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Greetings Everyone! The preschoolers had a wonderful time celebrating Earth Day all last week. We learned all about our environment and took a closer look at some of our planet's environmental issues. Then the children went a step further by putting their knowledge to work by coming up with solutions to help solve these issues. Some solutions the children came up with were to to use less garbage at lunch time, plant seeds, reuse & recycle, and clean up litter in our own neighborhoods. It was wonderful to see the children's love for their planet come out with such enthusiasm! The children were so excited about the fact that we were able to cut our lunch-time garbage down by 90%! We hope they keep up their new found efforts. Here are some fun pictures we were able to capture this week. Enjoy! Rocco's grandparents came to visit the preschoolers for Rocco's VIP, and they brought flowers for all the children to plant:    ...they also brought in Blue Bird houses that Rocc...

Greetings Families! As usual we've been having tons of fun at preschool. Wacky week was a total blast, and we captured some fun pictures for you all to enjoy!: Beach Day was super fun! It was still a bit chilly for actual beachwear, but it was fun to act like we were somewhere tropical!: Favorite sports team day was a hit. It was fun to see all of the different sports jerseys, and we sure had a lot of Bulldogs! Renz was a bit of everything for sports team day!  What I Want to Be When I Grow Up day was fun. Here's a doctor and a firefighter..." ...and some superheros... ...and some army guys... ...lots of medical people!... And of course we had April Fools Day in there....Ms. Patti always plays the best April Fools jokes. This year it was "ice cream" for snack (actually mashed potatoes!) And then our favorite; Pajama Day! Complete with popcorn... ...waffles... ...and tons of smiles! We start off this week talking about recycling, gardening, and loving our earth. H...

Hello, Everyone! Spring is in the air and it makes it hard to believe how quickly the school year is flying by! The preschoolers will be moving on from their Outerspace & Weather units into more exciting themes: "Dr. Seuss", "Creative Me, Recying/Love our Earth", and "Nature Play"! The teachers have so many fun things planned, it is sure to be a blast! We will swing right into the month of March by starting our "Dr. Seuss" Unit. We love to study Dr. Seuss here at preschool because not only is he responsible for writing so many famous books, but his books are so much fun that they really inspire children to develop a love for reading! During the end of March, we will dive into a unit called “Creative Me” in which the children will explore the many ways they can be creative through visual arts. We usually schedule some fun field trips for this particular unit, as well as have fun guests come to the school. If you or someone you know is an artis...

Greetings Families! We've had a fun and busy past couple of months. We've been learning, playing, celebrating, and working. Here are some fun snap shots to share with you so you can take a peek inside your little ones preschool life. Check it out!: The beautiful winter has equaled a lot of playtime outside!: ...and of course playtime outside means warm-up time inside!: The children have really been enjoying our Outerspace unit! They could go on learning about space forever! Here are two cuties experimenting with a little "moon dough": Robert did everything in this jet-pack for a couple of days: And what fun is an outerspace unit with out space-themed snacks?: Here is astronaut Tui: Our trip to the planetarium was totally awesome!: During February we of course celebrated Valentine's Day!:  And during February we also celebrated "I Love to Read" month. We got a generous response from volunteer readers. The kids just loved having guests surprise us by dropp...

What We’re Learning: It’s fun to finally have everyone back from their Christmas vacations; getting back into the swing of things has been effortless so far as all the preschoolers were excited to be back at school! During the month of January we are having two units: Winter/Hibernation, and Sounds and Music. For our winter unit we will be focusing on winter animals, winter weather conditions, and focus on the vocabulary words: “adapt”, “hibernate”, and “migrate”. For our Sounds and music unit the preschoolers will be learning about sounds and music through playful experiences. We will take a look at how vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear, and we will explore the elements of sound and how it applies to music. For the month of January we will focus on the letters: “L”, “M”, “N”; numbers: 7 and 8, the color white, and rectangles. We have more fun thematic units planned for February as well: What’s in the Sky/Outer space and Weather. Studying outer space is so much fun! Thi...

Greetings Everyone! What a fantastic December it was here at preschool! The children enjoyed a beautifully mild start to winter and had fun in our Minnesota Winter unit as well as the Christmas season!! They learned about Minnesota and it's unique characteristics, about the animals that live here and how they live in the winter, and of course we focused a lot of time and energy on the upcoming Holidays! Here is a peek into the past few weeks: Winter in Minnesota means ice fishing, and these boys had fun fishing on the "ice": It seemed to take FOREVER, but everyone was excited to finally see some snow: Prior to the snow fall, the kids got tired of waiting, so we had to make our own snow activities: Here is Renz with some tasty snowball snacks!: Our Holiday Program was a huge success. Can you believe how awesome the kids did singing? My favorite part either had to be Santa's appearance, or this yummy hot chocolate bar: For a fun sensory/fine motor project we painted wit...