Ms. Kondracki - Teacher

 Mrs. Bielak, Mrs. Noonkester & Mrs. Loveday -  Assistants

 

"Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give them is unconditional love.  Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children."

- Rosaleen Dickson-

 

 

 

Catholic Schools Week

January 31st - February 5th

We celebrate our Catholic School!

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

         

             

                

  • O is for octopus and "O's."  Preschool 3 students used paper circles and purple finger paint to make an octopus.  Preschool 4 students applied Cheerios to their letter O.  Both projects were outstanding.

Dinosaurs and Space Exploration 

 

  • This month, Preschool 4 students have blasted off into space for some exploration about the solar system.  Preschool 3 students have gone back in time to investigate the dinosaurs.  Both classes are having a lot of fun learning different facts about each subject and doing some hands on activities.

 

 

 

  • This week, Preschool 4 students listened to a story called "Martian Rock."  The book was filled with many different looking Martians.  Preschoolers were invited to use their imagination to draw a Martian of their own, name it and tell about it.  Students answered questions about what the Martian eats, what it does for fun and how old it is.  What an imaginative group!

 

  • Preschool 4 students are also working on a diagram of the solar system, having completed planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter so far.  Each day, the students learn the important facts about the planets. 

 

 

 

  • Preschool 4 students learned about stars and constellations this week.  We learned that people gazed at the stars for so long that they began to see pictures made out of stars.  Then they told stories about the pictures they saw.  Students used star stickers and black paper to make their own constellations!

  • We learned that dinosaur babies hatched from eggs.  We got our own eggs to open up.  They were filled with play dough and when we dug through it, we each found a baby dinosaur!

Preschool 3 students learned that no one has actually seen a real live dinosaur because they lived such a long time ago.  However, scientists are able to find out about dinosaurs from footprints, fossils and dinosaur bones.  Scientists put together the dinosaur bones how they thought they were meant to be.  We put together different shaped pasta noodles on a paper dinosaur to look like dinosaur bones.  What fun!

 

 

  • Preschool 3 students learned about the Stegosaurus dinosaur and made one of their own, using brown paint and foil triangles for the spikes.  Stegosaurus used those spikes to defend itself from hungry dinosaurs who wanted to eat him.

 

  • In Religion class this week, Preschool 3 students learned that God made everything and He thought it was good.  But when God made people, He thought it was VERY GOOD.  We are God's favorite thing.  God loves all of us.  We are all special to God.  We drew a picture of a face that was meant to look just like us.

  • Preschool 4 students learned about the Holy Family this week.  Jesus had a mother and a father, just like us.  Jesus worked with His family, prayed with His family, ate with His family and played with His family.  We thanked God for the Holy Family and for our own families.

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  • Reaching out to Haiti with our hands and our hearts!

  • Preschool classes, along with the rest of the students at St. Philip School, are remembering the people of Haiti during their time of suffering.  We pray for them each morning and we collected money to give at Mass for the people of Haiti.  We have a bulletin board with cut outs of hearts and hands.  Each has a child's prayer for the Haitian people.

  • January 31st - February 5th...Catholic Schools Week!!!

  • February 3rd - Open House & Curriculum Fair

  • February 5th - Faculty Retreat - NO SCHOOL

  • February 11th - Pre-K 4 A.M. & Pre-K 3 Valentine Party

  • February 12th - Pre-K 4 P.M. Valentine Party

  • February 15th - Presidents' Day - NO SCHOOL

  • February 17th - Ash Wednesday - Lent Begins

 

Because of student allergies, if you are bringing in homemade birthday treats, please be so kind as to provide an ingredient list or save the nutritional information from the side of a box mix.  Thanks your help!

 

 

Snack Calendars 

Preschool 4(4 day)

Preschool 4(3day)

 

 

Preschool 3

 

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