Thanks for a great preschool year! We'll miss you!! Have a great summer!

Love, Mrs. Lauer & Mrs. Beth

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Happy Birthday Jackson! Our last birthday of the school year!

We'll Miss You!

Ms. Beth & I would like to say Thank You to our parents and preschoolers for a wonderful year!
I have some cute pictures of our last day together that I hope to post by tomorrow!
We hope you all have wonderful summers and we hope to see you in the hallways at preschool next year!
We so much enjoyed your children this year!

Jordan's Birthday/Spring Festival

Thank you all for coming to our Spring Festival! The children did a great job. And by great job, I mean - they all stayed on stage and had only small amounts of stage fright! I will miss this group so much! Prior to singing that morning, we were able to have a quick celebration with Jordan and her Mom and new baby brother, Jackson in the classroom. We are starting our last week at preschool! Wednesday, we will celebrate our last birthday of the year for Jackson!

Friday is our last day and we will celebrate in our classroom!

We have had the best year with your little ones. How much they have grown!

Hope to see you Friday!

Happy Birthday Jordan!!!

Special Congratulations to our Big Sisters!

Congratulations to Mia and Jordan (and to their familes) who became big sisters during this school year. We know they will be great big sisters!!

Wrapping up the School Year...

Celebrating Earth Day - God's Creation

I still feel so new to this blogging,I apologize for the pictures being out of order. This is something, the children could fix in a second!

The month of April...

During the month of April, we read and talked about caterpillars, butterflies,insects, and Spring. We read, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. We continued counting, sequencing, and used our artwork for the lesson plans. Coincidentally, Ms. Beth (our own Dr. Doolittle) found a caterpillar on the playground. We brought it in for the children to have a closer look! They loved watching it up close! We ended the month with Earth Day, where we made a globe with our hands, talked about God's creation of the Earth, and made green & blue playdoh balls shaped like the Earth. The children also passed around a globe. Many of them did not know what this was, or that this is where we live. They had fun on Earth Day!
We also counted "5 Little Frogs", made some beautiful umbrellas for our classroom, and enjoyed learning our Music/Songs for Song fest. It was a busy, busy, month and we had lots of fun. Enjoy the pictures to follow!

Lots of new photos coming tonight...

I am so sorry, but my computer is having problems. I will get the photos on tonight. Sorry for the long delay!

End of the Year Notes!

Wow! I can't believe how quickly this school year has gone by! We have had lots of fun in our Two's Class this year. I hope to have some new pictures on the site today and have some notes for our last classes.
We have two more birthdays to celebrate here in the month of May. Jordan's is May 9th and Jackson's is May 25th. We will celebrate their special days in class before our last day.
We are having fun learning our songs and getting ready for our Songfest. You can help prepare your child for this moment by telling him or her what is going to happen, and let them know how excited you are about coming to school and watching the class perform. I'll let you know where we'll be standing once we've had a rehearsal with the rest of the group.
Don't forget to plan for May 8th. We will be singing on the stage in the Great Hall with all of the other classes at preschool. Look for important notices to come home (some have already come home) regarding the times, etc.
Our group is wearing white tops with denim bottoms. Be sure to bring your cameras.

End of the Year Notes!

Don't forget to plan for May 8th! We will be singing on the stage in the Great Hall along with everyone else, then there will be time to browse the book fair and have a snack before you head home. Actually, this year the refreshments will come first - right after morning carpool. Be sure to check the seating chart for the best seats for pictures, video, etc.
The children will need to wear denim bottoms (skirt,shorts,etc) and white tops...
More pics to follow, hopefully by this evening. I have some real cuties from outside since the weather has been so wonderful.
Our class party will be the 15th in the classroom. This has been a really great year for our class and we want to thank you all for that!
Please check back this evening for picture posts! I hope to have the individual and new class photo for you by next Wednesday.

Happy Easter & Happy Spring Break!

