Embedded Files
Friday, November 6, 2026
We had a GREAT week! Our themes this week were Thanksgiving and Names. We also introduced Letter Bb, Shape Square, Color Yellow, and continued working on Number 1.
We are working so hard on our names! They are VERY proud of themselves! We did our name tracing page, used our name cards in our morning greeting (finding them as we sang “Hello” song), made Name Feather Turkeys, and did our Religion lesson Chapter 4, “My Name Is Special”, writing our name and decorating the banner after reading the story. We talked about how moms and dads thought really hard about what to name them, and some of us are even named after people whom moms and dads love very much! Good dinner time discussion to talk about how you arrived at the name you chose for them! The children are getting so good at the “Our Father”, “Hail Mary”, “Glory Be”, “Angel of God”, and our Grace before meals. Please continue this at home!
We are really enjoying our Thanksgiving theme as well. In addition to our Name Feather Turkeys, we made a “Turkey Is A Funny Bird” book and a “Thankful” headband. We are getting so good at singing “Albuquerque Turkey”! We did other Thanksgiving songs and fingerplays, and we danced the “Turkey Pokey” and “Scarecrow”. We did some cutting practice on a Pilgrim paper, too. We did a tracing page with Pilgrims and Native Americans on it, and we traced the entire alphabet that also had a turkey on it! We read two new Thanksgiving books, Spookley - A Family to Be Thankful For and If Animals Gave Thanks. We talked about the first Thanksgiving and what led up to the Pilgrims needing to leave England. The children couldn’t imagine that a not-so-nice king wouldn’t let them go to the church where they wanted to worship God. We also reinforced that Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks to God for our families and everything else we have. We watched “Berenstain Bears Thanksgiving Turkey”, “Franklin’s Thanksgiving”, and “Thanksgiving For Kids”. We will continue with our Thanksgiving and Family themes next week as well.
We learned the letter Bb this week, too! We talked about our B words on our Bb chart. We did our paint dot B, our Ben is A Baker B tracing page, and our B hunt page. We did our interactive B game on Starfall. We listened to/watched our B songs on the Smartboard and read books with B in the title, including B Is For Bulldozer, Beatle Bug’s Party, and Bugs and Beasties. We watched “Captain Seasalt And The ABC Pirates- Buried Treasure On ‘B’ Island” and “Olive And The Rhyme Rescue Crew Letter B”. We continued learning about Number 1. We colored a big 1 and chose one foam number 1 to glue onto it. We are learning about the Square shape as well. We did our Q-tip painting of a square, and did a “Shapes Square” page. We also began the color Yellow by using yellow paint for our Q-tip painting, learning the “Yellow Song”, and coloring a yellow objects page. Our Flag song this week was “Grand Old Flag”. We had our Specials, including Gym, Music, and Spanish. We did not have Library this week, but we read A LOT in our classroom!
Tuesday was a very special day for us. We met our 4th Grade Prayer Partners! We used our time as a getting-to-know-you period. The older kids came down to read books to their new little buddies. Friday was special as well when we attended our first school mass together! Some of our Prayer Partners were part of the Mass, but we still were able to see them. The children were AMAZING in church! We will sit with our Prayer Partners every time we attend First Friday Mass. On Fridays when we go to mass with the lower grades, we will sit as a Pre-K3 class-the BIG kids that we are becoming! It was truly a busy and fun-filled week in Pre-K 3!
Some Closing Reminders:
Please wash and return clean blankets/stuffed guys on Monday.
Remember to check folders nightly.
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.
Each morning, please walk your children all the way down to the door at the other end of the school (referred to as the GYM DOORS), where the teachers now meet them. Mrs. Bauer begins prayers promptly at 8:00. Please have your child in school by then. Children arriving after then are held in the foyer and marked late, resulting in them missing prayers, pledges, and announcements. .
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!
We are really working on independence with activities of daily living (shoes, jackets, 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 =)
Please send forks and spoons in your child’s lunch if they have a food item requiring them.
If your child attends CARES, please send their calendar each month (or trimester as some did). I would appreciate it if you could send me a copy too, to keep in my room.
Please consider signing up to donate to our annual Thanksgiving Food Drive if you have not done so. Our class basket will give a family from St. Ignatius of Loyola Parish in Philadelphia a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner! We are still in need of Instant or Fresh Potatoes (2 available slots), a Disposable Roasting Pan, Tea Bags, and Canned Yams (2 slots). Thank you to all who signed up. Please send donations to our class by Friday, November 20.
Have a Wonderful Weekend!
Page updated
Report abuse