Bright Stars Begin 2013-2014 School Year

Holy Moly Preschool!

News from August 23.2013

We are so pleased to tell you we have had a great start to our Bright Star year!  The children are making friends and learning classroom routines.  We are so proud of their listening and following directions.  It has been a good week!

Many of you are sending snacks.  Please don’t. Also, if you sent supplies in, including extra folders, please remove them from the backpack and keep them at home.  Extra things in backpacks are confusing for little angels.

If you have not sent a change of clothes for your child, please do so.  Also, if we send home soiled clothes, we have no more clothes here, so please send some back.

Remember to put "Letterlink" names where the children see them each day.  The refrigerator would be a great place!

Next week we will be talking about making friends and being a friend.  We will continue to explore work centers with an emphasis on sharing and turn taking.  Our shape for the week will be the circle and our color will be orange.  Please dress your child in something orange on Friday.

Thank you for sharing your child with us.  We are enjoying getting to know them and are looking forward to a fantastic year!

September 3^rd is Back to School Night from 6:30 – 8:00.  Please make plans to attend.

Open Gate Farm! My Favorite Place Ever!

This was the best learning trip I have ever been on!  We had so much fun at the farm!  It was a beautiful, sun shiny day with cool breezes through the Weeping Willows.  The children were happy and busy and enjoyed running with the pigs and collecting eggs from the hens.  Farmer Tom and Farmer Marisa were great with the children and the children were great with the animals.  
A good time was had by all!

I've Been Gone So Long!

I'm so sorry I've been away from this blog for so long!  My Mom had a bad fall the end of February and she has either been in the hospital or rehab since. I've had to let house keeping and my blog fall behind, but hopefully I will be able to finish strong.  Mom?  She's doing pretty well today and spending some time with my brother's family.  It's been an amazing and long journey.

Thanks for hanging in there!

Oh My Gosh We are Busy!

February 12th was the 100th Day of school and we were 100 days smarter!  We made beautiful 100th Day crowns supplied by Safe Schools Healthy Students and we made my famous 100th Day Trash (trail mix)!  Each student picked 10 items from their snack and glued them on construction paper to help make our 100 Snacks poster.

On Valentine's Day we each had a chance to be the mail carrier and deliver the Valentine's we had prepared for our friends.  I was so proud of everyone for how hard they worked at reading their friend's names and delivering the mail to the correct mailbox.

Here is one of our favorite songs, The Tooty-TA!  Enjoy!

Learning Trip to the Downtown Mall BRRRR!

Well, I haven't posted for a while, things have been a little crazy in the weather department as well as my home life.  On January 24th, I became a Grandma!  Who has time for anything when a new baby comes into your life?!

So, today I am back up and running.  The children took me on a learning trip last week.  Yes, it was very cold, yes we were outside a lot, but we bundled up and were totally prepared for the great outdoors as we visited some friends on the Downtown Mall.

First, we headed to The Virginia Discovery Museum.  We pretended to bake at Panera, perform at The Paramount and be a Bee Keeper!  We played the pipe organ and built and raced cars!  And we got hungry!

 

So we headed down the mall to Sal's pizza.  We were so lucky to be eating in a

fancy restaurant, and Mrs. Nancy made us delicious cheese pizza!  We almost made it out the door without any accidents...almost!

Our final stop was the Jefferson-Madison Central Library.  So we bundled up and continued up the mall and then up to East Market Street to the library.  We had a great time with our story teller.  

We listened,   

we danced,

and we listened some more!

We had a wonderful time!

We ended our jam-packed day with one last picture on the freezing cold steps of the library.  

Say Cheese!

Homework in Preschool?! You bet!

What a lovely first week back we had!  Mrs. Gray and I were amazed at how easily the children got right back on their schedule!  We think perhaps they are beginning to act like kindergartners!
The big deal this week was having homework.  The children were very excited about it, remind them of their excitement when they are in middle school!  The children were to tell their parents what they wanted to learn in 2013.  I was quite pleased.  We had children who want to learn to be friends, to make cakes, to read and write and to do karate, to name a few.

I am very proud of everyone for we all had a very good week!

This coming week look forward to hearing about the letter F, freezing and melting, Jan Brett and a wonderful book called The Mitten!

Thoughts and Prayers

My heart is heavy today.

My thoughts and prayers are with the parents and families of Sandy Hook Elementary School students and staff. 

May God wrap you in his loving arms at this horrific time.