T-Th Preschool News - Week of Jan 2

"Be KIND to one another" Ephesians 4:32

Happy New Year Everyone!

We're so happy to be back at preschool again! All of the boys and girls had so much fun seeing their friends again, and were ready to get back to their preschool routines. For the month of January we are focusing on the color white and on cooperation. And we are already on Letter K this week! Can you believe that we are almost half way through the alphabet?

Here are some of the things we did this week at preschool...

For art, we used small paint brushes and white paint. We found out that most of the children prefer the larger paint brushes! We also made a WHITE collage this week. You will see it hanging over our welcome table when you come to school next week!

For math, we brought out some bowls of keys, and practiced counting them with our new counting chart table cloth. This fun "game" helps us learn how to put the numbers 1 through 10 in the right order!


For fine motor and literacy, we practice writing our first names on Tuesday. On Thursday, we practiced kindness by making cards for our friends!

Some of us enjoyed a new deck of Truck Cards that we earned from our Usborne Book Fundrasier. By the way, thank you to everyone who helped with our fund raisers! We are already enjoying many of our new Usborne resources in the classroom!!

For story time this week, we used a story apron and velcro animals to hear the story "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?" The children had so much fun putting the animals on the apron and making animal sounds. The story is one of our favorites, so we listened to it in the MWF class this week, too!

For large motor activities this week, we had so much fun! We played Duck Duck Goose in Fellowship Hall on Tuesday. On Thursday, we stayed in the classroom and had fun moving and dancing to a few songs from Greg and Steve's Kids in Motion CD. Two of our favorites were "Can't Sit Still" and "Can You Leap Like a Frog." Check your local library for this CD and other fantastic music from Greg and Steve!

The children also decided on their own to play Ring Around the Rosie and to become a train in class this week. They are all playing together so well, and the teachers really enjoy our time with the children!

Looking forward to seeing you back at preschool next week!
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of Jan 2

Keep God's commandments Exodus 20:6

Dear MWF Families,

We had a wonderful week back at preschool! Everyone was so glad to see each other again.

January is a cold and often snowy month of winter, so many things that we did this week involved winter and winter animals. Wednesday we drew a winter picture on dark blue paper with white paint. We also had to bundle up in our coats to go visit the book mobile to pick out new books for our classroom. On Friday Miss Jean read us a story Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr/Eric Carle using something called a story apron. We all had so much fun as we each took turns placing an animal on the apron and making animal noises.

This week we also learned about the letter K. To celebrate letter K week all of us had the chance to look through a kaleidoscope and see the wonderful designs it made. Some of us even decided to make a picture of what we had seen while looking through the kaleidoscope. We also listened to the story Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? By Eric Carle, and learned that all animals have mothers.


Some of the other things that we did this week were practicing writing our names as well as tracing with markers in our dry-erase books. We also had so much fun when we went on a “Bear Hunt.” We sang many other fun songs too! These songs allowed us to move our bodies and develop our fine motor skills.

We are all looking forward to next week for more fun and learning!

Miss Amy, Miss Michele, Miss Jean, & Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of Dec. 5

I am with you always. Matthew 28:20

Dear MWF Families,

We have had so much fun this week getting ready for Christmas and the birth of baby Jesus. For our Letter I week, students brought in several items that began with the letter I. Monday was so much fun because we decorated our very own Christmas Trees with red and yellow paint. We also learned many new songs such as “We'll Decorate the Tree” which has the same tune as “Farmer and the Dell”.

We'll decorate the tree,
We'll decorate the tree.
Heigh-ho, it's Christmas time,
We'll decorate the tree.

The presents we will wrap,
The presents we will wrap.
Heigh-ho, it's Christmas time,
The presents we will wrap.

Carols we will sing,
Carols we will sing.
Heigh-ho, it's Christmas time,
Carols we will sing.

Jesus will soon be here,
Jesus will soon be here,
Heigh-ho, it’s Christmas time,
Jesus will soon be here.

Another new song with actions that we learned on Monday was called “Wise Men Still Seek Him” and it followed the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"

Twinkle, twinkle, little star (hold diamond shaped hands above head)
Wise men followed from afar (shield eyes with hand)
They found the boy of whom we sing (cradle arms as if holding a baby)
And gave him gifts fit for a king (extend arms as if giving a gift)
They fell right down and gave a nod (bow head)
Jesus was the promised gift from God (clasp hands as if in prayer)

Wednesday was a very busy day for us. We had a Bookmobile visit and each student had the opportunity to pick out two books for our classroom. We also made different shaped ornaments out of salt dough, and lamb ornaments using macaroni. Friday was a great day which started with Chapel in the morning, where Pastor Greg told us about advent and the Christmas story. After Chapel we came back to the classroom where we painted the salt dough ornaments that we had made on Wednesday. We can’t wait to show our parents the ornaments we have made!

Here are some other highlights of our week…

We played with winter dominoes,
Made Christmas cards for our friends and family,
Listened to the story of Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry,
Played Red Light, Green Light in the gym,
Listened to the story Hello Snow by Hop Vestergaard,
Played with the train and the game High Ho Cheery O in small groups,
Sang the song “If Your Happy And You Know It”,

This week was so much fun, but we can’t wait until next week when we will celebrate Christmas and the birth of baby Jesus at our preschool celebration!

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

T-Th Preschool News - Weeks of Nov 1 & 7

Encourage one another. Hebrews 10:25


Hello Tuesday Thursday Families!

Don't you just LOVE those beautiful masks we made? I couldn't wait till the end of the month to share that photo with you! We've had two "short" weeks in a row, but we still managed to fill them with all kinds of fun, faith and learning! This month our focus is on Gratitude as we prepare for Thanksgiving.
Last week, we learned about the Letter E! We used blue and green paint to paint some beautiful pictures that reminded us of our earth. We give thanks to God for His beautiful creation! We also brought out some wooden eggs with numbers on them. All of the children had a chance to put them in order from 1 - 10 (and everyone had so much fun with them!)


We heard the story "What A Wonderful World" in a unique way. As we looked at the pictures, we listened to the story being sung by Louis Armstrong. The children loved the colorful pages in the book, and Mr. Armstrong's singing was, of course, beautiful!

Also for letter E week, we....
Colored a beautiful picture of our earth
Played with our Letter Builders
Used tiny animal counters with our 100 Chart
and played Musical Colors on our Rainbow Rug
(all that in just one day! Wow!)

For letter F week, our visit to the food pantry this week was a perfect opportunity to remember to give thanks for what we have AND to share our blessings with those who are less fortunate. Each child brought a canned item to the church's food pantry and learned how we can help other people who may not have food in their homes.



Drew pictures of our Favorite Foods...


Had fun playing make believe with our Felt Board...


And practiced our math and matching skills with our Foam Tanagram Shapes...


In addition to that, we....
Used Letter F rubber stamps to Fill up a very large letter F
Heard the Fun rhyme "Five Green and Speckled Frogs"
(led by Miss Jean along with Felt Frogs and a Story Apron)
Most of all, we had lots of FUN!

Looking forward to seeing you at our Thanksgiving "Feast" this Thursday!
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of Nov. 7

The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness. Gal 5:22


Dear MWF Families,

We have had a fantastic week here at the preschool. This week was focused on the Letter F and Gratitude. For Show and Share we had two students who brought in a frog and a fish to share with the class. Beautiful weather graced our week once again and we spent some time playing on the playground. Several highlights of our week were a visit to the Food Pantry, the Rainbow Fish Art, and Chapel.

Monday we visited the WPC food pantry. Each student donated a can of food to the panty and learned the significance of having a food pantry. Here we also discussed sharing and thankfulness.


This week we also listened to the story The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister which taught us a great lesson about sharing. We learned that by sharing we not only make other people happy, but that we will be happy ourselves. To go along with our story about sharing we also created our own Rainbow Fish. On Monday we cut out a fish from brown paper and glued it to our blue paper. Then on Wednesday we decorated our fish in rainbow scales. Miss Michele had some beautiful silver scales that she shared with us to put on our fish. The Rainbow Fish Art Project was quite fun and it was exciting to see the children create their very own version of a colorful fish.


At the Chapel Pastor Greg and Miss Jean acted out a skit which related to giving to others. The children recited a finger play to Pastor Greg entitled “Thank You God.”

Thank You God

God made the sun (put arms over head in circle)
God made the trees (hold arms up at shoulders with fingers spread like trees)
God made the mountains (hands at chest making a triangle like a mountain)
and God made me! (give self a hug)

Thank you God for the sun (repeat hand signals for all below lines)
Thank you God for the trees
Thank you God for the mountains
and Thank you God for me!

Here are some other things that we did this week…

Listened to the story The First Thanksgiving Day by Laura Krauss
Traced farm animal stencils with colored pencils
Counted small animals on our One Hundred Chart
Practiced writing in our notebooks
Made a Giving Thanks collage
Sang and acted out the movements to the song "Father Abraham".


Looking forward to seeing you next week for more fun and learning!
Miss Amy, Miss Jean, Miss Michele, and Miss Pat

T-Th Preschool News - Week of October 25

Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31

Hello Tuesday-Thursday Families!

What an exciting week we've had at preschool. The highlight of the week was probably our Halloween celebration, but we did so many other fun things as well! And before I forget, let me say thank you, thank you, thank you to all of the parents who have been volunteering their time in the classroom! I can't remember the last time we had so many parents come to play with us at preschool. We hope you enjoy your time in the classroom as much as we enjoy having you!

At our art table this week, we had so much fun making masks! The teachers cut out a variety of shapes ahead of time, and the children were allowed to create ANY kind of mask they wanted to. The results are hanging above the cubbies!


We practiced our number recognition by playing with play dough and fun acorn counting cards.

For letter D week, we brought out our dinosaur toys (always a BIG hit with the children!)

We also played with some magnetic letter blocks to help us learn our letters A through D and to help us practice our fine motor skills and pencil grip.


On Thursday morning, we colored our trick or treat bags. On the bag was a pumpkin and the words, "Shine with the light of Jesus!" A wonderful Halloween message for all of us!

And of course...there were the costumes on Thursday! The classroom was full of princesses, but we also had a bunny rabbit, a Mario, a bumblebee (that didnt' sting!) and a butterfly. The children had so much fun when we lined up to trick or treat in some of the rooms of the church! The women's Bible study especially enjoyed our visit to them!


After trick or treating, we said our grace prayer on the steps and went back into the classroom for a wonderful Halloween snack (or should I say feast? I suspect that many of us didn't have room for lunch when we got home!). Thank you parents for supplying our trick or treat goodies and our yummy snacks for the morning!

We will look forward to seeing you next Tuesday for a shortened week of school. Remember there is no school on Thursday, due to parent teacher conferences. Enjoy those October Shutterfly photos that will be coming your way soon!

Fall blessings to you and your families!
Miss Jean, Miss Amy and Miss Pat

MWF Preschool News - Week of October 25

Do everything for the glory of God. 1 Cor 10:31

Dear MWF Families,

What an exciting week we had at preschool! We had an entire week full of activities and a Halloween celebration. This was also Letter D week, and many of our activities reflected our letter of the week. For Show and Share we had two students bring in a purple dolphin and a stuffed dog to share with the class. We listened to the story The Dinosaur by Anna Milbourne, played with dominoes, and practiced writing the letter D. We also practiced letter recognition and our fine motor skills when we played with our alphabet stencils.


Some of us practiced our scissor skills by cutting out rectangles and triangles.


We made a picture by dripping Red and Yellow paint onto paper with droppers and using a textured roller created a design on the paper.


We also played Duck, Duck, Goose and had a Silly Dance Contest.

This week we sang the Christian song “He’s Got the Whole World”, and we had a lot of fun taking turns at making up some of our own verses to the song. We discussed how GOD has everything in his hands and how he watches over each and every one of us. This week we listened to the story of “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” and “Jonah and the Fish” out of our Children’s Bible.

We also had so much fun celebrating Halloween this week. We participated in several activities to help celebrate this holiday. We painted spider webs on black, blue, or purple construction paper with white paint. We counted 100 spiders and creepy-crawly creatures on our One Hundred Poster. The children had so much fun dressing up in costumes for our Halloween Celebration and going Trick-or Treating throughout the church building. We had a wonderfully large snack followed by a paraded about in our Halloween costumes. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who have made our Halloween Day such a success! Thanks to each of you for your contributions. We will see you at our Parent Conferences next week!

Miss Amy, Miss Michele, Miss Jean & Miss Pat