So Sad - Great Year - Thank you!

Hi Preschool Parents,

Thank you all for such a wonderful year with your little ones! You were all so supportive and kind and generous!

Mrs. Mary & I enjoyed every day that we spent with our class and we enjoyed getting to know you all and your families!

We hope you have a wonderful summer, enjoying your little ones - and we hope

to see you in the fall.

Thank you again, and God Bless!

Love - Mrs. Holly

Welcome to April / Spring / Mother Goose / Purple!

An Angel Stamp for Brayden!
Twirling our purple ribbons!
Playing Ring around the Rosie with Mother Goose!
Painting a "cocoon" for our caterpillar!
This week in preschool, we continued talking about the life cycle of a butterfly, Mother Goose came to visit and we enjoyed playing with our purple (color of the month) ribbons at circle time.

The children brought home their Rainbow books - we covered over many weeks different Spring time weather, then compiled them into our weather books. We also read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle and had music, art, and circle time activities tied into this lesson. Both of these books introduce sequencing to the children (what comes next). Sequencing is a precursor to early literacy skills at this age. We have read many of the Eric Carle books in class that all use sequencing. It is so interesting to watch the children learn our routines and know what is coming next! Also, through repetition of these books and the context of these books - the children can repeat them to you at home! The children loved making their own caterpillars and butterflies. I loved hearing the "ooh's" and "ahh's" as we turned the last page of the book that showed the beautiful butterfly! We read the story a couple of times and by the second time, the children could already guess what was coming next! These children are amazing!

Happy Birthday Addie!

We had great fun celebrating Addie's Birthday with her today. We had yummy Birthday Cookies, lots of playground fun, and we sang to her at snack time. Happy Birthday, Addie!!!

Playground fun in March!

We loved the milder temperatures and longer playground time on Tuesday!

The children did a wonderful job returning to preschool after the Winter Break!

Music Class in March ~ Shakey Eggs

Waiting so patiently for Music Class!

We learned a new song about farm animals

and their sounds, ask your children what they

say...

Birthday Girl, Kathryn! She loves

the Shakey Eggs.

February Recap/ Teddybears / Friends / Valentine's Day!

We had lots of fun in February. We had Bring your Teddybear to preschool day where we sang, snacked, played, danced, counted, and had special art all about our teddybears. We talked about BIG and little teddybears. We celebrated Valentine's Day. Lots of fun, see you all next week. Enjoy your winter break!

We celebrated Valentine's Day with a party.

Wow! Welcome to January - all of the children grew over break!

We were amazed at how much the children had grown over our Christmas Break from Preschool! Wow! Their language/verbal skills have really increased. We loved the longer concentration at circle time and with our art work. These children are wowing us each day in our class!

Welcome Back/Happy New Year!!/January 2011

Welcome Back! Mrs. Mary & I have enjoyed being back at preschool with our class! We are glad everyone had a safe & Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

We began January's Winter Themes by talking about Winter, Warm Clothing - what we wear to stay warm, Snow, and Ice! The children loved Puffy Snow Painting with Shaving Creme. Then, we made colorful Winter Clothing Collages with glue and tissue. The children's attention spans are amazing and Mrs. Mary & I enjoy our longer circle times and being able to do more art projects each day.