Week of Monday, September 30th
Week of Monday, September 30th
Show and Tell: Anything related to Fire Safety
If your child's Show and Tell day is on Wednesday, they may bring it in on either Tuesday or Thursday. Thank you!
Monday:
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: NO SCHOOL (Teacher Professional Development Day)
Thursday: Computers
Friday: Library/ bring in a favorite stuffed animal for the Blessing of the Animals with Father Gerlach.
- Please label all clothing, etc. your child comes in with. Thank you so much!
- No School: 10/2, 10/31 and 11/1. We will have conferences on Thursday, 10/31. I will send out a sign-up genius for conferences this week.
- The permission slip for our field trip to Highland Orchards on Thursday,October 17th will be coming home this week. Please fill out the permission slip and send in the fee as soon as possible. If you'd like to volunteer and have all your clearances, you can indicate that on the form.
- We are asking the children to send in one jar of peanut butter or jelly for the poor. Thank you for your generosity!
-We’re in need of lunch time volunteers Monday-Friday from 12-1pm. Mrs. Franz, the Pre-K 4 aide will be in the classroom with you as well as a lunch helper on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We especially need parent volunteers on Mondays and Fridays because we don’t have a lunch helper from the cafeteria.The sign-up genius link for October is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4ca4ae2baafd0-october
You must have all your clearances to volunteer. Please contact Candy Savarese in the rectory for more information on obtaining your clearances. Her email is csavarese@simonandjude.org
- Tickets for SSJ's Home and School raffles were sent home this week.
Raffle drawings are held on Friday mornings during assembly, and winners are chosen October through May. Please support us!! Any questions? Email Megan DelFra at megandelfra@yahoo.com.
- The children will come home with an envelope this week for SSJ’s annual Walk-a-thon. This year, Walk-a-thon will be held on Friday October 11th at 1 pm. Get ready for an afternoon of exercise and fun! Parents and family are welcome to attend!
-Mark your calendars and show your school spirit! SSJ will participate in the West Chester Halloween Parade on Wednesday, October 23rd! More details to follow!
- SSJ's Trunk or Treat is on Friday, October 25th. The event is from 6-7:30 pm, but cars will enter the parking lot at 5:30 pm. More information to follow, but get those car decorations ready!
- Support SSJ through Giant’s A+ School Rewards Program! Go to the Giant website for more information. https://giantfoodstores.com/school-rewards/. If you already support SSJ, you don’t need to sign up again. Thank you!
- Be a Christmas Angel! This upcoming Advent season, you can make a difference to the less fortunate children in our local area. Our SSJ school and parish communities will once again partner with the Delaware Valley Children’s Charity (dvcconline.org) to assist thousands of area children who would have otherwise gone without. Last year SSJ sponsored 334 children! Please see the newsletter for more information.
Show and Tell: Anything related to Fire Safety
If your child's Show and Tell day is on Wednesday, they may bring it in on either Tuesday or Thursday. Thank you!
Monday:
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: NO SCHOOL (Teacher Professional Development Day)
Thursday: Computers
Friday: Library/ bring in a favorite stuffed animal for the Blessing of the Animals with Father Gerlach.
- Please label all clothing, etc. your child comes in with. Thank you so much!
- No School: 10/2, 10/31 and 11/1. We will have conferences on Thursday, 10/31. I will send out a sign-up genius for conferences this week.
- The permission slip for our field trip to Highland Orchards on Thursday,October 17th will be coming home this week. Please fill out the permission slip and send in the fee as soon as possible. If you'd like to volunteer and have all your clearances, you can indicate that on the form.
- We are asking the children to send in one jar of peanut butter or jelly for the poor. Thank you for your generosity!
-We’re in need of lunch time volunteers Monday-Friday from 12-1pm. Mrs. Franz, the Pre-K 4 aide will be in the classroom with you as well as a lunch helper on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We especially need parent volunteers on Mondays and Fridays because we don’t have a lunch helper from the cafeteria.The sign-up genius link for October is: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4ca4ae2baafd0-october
You must have all your clearances to volunteer. Please contact Candy Savarese in the rectory for more information on obtaining your clearances. Her email is csavarese@simonandjude.org
- Tickets for SSJ's Home and School raffles were sent home this week.
Raffle drawings are held on Friday mornings during assembly, and winners are chosen October through May. Please support us!! Any questions? Email Megan DelFra at megandelfra@yahoo.com.
- The children will come home with an envelope this week for SSJ’s annual Walk-a-thon. This year, Walk-a-thon will be held on Friday October 11th at 1 pm. Get ready for an afternoon of exercise and fun! Parents and family are welcome to attend!
