Monday, October 13, 2025

 Good to be back as we begin Red Ribbon Week!

Red Ribbon Week…is here, October 13 - 17. This is the week that people and communities unite and take a visible stand against substance abuse. Show your personal commitment to a drug-free and healthy lifestyle (preschool will focus on healthy eating/exercising) through the symbol of the Red Ribbon and these fun dress days (see Sycamore for additional details for dress up days):

Tuesday, 10/14: Travel Day!
Wednesday, 10/15: Superhero Day!
Thursday, 10/16: Character/Actor Day!
Friday, 10/17: SUPER SPIRIT Day! 

There is NO school on Thursday, 10/30 for Parent Teacher Conferences. (You should have received an email today from Zion on how to sign up for conferences by Friday, 10/17).

There is NO school Friday, 10/31 for fall break!

And...on to our day...

Painting, improving small motor control, was high on the list of activities again today...

Even more popular...magnatiles...our creativity is endless!

Stack, sort, stack, sort...perfect for hand-eye coordination and early math skills!

Nothing quite like a PJ day at school!

Tricky Mouse is back! Today he brought with him numbers 1 - 12! He hid below many numbers, but he didn't fool us. We figured out where he was every time by identifying the different numbers between 1 and 12!  Identifying/recognizing numbers is an early math skill! After we identified the number and checked for tricky mouse, we identified the shape and the color too!

We enjoyed 2 short videos that helped us understand where food comes from!

Many of our friends' first response was the store, a few said the garden. We learned that most of our food comes from a farm (or a garden). Even if we buy it at the store, it is made/raised on the farm first!

We then read this fun book that taught us all about where milk comes from!

Yay for large motor time outside on this awesome fall morning!

To begin small groups (centers), I read to the class, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".  We decided it wasn't the best choice to eat so much unhealthy food in one day.  It's not good for our bodies and it could give us a tummy ache.

With Mrs. Mudd, each child began creating his/her own hungry caterpillar. Today we painted the body and head using BIG marshmallows! We are learning that some projects take more than one step to complete. Our caterpillars will take a few days!

Uh oh...our popsicles were broken apart and we had to put them back together. With Mrs. Fahey we found two pictures that rhymed (it helped that the match was the same color) and put the popsicles back together again! Rhyming is an early literacy skill...

In his/her journal, each child practiced writing food words. He/she would pick one word card at a time and try to write that word in his/her journal. What great writing practice!

Time to get those wiggles out..

During Jesus Time today Zippy arrived and he was quite sad, even mad, that his sister got a pretty new dress and he didn't get anything. We reminded him, that everybody is different and gets/needs different things. We are all special to God, He made each of us unique!

Have a great night.