Welcome back! I do hope everyone has had a much needed break and ready to get back into gear Monday. There is only one more week of February and crazy as it seems we will be in March. We will be going over this week for review about germs, washing hands, and our space bubbles to keep ourselves and our friends safe. This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 19 "Fair Ways To Play" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Square Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee Science Thursday: Butterfly Experiment Handwriting Without Tears: Nn, Jj Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: Lent Prayer: Hail Mary Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of death. Glory Be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. **Important Dates: 2/12: See's Candy Fundraiser 2/15-2/19: Winter Vacation PRESCHOOL CLOSED 2/22: Preschool Resumes 2/24: February Birthday Celebration There is a lot happening in these next two weeks! We started our OLM Preschool See's Candy Fundraiser, this will all be online and will be shipped directly to you. Information has been sent to personal emails but please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Parent/Teacher Conference will begin in March, sign up slots are now outside on the family information table, please let me know if a time doesn't work and we will make something work, all conferences will be 20 minutes along and we will be going over assessments, kindergarten requirements and so forth. We also have our OLM auction right around the corner, all items that were signed up for we are needing by March 1st. The family cookbook has been completed and it's truly a keepsake! I am so excited for our class auction item and can't wait to share with everyone. I have missed everyone greatly and am so excited to see everyone Monday! Blessings to all, Mrs. Donavan
0 Comments
Catholic School Week was such a fun week! I hope all of you enjoyed the projects that were sent home, the children worked hard on all of their projects, and truly we are so blessed for our families choosing Our Lady of Mercy Preschool. This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 18 "Managing Waiting" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Star Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Xx, Yy, Zz Science Thursday: Handwriting Without Tears: Jj Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: Saint Valentine Prayer: Angel of God Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits thee here. Ever this day, be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide. **Important Dates: 2/1-2/5: Catholic School Week 2/11: Valentine Party 2/15-2/19: Winter Vacation PRESCHOOL CLOSED 2/24: February Birthday Celebration This week is all about Saint Valentine. Our Valentine party will be this Thursday, please feel free to bring any items you have signed up as soon as you like. I will be sending out emails this weekend about the our school auction, we are asking that all items be turned in by March 1st, however family recipes need to be turned in as soon as possible so we could make our class family cook book. There is a lot happening this month so please do not hesitate to contact me when needed. As always thank you all so much for the continuous support. Many Blessings, Mrs. Donavan Suddenly we are in the month of February! January was a fully packed month and the children learned so much and had a blast doing it! I am excited to see what February has in store! Our first week we will be having fun with Catholic School Week. We are all so very blessed to be working at OLM and to be with your children and families every single day, please know how grateful we all are for all of you! This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 17 "Managing Anger" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Heart Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww Science Thursday: Color Changing Flowers Handwriting Without Tears: G Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: Catholic School Week Prayer: Angel of God Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits thee here. Ever this day, be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide. We have a lot of important dates that is coming up this month, I will send out reminders as the month progresses but please don't hesitate if you have any questions. I will also be sending out information soon about our huge event of the year, our Auction! Please be on the look out for that email that will be coming out soon with all the details. As always thank you for each and everyone one of you! Blessings to you all, Mrs. Donavan **Important Dates: 2/1-2/5: Catholic School Week 2/11: Valentine Party 2/15-2/19: Winter Vacation PRESCHOOL CLOSED 2/24: February Birthday Celebration We are in our last week of January! We will finish this week reviewing about Martin Luther King Jr., the two greatest commandments to love God and to love others, as well as letters; upper case and lower case, shapes and numbers. This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 16 "Managing Disappointment" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Rectangle Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss Science Thursday: Rain Clouds Handwriting Without Tears: C Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: 2 Greatest Commandments: We love God with our whole heart and we love others. Prayer: Angel of God Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits thee here. Ever this day, be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide. **Important Dates: 1/18: Preschool Closed for Martin Luther King The children have been working extremely hard on everything we have been going over in the classroom and I couldn't be more prouder of all of them! Every day is an adventure in room #9 and I am so blessed for you all! My door is always opened for any reason or you can always email at donavan.garrison@olmlancers.com Blessings to all, Mrs. Donavan What a wonderful week we all had in room #9! Not only was there so much learning we had beautiful weather that we all enjoyed! This week will be a shorter week but there is still so much we will be working on. This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 15 "Naming Feelings" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Square Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn Science Thursday: Outside and Inside Handwriting Without Tears: Q Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: 2 Greatest Commandments: We love God with our whole heart and we love others. Prayer: Angel of God Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits thee here. Ever this day, be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide. **Important Dates: 1/18: Preschool Closed for Martin Luther King The children worked hard learning about Martin Luther King and the 2 Greatest Commandments; to love others and to love God. We will continue with both for the rest of the month. Please take the