No preschool on Monday January 15. (Human rights day) and the Madison school will be out of school too.

Welcome back students to preschool.  This past week we reviewed everything we have learned thus far.  The 4-5 yr old classes knew all their sight words, counted easily to 50, understood what the sound of each letter is and also recognized each letter..upper and lower case.  We reviewed shapes, colors opposites.

We are going to learn our days of the week, months of the year, and start doing alittle math. My 3-4 yr old class are introduced to these things and we will see what they can handle too.  They are sponges and love learning..that makes all the difference. Looking forward to another great week!

Christmas was wonderful and the new year will be here before you know it.  Preschool will start back up jan 3rd and 4th.  Please don't worry about your payment being late this month.  Just pay when your child comes.  Looking forward to the new year.

Registration is open for the fall 2018.

Registration is open for fall 2018...can you believe it.  The months go by so fast. Just fill out the application and either bring it by or mail it to me.  The schedule and times are on the registration form for you to fill out.

December is flying by quickly.  Santa will be making a surprise visit soon and I'm pretty sure he will play a few games with the children and hand out some wrapped presents and of course a candy cane. (I've never seen so many children love candy canes like these kids do).

All three classes just completed letter "J" this past week.  We made candy canes (which looks like the letter j.  We painted snowmen, made gingerbread man cookies and yes one of them jumped and ran out of the oven.  Quick as a wink the students were running through my house trying to find the little gingerbread cookie.  And when they did he was eaten fast in the moment with children excited and screaming for joy that they found him.

The children are learning how to share better.  They are being kind to each other and noticing each other. They are becoming friends.  It's wonderful to watch. It shows me they are becoming confident and like structure.  Our work load consists of practicing counting to 100, did alittle addition in the 4-5 year old classes, went over and over identifying our alphabet letters and sounds.  Our shapes are coming along great.  Today's class only forgot one shape out of 12 and that was quatrefoil.  Not bad for 4-5 year olds.

We will do letter "K" next week and then the week after we will only have preschool on Monday and Tuesday.  Classes will start back up January 2 and 3rd.  Happy holidays🎄

We finished our letter "H" this week and are trying in class to write our names still and recognize our letters. We learned two new shapes and made turkeys and hats. We talked about the pilgrims and how they went on the mayflower to Plymouth Rock.  The journey was long and the people were starving when they landed.  The Indians helped them with food, planting and having a great feast a year later that is now called "thanksgiving".

Happy thanksgiving to you and if you are traveling please be safe.

Another great week of learning.  Our letter was (f).  The children were taught about fire safety.  If you are on fire...stop, drop and roll.  If your home is filled with smoke, drop and crawl out to a planned place for each family member.  What is your plan?  At my home we taught our children to get outside to the mailbox and wait for us.  Do you go back inside a burning house?  No! And please have safety alarms in your house.  It is always better to be prepared if it ever happens.

This coming week we are moving on to the letter (g).  We will be painting our turkeys and celebrating two birthdays coming up.  We will have another great week of learning shapes, opposites, numbers and writing our names.

The Halloween party for each class will be the regular time your child is scheduled to come to preschool next Monday (30th) and Tuesday (31rst) of October.

On Mondays class for the 4-5 year olds please bring 11 wrapped surprises(however fun you want to make it or buy). Have your child wear his/her costume and make sure they use the restroom before coming.

Monday's 3-4 year old class please bring 12 wrapped surprises (however fun you want to make it or buy).
Have your child wear his/her costume and make sure they use the restroom before coming.

Tuesday's 4-5 yr old class please bring 10 wrapped surprises (however fun you want to make it or buy). Again, have your child wear his/her costume and make sure to have them use the restroom before coming.

Each child will pass out their treat or surprise they bring to each child in their class.  We will play games, make homemade rootbeer, and sing some silly Halloween songs, along with a cute story at the end of class.


Ps: what I mean by surprise is that I have seen moms make cute little bags full of rings, a small candy bar, Halloween stickers, just Halloween things. You can do anything you want.  I love making it as fun as I can for the children.

Thank you. If you have any questions call my cell #208-403-2715.

HI everyone🎃 No preschool Thursday October 19th.

This week we learned about the letter"D".  We did our worksheets along with practicing our colors, shapes and numbers.  Our sight word for this week was look.  The children painted and put funny faces on their pumpkins that they took home.  Also a few more little surprises, playing duck, duck, goose, singing "hey diddle, diddle". Today a few of the tautphaus park zoo animals came.  I hope the children enjoyed the experience.  The zoo mobile people emailed me later today and told me they were so impressed with your kind and respectful children.  After which, some of the children took home eye patches while the second class took home dinasaur hats.  The children also made and took home their "D" train.  Thank you to those of you that brought snacks this week. The snacks were perfect.  With the zoo mobile that came today it kinda threw off the schedule.  It's ok.  Sometimes we have to just improvise.

I can't thank you enough for letting me teach your wonderful children. Looking forward to another great week with each of them.