Alleluia! Happy Easter!
April 13, 2020
I pray you had a wonderful Easter Sunday! Mine was different than any other Easter (as I am sure yours was) but my small immediate family celebrated Easter and togetherness on a smaller scale.

 It is hard to believe Spring Break has come and gone. It was a good time to recharge and to figure out the most helpful way to keep your preschool engaged and in tune to learning goals.

  Even though we are not together physically. It has been nice keeping a connection with your children
through videos, emails and Google Meet.

AT HOME LEARNING SCHEDULE

 The Preschool 3 teachers had a virtual meeting to collaborate the best schedule for At Home Learning.
 After 3 weeks of videos, Google Meets, suggested links and suggested learning practices along with the answers to our survey -we came up with a schedule that hopefully helps offer a consistent schedule
that you and your preschooler can look to every week day.

 It has been great to hear about all the new ways you and your child are navigating this time. I would love to see pictures or projects of different activities your childen are doing.

APRIL AT HOME LEARNING GOALS

 We made the best of At Home Learning Time and started with a Dinosaur Unit. It was great fun for me to learn new things about dinosaurs. 
 This week we focused on Holy Week-Jesus' journey to the Cross and his Resurrection.
 Getting our hearts ready for the wonderful celebration at Easter.
 

Color of the Month-Pink
Shape of the Month-Oval
Number of the Month-8

                   Lent Prayer                                                         APRIL PRAYER
     Jesus Let Me Walk with You                         Jesus you are good and wise.
      Although my steps are small                          I will praise you when I rise.
      Stand beside me. Hold My Hand                  Jesus hear this prayer I send,
      And never let me Fall.                               Bless my family and my friends, Amen.
    
   
          

 Lenten Song                                           Lenten Song 2
 Change my Heart O God         Pray and Fasting and Almsgiving     
Make it ever true                            We are meant to repent
Change my heart O God            40 days of Sacrifice 
May I be like You!                                 Being extra super nice
                                                                  This is Lent! This is Lent! 
March 23, 2020
Anderson Preschool Threes

  Preschoolers are always learning through play. I will reach out to you with optional learning through email but I know there is so much learning going on through imaginary play and creativity.  So just let them play! Build a fort! Get out the playdoh! Build a tower with pillows. Draw some pictures and staple them together and call it a book. 
 READ TO THEM but also HAVE THEM READ THE PICTURES to you.
 ZOOPHONICS LETTERS-we left off at W Willy Weasel. I am hoping to pick up XYZ when we come back. For now any letter hunts around the house will be fun. The website abcmouse.com has fun letter games.
NUMBERS-Keep counting anything in your house-windows, doors, spoons, forks, socks
SCIENCE-Have you had a chance to explore the virtual zoo tours? These preschoolers know more about animals because of all the great learning shows.
FAITH-These are hard times to keep little and big ones entertained. Each day as I hear the news, my mom reminds me-aren't we lucky we have our faith?

Praying for you and yours! 


PRESCHOOL AT HOME LEARNING
(OPTIONAL)
March 16th, 2020

  Dear Parents,
 This past week has been truly unbelievable  for everyone. The preschool staff met to brainstorm ways to help make  a somewhat similar schedule to their regular preschool day  at home. Your preschooler might enjoy having a scheduled recess time, snack time, free choice time, project time etc.
 As you know, tomorrow is St. Patricks Day. I have been hunting for Leprechauns for 32 years with my students. Still hoping to find one. I will truly miss this activity but a good backyard activity for tomorrow. Hide any small glittery thing in your yard and they are sure the Leprechaun was around. (look for other St Patricks day suggestions coming tomorrow.)
 LENT-The lessons of Jesus journey to cross and the Miracle of The Resurrection will be missed as well.
If you have a chance to pick up gear look for a Station Book they can color and their Special Lenten Heart.
LENT-Change My Heart O GOd
During Lent we are trying extra hard to be like Jesus in our words and actions.
We started putting colorful squares on a black heart to remind us how kind words and actions can change our hearts. A great daily activity at home is  before they put their daily colorful square on talk about what kind deed they did or could do. Any how their heart is changing with each kind deed!
 This is just the beginning of my online communication. I plan to offer more ideas maybe even some picture sharing and talk time with each other. 
 Food for thought: Throughout last week as I was praying my daughter made it home from Spain, I keep hearing all the overwheming and scary new reports. It was too much! So In those stressful times I am reminded of Mr. Rogers" Look for the Helpers" in unexplainable times. So I started prayfully thanking all those in the medical field, the people working hard making test kits and vaccines, neighborhoods forming committees to help working parents, people donating food and deliver to the children who will go without.  It certainly great to see everyone working to help each other.
  I will be have "office hours" between 10am-1am every weekday. Please feel free to email questions, concerns or share cute stories or videos of your preschooler! I am going to miss them.

