Building Blocks Preschool

Registration is moving along great this year.  My Monday-Wednesday 4-5 year old class at 8:45-10-45 is full.
The 3-4 year old class on Monday-Wednesdays at 11:00-1:00 has 3 openings left!  I can't tell you how excited I am!
The 4-5 year old class on Tuesday-Thursday still has openings.  I will open another class when this one fills.
Thank you for being an answer to our prayers.  I just love teaching children!!!

This week we learned about the letter "V"  It is always hard for the children after learning how to write the letter "U" last week to change and make it a "v".  I always tell them to remember to slant and then I show them with their fingers to write the "v".  The children who are graduating in the older classes worked on their program coming up in May and I drilled them along with the younger class on things like, "If you say the letter T what word starts with that letter.  We went through the entire alphabet spelling.   They did Super! (it was a little harder of course for the younger children, but they hung in there trying). The 4-5 year age are reading phenomenal.  They have learned their sight words well as the parents have helped them at home too.  

We have been getting ready for the Easter Party this coming week.  The weather report said that it was going to snow and rain this week so I thought I would have our Easter Egg hunt next Wednesday and Thursday before Spring Break.  I hope it was a good idea in that maybe families will be taking off sooner for the weekend trips. I hope all the children will be able to be here.  If not I always save what we make and do in class on special days like this one coming up.

The children designed and made their baskets. We also frosted bunnies and egg shaped sugar cookies.  The children are prepared very well this year for their Kindergarten screenings.  I do have a couple of children who are still struggling with personal trials at home and in preschool concentrating.  When we go to do our letters and sounds they are lost.  If the parents are going over each week what we learned in class that day the kids do very well.   Whether its maturity or whatever, sometimes children come and just do not care to learn.  There will always be a few, however, I have learned in the past that if you give them a lot of love and consistency in teaching they will eventually pick up on what you have been teaching them and they will get it - maybe not as soon as we wished they would, but they will get it.