Hello Tuesday-Thursday Families,
Happy Valentine's Day! We had an exciting week at preschool playing and learning! Can you believe we are already on letter P week? Time is really flying here!
We welcomed another new student this week, bringing our total class number to 11 students. While we are still have more girls than boys, we do have THREE boys in the class now! We've made a few adjustments to our routine to help the new students adjust, but overall, it's been a good transition for everyone. I think the children will all enjoy the opportunity to make some more new friends at school!
In addition to a new student, we also had the joy of celebrating Valentine's Day and celebrating someone's birthday this week. The birthday girl brought in some Valentine's cookies, and someone brought in some strawberries, too! Yum!! We had so much fun making cards for our friends and loved ones using stickers and markers. And we all enjoyed giving our Valentines to our classmates. Maybe we'll continue to give more cards away next week!
We had fun at the rainbow rug this week reading some books by Todd Parr. One of our favorites was called "The I Love You Book". While you are celebrating Valentine's Day this week, it would be a good time to talk about all of the people who you love and who love you. And of course, don't forget to remind the children how much we are loved by God!
For counting practice, we brought out our counting cloth and some silly looking "heart people." Many of the children noticed that after we filled up the entire chart, one of the squares was empty! Maybe our missing heart person will turn up some day!
One of our other favorite things this week was playing with the wooden train set in the hallway by our cubbies. Some of the children were in charge of putting the train together, and they did a fabulous job. We'll definitely bring the train set out again soon! Playing with the train set and with our play dough this week were both great ways for us to strengthen our hand muscles and develop our fine motor skills!
We hope that all of you have a wonderful Valentine's Day!
Enjoy the warm winter weather,
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat
