January 27-31

Reminder we will be making our Stone Soup on Monday.  If you have not sent in your vegetable yet please remember to do so on Monday.  We will not be eating our soup until Wednesday.  It takes all day to cook in the crock pot.  It will not be a main meal but just a snack.  We will have our regular lunch later that day.

Work Time 

I am so proud of how well the children are working in the classroom.  They have come so far since September. I can't wait to see what they will be like by June.

Pink Tower 

Number Rods 

Knob Cylinders

Community Time

 Hispanic Heritage Celebration

We had full learning about Hispanic culture through music, art , play, and stories.

New Balls

We are having so much fun playing with our new balls outside.  They weather has been so nice this week we have made it outside everyday!!

Valentine Day Sensory bottles help calm us down throughout the day.

Letter of the week 

Due to the amount of absences this week we will be doing the letter "a" again next week.

We spent the week reviewing  the letters "s, m, and a."

This was a tough week with sickness at Holy Child.  We are praying that everyone is recovering and will return happy and healthy on Monday! If you are unsure of what to do if your child is sick please refer to the chart below.

Looking ahead:

2/7 - Parents Visitation Day

2/14 - No School

2/17 - No School - Presidents Day

2/29 - Annual auction 

We are working on our secret project for our annual auction!! Can't wait to see everyone there. Have you gotten your tickets yet? I have my ticket.

https://holychildacademy.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/ANightInPhillyAuction2020/Tickets/tabid/1116777/Default.aspx

Have a great weekend!

January 20-24

It was a "Beary" good week.
The Children have been working "beary" hard!

Letter bags
They did marvelous this week working on the letter "m."  Next week we will be working on the letter "a."  Please try and send in objects that begin with the short "a "sound as in apple. I know that this one can be hard. If you can't find 5 objects that is OK.

Brown Stair

We were introduced to he brown stairs this week. The purpose of the Brown Stair is to enhance the child's ability to discriminate between different sizes of objects. The Brown Stairs focuses on the differences in two dimensions (width and height), as the length of each piece in the set is the same.

Counting Bears

We can count our bears 1,2,3.

Bear Books

We enjoyed reading lots of bear stories this week.  Their favorites were Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You hear?, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

We loved bring our beary friends to school

After reading Bear snores on, we build a cave together.

We made bear hats after reading Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear? 

Visit from first grade

Thank you so much Ms. Menno's first grade for coming to read to our class.  They read Frog and Toad.  I was so impressed at their reading abilities.  Holy Child education at it's best!!!!!! What I love best about our school is it's sense of community and how we take care of each other.

Book Box

We love it when our book box arrives.  So new stories to explore.

Looking ahead:

1/25 - Family fun night 5 PM - 8 PM

1/27 - Last day for Coat drive

1/27 - Iron hill - food + fun =funds night - anytime

2/1 -  Sign-up for  Pre-K Preview Day for 10 AM - 11:30 

2/7 - Parents Visitation Day

2/14 - No School

2/17 - No School - Presidents Day

2/29 - Annual auction 

Have a great weekend!

January 13-17

Letter bags
We are off to a great start with our letter bags!  Thank you moms and dads for helping them with their bags.
Our next letter will be the letter "m" for the week of January 21-24.

Stars

Twinkle, twinkle look at out little stars.  We made stars fizzle. We painted stars.  We have looked at stars in Kaleidoscopes. We had fun exploring stars!

 Snow and Ice 
Well if it's not going to snow outside, let's make it snow inside!  We also had fun exploring with ice this week.  Winter where are you?

 Pink Tower 
This month we will be introducing more of our Montessori materials.  Look at how great they are doing with the pink tower.

 The Snowy Day
After reading The Snowy Day we painted a snowy scene and talked about what we like to do in the snow.  They all want to build a snowman.  Maybe this weekend they can!

Upcoming dates to remember 

No School Monday, January 20th- MLK Day
Wednesday, January 22nd - Bring a stuffed bear day

Please mark your calendars for HCA's 2020 Auction is

"A Night in Philly" on Saturday, February 29th.

Have a great weekend!

January 6-10

Welcome back!

Happy New Year 

I hope everyone had a fantastic break filled with family and friends.

The children were so happy to see one another (and maybe Mrs. Morgan and me)!  I was so happy to see them! I missed them.

I want to thank everyone again for your wonderful gifts and warm wish. They made my Christmas seem brighter.

This week we spent getting back into the swing of things.  We have rearranged our classroom and started working from the shelves independently.

Shape Work
We started our week off with some dot art shape fun. 
Triangle, Circle, and square.

Art

We enjoyed water painting together.

Stars

We had fun making star art.  We put stars on our ceiling to look at while we nap.  We also used  a projector to put stars, planets, and rockets on our walls and ceiling.

  January is national stargazing month.  So we will be be doing several star activities through out the month.  Unfortunately, I can't take them out stargazing at night, so I hope that you will have the opportunity to go out with your child.

Letter of the week

 Monday, January 13 we will be starting our letters.  We will be doing one letter a week. 

Our first letter will be S for stars and snow.  Each week I will be sending a bag home with your child to  fill with objects beginning with the letter.  Please check your child's backpacks for more information.

Jackets 
If the weather permits, we do try and take the children out everyday. Please make sure that your child's mittens and hat have their names on them as well as their jackets.   I see that Santa brought some new ones for our boys and girls.