I can't believe we are in our last week of October! This week we will be our busiest but I know how excited the children and myself are! We will be wrapping up our Community Helpers and all about the Rosary. We will keep working on our Social and Emotional, letters, shapes, and numbers.


This Week;
Social and Emotional: Caring and Helping
Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm
Theme: My community
Shape(s): Triangle
Letter(s): U, V, W
Handwriting Without Tears
Seesaw: Letter(s) U-W
Science: All Pumpkins!
Religion: Rosary
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.

**Important Dates:
10/28-10/29: School Pictures *Envelopes will be sent out
10/29-10/30: Halloween Special Treats

We are already half way through October! This week is another busy week. We will be continuing with our community helpers, rosary, saints, rhyming, letters and numbers. Monday I will be handing out progress reports. There is a lot of information in each folder so please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any questions!

This Week;
Social and Emotional: Accidents
Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm
Theme: My community
Shape(s): Square
Letter(s): P, Q, R, S, T
Handwriting Without Tears
Seesaw: Letter(s) P-T
Science: Dancing Rice
Religion: Rosary
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.

**Important Dates:
10/19: Home Progress Reports
10/21: October birthday celebrations
10/28-10/29: School Pictures *Envelopes will be sent out
10/29-10/30: Halloween Special Treats

     This Wednesday we will be celebrating our October birthdays! Thank you to all the families for the constant help with signing up for snack, birthday treats, and Halloween snack. Also another big thank you for always bringing in cleaning supplies. We are constantly cleaning and we do go through supplies quickly so the support is very grateful.

Blessings to you all,
Mrs. Donavan

     *As a class we made a life size Rosary, it has all of the children's prayers, please take a moment to check it out, it's right by the classroom door! October is moving right along and classroom #9 is extremely busy! This week we will keep working on our social and emotional, our community and community helpers, rosary, handwriting without tears, science and shapes!

This Week;
Social and Emotional: Same or Different Feelings
Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm
Theme: My community
Shape(s): Octagon
Letter(s): K, L, M, N, O
Handwriting Without Tears
Seesaw: Letter(s) K-O, Fire Safety
Science: Hot and Cold Balloons
Religion: Rosary
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.

**Important Dates:
10/12: School Closed *Staff In-service Day
10/19: Home Progress Reports
10/21: October birthday celebrations
10/27-10/29: School Pictures *Envelopes will be sent out
10/29-10/30: Halloween Special Treats

     I do hope everyone enjoys this 3 day weekend and get that recharge! I have put out the Halloween special snack sign up sheet and as always you are ALL amazing! Thank you everyone who signed up, we are all so blessed for you all. You are all allowed to bring treats or surprises for the children's Halloween treat bags, if you have any questions just let me know! Please note there are no costumes allowed on those days, but feel free to have your child wear fun Halloween shirts!
     I am excited to send out home progress reports the following week. There will be a lot of information in each folder and I will send out details of everything that I send home. It is unfortunate we can not meet face to face for THIS time, but I have high hopes spring we will be able to! Please come to me if you ever have concerns or questions, this is a team effort!

Blessings to you all!

Mrs. Donavan

     Welcome to October! We are gearing up for a fully packed but fun month! There is a lot happening this month; our community, community helpers, rosary, rhyming, social and emotional, colors, shapes, and of course letters.

This Week;
Social and Emotional: Identifying Anger
Listening Rules: Eyes are Watching, Ears are Listening, Voices Quiet and Body Calm
Theme: My community
Shape(s): Diamond
Letter(s): F, G, H, I, J
Handwriting Without Tears
Seesaw: Letter(s) F-J
Science: Magic Milk
Religion: Rosary
Prayer: Guardian Angel
Angel of God my guardian dear to whom God's love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen

**Important Dates:
10/2: Blessings of the Animals
10/12: School Closed *Staff In-service Day
10/21: Home Progress Reports
10/27-10/29: School Pictures *Envelopes will be sent out
10/28: October birthday celebrations
10/29-10/30: Halloween Special Treat

     *School photos will be taken by Jay Sousa the end of October with extra safety procedures, you are not obligated to purchase a photo package but we do like to have the photos for our class group photo and the school year book.
     *A friendly reminder of our preschool hours. We are closed promptly at 4:00 pm Monday-Friday. We do understand situations happen that our out of your hands. Please send a courteous phone call or email when you are able to, to let myself or Mrs. Mary know.
     *Halloween will be a special Halloween treat for 10/29 and 10/30. Keep an eye out for a sign up sheet, please note this is purely volunteer! The children will be making their own Halloween trick or treat bags and everyone is allowed to bring a store-bought treat for the class. Costumes are not to be worn at school.
    
     Thank you everyone for the supplies for the classroom and the snacks. You are all so extremely generous when it comes to classroom #9 and I can't say it enough! Please do not hesitate if you have any questions or concerns.

Blessings to All,
Mrs. Donavan