March 27 & 29

Hello,

This week is Holy Week.  We will reiterate the three Lenten concepts that I mentioned in my last message.  

Just a few reminders before our Easter break:

• If you return your 4K registration this week, you will secure the lowest tuition rate.  (March 29 is the last school day for this.  The actual date is Sat., March 31.)

• No School on Tuesday, April 3.  I hope you all have a wonderful Easter with your families!

Looking Ahead

April 9 - Opportunity to take the Green Bay Diocese VIRTUS training course in Greenleaf.  If you plan on continuing your child's education at St. Clare, this class is required for those who wish to volunteer in school or chaperone field trips in the future.  You only need to take the class once.  Contact the parish office for details (863-2550).

May 4 - SAVE THE DATE!  St. Clare's $10,000 Raffle at the Swan Club in De Pere

May 24 - SAVE THE DATE!  Spring Concert & Fine Arts Show  
Similar to the Christmas concert, there will be performances at 1:00 and 6:00.  Again, 3K is invited to sing songs with 4K.  In April or May I will send home a sign up sheet and you can let me know if your child will be participating either of these performances.   

May 31 - Last day of school for 3K

*St. Clare School is always collecting Box Tops.  Send them to school anytime!

March 20 & 22

Hello Parents,

The students certainly enjoyed the "gifts" left behind by leprechaun visitors last week.  Thank you for the green jello treat to our parent snack volunteer!

This week we move on to letter T.  Please remember to send gym shoes on Tuesday. 

With two weeks of Lent remaining, I wanted to let you know that as part of our religion class in 3K we learn three main things about this time of the year:

• Jesus died on a cross which is why we see so many crosses in our lives.
• Jesus rose and lived again on Earth! (And then went to Heaven.)
• Easter is the day that we celebrate the biggest miracle of all...Jesus lived again!

For your planning, please note that our last day of 3K will be on Thursday, May 31.  The next day of school for 3K would have been Tuesday, June 5.  However, as it turns out this year, June 5 will be the day that St. Clare School will be going to Bay Beach.  You are certainly welcome to bring your children and meet up with the St. Clare group if you'd like!

Looking Ahead

March 23 - Book orders due (please order online)

March 31 - Registration deadline for securing lowest tuition rate

May 4 - SAVE THE DATE!  St. Clare's $10,000 Raffle at the Swan Club in De Pere

May 24 - SAVE THE DATE!  Spring Concert & Fine Arts Show  
Similar to the Christmas concert, there will be performances at 1:00 and 6:00.  Again, 3K is invited to sing songs with 4K.  In April or May I will send home a sign up sheet and you can let me know if your child will be participating either of these performances.   

May 31 - Last day of school for 3K

*St. Clare School is always collecting Box Tops.  Send them to school anytime!

March 13 & 15

 

Hello Parents, 

Just a couple of notes for this week-

With last week being a short week for us, we will continue with the letter S this week.  

On Thursday we will learn about and celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  Dress in green!  :)

Looking Ahead

March 23 - Book orders due (please order online)

March 31 - Registration deadline for securing lowest tuition rate

May 4 - SAVE THE DATE!  St. Clare's $10,000 Raffle

May 24 - SAVE THE DATE!  Spring Concert & Fine Arts Show  
Similar to the Christmas concert, there will be performances at 1:00 and 6:00.  Again, 3K is invited to sing songs with 4K.  In April or May I will send home a sign up sheet and you can let me know if your child will be participating either of these performances.   

*St. Clare School is always collecting Box Tops.  Send them to school anytime!

March 6 & 8

  

Hello Parents,

Each school day we gather for a morning meeting.  In the past (this year and other years) students have walked in and begun play time immediately, followed by a morning meeting.  This was simply the most convenient since students were entering our classroom over staggered period of time...sometimes stretching out to as much as a half hour.  Going forward, we are changing our routine to meet and talk about character education, making good choices, etc. before play time.  We started this last week and already see many good things! 

Just to be clear, I am not initiating this because of anything your children are or are not doing.  I simply feel it is best practice for any group of children coming together in a social setting.  

In order for this to take place in the most effective manner, we are requesting your help...please try your best to drop off your children between 7:45 and 8:00.   You may see older students coming in earlier because they often have appointments with their teachers.  Thank you for your understanding. At 8:00, we'll start our morning meeting.

As stated, we started our new morning routine last week and our letter for the week was R.  Before play time, we talked about what the word "respect" means.  We read a book about respect written for young children and I emphasized three "special words."

1. please
2. thank you
3. excuse me

The children are already using these words more in the classroom, especially "excuse me."  We look forward to many more morning meetings BEFORE play time so that we can continue to build on these.

Another activity we did last week (during center time) was play a giant faith-based version of the game, "Memory."  They had to walk around the cards to turn them over.  They certainly enjoyed this!   I played with each group and we added two more cards each round.  You might want to play other versions of memory at home.  I updated our 3K photos where you'll see some of the kids playing this.  See the link to the left. 

We also played a ring toss game in the gym.  I rarely get photos of our gym games...I'm usually running around with them.  (I'm always way more winded than them!)  

We also learned a song in which the first line is, "Oh, it's raining cats and dogs, pitter patter, pitter patter."  They really enjoyed doing actions to this song. 

I can't believe we're on the letter S already!  Spring is right around the corner...or so we hope!!!

Just a heads up...On May 24, St. Clare will have its Spring Concert & Fine Arts Show.  Similar to the Christmas concert, there will be performances at 1:00 and 6:00.  Again, 3K is invited to sing songs with 4K.  In April or May I will send home a sign up sheet and you can let me know if your child will be participating either of these performances.     

Looking Ahead

March 23 - Book orders due (please order online)

March 31 - Registration deadline for securing lowest tuition rate

May 4 - SAVE THE DATE!  St. Clare's $10,000 Raffle

May 24 - SAVE THE DATE!  Spring Concert & Fine Arts Show

*St. Clare School is always collecting Box Tops.  Send them to school anytime!