MARCH ACTIVITIES

Color of the Month-PURPLE 
SHAPE of the Month-SHAMROCK
NUMBER-7
Zoophonics LETTERS Of the WEEKS-Vincent Vampire Bat, Willy Weasel,
Xavier Fox, Yancy Yak and Zeke Zebra

LENT-Change My Heart O GOd
During Lent we are trying extra hard to be like Jesus in our words and actions.
We started putting colorful squares on a black hard to remind us how kind words and actions can change our hearts.
FASTING or sacrifice-We talked about some people give up food or special items for Lent to remind us of what Jesus did for us. In our classroom we have put away the prize box for
the Lenten season.
MARCH IS READING MONTH-We have been really enjoying all the Mystery Readers coming to read to us. There are still some spots available to sign up and don't forget to bring a special story. Drop Everything and Read- On special days in March an announcement comes on the PA and we stop whatever we are doing and READ!
 COMFY DAY-March 10th Students are invited to wear their pjs or any comfy clothes to school.
 March 11th is Comfy day for those preschoolers who do not attend on March 10th.
St Patricks Day-We will be going on a Leprechaun Hunt to see if we can catch the Leprechaun and his gold.
SPRING CONCERT-The preschoolers have been practicing their special songs for you and are excited to perform at the end of March.
  Lenten Song                                           Lenten Song 2
 Change my Heart O God         Pray and Fasting and Almsgiving     
Make it ever true                            We are meant to repent
Change my heart O God            40 days of Sacrifice 
May I be like You!                                 Being extra super nice
                                                                  This is Lent! This is Lent!

FEBRUARY PRESCHOOL ADVENTURES

In February we started "team" project time. Have you noticed a colored letter written on your child's hand  in February? The preschoolers are assigned a color team and they travel to each center together with their color team. This new rotation format helps them with time on task, getting to know all our classmates better, and of course teamwork. The preschoolers are excited to be assigned to a new team each day with different friends. When they finish their task or project they can join their teammates at an assigned play area. It is exciting to see different friendships forming. 
CUTTING PRACTICE-we are practicing our scissor cutting and name writing more at center time. We model for the preschoolers proper scissor grasp and trying to cut on the lines. This is the early stages of cutting and not an expectation in preschool threes.
NAME WRITING And LETTERS in our NAME-As we are close to the end of the alphabet, the preschoolers have been excited about all the letters they can recognize. We are tracing the letters in the 
their name and showing off all they know.
FEBRUARY is DENTAL HEALTH month-We have been talking, singing and crafting about taking care of our teeth. Dr. O'Brien ( a dentist and Richie's dad) came to our classroom on Friday and talked to us about the importance of brushing our teeth day and night.
The LENTEN Season will begin on Wednesday. The preschoolers will be learning about Jesus' journey to the cross and his Resurrection on Easter Sunday. We will take this time to remember to work harder on being kind and giving just as Jesus did for us!
PASTRIES with PALS-On Tuesday (the day before Lent) there will be donuts and juice for all the ASA students from 7:30-8:00.  You are invited to spend a few minutes with your student in the family center
enjoying donuts and juice.
THANK YOU to the anonymous parent who dropped off the googly eyes on my desk last week! 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK! 

FEBRUARY IS HERE!
NEW MONTH LEARNING GOALS:
Color of the Month-Red
Shape of the Month-Heart
Number of the Month-6
Zoophonics Letters this month-Robby Rabbit, Sammy Snake, Timothy Tiger and Umber Umbrella Bird

 Winter Wear-it seems we have had a teaser of Spring weather but please still send their winter wear every day. It is amazing how independent they have become bundling themselves every day!
Fine motor-The preschooler are enjoying tracing their name, drawing and cutting.
 Another big growth area from the beginning of the year.
CONFERENCES-Looking forward to meeting with you next week.
VALENTINE HOMEWORK and CARDS-Due February 12th. Directions below.

Have a Good WEEK!

