It was great to see everybody last night. Thanks for taking the time to come out on a cold and wintry night to play with your child. It has been a really fun unit to teach. Painting a mural with the preschoolers and planning the buildings we should make were very interesting. They had very definite ideas! It was great having the parents come in and talk to us and tell us about their jobs. My favorite discussion was about banks and what they are and why we have them. A bank is for getting suckers!

Monday and Tuesday are out parties. I have said this before and I truly mean it, this is my favorite party. The children love their "mail". They clutch it, read it, and want to save it all, envelopes included. We will have snacks first and then open our valentines. We may have time for a game and a story before we dismiss. Please have your child sign only the from part of the valentine. They will drop them into the mailboxes when they come to school. It is much easier if there are no to names on the valentines. There are 11 children in the Monday - Wednesday class, 20 in the afternoon class and 18 in the Tuesday-Thursday class.

In the afternoon class the children are beginning to learn their phone numbers. We will be working on them in class. Try singing their phone number to the tune of twinkle, twinkle little star.

The afternoon class has been playing games on the computer. It takes a long time for all 20 to have a few minutes at the computer. It's a great lesson in sharing.

We had a great open house this past week. Thanks for inviting your friends.

Tomorrow will be a very busy day. St. John's School is hosting a Social Studies Fair. The preschoolers have been learning about our communities the last 6 weeks. We have studied many different careers and had special speakers come in. We have played games and worked on special projects. Come and see what your preschoolers has been doing.
Friday, February 10 at 6:30. See you there!

The letter this week is Q. It will be a quiet day in preschool, (maybe). We will be finding out what queeny quail has to say.

Tomorrow will be a very busy day! It will be fun to find out what happens when we mix red and white! We will be talking about they color pink and Valentine's Day. Wednesday we will be making mail boxes for all of our mail next week.

Tomorrow night is the Early childhood Departments open house. Please make sure I know your intentions if you are coming back next year or if you have young ones that you want in preschool in the fall. We have quite a few already enrolled and I want to make sure that you get what you want. Please invite your friends and neighbors to the open house. Our kindergarten will also be open with Mrs. Behm in the classroom and Mrs. Harvey our school administrator will be here to answer school questions. Our kindergarten class sizes are small and we offer half day kindergarten with a kindergarten enrichment option in the afternoon. The boys and girls visited kindergarten last week. Ask them about it.

Have a great day and enjoy this beautiful weather!

Today is peewee penguin p day. What can you find that begins with the letter p? We'll be looking in the classroom for "p" things.

Prizes today for all those stickers! Wow, the boys and girls have been working so hard!!

Postcards in the hall are for you to give to friends about the open house on Monday. Feel free to take a couple.

Thursday is peewee penguin wears pink day. Girls, this is your chance to wear your favorite color!!
Come, dressed to play outdoors.!
Missed everybody today but Mrs. Rykse and Mrs. Luytjes had a great time at the conference. Lots of new ideas.

On Wedesday Mr.s Luytjes and Mrs. Rykse will not be at school We will be attending a conference in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Lyons and Mrs. Hemminger will be in the classroom.

Wednesday is outdoor play day. The morning class will play outside at 9:00. The afternoon class will have a special visitor and might play after they see the fire engine.

Where did January go?

O day was filled with octopus, orange , donut ovals, and opening doors. In the afternoon we ate donut o's. We tried, strawberry, cinnamon and chocolate. We graphed our favorite and chocolate won.

This week we will continue our unit on community. We will be building a community for our mural.
We have a special visitor coming in Wednesday afternoon.

February newsletters are coming home this week. We will be talking about Valentine's Day and Animals in the Zoo.

When making out valentine's for your child's class its much easier if they are not addresses to their friends. Just have your child sign that it is from them.