Important Dates:
January 29th-Catholic Schools Week
February 1st-Curriculum Evening- 7:00 pm.
February 2nd-Ground Hog's Day, Kid's Day
February 3-Teacher Appreciation Day  Early Dismissal



Dear Nursery Parents,
     I hope all had a wonderful weekend! We are looking forward to Catholic Schools Week beginning January 29th. This week highlights Catholic School education and how our faith and values generate many of the lessons and extra community activities at SEAS.

     Our Faith Program, Stories of God's Love,  helps us to understand that God made all things good. We will explore the Bible Story, "God Made All Things Good" based on Genesis1:1-25. The students will listen to a brief story of "The Creation".


      Shapes are all around us. This week, we will be introduced to shapes; oval, octagon, and diamond shape. We will locate these shapes in our classroom, hallway, gymnasium and outside our classroom. Our second book is all about shapes. We will dedicate each page to a shape design. This project will take place over a few weeks. Learning about shapes helps our students to organize visual information and identify letters and numbers.
 
      Our winter weather learning has been challenging us over the past few weeks with its' mild days. Even so, we have introduced the season of winter to our Nursery students with a pretend snowball toss, winter stories, Frosty the Snowman lyrics, and Snowman Hokey Pokey. We will have the opportunity to read the text, The Three Little Mittens,and The Mitten Mystery. Our lessons have expanded to Polar Animals and how each animal survives in extremly cold temperatures. Some of the animals we plan to explore are the Polar Bear, Artic Fox, Artic Hare, Artic Wolf,  and the Snow Owl. We have begun to design a Polar animal class mural, showing how animals can protect themselves in the wild. God made these animals "Unique" to the polar region.

      We continue to become familiar with Nursery Rhymes, numbers, and our alphabet. We look forward to a fun week of learning.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Cappiello