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  • Open House 2010

    Join us Thursday and Friday of this week (January 7th & 8th) as well as Monday of next week (January 11th) for preschool open house.  It is an opportunity for those families with children in the Toddler and Early 3’s programs to visit the preschool throughout the school day.  Talk with the teachers and observe the classroom in action.  We want the families at Tots to have the first opportunity to continue their children through preschool with us.  The open house is designed to allow current Tots families to interact with the live preschool classroom.  Rather than an early year evening meet and greet, it is our opinion that observing and following the teachers as they are instructing is critical to gain a working knowledge of what your children have to gain from continuing through our preschool.  Our preschool is committed to providing the finest education in an environment that teaches confidence, builds connections and encourages growth.  This event has been a great success in the past and we hope you can join us!

  • Ice Sculptures-Winter Fun

    Nice and Icy Winter Game

    Nice and Icy Winter Fun

    Looking for some winter day fun over the holiday vacation?  Once the first snow hits, this will be a great snowy day activity.

    What is it? An art project involving icicles and frozen blocks of colored ice

    What will I need? Food coloring, water, ice trays, molds, muffin tins and other containers

    You can’t have as much snow as we do and not have an abundance of icicles. We decided to incorporate some of ours into a sculpture, joining them to ice blocks made by freezing colored water in ice-cube trays, Jell-O molds and yogurt containers. We placed all the materials on an outdoor table, and everyone took turns building totem poles, monsters and free-form sculptures, gluing the blocks of ice with a little dribble of water (it quickly froze).

    Helpful Hint: For consistency of hardness, consider making your colored blocks in the freezer rather than outdoors.

  • Our Gingerbread Play Dough Recipe

    Gingerbread Play-Dough

    Ingredients

    • 1 Cup flour
    • 1/2 Cup salt
    • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar
    • 1 cup water
    • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
    • Spices--Cinnamon, Allspice, Ginger, Nutmeg

    What you do:

    Mix the dry ingredients. Add spices a small amount at a time until the dough smells and looks like you want it too. Mix water and oil together first and then add them to the dry ingredients and stir. In a pot, cook the mixture for two to three minutes, stirring frequently. The dough will start to pull away from the sides of the pot and stick together. When this happens, take the playdough out of the pan and knead the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Allow the dough to cool and then store it in an airtight container.

  • Making Our Own Gingerbread Friends

    After reading the stories about all the different gingerbread friends throughout the month of December, it was time to try our hand at making our own.  We measured and mixed the ingredients, stirred and stirred, rolled the dough then cut them out.  We knew that the recipe said to cook them for a whole eight minutes, no more no less and NO PEEKING.  We put them in the oven, but when we looked to see if they were done…our gingerbread friends were GONE!  Our tray was empty.  We quickly put our coats on and began searching outside incase they had slipped out while we weren’t looking.  They were nowhere to be found!  After searching high and low, we finally found them hiding in our classroom.  Thank goodness the fox didn’t find them before we did!

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  • Pre-K Christmas Party

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    Sam

    Mia

    Griffin

    Bentley

    Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Christmas Party!  The kids loved sharing their holiday songs, favorite gingerbread story, and decorating the gingerbread cookies with you.  We loved having you!  Thanks to everyone who donated their time making the delicious gingerbread cookies and supplying the plates and napkins.  We couldn’t have done it without you!

  • Friendships are in Bloom

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  • Santa’s Little Elves

    The children have been hard at work putting the finishing touches on their special holiday gifts for their families!  Just a sneak peek of our little elves at work for all of you.  Homemade gifts from our little ones are a true gift from the heart.  They can’t wait to bring them home!

    Hand Made Wrapping Paper

    Hand Made Wrapping Paper

    Hmmm...what could we be creating with our Blocks?

    Hmmm...what could we be creating with our Blocks?

  • Winter Weather is Here…

    As the winter weather quickly begins to come upon us, please remember that WE WILL GO OUTSIDE FOR RECESS IF THE TEMPERATURE IS ABOVE 32 DEGREES.  Giving the children a break from the structure of the classroom and an opportunity to be physically active is a vital part of our day.

    Please remember to dress your children appropriately for the weather- no skirts without tights or slip on shoes without socks.  One very important thing to remember is a hat and mittens. WE ASK THAT YOU SEND MITTENS WITH YOUR CHILD IN LIEU OF GLOVES. Imagine, if you will, putting on 24 pairs of gloves onto 48 individual itty bitty preschool size hands.  It is, to say the least, very time consuming and takes up some of their playtime outside.  Please purchase mittens for school to help us with the preparation for recess.  In advance THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FROM ALL OF US!

    Fun with Friends

    Fun with Friends

    "Traffic Jam"

    "Traffic Jam"

    Friends are Forever

    Friends are Forever

  • Monday in PreK

    One-to-One Correspondence

    One-to-One Correspondence

    Practicing Uppercase M & N

    Practicing Uppercase M & N

    Do You Eat Grass?

    Do You Eat Grass?

    We started full swing today after our Thanksgiving Break.  We began a new book this week called, “Do you eat grass?”  We focused on one-to-one correspondence, comprehension, and sight word recognition during our first reading today.  We also began working on writing our numerals from one to ten.  We will continue working on this skill during the month of December.  Consider practicing at home to help support our learning in the classroom.  We also focused on the letter Mm during our writing small group with Miss Katie.  The kids did a great job….keep working on those homework folders!

  • 2009 Art Show

    Our annual art has come and gone, but here are some pics to enjoy.  We really appreciate everyone joining us to celebrate all of the wonderful artwork the children had displayed.  They worked so hard and we LOVED seeing the kids take center state for the night!  We thank Ms. Penny for all of her hard work for the show AND with the children!