Yes, I know it's a holiday on Monday (Jan 21st) - but come on - we've gotta have preschool so YES there is preschool on Monday!  See ya there.... and thank you

Letter "Oo" was the letter of the week.  We learned a lot of words that start with the letter O.  See if your preschooler can tell you a word.  One of the words should be "octopus".  I held up large capital letters and had the children identify the letter, the sound and what word starts with that particular letter.  The classes did great!

This month we are learning the Months of  the Year.  The meaning of the word Opposites was introduced.  We had work sheets that helped them understand better the opposites (up-down; hard, soft; day,night; hot, cold etc. )  We made O necklaces and the kids loved it!  We read a story about a boy who wanted an Octopus for a pet because his little brother has allergies.  The children enjoyed the book.  We also made bubble gum (game) learned a new color (fushia) and went through our numbers (6), writing our names, and received a reading book with the new word "come".   The 4-5 classes are doing great!  Thank you Moms for your empowering your child. Their sight words are coming along.  I love to hear them read all together - it really strengthens each other as they read.

No preschool today.  Power outage no heat.  See you on Wednesday!

The New Year has begun and we are heading in the right direction!  The letter  "Nn" was our focus this week along with the "Months of the Year".  So far for our first week back most of the children can repeat the first four months of the year.  We will continue to work on the months of the year until all the children have learned them.  We talked about words that begin with the letter N and we also made our birdnests with "Nn" word pictures to help remind the children what the sound of N is. I told a story about Mr. Noisy!  Ask your child if he/she can tell you the story.  They had to act it out - it was alot of fun watching them.

There are still a few children who are struggling with writing their names.  If your child is in the 4-5 class please continue to help him/her at home. We are now working on writing their last names in class.  If your child is in the 3-4 class we will continue working on it in the classroom setting too.  Sometimes the younger aged children's fingers strength haven't formed yet but it will come as they continue to practice.

I will be putting Fall applications for preschool in your February pymt. envelopes if you are interested in having your child come next Fall.  People in the community and out of state are coming by and calling now for applications for next Fall.  Please get yours in as soon as you can so you can have a good pick as to which time and class you would like your child to be in.  Oh my goodness... its my Anniversary today!!!!