Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Annual Hesston College Preschool

Family Night—Potluck and Program

Thursday, April 10^th

6:30-8:00 pm

Hesston Mennonite Church

(Hesston College Campus)

309 South Main – Hesston

Who can come?

· Hesston College Preschoolers from both sessions

· Preschool families – including siblings, parents, grandparents

· Hesston College Early Childhood Education students who have been working with your children this year.

FOOD - Potluck!

· Each family is asked to bring three dishes of food to share with everyone. Casseroles, salads, rolls, desserts, or vegetables (hot or fresh) have worked great in the past!

· Bring table service for your entire family (plates, cups, napkins, silverware).

· Water will be provided
PROGRAM after potluck in church sanctuary:

Following the meal the preschool children will give a small program consisting of signing favorite songs and a power point presentation.

Potluck will begin at immediately at 6:30 p.m. in the Community center with the program immediately following in the Sanctuary.

Arrive early to get settled in!

Parking: You may park along the street or in the north parking lot.

Enter the Community Center through the east doors.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Enrolling for Fall

Enrolling now for Fall!

Openings are available in the Tuesday-Thursday afternoon session – 1:00-3:30 p.m. for children ages 3-5 years old (mixed age class).

Tuition: $100 a month, September through April.

Contact Larisa Lawrence @ (620) 327-8161 or larisam@hesston.edu for more information and to enroll your child in preschool.

Friday, March 21, 2014

It's fun to explore nature. One of the joys of teaching is watching children explore and discover things in the great outdoors. On Thursday, several children discovered a "live" ladybug. How exciting. We learned about them last fall, so their eyes are keen to these little critters.
Here are some pictures that capture this "nature moment".

The ladybug was discovered on a tire.

Crawling around....

Trying to pick it up.

It's crawling on my hand!

Fire Safety Week

We have been learning about fire safety this week and had special firefighter visitors in both classes - 2 preschool dads! Very exciting.

Here is what we did this week:

Tuesday - visit from Firefighter "C"

Sensory table: soapy water!!

It's fun to squirt water with the basters and watch it flow through the water wheels.

Block area play: Pretending to be firefighters!

ART activities

Monday and Tuesday we painted at the easel with "fire" colors - red, orange and yellow

Coloring Jr. Firefighter badges

Cutting out shapes for our "My Fire Truck" picture. First they cut out a red shape and then black circles for the wheels, then yellow squares for the windows and finally, a skinny yellow rectangle for the ladder. They could add lines to the ladder and people in the window if they desired. These pictures will go in their portfolio books. (This idea was adapted from www.teachpreschool.org)

They all turned out uniquely different!!!

Friday Art

We used colored tape to create fire trucks. Pretty sticky but fun.
(This idea was adapted from www.teachpreschool.org)

It takes serious concentration.

Playing with Firetrucks

Girls can play with fire trucks too!!

Friday: Visit from Firefighter "Z"

That is one heavy helmet!

Thank you to our firefighters who keep us safe!!

I think we'll keep the toy fire trucks and other play firefighter gear out another week. :)

Friday, March 7, 2014

Alphabet week

Ms. Tasha was in charge this week...she planned and led all the activities! She was one busy lady. We learned a lot about letters and enjoyed the familiar book, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom".

ART ACTIVITIES

"Here's my painting"

Painting with cotton balls

Colorful!


Concentration.

Letter bingo bottle painting

Ms. Tasha "tapped" (she used blue painters tape) the letter of each child's name on paper, then they used bingo bottles to paint over the letter. Lastly, the teacher peeled back the tape to reveal the "white" letter.