T-Th Preschool News - Week of Dec 13

Hello Tuesday-Thursday Families,

We've been so busy all month long preparing for Christmas! We've been busy making paper chains so we can "Deck the Halls"...


We've been painting with red and green paints...


But most importantly, we've been preparing to celebrate the birth of Jesus!


Here are some of the other things we've been doing lately...
Developing our fine motor skills while we painted, played with play dough and made paper chains (you'd think it was really letter P week here!)
Decorated Christmas trees to put over our cubbies
Traced our hands onto brown paper so we could make reindeer antlers
Worked on our pre-math skills using our peg boards and colorful pegs


Listened to some wonderful Christmas stories including...
The Stable Where Jesus Was Born by Rhonda Gowler Greene
My Christmas Alphabet by Claudia Kunin
This is the Stable by Cynthia Cotten
Who Was Born This Special Day by Eve Bunting
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore

And of course, we celebrated Christmas in Fellowship Hall with many of you! It was so wonderful to see you there. Enjoy your time away from school, have a wonderful Christmas, and we'll see you back at preschool in 2010 (January 5th, to be exact!)

Christmas Blessings to you and your family!
Miss Jean, Miss Lacy and Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of Dec 6

Dear MWF Families,

We have had so much fun celebrating Christmas and the birth of baby Jesus this week. For our Letter I week, our student brought in her favorite polar bear whose name is Icy. (How fitting for this time of year!) We have had some very cold and slippery days this week, so we have stayed indoors for our large motor play. Monday was extremely special because we had a special guest, one of our preschool parents who specializes in Kindermusik came in to sing many fun Christmas songs, and we played a variety of instruments too! She also had puppets! The children really enjoyed this activity! Many thanks to our special parent helper! Wednesday we had the Bookmobile arrive and each student had the opportunity to pick two books! Friday was a great day which started in the Chapel with our two pastors who shared the Christmas story with us! And later that day we went on a Jingle Bell Caroling Parade and shared some Christmas songs with our seniors at their day program. You should have seen the smiles on everyone’s faces…and the seniors joined along! We will see you at our Christmas Party on December 18th @ 10:30 a.m. We wish you peace this Christmas!

Here are some other highlights of our week…

Painted red and green at the Easels
Used stamps on Christmas Trees
Created a fun igloo/ice sculpture with sugar cubes and icing (for display only.)
Explored a variety of musical instruments during our small group time.
Read the story Ten Little Christmas Presents by Jean Marzolla
Looked at I Spy Christmas Books by Walter Wick
Played a favorite group game “Where Is Your Cookie Little Mouse?”
Heard the story Cock-A Doodle Christmas! By Will Hillenbrand
Enjoyed playing with our Christmas Manger Cloth Figurines
Explored a variety of insect replicas
Most of all we really enjoyed celebrating Christmas!!!

MWF Preschool News - Week of Nov 29

Dear MWF Families,

Brrr…as I write this newsletter it is cold outside. How quickly the winter and Christmas season are approaching! This week our theme was signs of winter and Letter H week. For Show and Share one of our students brought in a Rescue Heroes Helicopter. The children really enjoyed its working propeller. On Monday and Wednesday we were able to play outside on the playground. On Friday we opted to stay in because of the slippery sidewalks and icy areas on our playground. We played “Red Light Green Light” in the gym. How fitting for the colors of our month! The students really enjoyed this game, and it is a great game to learn how to listen carefully and follow directions. They learned very quickly green means go and red means stop! We are just beginning to celebrate Christmas in our classroom, especially with the emphasis on the birth of baby Jesus and the importance of giving. Looking forward to seeing all of you at our Christmas Celebration, on December 18th at 10:30 a.m.! Peace and Joy to you this Christmas!

Here are some other highlights of our week.
We used scissors, glue and crayons to make lovely Homes
Painted coffee filters with watercolors and cut them into snowflakes.



Used tape to make Christmas Hoops, (like a paper chain.)
For our fine motor skills, we practiced using paper punchers with paper strips.
Played Hopscotch, Rescue Heroes, and Hands Down


Read Highlights High Five Magazines.
Listened to a squirrel fingerplay and talked about Hibernation
At our Storytimes we listened to Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood and Hurry! Hurry! Have You Heard?, which is a nativity story by Laura Krauss Melmed

With Peace,
Miss Lori, Miss Donna, Miss Pat and Miss Jean