Grace Garden Preschool

Amor y amigos - this week we built on our Valentine's theme by talking about love and our friends.  On Valentine’s Day we made fun Valentine hats by coloring sentence strips and adding heart stickers.  This activity of coloring and working with stickers helps to hone fine motor skills needed for writing later in life. On Wednesday we read The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, and then made our own rainbow fish using tissue paper squares and one silver foil square.  On Thursday we mixed red and pink paint.  The children exclaimed that the new color was pink!  Woo hoo!

In Chapel, Pastor Amy talked about love.  If we have love, we also have kindness and patience.  She talked about how she feels when she wears certain cloths, demonstrating her point by donning a silly hat and explaining that she feels silly while wearing that hat; slippers make her feel cozy, while a gardening hat makes her feel ready for the outdoors and adventure.  Then, she put on a pretend invisible shirt of love, demonstrating that we can always feel love.

We had so much fun in music, dancing and shaking our macara eggs to the Beatles tune “Love Me Do”.  We also have been working really hard at the hand motions for "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider".

On a more personal note, we would like to thank you for all our Valentine treats!  What a thoughtful bunch you are.  We feel very appreciated. 

We hope you enjoy your weekend!

Ms. Sasha and Ms. Susana.