T-Th Preschool News - Week of Jan 10

"Let your light shine before men." Matthew 5:16

Hello Tuesday-Thursday Families,

It was a snowy week for us at preschool! We had so much fun singing a song about making a snowman, and hearing a "paper story" about The Disappearing Snowman. We sent a copy of the story home with each child, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

At story time, we read one of our Usborne books called "The Snowy Day." The story talks about all of the fun things that we can do in the snow. Then we each made snow globe pictures and wrote down what our favorite snow activity was!

Since it was Letter L week, we made Lemon and Lime prints for art...


and we played with Lacing Cards that were shaped like animals (and one card that was shaped like an ark). The lacing cards are excellent fine motor practice (and might even lead some of the children to a love for sewing!).


We had some music and motion fun this week by playing with Lummi sticks. If you haven't heard of them, they are wooden sticks that can tap along with the beat of a song. The children followed the directions very well when we asked them to hold them safely and keep them a safe distance away from each other. We will definitely bring them out again some day!

Looking forward to seeing you all next week!
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of Jan 10

Let your gentleness be evident to all. Phil 4:5

Dear MWF Families,

Snow! Snow! Snow! This was our weekly preschool theme, and how fitting of a theme it was after all the snow that fell this week. This week was also letter L week. Students brought in a lion and lollipops to share with the class.

Here are some of the things that we did this week…

For art, we used cotton balls to create little fluffy lambs...


We also made snowmen complete with buttons, scarves, and top hats! Each snowman was beautifully unique. Many of the children also demonstrated their creative side by creating a little person. The children were given the outlines of a person and then they could create clothes for their little person. They were given materials such as, ribbon, buttons, and for hair to decorate their little person.

For math, we brought out games to play. We played Hi Ho Cherrio which allowed us to practice our counting skills as we took turns putting apples on the trees. We also played Candy Land which helps us with color recognition and our matching skills.

For phonic and writing we used literacy mittens to practice putting words in alphabetical order. Each mitten has a picture and a word for a letter of the alphabet. The students worked in groups and individually to put the mittens in order based on the first letter of each word.


We also practiced tracing our names. The children are doing so well with their first names that we now are practicing writing our last names.

We also practiced our fine motor skills and learned about nature by making cheerio bird feeders. After we shaped them into circles, we hung them on one of the trees on our playground.


This week we also listened to the stories A Snowy Day by Anna Milbourne and Elena Temporin and Swim Polar Bear, Swim by Joam Stimson. We also went on a “real” bear hunt around the building. All the children enjoyed looking for the bear.

Our day on Friday began with chapel, and the children were particularly excited by the message that they heard. Pastor Greg told us how Jesus is the light of the world, and how we all reflect off him. He told us that we are also lights because we have Jesus in our hearts. After the message all the children sang the song “This Little Light of Mine.”

We are looking forward to seeing everyone again next week!

Miss Amy, Miss Michele, Miss Jean, and Miss Pat

T-Th Preschool News - Week of January 10

Hello Tuesday-Thursday Preschool Families!

Here's your LATE newsletter for LETTER L week :) and an "L" Bible verse to go with it...

"LOVE God with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength!"

Deuteronomy 6:5 (exclamation point mine!)

We've been so busy in preschool LATELY, and having LOADS of fun, as usual! We played with a new batch of white play dough at greeting time this week with LETTER cookie cutters (because white is our color of the month, you know!). We also continued to sing our "Two LITTLE Blackbirds" song a LOT... we really LOVE it!!

Here are some of the other ways we were LEARNING during LETTER L week:

For art, we made paint prints using real LEMONS and LIMES!

To develop our pre-writing skills, we brought our dry erase books. We had fun writing and drawing in them, and then we erased each page when we were done with it! Hmmm... these LOOK LIKE they might be the hands of one of the teachers...LOL!!

For our fine motor skills, we played with LACING cards. I hope you enjoy the photos of these from Shutterfly - there are some fabulous photos!

In our curtain area, we brought out the train set (by popular request) and we also brought out puppets and the puppet stage.

At our Exploration Station (aka, the sensory table) we played with cotton balls, foam packing peanuts and winter animals - LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of fun!

For story time, we heard the stories Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney and My Friend Lucky by David Milgrim (a book about opposites)

For LARGE motor, we played Follow the LEADER in the church hallway. The children took turns being the LEADER and choosing what we would all "be." On Tuesday, "being a train" was the most popular choice, by a LONG run. On Thursday, Miss Jean suggested we choose an animal (adding a bit of variety to our activity!!).

Yes, indeed, it was a busy week! (Will that be a good enough reason for being 2 weeks behind on this blog??? Possibly :)

See you soon!

Miss Jean, Miss LACY and Miss Pat :)