Luck of the Irish!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  This week at Preschool we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day… there was plenty of green, rainbows, and talks of leprechauns and their gold!  Take a look at some of the fun things that we did centered on our lucky theme. 

Green milk shakes!  No St. Patrick’s Day would be complete without green milk shakes and Lucky Charms!  The students loved this snack… In fact, it is something we need to do more often!

Rainbows… We fingered painted rainbows leading to a pot of gold that says “I’m worth more than gold to God!”  These turned out so cute!  We have them hanging in our back hallway and by the cubbies as well.  (A finished picture will be uploaded soon!)

It’s a LEPRECHAUN!  How cute are these little guys?  The students loved cutting out the beards and creating faces.  Personally, I enjoyed asking the students where they would hide their gold because the end of the rainbow is just too easy to find.  Some of my favorite places included “In my oven and microwave,” “in my underwear,” “on top of my brothers bed,” and “under my hat.”  Just too funny to hear the creative ways the students would hide their gold! 

We began telling the Easter Story during Chapel and Jesus Time.  To go along with that we did a few projects.  First, the students cut out palm trees after discussing Palm Sunday.  And we had to have a Palm Parade around the room singing “Hosanna” to our King Jesus.  Second, we did a project that centered on communion and the Last Supper.  We talked about how Jesus’ blood was poured out for our sins and for the forgiveness of them.  What a wonderful gift to receive!

March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb!

March really does come in like a lion.... and we at Shepherd's Flock are ready for spring (to bad Mother Nature doesn't agree and we even had a snow day this week!!)  

We are keeping track of "lion" days (days that are not very nice out) and "lamb" days (more like the days we want to play outside) Each day we count up our calendar to see which we have more of... and to go with our theme we made lion and lamb masks.  They were so much fun to create.  Which kind of day do you like the best?
 

Lots of  paper was used to make the lion's mane... what a fun, sticky mess we made!

It's tough work pulling apart those cotton balls to make the lamb side of our mask! 

What better way to get in the spring mood than to have a flower shop?  The children loved making flower bouquets, selling their flowers, and shopping for flowers (I heard a lot about buying them for moms and grandmas!) 

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!

Tomorrow is Dr. Seuss' birthday and we celebrated this past week by reading many of his fabulous books! Check out the fun crafts and activities we did throughout the week!

Our door is completely decorated with "Thing 1" and Thing 2"  and it is topped off with the first rhyme from "The Cat in the Hat."  It's a perfect time of year to sit in the house and look out the window!  

"One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"  we made hand print fishes in our paper fish bowls and practiced writing as well.

Look at our Cat in the Hat kids!  It was fun painting these simple patterns and also wearing these silly hats.  How does that cat get anything done with such a large hat?!

Shepherd's Flock Preschool March Newletter

Important Dates

· Sunday, March 17 2013 (Please note the change of date!)– Preschool singing at church.  9 am service and fellowship following service.  We hope you can join us!

· Monday, March 25 –Monday April 13, 2013 –No School, Easter Break

· Tuesday, April 2, 2013-School Resumes

Chapel Offerings

For the month of February, we collected $48.03 to donate to a congregation member who’s husband took his own life.  The money that was collected will be used to help pay for her children to attend a Christian Preschool.

For March we will be collecting to donate to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in honor of our previous three year old teacher Tami Favero.  This money will be given to an Avon Walk participant who will honor Tami by wearing a ribbon with her name and walking in her honor. 

A Few Reminders

· Scholastic Book orders are due on March 15th.  I know that this is a lot earlier than when they are  usually due, but I would like to receive them by the time we have Spring Break that way you can order books as Easter gifts.  You can never have too many books!!!

· In the cubbies there is a Campbell’s Label collection sheet for a March Contest.   Please help us earn supplies for our school and fill it up by collecting labels.  Some of the popular products that these are on are Post Cereal, Glad, Goldfish, Pop Secret Popcorn, Danimals, Bic Pens, and of course SOUP!  The contest begins now and goes until Spring Break.  Whoever collects the most labels will win a gift certificate to McDonald’s!  Ask grandma’s and neighbors to help collect! 

· Daylight Savings Time Ends on March 10.  Don’t forget to SPRING FORWARD! 

· Sign-ups for next years Preschool classes will be coming toward the end of the month… Be on the lookout for that information! As always we appreciate any referrals and there will be an incentive for students that are referred to our school.

Join us at Shepherd of Peace for our Easter Services!

If you don’t have a church home, please feel free to join us for our Easter Services.  We would love to have you! They are on the following days and times.

· 7 pm Maundy Thursday Service, March 28

· 1 pm Good Friday Chief Service, March 29

· 7 pm Good Friday Tennebrae Service, March 29

· 7 pm Saturday Easter Vigil, March 30

· 7:45 am Easter Breakfast, Easter Sunday, March 31

· 9 am Easter Sunday Service, March 31

-Shepherd’s Flock Preschool Staff-