HAPPY CATHOLICS SCHOOLS WEEK!
January 26th-31st

 This week we get to celebrate our wonderful Catholic school! We will be participatiing in some fun all school activities as well as crafting and singing about ASA!
Please check out the Catholic school week activities at the main page of this website.
ASSESSMENT and Progress Report- Last week and this week I have been doing one on one assessing.
The progress report will be in Infinite Campus and the final posting will be February 5th.
Conferences will be February 10th and 12th-I am inviting you to sign up for a conference time.
It is an opportunity for you to hear what your child has been doing and how their preschool year has been going. Sign ups will be next to daily sign in sheet.
VALENTINE INFO.- The preschoolers are invited to send out Valentine cards to all their 
 classmates. There are 19 preschool friends. PLEASE do not address cards to particular classmates but 
PLEASE do sign your child name. (They can sign their own name but this is not required or expected.)
 VALENTINE MAILBOXES-FAMILY HOMEWORK-Working with your preschool cover an empty kleenex box with wrapping paper or any colored paper. Cut out the hole for the mail slot for Valentine cards to 
go in. Decorate with stickers, markers, etc. LABEL with their name. (This is always a favorite project to bring their cards home in) PLEASE hand in by Wednesday February 12th so we can deliver all cards early.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 It was such a warm and joyous Christmas season and the new year has arrived! 

  The preschoolers seemed older as they came back from the Christmas break. We are off to a great start. We have jumped right into our next zoophonics letter O-Olive Octopus.
We are enjoying the winter season and singing and crafting snowmen, snowflakes etc.
Name Writing- Throughout the year we talk about the letters in our names and the letters their name starts with. It is not an expectation to know all their letters or be able to write their name. (That is expected mastery in Preschool 4s) However, we try and start the process by tracing their names.
This is one of the new centers in the new year.  We practice with all capital letters (or upper case letters)
 because they are easier to write. 
 Miracles and Parables- The preschoolers  listen to a story from the Children's Bible every day. Now that we have finished the Christmas stories we are beginning the stories of Jesus as an adult. Before each story, we predict of it is a story of a Miracle, Parable and  Spreading the Good News. It is cute that they ask for the Title of the Story so they can guess.

JANUARY LEARNING GOALS
Color of the Month-Blue
Shape of the Month-Rectangle
Number of the Month-5
Zoophonics Letters- Nigel Nightowl, Ollive Octopus, PeeWee Penguin Queeny Quail

THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT
Jesus Brings Us HOPE
December 2nd
 We began the Advent season on Sunday.  We are preparing our classrooms for Christmas as well as preparing our hearts. We light the first candle on the Advent wreath and sang our Advent Song and said our Advent Prayer.
  Reflection: Although he was very small, He was the Greatest Gift of All.
                  ADVENT SONG                                                            ADVENT PRAYER
   Light one candle for HOPE                                              Thank you God for sending Jesus
   One bright candle for Hope                                                      to be our Friend.
   He brings home to All our Hearts                                  We love you Jesus and we want to be like you
 He comes!   He comes!                                                     Help us to LOVE each other as we get ready
                                                                                                        For your Birthday! AMEN
CHECK OUT the Advent Calendar send home this week. It has great suggestions to prepare our hearts for Christmas.
 ADVENT COMMUNITY Service Project -Students are encouraged to donate bottles, sippy cups or baby formula to Help Pregnancy Crisis Center.
 Preparing our classroom-The preschoolers help decorate the tree and the classroom with decorations.
 Crafts-we will be busy making all sorts of trees, reindeer, Santas and even Mr.Grinch.
ELF on the SHELF-Max Frank come to visit today. He was hiding in the Christmas tree.
 He said he had a good report to take back to Santa today!
 POLAR EXPRESS- December 8th-Preschoolers are welcome to come enjoy a showing of the Polar Express with their preschool friends. 

THANK YOU GOD for Giving Us FRIENDS!
November 18th. 2019

 Our morning greeting for the month of November has changed instead of Cheering for our friends we are thanking God for each of our preschool friends. See November song below.
The preschoolers love singing about the turkeys and Native American Indians as well.
You have probably heard them singing these songs as well at home.
SENSE OF SMELL-We talked about how God gave us our noses to smell many wonderful 
things. We did a smelly test where the preschoolers had the guess the smell on the cotton balls. (look for smell homework in their folder as well)
SECOND STEPS-Our lastest lesson with Mrs. Stoner is identify feeling on ourselves and others.
ZOOPHONICS Friends-We are already on lettter K Kayo Kangaroo. Almost half way through the alphabet!
CALENDAR- We have been counting all the days of the month at calendar. We are also working on patterning. Days of the week and Birthday.
 THANK YOU GOD                                                          TURKEY SONG
Thank you God for giving us our friend      There is a turkey Tom and a Turkey Mom
Thank you God for giving us our friend       Going gobble gobble gobble all the day
Thank you God for giving us our friend       When the moon goes down and the sun come 
Right where we are                                          around, they gobble gobble gobble all the day
Alleluia! Praise the Lord                                  Arm in arm on the farm 
Alleluia! Praise the Lord                                  As they strut their merry way
Alleluia! Praise the Lord                                  Its a turkey Tom and a Turkey Mom 
Right where we are!                                         Going gobble gobble all the day!
                                         Litttle Indian
                            Am  a little Indian on the Go
                           Here is my arrow and Here is my bow
                           When I go a hunting hear me shout
                           Bear and Buffalo you better watch out!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

