Grace Garden Preschool

"You Got a Friend in Me", the popular song from Toy Story, was played a lot this week in our classroom.  The Dragonflies are familiar with this tune and embraced its simple message.  They were thrilled to pass out Valentines to all of their friends and place them in the special mailboxes that we made.   "Love is patient; love is kind” has been our class mantra and we have seen new friendships developing.  Hearts were still our focus this week.  We painted large pink and red hearts on the easel.  The Sensory Table had foam hearts hiding in sparkly shredded cellophane.  We made shaving cream pies and decorated them with hearts and fished out floating hearts with our nets.  Our project this week was to create a memento with our special friend and will be completed next week. 

For our Special Areas this week:

Garden:  We had a chance to check on our pansies and are all eager to see the  flowers bloom! 

Chapel:  Pastor Amy played the guitar, as she does each week, and we got to sing our favorites. The lesson this week was about us feeling love.  She had a basket of personal items that make her feel a certain way when she wears them; such as a funny hat that makes her feel silly, a shirt from a marathon in San Francisco and more.  Then she held up an invisible item for us to see.  It could become the hat of "kindness" or turn into the socks of "patience".  Finally, over all of our invisible qualities we wear the covering of "love".  Love is what we feel for Pastor Amy and her wonderful stories.

Music:  Ms. S taught us some great songs about love and friends, including “Love Me Do” by the Beatles, and "Sing Out Loud She always makes our time together fun!

Amy and Ava found delicious red snacks for us this week.  We enjoyed the strawberries, watermelon, grapes and other goodies to go with them.  We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and tummies.

Next week our Unit will be Dental Health, which comes at a perfect time after having all of the sweets from Valentine's Day.

With grateful hearts,
Ms. Mary and Ms. Jessica