time to check out your child's seesaw activity, I update everyday on what they are doing during the day and they are also working on a couple activities for review. We are already half way through January and I know time is just going to keep going faster so I am trying to soak up all this time! As always than you to everyone. Blessings to you all! Mrs. Donavan The children are back in full swing in room 9! I honestly believe we are ALL glad to be back in the classroom and back to our routine! As a class this week, we went over our routine, class rules, going over how to keep us safe from germs and also jumping right back into our curriculum! This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 14 "Strong Feelings" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Diamond Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj Handwriting Without Tears: S Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: 2 Greatest Commandments: We love God with our whole heart and we love others. Prayer: Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. **Important Dates: 1/18: Preschool Closed for Martin Luther King I wanted to send out a huge thank you for all the new supplies for the children and the classroom, as well as for the extra clothes. Thank you for truly blessing this classroom each and everyday. We are definitely back into gear in room #9 and can't wait to see what January brings. Please do not hesitate if you have any questions or concerns. Blessings to All, Mrs. Donavan Welcome back to all the OLM families! I do hope everyone had not only an amazing holiday but lots and lots of needed rest. We will go over as a class; review of our classroom rules and routines, and go over how to keep ourselves safe from germs. We will also continue with Letter(s); upper case and lower case, Social and Emotional, Shape(s) and Number(s) and learning about the 2 Greatest Commandments. This Week; Social and Emotional: Week 13 "We Feel Feelings in Our Bodies" Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Shape(s): Rectangle Letter(s): Upper and Lower Case Letter(s): Aa Handwriting Without Tears: U Seesaw: Upper and Lower Case Letter(s) Religion: 2 Greatest Commandments: We love God with our whole heart and we love others. Prayer: Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. **Important Dates: 1/4: School Resumes 1/18: Preschool Closed for Martin Luther King I can't wait to see everyone on Monday and get right back on our routine. Thank you to all my families for the kind words, the beautiful gifts and all in all the continuous of support for our classroom. I am excited for the new year and eager to see what it has to offer! Please do not hesitate to reach out if you are ever in need or have any questions! Blessings to all, Mrs. Donavan This is our final week of December and truly I can NOT believe it! This year has been nothing but easy but being able to be in the classroom with all the children every day since August is the greatest blessing I could have ever received. We will wrap this last week of December with lighting our pink candle on our Advent, working on all about the Nativity scene, reviewing letters, reviewing shapes, and of course lots of singing Christmas songs! This Week; Social and Emotional: Review Week Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Theme: Advent and Nativity Shape(s): Star Letter(s): Review Handwriting Without Tears Seesaw: Review Religion: Advent and Nativity Prayer: Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. **Important Dates: 12/16: Preschool Pajama Day! 12/18: Preschool closes promptly at 12:30 pm 12/18: Christmas Celebration *Sign-ups will be out this week! 12/21-1/3: Christmas Vacation 1/4: School Resumes We started our toy drive and already have so many gifts to give to children who are in need! The children have been talking in class how giving is one of the most true meaning of Christmas! Room #9 families please know how amazing you all are! There is always a constant and I mean CONSTANT support to this classroom and I just can't thank you all enough. Thank you for the class snacks, the cleaning supplies, supporting our toy drive and all around just everything you all do for our classroom to keep working smoothly. On Wednesday we will be having Pajama Day for the teachers and students, please know this is not mandatory but to just have fun. On Friday we close promptly at 12:30 and we will return on 1/4/21. Please never hesitate to reach out if there are any questions, concerns or if you are in need of anything! Blessings to everyone! Mrs. Donavan Our first week of December went amazing! The children really enjoyed learning all about Saint Nick and even able to hear his bells at our classroom door! Please take a moment to look at Seesaw for photos and a small video! This week will be just as busy focusing on; Advent, St. Juan Diego and preparing for Christmas. We will also be concentrating on Social and Emotional, working on letter(s), cutting skills and Handwriting without tears. This Week; Social and Emotional: Review Week Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Theme: Advent and Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Juan Diego Shape(s): Diamond Letter(s): Review Handwriting Without Tears Seesaw: Review Religion: Advent Prayer: Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. **Important Dates: 12/8:Preschool closes promptly at 12:30 pm 12/18: Christmas Celebration *Sign-ups will be out this week! 12/21-1/3: Christmas Vacation 1/4: School Resumes Everyone should have received an email for Scholastic Book Club recently, all orders will be shipped to your home and free shipping is offered on orders OVER $25.00. This week I will be going over your child's extra clothes and sending out notes for what your child will need for the upcoming cold weather. We only have 2 more weeks and these weeks are going to go extremely fast! Please do not hesitate to reach out if you are in need of anything or questions! Blessings to you all! Mrs. Donavan Welcome back to all OLM families! I do hope everyone had an amazing holiday and got much needed rest. Tomorrow we are back at it! We will be focusing for December, all about Advent, Saint Nick, Social and Emotional, review for our ABC's, colors and shapes. We will also continue working on our fine motors, cutting skills and practice writing our first names.
This Week; Social and Emotional: Review Week Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm Theme: Advent and Saint Nick Shape(s): Circle Letter(s): Review Handwriting Without Tears Seesaw: Review Religion: Thankful for others Prayer: Lord's Prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. **Important Dates: 11/29: First Sunday of Advent 11/30: School Resumes I am so excited to see everyone tomorrow and can't wait to get December started! December is going to be a quick and busy month, please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Blessings to all, Mrs. Donavan |
AuthorMrs. Donavan Archives
December 2021
Categories |