NOVEMBER IS HERE!

  Last week was an exciting week-the anticipation for Halloween, our preschool Halloween party and costume parade and All Saints Day acitivities on Friday.
 HALLOWEEN PARTY-Thank you to all the parents who donated supplies and were able to attend.
 The preschoolers had a great time and got an awesome treat bag, donuts and juice.
 ALL SAINTS DAY was Friday. The preschoolers got to work with the big sixth graders from the middle school. They read them stories about saints, made a Saint puppet and played on the playground with them.
 November starts a new month so new learning goal.

NOVEMBER LEARNING GOALS
Color of the Month-Brown
Shape of the Month-Triangle
Number of the Month-3
Zoophonics letters each week-Inny Inchworm, Jerry Jellyfish, Kayo Kangaroo and Lizzy Lizard

Some themes and crafts we will be focusing on is our Sense of touch, smell and taste. 
  We will also be focusing on all we have to be Thankful for and how the Pilgrims came to America with very little. What would it be like to live with no phones, no restuarants or grocery stores? Our playhouse has only natural play food. We have a pretend fire to cook our food. We switched tables so we have a big table in the playhouse so we can sit down to feast like the First Thanksgiving.
AUCTION IS COMING SOON! At the Auction you will be able to donate to our classroom with List.
This money can be used for bigger craft items and fine motor manipulaitves. 
 Unable to attend? You can still donate using the link below.
Here is the link if you are interested. 
https://asagr.ejoinme.org/teachers

USING OUR FIVE SENSES 
To
EXPLORE GOD'S CREATION!
October 28th, 2019

We continue exploring how we use our eyes and ears to help us learn. We close our eyes and try to walk  around our room. The preschoolers quickly discover how to use their hands to feel where they are going. We then cover our ears and discovered how we can use our hands to express ourselves.
 This week we will explore touch. 
 LETTERS A-H-We have covered 8 of our zoophonics friends and have been making a page for our letter book each week. We also make a letter puppet and letter bracelets.The student are assigned a letter to sit on each week. It amazes me how quickly the preschoolers can figure out their new letter each week.
SONGS and Rhymes-I am sure you are hearing all sorts of preschool rhymes and poems repeated and song. All these fun learning activities are building great pre-reading skills.
CALENDAR TIME-In our classroom we do a linear calendar that hangs above our trees. During calendar we work on our counting, patterning,days of the week and months and Birthdays.
 ALL SAINTS DAY- On November 1st, we will celebrate ALL SAINTS DAY. We will do a project with some buddies from the middle school and then have an ALL SAINTS DAY parade.

Have a great week!

PRESCHOOL FALL FUN
October 21st

 The Fall weather has arrived and our preschool threes are working on their independent skills. They are practicing putting those fall jackets on all by themselves. These self help skills are a big part of preschool so any practice and encouragement at home are appreciated. It is fun to listen and watch the children teach and assist each other.
 CLASSROOM JOBS are not only something the preschoolers look forward to each week but a great way to build community and responsible. Students get a new job each week
with a week off every 10 weeks. The favorite jobs are zookeeper, Line leader, prayer leader and snack helper. Ask your child about their favorite job and its responsibility.
ZOOPHONICS LETTERS-It is hard to believe we have already worked on 8 letters-A thru H.
Letter recognition is exposure in PS3 and mastery is not an expectation BUT these students are really talking and excited about each new zoophonics friend
GOD GAVE US EARS TO HEAR- all the loud and soft sounds around us.
GO NOODLE- Have your heard your child singing some silly songs about sticky sticky waffles? Every Thursday and some rainy day we dance to the website-Go Noodle.
It is an interactive website that get kids moving, singing and dancing. Check it out!
MRS. STONER and SECOND Steps- Lesson on follow directions and SELF TALK.
HALLOWEEN PARTY-OCTOBER 31st 
 Thank you for filling up our Halloween party sign up sheet. You can send in your supplies whenever you wish. Trinkets for treat bags before October 31st please.
Preschoolers may wear their costumes to school. If your child does not attend on Thursdays please feel welcome to bring them to the party and walk around to the games and activities with them. 
 Tentative Schedule-
 9:30-9:50 Halloween Snack in our classroom.
9:55 Costume Parade-parents line up outside (or inside) to watch parade.
10:15-11:00 Games and activities in the preschool rooms. Parents are welcome to walk their child around to the games. If you will not be attending please let me know and we will have a group of students walking  around to the games with Mrs. Trudell. 

