came in on Monday, to read us The Easter Story and do a door hanger craft with us. Thank you, Mrs. Buchheit!
We celebrated the “Bunny” part of Easter as well! We did so many Easter dances, especially liking the “Bunny Hokey Pokey”, “Easter Freeze Dance”, and the “Easter Bunny Bop”. We read The Easter Bonnet Parade, Peter Cottontail’s Easter Egg Hunt, The Biggest Easter Basket Ever, and The Night Before Easter. We listened to/watched the read aloud stories of How To Track An Easter Bunny and The Great Eggscape. We discussed how we would be spending our Easter break. The highlight of the short week had to be our Easter Egg Hunt though! We went outside with the rest of Pre-K on the beautiful Tuesday God gave us (thanks God!!!) with our Bunny bags and our Bunny headbands that we made last week, and we were the best egg finders EVER, quickly finding our eggs. When we came inside, we sat in a circle and opened all of our eggs to see what the Easter Bunny hid in them. Thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Buchheit and Mrs. Piselli for helping the Easter Bunny!! We closed out our short week by attending mass, like the big kids that we have become, on Wednesday morning with the rest of the school.
We introduced letter S this week, which we will continue after Easter for that short week as well. We did our paint dot S and our S trace page. We did our Starfall S activity, and our S word chart, and watched our Captian Seasalt and Olive shows. We finished working on Number 5, Shape Diamond, and color Pink. We also continue to work on writing our names. Our Flag song was “Yankee Doodle”. We went to Music and Gym this week.
REMINDERS:
We did not send rest mats home this week since they only used them Monday and Tuesday. They will go home next Friday.
Please remember to update Pickup Patrol DAILY as needed. It needs to reflect your child’s dismissal plans for each day, i.e. Cares, Enrichment, car rider, etc. If you do not update it, it will revert to the default setting. I usually know where your child is going, but if there was ever a substitute for me, she may not know where to send your child.
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 each day (it is often cold at our recess time), and practice putting coats on (The Flip) and taking them off, fixing their sleeves, and zippering.
We are 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.
Have a Happy and Blessed Easter! Enjoy Your Break!
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