Patio Play

The Enrichment Patio is in full swing! Check out some of the fun activities the older pod classrooms are enjoying!

Patio Fundraiser — MVP Opportunity

We are off to a great start! Your little ones are enjoying everything preschool has to offer! We would like to invite you to participate in a volunteer opportunity.

PATIO FUNDRAISER:

Older Pod Patio is fundraising to purchase a beautiful, long-lasting, outdoor sensory table. Community Playthings is the company that built all of the high-quality furniture and equipment that has been with us since the opening of the preschool, 20 years ago. As you know, sensory tables are used to explore a wide range of materials such as water-beads, rice, beans, kinetic sand and so much more. This table will allow us to work on strengthening fine motor muscles by manipulating tweezers/tongs/chopsticks, scooping, pouring, using funnels and developing other practical skills. It will ultimately provide us with hours of enriching, hands-on fun!

This is a great opportunity to complete MVP hours! As part of PCS’ volunteer program, we rely on our Many Valuable Parents (MVP) to enhance and enrich our children’s educational experience. Each PCS family is asked to complete the following hours of service each school year:

Two-Parent Families — 20 Hours
Single Parent Families — 10 Hours
Preschool Families — 10 Hours

(Every $15 = 1 Hour of Service)

If you would like to participate, stop by the Older Pod Patio or the Preschool Office to make a donation. A huge THANK YOU to our first two donors from Room 3!

Thank you for partnering with us!

Summer on the Patio

Summer Fun in the Sun is off to a great start on the Older Pod Patio! At the water table, we’re working on fine motor—pouring, twisting on and off bottle caps and other practical skills. We’re also mixing primary colors to create secondary colors. This fun, hands on experience is the best way to build knowledge of color concepts.

We have also been Walking the Plank to practice balance and coordination. This on theme, gross motor activity has all our friends trying to keep their little toes safe from the sharks below. Our bodies and imaginations are working!

Painting, water beads, peg boards, dramatic play grotto, and so much more have all our friends exploring and growing together and it’s only week 2!

Checkout a few of our Room 3 friends taking a break from cooking in our dramatic play grotto to have a jam session on our pots and pans! This is a great demonstration of creative play— these friends found an alternative purpose for our materials and seized the opportunity to explore sound. They’re sharing space and materials effectively and developing an understanding of rhythm and music!

Patio Fun in the Sun

We are ready for some fun in the sun! The older pod enrichment patio is an extension of rooms 1, 2 and 3– our three year olds, young fours and our pre-kindergarteners. Our littles are given the opportunity to flow in and out of their classrooms during their free choice play time. This gives them plenty of options to explore areas that peak their individual interests. Check out some of the play centers ready for our campers to enjoy!

The Grotto: A fun dramatic play, Cafe Experience

Small World Play: Under the Sea / Coral Reef

We are looking forward to a fun summer full of water play, sensory exploration, building, bonding and growing in Jesus’ love for us!

Farewell From the Patio

As we end our final week of the school year, our friends on the older pod patio tie up loose ends in their PCS Business Office. They enjoy typing, stamping, making phone calls and, of course, exchanging money. With these little business men and businesses women hard at work, you can rest assured the final week of school ran smoothly.

Art as a Sensory Experience

Art as a sensory experience is both stimulating and soothing for preschoolers. This year, our little ones have enjoyed a ton of process art on the older pod patio.

It’s our last week of school and one of our patio activities is— ice painting! A perfect display of art and sensory colliding in a fun and messy way!

Stackin’ on the Patio

Our friends on the older pod patio are having some fun with can stacking! This open-ended play activity is giving us an opportunity to practice team building, taking turns, body balance and hand-eye coordination. As we stack, we’re expanding our understanding of major math concepts like cause and effect, weight distribution and, of course, problem solving. Check out all the excitement!

Older Pod Patio Construction Play

Older Pod Patio friends have been hard at work in the construction zone. Check out their collaboration and some of their cool creations!

February Fun on the Patio

Happy Chinese New Year! We have enjoyed exploring a little bit of Asian culture on the older pod patio. Check out some of the fun!

Happy February!

We are so happy to be together again! This week, on the older pod patio, we’re enjoying a baby bubble bath activity. Check out our friends as they practice showing love to their babies, imitating all the love they have been shown by the ones who care for them.