Have a great week!

LEAVES, PUMPKINS and SPIDERS
October 12, 2019

 God's beautiful colorful Creation is so present in the Fall Seaon in Michigan. In our preschool classroom and school environment we have been enjoying observing all the colors of Fall.  We have gone on several leaf Hunt around the school. We will continue to collect the most colorfull leaves so PLEASE contine to collect leaves with your preschool from around your neighborhood as well.
GOD GIVES US OUR FIVES SENSES-we will be talking about and exploring with our 5 senses throughout the the month of October. We play a game where the preschoolers cover their eyes and try to guess who is talking using their sense of hearing only. It is amazing how many voices they can already recognize.
PUMPKINS and SPIDERS- Many crafts, poems and songs focusing on pumpkins and spiders will be coming home or hang in the hallway in October. Look for the 5 Little Pumpkin project coming home soon.
Itsy Bitsy Spider is our Nursery Rhyme for October. There is nothing cuter than a preschooler singing or reciting those preschool songs and poems. It isn't only cute but great rhyming and memory skillls are being developed.
SECONDS STEPS-Have you heard about Mrs. Stoner, our school counselor has been meeting with our preschoolers and working on developing social/ emotional skills. On Mondays, the Seconds steps lesson is introduced with our special puppets-Bud and Sally. Then on Tuesday Mrs. Stoner presents a lesson on a special skill each week. Our first lessons have focusing on how to be a good listener.
PRESCHOOL HALLOWEEN PARTY-October 31st
All preschoolers are invited to join in our Halloween party. Preschoolers are invited to dress up in their costumes and will parade Inside or outside the school (depending on the weather). Afterward, we will have fun Halloween activities in each of the preschool rooms. Parents are invited to escort their student around to each of the classrooms. Watch for more detailed times and information from Mrs. Patterson.    

APPLE WEEK
September 30th

 We had a great week learning, crafting and singing about Fall and last week we focused on APPLES! 
We painted an apple tree and painted with apples. We made and ate apple smiles. We read Ten APPLES on Top and did a apple name craft that is hanging in our hallway.
We sing and practice many rhymes in preschool. We have been singing 2 special Fall songs. (see below)
 We also memorizing a nursery rhyme each month. This month was Star Light, Star Bright. LOOK for a special salt dough ornament sent home along with the nursery rhyme.

October Learning GOALS
Shape of the Month-Circle
Number of the Month-2
Color of the Month-Orange
Letters of the Month-E Ellie Elephant, F Francy Fish, G Gordo Gorilla, & H Honey Horse

Apple Poem                                                     Fall Poem
Way Up High in the Apple Tree                              Down Down 
Two little apples smiled at me                           Yellow and Brown
 I shook that tree                                                The leaves are falling 
  As hard as I could                                                      all over town 
   Down came the APPLES
M-M-M were they GOOD!                           OCTOBER PRAYER
                                                                 GOD MADE THE SUN! GOD MADE THE SEAS!
                                                                 GOD MADE FISHES and GOD MADE ME!
                                                                  THANK YOU GOD for making the STARS and the SEAS
                                                                   for making the FISHIES and FOR MAKING ME!
                                                                   
                   

GOD CREATION

September 16th

 We have been singing and crafting about all the wonderful things that God has created. We painted the stars, the sun, and the moon. We cut out grass and glued down flowers and animals.
Number 1-we colored in number 1 and talked about how God made each of us special and there is no 1 exactly like us.
 B-Bubba Bear- we made our B puppet and our B page for our alphabet book.
 God Gave us Our Families-we shared our homework and our family pictures and talked about how special all our families are to us. 
 Each day we have lots of time to play and work together. We are using our words when we are frustrated and learning to take turns.
 READING BUDDIES-On Wednesday afternoon we meet up with our 3rd grade Reading Buddies and they read us stories. The preschoolers love having  special "big friends".

