Apple-Pumpkin Days

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!

Let’s Wash Our Hands

Our preschool theme for the year, “All Hands on Deck,” has already been taking place in room 3 as we taught the children how to properly wash their hands. We started with an interactive demonstration pouring a little black pepper into a container of water, a cut-out hand at the bottom of the container, and dish soap. The black pepper represents germs, and each child applied a drop of soap to the pepper water, which repelled the pepper. Then we gave each child hand soap, taught them how to scrub both sides of their hands and in between their fingers before rinsing with water and drying with a paper towel. Last week, we also read Pete the Kitty Wash Your Hands to help us implement this lesson. Everyone had fun and did a great job!

So Long, Friends

Summer is at an end, and we want to showcase some of the fun times that we had together.

We had lots of birthdays to celebrate this summer, and our lovely parents have provided us with special snacks to help us celebrate. Special snacks can be cut fruit, juice boxes, allergy friendly granola bites, and can sometimes be as grand as popsicles or a pizza party!

We also had lots of water and bubble play to cool ourselves from the summer heat. Water pads and preschool car washes were the crowd favorites.

We enjoyed lots of ocean-themed art projects and dancing. We would have the children dance to songs without looking at the screen to see how well they remembered the movements. We also identified shapes while doing glow in the dark dancing with glow sticks and our colorful classroom lights.

Of course, none of this would be possible without our Heavenly Father, so we would praise Him by reading Bible stories together in the classroom and at chapel with the whole preschool each week.

We are grateful for all of the fun we’ve had with our friends, and we send prayers to the families who will not return in the Fall. We pray the Lord will be with you in your transitions and give you grace and patience for yourselves and each other. Take care, and God bless 🙏.

Easter at PCS: Room 3 Edition

Hello all, and happy belated Resurrection Day/Easter! We had a grand ol’ time in room 3, and the children learned so much about Jesus before, leading up to and after the crucifixion. We know how heavy the subject is, so we balanced it out with some fun art projects (the empty tomb), dancing and singing (Hosanna and Super God), and last but not least, the great hunt of the multi-colored eggs 😂😉!

Our little Sherlocks set out on the investigation and came back with a bounty of Easter eggs filled with various toys, stickers, and mini stuffies. Their great search also gave the opportunity for math and counting (directed to find 4 eggs to assure enough eggs per child).

In closing, we just wanted to make sure that you all take pride in the fact that the children at PCS enriched their hearts and minds with God’s love and had fun while doing it.

Take care, and God bless!

Thanksgiving and Stone Soup Days

We hope everyone had a pleasant Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends! Last week, we helped the children prepare for Thanksgiving by teaching them about community, gratitude, and sharing! We read books, did art projects, and listened to music all conveniently paralleled with the Thanksgiving theme.

We read different variations of Stone Soup every day to the children to get them ready for our stone soup days here at the preschool. We also enjoyed the help of our junior chefs chopping vegetables, which not only taught them community but also helped them work on fine motor development. Don’t worry, we used very dull butter knives and parboiled vegetables 😃.

We also did different kinds of art projects with our tiny Picasso’s and they gave us a hand (see what I did there?) to the turkey bulletin board in the classroom, which proudly displayed what they were thankful for. They also made turkey centerpieces to take home for the whole family to enjoy over the holiday.

Another fun thing we did to get the children’s bellies ready for food in abundance was sing a song by Danny Go as a transition song into lunchtime. The song also helped them with listening skills and movement. Here’s a link to the song: https://youtu.be/6HM28d04LQk?si=e3za8JD5DPSFnxsa.

All in all, everyone enjoyed the penultimate month of the year and learned a lot about kindness, serving one another, and sharing our time and love with each other. Thanks for all of your help and support. Chef’s kiss, and God bless!

We Like to Eat Apples… and More Apples

Over the last few weeks, room 3 has been exploring the crispy and juicy glory of apples! We counted and charted them (math), we looked at the parts and tasted different kinds (science, 5 senses), and we painted with them (art).

The students were true professionals with their taste-testing that spanned from Honeycrisp sweet to Granny Smith sour and voted on their favorites. We’ve read books about apples, did paintings with them, and even sang songs learning about the different parts of them. Our finale of this apple chapter was cooking with them–apple dumplings!

Without a doubt, this was a rewarding and delicious segment to kick start our first two months of preschool. Thank you to our ingredient contributors and volunteers!