Ms. Beth & I would like to wish our Preschool Families a Happy Easter and we hope you all have a wonderful Spring Break with your preschoolers.
We will return to preschool on April 15th. We will begin our Garden Theme, learning all about God's beautiful creation. We will visit and try out our new outdoor classroom (which if you haven't seen, you should check it out during our Easter party tomorrow.)
On our daily news sheet yesterday, you may have seen news about our Spring Festival. Our class will wear white shirts and anything denim as bottoms. For girls, it can be a denim skirt, skort, etc. Boys should wear jeans or denim shorts. Any type of shoe is welcome, except for Crocs! We hope you will enjoy our show this year. The twos are working really hard in music class and our artwork is just beautiful for the show. More news to follow.
We hope you can come to our Easter Party tomorrow at preschool in our classroom. We hope the weather will be nice and we can have our egg hunt in the Memorial Garden (this is to the left of the main entrance to the Church -- just outside of MMO. If for some reason, you cannot come-- we'll see you at Carpool! Enjoy your break, see you the 15th!

Last week we had a lot of fun with frogs! We had counting stories, story time and artwork with our frogs. "Five Little Fishies" counting rhyme came home and our "Five Little Frogs" will come home soon. Miss Elizabeth taught us a song about 5 little frogs on a log. Ask your preschooler if they can sing this song to you. It has a big alligator at the end, so watch out! During circle time, we work as a group to complete our color puzzles, with each child bringing the puzzle piece to the puzzle and naming their colors. I even tricked a couple of them this week and they were quick to correct me with the appropriate color. I say the counting rhyme to them and then they say it with me the next couple of times. Mia was able to repeat the rhyme completely right after I shared it with them. They are all so smart and have learned so much this year. Ms. Beth & I really enjoy this group!
Other notes: We will finish up Movement classes soon and our Easter Party will be lots of fun with an Egg Hunt at preschool. We will make our own bags

for collecting the eggs. More notes to follow and we hope to see you all there!

Music Class: Using pom-poms to make rainbows.

Welcome to Spring! March updates...

Getting ready for Teddy Bear Day in February!

The beginning of March brought our weather theme. Our circle time,storytime, artwork, and music classes have been all about weather. Here, Jackson is making raindrops for his Rainbow Book.

These are our "cloud" pages.

Thank you to Sarah & her Family!

Our group is really enjoying the larger legos that you all donated to our class! Thank you so much.

The children had such fun exchanging Valentines. We did this at circle time. Each child passed theirs out around the circle. It was especially helpful to our new student, to put the names with faces. We matched our bags with our pictures. The children are so patient and good during circle time, they will do great in the 3 year old class next year! We then had storytime and valentine counting, math matching! The children are really catching on with "what's missing?" in our sequencing exercises.

Handing out Valentines...

More from Wednesday Movement Class

Using scoops and bean bags to work on our hand to eye coordination. The children would use the scoops to toss the bean bag into the air and try to catch it with the large scoops. They loved using these scoops and were quite successful and catching the bean bags! Great Job!!!

Movement Class Update...

In Movement class Wednesday, we played with the parachute using our strong leg and arm muscles. We pulled it up... and then back down. Lots of fun!

Making Snowflakes - from January

This was a cute art project we did in January. The children used glue & glitter to pour the "ice" onto the snowflake.
Then, we blew cold air onto the snowflakes...making them "icey cold"....

They are quite beautiful and we hung them in our classroom tree.

Welcome to February!

We started February off with a snow shower! The children enjoyed watching the shiny flurries from our classroom window. We painted at the easel special Valentine's Hearts with our colors of the month red & pink.

Mia is the "mother" of the class lately, offering her help to all of her friends. She is a sweetie!

The children are showing more of an interest lately, with our puzzles. Ms. Beth & I enjoy that with our small group, we can give them individualized attention.

Music Notes: This past week, Miss Elizabeth told the story of Jesus using 5 loaves and 2 fishes to feed the crowd of 5,000 ~ with leftovers! We also caught "snowflakes" with our fingers as they fell to the ground They all love the bubbles!

We can't wait for it to get warm enough to return to play on the playground! Hope you all are enjoying the milder temperatures and lots of outside play for this week. Hopfully, we can return

to the playground in the coming weeks.

We are so proud of our boys and girls who are wearing big kid underwear! Congrats to your parents too! It can be a scary transition, but the children are VERY proud of themselves when that part of toddlerhood is over. If you develop a routineof going to the potty, just like brushing your teeth or having rest time - you will find the chance for accidents is greatly reduced.

I so much enjoyed our conferences and the chance to talk with you all. Thank you so much for taking the time to come and chat. Mrs. Beth & I so much enjoy your children--Thank you for sharing them with us!