Have a great week!
 

SEPTEMBER ADVENTURES
September 9, 2019

  BUCKET FILLERS- Have you heard about the preschoolers filling a bucket already this year!
In our classroom we have a clear Bucket that gets filled with poms poms whenever we are being good listeners, good cleaner uppers and being kind to each other. (BEING FAIR, SAFE AND KIND!) When our bucket get filled we get to visit our special prizes box filled with treasures. ( Small dollar store trinkets). Our class has already filled one bucket and are on their way to filling the second one!

SEPTEMBER LEARNING GOALS
COLOR OF THE MONTH-Yellow
SHAPE OF THE MONTH-Square
NUMBER OF THE MONTH-1
LETTERS of the WEEKS-Allie Alligator, Bubba Bear, Catina Cat, DeeDee 

 ZOOPHONICS LETTER FRIENDS-Each week we will introduce a zoophonics letter of the week.
 The letter have a stuffed animal and lots of fun crafts to go with it. In preschool 3s,  we expose them to the letter but do not expect mastery.
 GOD'S CREATION- Along with our I am Special theme we will also be singing, crafting  and observing God's Creation.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

SEPTEMBER-HERE WE COME!
September 2, 2019

  We will beginning our first full month of preschooler! So much fun activities to explore 
 and discover. Our first 6 days were full of getting to know each other and learning the preschool routine. The students have had whole group time during "carpet time",
small group time at the table tops and play time during "free choice"

 BE FAIR! BE SAFE! BE KIND!

 Our first focus of the classroom rules was how we can be safe. We talk about it and act it out with puppets. Along with the rules we talk about what happens if we  don't listen to the rules. We call this 1-2-3 Magic. The student get 3 chances to turn around a repeated bad behavior. An example of what that looks like is this: A child is grabbing a toy away from a friend the teacher says, "we have to share the toys ask your friend if you can have the toy when they are done" That is a 1. If the behavior continues teacher say that is 2. It still continues, that is 3. You need to take a break in the Take 5 chair. Student is directed to Take 5 chair where he/she will sit for 3-5 minutes. This strategy work wonderfully in preschool and most preschoolers are ready to make better choices after a break. 
Bathroom Update-Most 3 year olds are recently potty trained so an occassional accident with new bathrooms and new environment is not uncommon. We take many bathroom breaks throughout our day. Every hour as a group and any time they ask to go.
We emphasize trying to go potty every time but especially before we go outside or to the lunchroom. Please make sure you have a set of backup clothes in the backpack in a ziploc bag every day. 
BIG MOTOR TIME-The preschoolers love running and playing developing their big motor skills. Everyday we get a chance to go to the outside playground, the inside playground or the gym. 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

 WELCOME TO the 2019-2020 SCHOOL YEAR!

  A big part of your child's preschool experience is for them to feel comfortable 
and helping them to grow in their Love of Learning. A positive start to their day is important. We start our day at Carpet Time. You may have heard your child repeating our greeting. We sing our greeting for each child and remind them "we're so glad to see you in our room!"  Along with welcoming all our friends we are also working on taking turns. Some days we even add our rhythm sticks to practice rhythm and voice levels.

I AM SPECIAL!

 Our focus for the first few weeks of preschool is God made us all special
 and he loves us very much!  We are getting to know each other and beginning to figure out the preschool routine. The preschoolers have done so much already- Sitting on the rug listening to stories, singing songs, walking in line, carrying our own lunch tray, eating in the lunch room with the big preschoolers, playing on the "big" playground, playing in the inside playground, sharing and taking turns and so many new routine procedures and they are doing great!

Aug./Sept. Prayer
A-B-C-D-E-F-G 
Thank you God for feeding me!

  Rest Time has been going wonderfully!  Most preschoolers are sleeping about 90 minutes. All rest item are kept in their rest bins when we aren't resting. Please feel free to take the items home to be washed weekly or biweekly. The tricky part is remembering to bring them back.
Lunch Time- The children have been great about sitting at our lunch table and 
using their mannners. Some preschoolers are big eater and gobble up a lot of their food. Others are nibblers! Both are normal preschool behavior. We put a fruit, veggie, and milk along with the main entree on their tray. We encourage 
them to try everything on their tray. As they grow and get comfortable they
may eat more and more!
Helpful Hints-we had a few accidents today. Please make sure you have a change of clothes in their backpack-just in case.
FAMILY PICTURE-Please send in a family picture as we get to know each other. 
 

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!