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What a month September has been!  The children toured the school and made binoculars to help us see all the really cool things about our school.  We spent time identifying the first letter of our names or just on knowing what our name looks like.  We also made new friends and explored who lives in our families.  For art, we traced the children’s bodies and let them color themselves in.  We also painted outside with a friend, which is always a favorite activity.

Letter of the Week

Each week we will be highlighting one letter of the alphabet for our four and five year old Pre-Kindergarten classes.  The alphabet knowledge will include letter names, letter sounds, letter formation, and upper and lower case identification.  We have already covered the letters A, B, and C.

A new concept we have introduced each day is to have your child write out their full name (or their first initial) when they come into the room.  The children seem to be enjoying this new skill.

Skills for Next Month

Each month we try to highlight which skills we are working on.  Next month you can expect your children to learn phonemic awareness, initial sounds, letter and sound recognition, tactile activities, color awareness, and movement.  We will work on these skills with all of our classes (with age appropriate degrees of depth).  We feel it is very important for you to know what we are working on as we are preparing them for their next educational step in their lives.

Well, we have ended our 16th year of preschool!  I am happy to report that all of our Pre-Kindergarten students are on their way to being fantastic kindergarten students in the fall!  Jenn and I will miss them next year.

Our first week was transportation week.  Probably one of the favorite weeks because we take a ride on a Fort Collins city bus to Ben and Jerry’s.  Thankfully, we did not miss the bus and Ben and Jerry’s was ready with ice cream cones for the children.

The second week we talked all about our moms.  We learned that the best thing she does for all of us are give us hugs and kisses but, making cookies was a very popular item as well.  The three year old class made their moms hand print flowers and our bigger kids had their pictures taken in old fashioned clothes with a flower memory for their moms.  We also held our annual Mother’s Day Tea where I think everyone had a great time!

Our last week of school is always lots of fun.  We had bubble and chalk day and the ever popular water day!  We ended the week with bike day and then graduation day.  It always chokes me up to see some of our families grow out of us as brothers and sisters eventually grow out of us.

As always, I want to say a very big THANK YOU to all of you for supporting our ministry at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Preschool and a very special thank you to Pastors Michael and Leta for leading us in chapel this year.  We are very blessed by all of you.  We hope your summer is peacful, restful, and tons of fun!

Our first week we celebrated Easter.  Pastor Leta shared with them the Easter story using Resurrection Eggs.  I think it helped the children to have a firmer grasp with the story.  We also painted Easter eggs with condensed milk and made bunny ears!

The second week we learned all about dinosaurs.  Every year it amazes me at how much they know and that they can pronounce the names.  We also painted and stuffed a dinosaur and we made dinosaur puppets.  At the end of the week we had parent-teacher conferences.  Our kiddos are all doing very well and our Pre-K classes are all very much ready for kindergarten next year.

The third week was farm week.  Ms. Jenn taught them all about how to milk a cow and we made a barn with all the animals inside and outside.  We also made pig noses and five little ducks in a pond.  Our week ended with a field trip to Lee Martinez Farm where we had a tour and a hay ride.

Our last week we learned all about bugs and butterflies.  We made a blot butterfly to teach them about symmetry, coffee filter butterflies, and their personal favorite, glow-in-the-dark fireflies.  The children absolutely love to turn off all the lights in the bathroom and fly their fireflies around.  SO COOL!

The class butterflies we have been caring for cooperated and left their chrysalis so the children could see them.  We also welcomed two chicks as classroom pets (thanks to Jax).  The children are thrilled with them!

Only three weeks left of school this year and it has flown by for all of us!

Our first week we learned all about our five senses.  We made smelly flowers, texture boards, and taste charts.  Walking in paint to create footprints was a favorite activity although, popping popcorn without a lid on it was also very popular.  Pastor Leta’s chapel also talked about our five senses with God.  How did they think he smelled (like a flower), how did he touch (like a hug), how does he sound (like a lion).  Thanks Pastor Leta!

The next week we studied our community helpers.  We made our own apron to help bake something with Mom.  We painted a very grey tooth white and we made a tooth fairy box for that very special day when we lose a tooth.  Our field trip this month will be the garbage garage where we will learn all about what happens to our garbage in Fort Collins.

Our last week we learned all about oceans and what is inside of them.  We made an ocean in a bag, jelly fish, and the kids very favorite sand activity, sand in a bottle.  We are quickly going through the letters of the week progressing up to the letter ‘W’.  The children are really grabbing onto our letter of the week and Jenn and I know it will also benefit them when they start kindergarten.

We still have openings for the 2012-2013 school year.  If you are interested or know someone who would like more information, contact us at 970-484-7412.

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.