This week we made stone soup ! We read the story Stone Soup. In the story, villagers learn that when everyone shares just a little, they can create something wonderful together. Ms. Alysia helped the children recreate stone soup.She got ground turkey,potatoes,veggies and many spices to make the soup tasty.The children assisted in cutting the potatoes,carrots,and celery.
We also had a few parent volunteers stop by and read stories and help with Thanksgiving arts and crafts !
Thank you to all the families who helped make our Stone Soup day such a success! Happy Thanksgiving PCS we are so blessed to be a part of of this beautiful community 🧡🧡
1 Chronicles 16:34
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His steadfast love endures forever.”
Stone Soup is a long-standing Thanksgiving tradition at PCS. It reminds us that when everyone contributes a little, we can make something special as a community.
Each of our friends brought a vegetable to share and enjoyed the hands-on experience of chopping and preparing the ingredients for our soup.
Once the soup was finished, we sat together and enjoyed our meal—several friends even asked for seconds! We are so grateful for everyone coming together and helping create such wonderful memories. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Our Room 4 friends loved making stone soup together! Inspired by our story: Fox Tale Soup, they safely helped chop up some vegetables, which we enjoyed later for our yummy soup lunch! Along with it, we had pumpkin and apple pie, fruit, and bread rolls.
A big thank you to our families for your generosity and helping hands. We are so grateful, have a Happy Thanksgiving!
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.” – Psalm 107:1
Stone soup is a classic folk story that teaches the value of cooperation and generosity. In the story, a hungry traveler arrives at a village, and seeing that everyone is hesitant to share their food, he cleverly boils a simple stone in a pot of water, claiming it’s a delicious stone soup. Curious villagers contribute ingredients to enhance the soup, and together, they create a hearty meal. The story highlights how individual contributions, no matter how small, can come together to benefit the whole community. It’s a wonderful way to illustrate the importance of teamwork, sharing, and the idea that everyone’s participation can make something special.
The children in Room 3 all brought an ingredient and saw the bounty grow on our stone soup. We enjoyed eating it all up these past 2 days. A huge thank you to all the parents that came in to help the children cut veggies and make the soup.
We had a wonderful time celebrating our annual Stone Soup Days! Thank you to all our families for providing ingredients, sides, and treats—your generosity made our celebration so special.
We’re excited to share that Room 2 won “Best Soup” in our preschool’s soup contest!
A special thank you to Ari’s dad and Mariah’s mom for volunteering, reading to our class, and helping cook and serve our soup. We are so grateful.
Along with our celebration, the children enjoyed playing together in the big field and yard, adding even more fun to our days.
We had a wonderful time together. Wishing all our families a blessed Thanksgiving!
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:18
As we approach the Christmas season, consider giving the gift of books. They make fantastic presents, whether you’re adding to your child’s personal library or sharing with others. A book is a gift that keeps on giving.
When you shop through our Clubs, you also support our school, as your orders earn points that can be redeemed for books and other classroom supplies for the preschool.
Here’s how it works: We’ll send home flyers like these throughout the year (either physically or digitally). If you choose to place an order, you can do so via our preschool ordering page. Your books will arrive at school about 10 days after I submit our preschool order.
By working together with Scholastic, we’ll help your child develop a love of books, nurture early literacy and pre-reading skills—and build a classroom library that all our students are excited to explore!
We’ve been all over the place this week: outside soaking up the sun on Ms. Gwen’s and Ms. Liah’s patio; running around on the big field; and visiting our campus library for the very first time!
Here we have a small group activity where our students practice drawing ovals, circles, and lines, and predominantly ovals. They were asked probing questions like: what shape is an oval? (General answers from students: “A long circle!” or “A football!”). Ms. Alyisa ran this activity and had fun drawing her own pictures to inspire the kids. (See sun with sunglasses for reference.) Much fruitful thought and conversation was had!
Here’s another small group activity featuring porridge! AKA oatmeal. This activity was a blast and they loved oatmeal! If your child asks for oatmeal, ask Alyisa for the recipe. She used maple syrup, cinnamon, vanilla, and lots of love.
The kids got to measure out oats and milk, pour, and mix.
This is an outdoor activity set up by Ms. Liah. This sensory bin merely started with hay and soil, and now it’s an ecosystem! The kids found some carrots from last week’s Carrot Hunt activity and added it to this new one. The kids added bugs, animals, and more.
Everything below was captured out on Ms. Gwen’s patio. She always does such a fine job thinking up projects and cute crafts for our young minds. Thank you, Ms. Gwen!
The letter of the week is G! For the past few weeks, Ms. Gwen has had capital and lowercase letters of the week out on the writing center with little pictures of things that start with that letter and some glue. If you zoom in, you can see mini goats, gorillas, and geese. So clever!Farm Bingo! Farm Day will be here soon and she is preparing our students for it!Self explanatory.Ms. Gwen and some of the students making a bridge out of items from around the playground! A few trials were had before it became functional. They were losing their minds! Childlike wonder, am I right?
And finally, our rainy day play! Rainy day schedule is kind of difficult for them, and us teachers! No outside time, no running or yelling or soaking up sunshine. But Room 1 did an excellent job today, going with the flow, reading many stories and playing along with one another.
We started practicing our Happy Birthday Jesus song with Room 2 this week!
Below are more photos. Consult your child for more details!
Our visit to the campus library & weekly big field.Table activities in Room 1
As adults, we’re so immune to everything (“we’ve seen it all”) but these kids are experiencing everything for the first time! They truly have a wonder about them that we are severely lacking. Oh, that God has given us children to remind us how great life and creation is!
Greetings everyone! We had a month full of fun activities, but the way we celebrated the end of October was with Apple-Pumpkin days.
The children stepped into the role of sous chefs and helped us make tasty apple and pumpkin themed treats. In room 3, we made Apple and pumpkin parfaits. The children crushed graham crackers for the crust, scooped the filling onto the crust, and enjoyed the parfaits as a class.
We enjoyed the parents that came to volunteer as head chefs, and we are very grateful for their help. Until next year!
We are excited to join forces with Samaritan’s Purse for Operation Christmas Child once again this year! Informational flyers have been distributed in the parent mailboxes, and we encourage you to contribute by bringing completed boxes to the Thanksgiving Tree in the preschool lobby. Together, we can share the message of God’s love and make a meaningful difference in the lives of children around the world!
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