Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, friends!  Today we had our special Valentine's Day party.  It was a hit!  We enjoyed treats, games, crafts, and of course, lots and lots of Valentine cards.  The children had a wonderful time.  I want to say THANK YOU to every parent volunteer who either donated food/supplies, volunteered, or helped plan.  A special thank you to the mothers that stayed after to help clean, as well!  Our preschool parties are always so amazing thanks to everyone's generous heart and collaborative efforts.

Playing hopscotch!

Those heart glasses were my personal favorite <3

Crafting

Cheese!

Beautiful Brook!

 

Valentine girls!

Alexis did a great job decorating her Valentine bag

Such a sweetie!

We love all of our friends!

I hope everyone enjoyed our party!  Thank you again to all who made it possible.  Hope to see you tonight for our reading party!

Peace and joy,

Miss Brooklyn

Happy February!

Happy Friday, friends!  Happy February, too!  Happy warm weather, happy weekend-happy, happy, happy!  I hope you enjoy these photos from our week.

Lukas and Grandma!

Love this picture!

Check out these little Valentines!

Sweet, sweet Parker!

Play time

Singing with Callie the Cowgirl

Trinity loving on her baby brother...so precious!

Finally, I wanted to give you all a sneak peak of yet another amazing project Mr. Andrew and Miss Laurie are working on for our classroom.  Some of you may have noticed the painting Miss Laurie did this week in the wall space above our classroom loft.  Miss Hannah and I are so excited to see the finished product.  We feel so grateful for all the time, talent, and treasures that our community continuously puts into making our school so special.  Speaking of gratitude, I also wanted to thank everyone who has donated to the sled slide project.  The generosity this community demonstrates makes my heart swell.

As always, thank you for taking the time to read!  Enjoy your weekend!

Peace and joy,

Miss Brooklyn

Community Helpers

How are you enjoying this rain?  Rainy days can sometimes be hectic, as rain often means no recess!  However, we've had an AMAZING day this Friday, as well as an overall AMAZING week!  This week, we learned all about community helpers.  We explored different means in which we can serve the community when we grow up.  The children got to practice these jobs at center time, and each got to choose which job they'd like to work when they grow up.

Doctors certainly serve our community...

as do construction workers,

farmers,

chefs,

and hairdressers, too!

(isn't that cosmetology doll hair Kamryn's cutting kind of awesome?!  We found it at Savers LOL!)

Even our science lesson this week was about community helpers!  Miss Brigid taught us all about forensic scientists.  We learned about collecting evidence, as well as taking and examining fingerprints.  How cool is it that every person in the world has a fingerprint that is completely unique?  We are so wonderfully made!

Miss Brigid showed us her fingerprint on a blown up balloon!  SO cool!!

Examining our own fingerprints with magnifiying glasses!

Thank you so much, Miss Brigid, for such an awesome science lesson!

In other news, we will be starting a fun, classwide project starting today.  We have a new and special classroom friend.  His name is Speedy Bear:

Speedy Bear will be visiting each and every child's home on a rotational basis.  When your child has their turn with Speedy Bear, there are special responsibilities of which they must take care of.  These include feeding Speedy Bear his bottle, putting on his bib, dressing him in his pajamas, reading him a story, and keeping track of all other fun memories spent at each visit.  More information will be given to you when it is your child's turn to take Speedy Bear home.  The children were SO excited to meet Speedy and learn all about this special project.  Miss Hannah showed us how to feed Speedy his bottle, as well as how to dress him in his pajamas.

I think that is about all for now.  I hope you enjoyed all of this week's photos.  Any special plans for Super Bowl Sunday?  We had two little boys each represent the teams playing this weekend.  I just HAD to take their picture together.

Who will you be rooting for?

Have a safe and blessed Super Bowl Weekend!  Stay dry!

Peace and joy,

Miss Brooklyn

Good Manners are Great

Happy Friday, friends!  

I hope you all had a restful three day weekend and a great week.  At preschool this week, we learned about the importance of good manners, as well as what good manners look like.  During center time today, the children had an opportunity to practice these good manners as they practiced "making" and "eating" dinner with play-doh.

 

This week we also did some practice with the number 16.

Thanks for reading!

Peace and joy,

Miss Brooklyn

Fish & Playground Fun

Happy Friday, friends!  This week we learned the Bible story of Peter's Catch of Fish.  To align with this story, we also spent time learning about fish during circle time and at centers.  Miss Brigid even brought in an aquarium for us to discover during our science lesson!  Awesome!

Ty is fishing for the alphabet

Although I wish I had more classroom pictures from this week, I do have some adorable play time pictures.  When I arrived at school today, I was greeted by a group of beautiful princesses!  We love to dress up here at Mount Calvary-it's one of our favorites!



I also wanted to share with you some pictures from recess.  The children played absolutely beautifully today-it was so fun!  When we first went out to the playground, I noticed two children helping push their friends on the swings.  It was the sweetest-they simply moved from swing to swing, helping push and never complaining or asking for anything in return.  It was completely out of kindness and truly made me beam.  We then played a huge game of hide-and-seek.  I truly enjoyed it and, again, was so pleased with how kind everyone was with each other as we played.

Awesome hiding spot!

I think that is about all for this week.  Enjoy your three day weekend!

Peace and joy,

Miss Brooklyn