TTh Preschool News - Week of Feb 14

Quietness and trust is your strength. Isaiah 30:15

Hello Tuesday-Thursday Families!
We had a wonderful week at preschool. The highlight of our week was our visit from Miss Lisa who taught us how to keep our teeth healthy. She reminded us to brush TWO times a day and to eat foods that are healthy for our teeth. Before she left, everyone had a chance to brush the teeth on her very big bear!


While the theme of our week was dental health, most of our focus has been on social skills as we continue to adjust to our larger class size. We've also adjusted some of our routines to help the new students feel more comfortable in their new school. For the time being, we have eliminated our morning "Greeting Time" and are instead starting our day with the various centers. All of the children seem to enjoy this change, because they can start the day at their favorite table.

This week we had pink paint and tooth shaped paper at the art table, play dough with rolling pins and cookie cutters for fine motor practice, and "Building Cubes" at our math table. We also had a parent helper in the classroom this week. Thank you so much for taking the time to spend a morning with us! We appreciate it sooo much!


Many new friendships have been forming in the classroom - not only involving the new students, but also between our former students who may not have spent as much time playing together before now. The new students have already been introduced to "Ring Around the Rosie" which is one of our favorite impromptu class activities. And everyone has fun when we go to Fellowship Hall to play Duck Duck Goose. We'll definitely play that again next week!

See you all soon,
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of Feb 15

Dear MWF Families,

Here are some dates coming up for the MWF class:
Wednesday, February 24 - Scholastic Book Orders Due
Friday, February 26 - Chapel Time at 9:00 - We hope you join us!
Monday, March 1 - No School - Casmir Pulaski Day
Friday, March 12 - Butter Braid Orders Due

It's Already Letter Q Week!

We moved forward into our Transportation Theme this week! We are learning about all the various ways to travel. For Letter Q week one of our students brought in a Quarter. How clever. We talked about the different ways we could spend a quarter and that it is worth 25 pennies. Wednesday we had an opportunity to play “Red Light Green Light” in the gym. We used animal cards for the children to present their acting skills. They loved this game. It is a great game to practice for following directions. Fortunately Friday we had a lovely wintry sunny day, so we took the entire class outside for a group walk on our rope. It was great to get outdoors. We witnessed the snow and the icicles melting and sang one of our favorite songs, “This Old Man,” or as our children call it “Nick Nack Paddy Wack.” Next week we will continue our Transportation Theme, have a special guest from a local dental office on Wednesday, and Chapel on Friday!

Here are some other highlights!

We painted with black and white paint to make gray. We used matchbox vehicles to paint roads.

ZOOM!

We created boats from paper plate semi-circles, straws, and triangle sails. They are hanging on our classroom windows for display.

We listened to the song and story “We All Go Traveling By" by Sheena Roberts and Siobhan Bell and the story "Little Quack’s Bedtime" by Derek Anderson, for Letter Q Week.
At our Exploration Station we played with sand and various vehicles in the sand. This exploration activity proved to be a great fun and calming sensory activity for many of our students!
We played with a new resource in our classroom. It is called Letter Builders, and the children assemble various pieces of wood to create individual letters of the alphabet. This is great practice for alphabetic awareness which is necessary for name writing and forming other words in the future.

The children displayed great imagination and creativity this week!

Moving forward again to next week! Beep! Beep!
Miss Lori, Miss Donna, Miss Pat and Miss Jean