Note From Teacher

Here is a note from Lincoln's teacher. This is what he is learning from his twice a week preschool. He loves school!!!

Hello everyone!

Just thought I’d take some time and update you on our year so far…It has been a WONDERFUL experience! We are enjoying the children so much…they all have fabulous little personalities and have acclimated very well to our daily routine. Ask them what their “job” was for the day, everyone has a job they’re assigned. They have all enjoyed their roles and take them very seriously. Please, please look in your child’s Orange folder each day after class. There is always work we’ve done in class and any forms of communication from Mrs. Carolyn & Mrs. Kathy or Valley Creek MDO administration or church itself.

Mrs. Carolyn has introduced the “Quiet Water, Still Water” game to our kiddos. They love playing this while we’re waiting in line. They are looking for the quietest person to be the next one who may choose and so on…We have learned to spell RED and are learning BLUE. Ask your child to sing the R-E-D & B-L-U-E song for you. Circle is our shape for September. We are learning our right hand from left while reciting the pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag and the pledge to the Bible. We’ve learned about Creation, Adam & Eve, Noah & the Great Flood, Isaac & his bride. At lunch, we reinforce our need to thank our Heavenly Father for our food, and reinforce our manners (taking turns speaking, raising our hands to ask for assistance, please & thank you, etc.) The kids love it when we tell them how wonderful it was that they used their nice manners! We’ve started learning vowels; Ii, Uu, Ee, and will have completed all Aa & Oo and start consonants after that. We are following the Abeka curriculum. We will send home the letter bags home starting with Tt the second week in October and every week thereafter until we finish the alphabet. We are learning to write Capital and Lower Case letters. (Your children are learning this concept.) We have a weekly journal that we’re using to reinforce our phonic and writing skills. The children have enjoyed our Math games and are very eager to have us reward them with stickers or smiley faces on their worksheets. I am impressed with their math skills and they all love coming up to “write” letters & numbers on the whiteboard! Mrs. Carolyn took us all on a Scavenger Hunt around the preschool & church where we learned that you get “Abitized” when you go into the baptismal. Everyone is enjoying Creative Music & Movement with Mrs. Holly. We have some budding superstars in our future! I am bringing in a pretend microphone tomorrow for dramatic play…I can’t wait to enjoy the concerts! We started Spanish and I’m am happy to say that Dora the Explorer has primed some of our kiddos with basic counting & color knowledge! Everyone loved getting a chance to “speak Spanish” on the microphone last Thursday. This is very basic stuff; colors, shapes, numbers, family members, greetings & parts of the anatomy (head, eyes, mouth, nose, legs, etc.) Have them “teach” you the word or phrases they know. If you need translations, email or call me.

Feel free to stop by and visit. Just give us heads up! We might even have you read the class a story. I have taken a lot of photos but need to download them to my pc. When I do, I will share them with you! I know I am speaking for Mrs. Carolyn when I say we love your kids and we are blessed to have them with us this year!

Mrs. Kathy
Mrs. Carolyn

See you tomorrow!