Blueberry Pancakes and Trains

We had a fantastic week making scrumptious pancakes and building grand train tracks with our new train toys. As our field trip to the train station draws closer, we are excited to see how invested and interested the children are when it comes to learning about trains and playing with trains. In addition, we are also learning about an American folk hero and train track hero named John Henry!

Hello, from Room 2!

Hi guys! It’s been a long while since we’ve last checked in! We hope this finds you well and enjoying the first day of February! (Can you believe it?!)🤗💘❄️

Room 2 has been busy transitioning back into the rhythm of learning and having fun! We’ve been hard at work practicing our counting, letter recognition, and have been intentional about getting our hands into some science experiments!

Room 2 had the awesome opportunity to learn about worm anatomy!🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛😱😆 It was quite the experience!! We were so excited to see our friends be excited to learn! We loved learning about how worms help to keep our earth healthy, so that things are able to grow nice and strong in the ground! They are nature’s littlest farmers! We also learned about salt and how salt affects ice! Our friends had an amazing time seeing the salt melt ice and we added some fun colors too, and tracked the salt! It was so fun!

Small groups continue to be a blast for both friends and teachers! We love getting excited about learning! We have also been working hard on our numbers and letters, using fun things like salt and buttons to practice!

SO FUN!!!

We love what we do here. God is so faithful and good and his love is always present, shaping us in our heart and guiding our learning. It’s the most precious thing in the world to see God in the lives of each of our Room 2 friends. That’s the real treasure here, and we can’t believe we get to see it all happen. Wow.✨

One last thing, we’ve been really intentional about talking about obedience this past month and what it means for us and for God when we choose to obey. The Bible tells us in Luke 11:28 that Jesus said that those who hear the word of God and obey it are blessed. We’ve discussed obedience every day at school and have been intentional to really explain to our friends that the choice to obey God, parents, teachers, and just good and healthy authority ultimately brings us good things; God’s goodness. We encourage you to ask our friends about obedience and keep the conversation going at home. God loves when we obey, because it shows maturity and it shows that we are ready to be trusted with more of the blessings he wants to give us. So good!

We hope to be more frequent with keeping you in the loop about our happenings here in Room 2! Thanks for checking in and we’ll see you around!🤗❤️

Love,

Miss Wendy and the Room 2 Team

P.S. Some extras! Enjoy!

Squishy Squeezy Slime!

Last week we had the opportunity to make Gak, also known by the kids as slime. It is a glue based polymer substance that was and still is popular with the children. As a matter of fact, it’s pretty fun for the teachers in Room 3 as well. Be sure to be careful if you attempt to make this at home because just like glue, it will stick but it won’t come off easily.

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2018!

It’s a brand new year and that means new adventures for us in Room 3. However, that doesn’t mean we should forget the end of 2017. As an acknowledgement to end of the year, please enjoy the Happy Birthday Jesus performance and the other various picture of activities and fun that was had.

January Fun in Room 4

Welcome to the year “2018.” We pray for all our children, parents and families out there in need of God’s ever lasting love.

We started this month by exposing the children to the first letter of their name. We used cards with each child’s name, photo, and an enlarged letter of their first name to help them recognize both letters and name.

We have been talking about rain and how rain can be cold and sometimes turn into ice. We froze some water with Arctic animals. We touched the ice and had discussions on the kinds of animals inside. We also investigated what is happening to the ice with the sun. Continue reading “January Fun in Room 4” →

Learning About Pop Art & Andy Warhol

This week I started the series of lessons of “Meet the Masters”. We will be learning about different artists and the impact they made on art history. I wanted to start the new year with a “Pop of Color.” Andy Warhol was an American artist who started the movement of Pop Art in the 60’s was a commercial illustrator and producer and he made screen printed art pieces. We looked at several of his prints but specifically “Flower, 1964”. The students then painted their own take on that piece. -Mrs. Monica

January 2018 Preschool News and Calendar of Events

Happy New Year! It was so nice to see everyone this morning and hear of all the fun holiday adventures the children had over the break. We hope you all had a blessed time of togetherness and renewing with family.

Now that we are into the new year, we are ready to begin learning about all things winter! While we don’t experience a ‘true’ winter here, classrooms try to bring in winter fun with winter-themed toys, sensory snow, and more!

NEWS, NOTES & MORE

Cubby Clothing Update – Now that the weather is getting cooler, please be sure to update your child’s cubby with cooler weather clothing. Also, please be sure to send appropriate clothing for the cooler weather (jacket/sweater, long pants, etc.) so the children can play outside :-).

ROOMS 1 & 2: PCS TK/Kindergarten Enrollment

Kindergarten enrollment is quickly approaching! If you are hoping for your child to enroll in the PCS TK and/or Kindergarten program this coming school year (2018-2019), please complete an Intent to Enroll Form if you haven’t done so already. Hard copies will be placed in your child’s box this week. Submitting this document will notify Betty St. Peter in the admissions office to give you a Teacher Recommendation form that will need to be completed by your child’s teacher.

PCS Observation Day – Check out our fabulous elementary school on Thursday, January 18 @ 9:00– Sign up online!

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

 

Preschool Picture Day! January 29th and 30th  – We will need one parent per day to assist the photographer. You will receive 50% off your photo package for assisting. Please let the office know if you are interested.

Moonlight Magic – February 2nd – 6:00 – 9:00 pm – Calling all night owls! Moonlight Magic is an evening where the parents can go out for a night on the town and the kiddos get to enjoy pizza, a movie, and flashlight dance parties here at school with our amazing teachers. Registration required. Please sign up online!

 

PARENT TEACHER FELLOWSHIP (PTF):

Meal Train Sign Up

We would like to bless Mrs. Jennifer with meals as she just had surgery and will be recovering over the next few weeks. Here is Mrs. Jennifer’s meal train: https://mealtrain.com/4dko77

We would like to bless the Houltberg family (Ollie in Room 3) as they celebrated the birth of their new little boy, Leo over the holidays! Here is the link for the Houltberg’s meal train: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/gq8ydm

School-wide volunteer opportunities are available! Check back regularly as events are added as the year progresses.  Please follow this link: https://signup.com/group/1186271400029

CLASSROOM TEACHER TREATS: 

January 19 – Parents of Room 5

February 16 – Parents of Room 1

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEACHERS!!!

January 16 – Mrs. Kristin

January 27 – Ms. Terri

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 

January 15th – MLK JR. DAY – School Closed

Thursday, January 18 – PCS Observation Day

Friday, February 2 – Moonlight Magic (Register via the PCS website)

Friday, February 9 – Teacher In-Service Day – No Students

Monday, February 19 – Presidents’ Day – School Closed