-Mark your calendars and show your school spirit! SSJ will participate in the West Chester Halloween Parade on Wednesday, October 23rd! More details to follow!
- SSJ's Trunk or Treat is on Friday, October 25th. The event is from 6-7:30 pm, but cars will enter the parking lot at 5:30 pm. More information to follow, but get those car decorations ready!
- Support SSJ through Giant’s A+ School Rewards Program! Go to the Giant website for more information. https://giantfoodstores.com/school-rewards/. If you already support SSJ, you don’t need to sign up again. Thank you!
- Be a Christmas Angel! This upcoming Advent season, you can make a difference to the less fortunate children in our local area. Our SSJ school and parish communities will once again partner with the Delaware Valley Children’s Charity (dvcconline.org) to assist thousands of area children who would have otherwise gone without. Last year SSJ sponsored 334 children! Please see the newsletter for more information.
Recap of the Week:
What a beautiful week! This past week we talked all about apples.We read about the life cycle of an apple in our Scholastic weekly reader. We watched a video on apples and learned the song: "Who Took the Apples for the Apple Tree?". The children completed a worksheet where they had to read the number on each apple's leaf and draw that many seeds on the inside. We've been working on one to one correspondence when counting and number recognition.
The children made apple trees from construction paper and toilet paper rolls. They also made their own stained glass apple with colored tissue, construction paper and contact paper. They can be seen hanging in our windows.
In Religion we reviewed the bible story from last week about Jesus calling his special friends (Andrew, James, John and Peter) to be his followers. We talked about how we can be friends of Jesus.
We continued to work on letter recognition and writing our names.
In our "Ready for School" unit we identified letters and their sounds as we read: "Annie, Bea, and Chi Chi Dolores". We also talked about ways we can work together in the classroom.
On Friday we read about Johnny Appleseed and watched a short video on him. We then made applesauce. The children had so much fun using the apple corer/ slicer. We didn't have time to try the applesauce so we'll have it with snack on Monday.
This Coming Week:
This week we'll continue to finish up some apple activities and begin to talk about Fire Safety. The children will glue apples in order from 1 to 10 on top of a picture of themselves to go along with the book: "Ten Apples up on Top". They will build their own apple trees with blocks and green Popsicle sticks. They will try to see how many apples (red pom poms) they can fit on the tree.
We will meet Mat Man this week. We'll read the book: "Mat Man Shapes" and build Mat Man as a class.
In Religion we'll read the bible story: "Jesus Blesses the Children" and talk about ways we can thank God for loving us.
In our "Ready for School" unit we'll read "Friends at School". Before reading we'll make predictions about the story. We will discuss the story words: lid and scoop. We'll introduce position words this week and play a game called "Teddy Says" similar to "Simon Says" to review the words.We will continue to work on number, letter and shape recognition.We'll also practice identifying and writing our names.
Things to work on at home:
- identifying and writing their first name
- Putting on their own jacket and zipping
- letter and number recognition
- Putting on their own jacket and zipping
- letter and number recognition
Important Dates
These Dates are subject to change.
Blessings of Stuffed Animals- 10/4
Firefighters Visit- 10/10
SSJ Walk-A-Thon- Friday, 10/11 1pm
Field Trip to Highland Orchards- 10/17, leave at 9:30am and arrive back at 12:00pm
Halloween Parade- 10/30, 8:30-8:40
Thanksgiving Celebration- 11/26, 10:00-10:30
Pre-K Christmas Play- 12/16
Gingerbread Houses with 8th Grade in the cafeteria- 12/18
Donuts with Dad- 3/19, 8:45- 9:15/9:30
Muffins with Mom- 5/7, 8:45-9:15/9:30
Pre-K Spirit Day- 5/27, 10:00-10:45
Pre-K Beach Day- 6/4, 11:45 Dismissal
Pre-K Closing Ceremony- 6/5, 9:30am
**You must have all your clearances to volunteer. For more information on obtaining the required clearances, please contact Candy Savarese in the Rectory at csavarese@simonandjude.org
**You must have all your clearances to volunteer. For more information on obtaining the required clearances, please contact Candy Savarese in the Rectory at csavarese@simonandjude.org
*Reminder: If your child is absent please email myself at mpmauer@simonandjude.org as well as Mrs. Conlon in the main office at mconlon@simonandjude.org
Thank you!
- If your child's dismissal procedure changes, I must be emailed by 1:00pm. If it's past 1:00pm, please call the main office.
- If your child's dismissal procedure changes, I must be emailed by 1:00pm. If it's past 1:00pm, please call the main office.
- If you need to pick up early, we must have a written note or email.