November 20th

Dear Parents and Friends,
We have two new students in our Pre-K classroom! We have focused each day on special ways to welcome them both into our Pre-K family! The beautiful twin girls, Raylen and Ramiyah, have made friends very quickly and seem to be enjoying their new school! Their birthday is coming up soon too, it is December 3rd. J We will have another friend, Gracie, joining us in January and are very excited about that as well. We will then have a full pre-k class with a total of eighteen students.
Our letter of the week was Ll. A big thank you to Avery Laux for bringing Long pretzel sticks. What a creative idea! They were very yummy too. A few of our activities this week had to do with lions. We made a lion book and lion masks were made during open doors with the Kindergarten class. I brought in
“Lion-ade” today as a drink during snack time and the children loved it!
In Enrichment this week, Mrs. Powroznik read about our five senses. We had several materials that we were able to use our senses to smell, touch, hear, see, or taste. Mrs. Powroznik is allowing us to keep her books in our room for the next week! YIPPIE!
I borrowed the Arthur and D.W. stuffed animal friends from our school library for the week. A lot of our story time books this week have been Arthur books. We read, “Arthur’s Thanksgiving,” “Arthur’s Nose,” “Arthur’s Pet Shop,” and many more!
As a class/team, we created a “Kindness Tree.” The children came up with all sorts of ways to be kind to one another and all of God’s creation. They are posted on the tree outside of our classroom. J
Today the 1st grade class had an ABC Thanksgiving play and they invited our class to come and watch it. The 1st grade did a fabulous job and our class was a very respectful audience. SPECIAL PERSON’S DAY!
Next Wednesday, November 25th each child is to invite one special person to join them during mass at 8:45am. Mass will be followed by treats and time to visit in the gym here at St. Joan of Arc. My student’s special friends are welcome to join us at the beginning of the day in our Pre-K classroom. We will then walk together to the church for mass. After enjoying some treats and visiting, your child is welcome to leave with their special friend or be picked up by their Mom or Dad at that time. School dismissal is at 1pm and there will be a movie for those students that are here until 1pm dismissal.
**Please let me know if you have any questions.

HAVE A RELAXING WEEKEND!

Thanks,
Mrs. Stephanie Dinwiddie