Our Saviour's Lutheran Preschool

We are back in session and running to keep up with the children.  It is amazing how happy all the parents are to see Jenn and I after Christmas break!

Our first week back is Silly Week!  We have game day where the children bring games from home to play.  We had silly sock and silly hair day this year which was pretty interesting.  Of course the highlight of the week is P.J. Day.  My how they love to wear their jammies to school.  As one child told me, “Ms. Bev, school should be like this every day don’t you think?”  Maybe he is on to something.  Jammies, coffee, and a good book.  I could get used to that.

Our second week was Let it Snow week.  The weather sort of cooperated, though we could have possibly renamed it “Let it blow strong winds week”.  We made button snowmen, read “The Mitton”.  We also had snowcones and “painted” with cool whip.

Our third week we learned all about pets.  We made a puppy puppet, a kitty puppet, a fish tank, and a pet collage.  We also went on a field trip to Pet Co.  I always wonder how many parents end up with a fish or a mouse after this trip.

The last week we learned all about numbers.  We sequenced numbers, found mystery numbers, and my all time favorite, we graphed with M&M’s!

We are getting ready for next years enrollment.  Our present students begin enrolling on January 30th – February 3rd.  Our church community enrollment is February 4th – 5th.  The Fort Collins, Windsor, and Loveland and surrounding areas and communities begin enrollment on February 6th.  If you are interested in preschool for the 2012-2013 school year, contact us at 970-484-7412.

December was, of course, a very full month for us at the preschool.  We started off with a huge bang with the craft fair.  Honestly, if I could do cartwheels, I would be doing them all over the church.  It is a fantastic fund raiser, just a ton of work.  We brought in about $5000 dollars.  Thank you everyone for supporting us with cookies, shopping at the fair, buying goodies from the fleat market, and eating Kraut Burgers.  Also, thank you to Thrivent Financial for their supplemental funds to help us continue our scholarships.  We are so thankful for each and every one of you for supporting our ministry at Our Saviour’s.

The first week of December, we decked our halls.  We put our Christmas tree, made our wishes well known to Santa, and hung our wreaths from our wonderful field trip to Fort Collins Nursery.

The second week we traveled to Germany where St. Nicholas came to visit us.  We left our shoes outside our room and St. Nicholas filled them with candy and oranges.  When St. Nick rang his bells, one our little girls got so excited that she smacked her chin on the table!  Seeing their faces during this time (thanks to his office elves by the way) is the most magical moment of the month for Jenn and I.  We also visited Babushka in Russia and learned all abuot the gifts the children gave the Christ child at Christmas in Mexico.

Our last week was Gingerbread Mania.  Ms. Jenn made very delicious gingerbread cookies and told the story of the little gingerbread boy and, wouldn’t you know, he escaped from the oven and we searched all over the church for him!  He left a huge mess and, rumor has it, the janitor was not so excited about it.  We also made gingerbread houses.  Ms. Jenn has a ton of energy!

Pastor Leta’s chapel was all about telling the good news of the baby Jesus’ birth and taught the children “Go tell it on the Mountain”.  Pastor Michael told them the story of Jesus’ birth and we sang “Silent Night”.  Thank you Pastors for making our children feel so special.

We will take a few weeks off for rejuvenation and hit it strong in January.  We hope you all have a restful and peaceful break this season!  If you know anyone who is looking for a preschool in Fort Collins, Windsor, or Loveland area for 2012 please have them give us a call at 970-484-7412.