Holidays

Hope each and everyone had a very Merry Christmas! We will return to school on January 6.

Please be safe if you are out and about traveling over break.

God bless all of you in 2010.

PICTURE DAY

Picture day will be Monday, December 14 for the morning and afternoon classes. We will take a class picture and individual pictures. I am still working out the details for packages or DVD's of the pictures for you to print at your leisure.

Pictures will start at 8:30 for the morning class & 11:30 for the afternoon. We will need at least one parent to help with pictures so please let me know if you are available.

Have a great weekend.

Christmas Program 2009

Part of the afternoon class checking the tree out!
The morning class (minus one) waiting for cookies.

The program was a success! Merry Christmas to each and everyone!

News....News.....News.....

I can't believe it's Dec. 1. Time goes so quickly. Here are a couple of updates about preschool.

Fundraiser: We will continue until we run out books. I can get more if needed. I know we were about out of the 250 purchased. Please let me know if you need more books and turn in money as needed.

Christmas Program: The Christmas program is Dec. 7 @ 6:30 pm in the sanctuary. Cookies & punch will be served following the program. In the event of inclement weather we will reschedule the program to Dec 14.

Progress reports: We will send home progress reports next week. Please let us know if you have questions.

Christmas Party: We will have a Christmas party on Monday, Dec. 21 with a small gift exchange. The boys will need to bring a boy gift and the girls and girl gift. The limit is $5.00. The gift needs to be wrapped.

Please remember we will not have school if Wellsville cancels because of weather. Please tune into channels 4, 5, 9, or 41 and look for Wellsville USD 289.

Have a great week!

Fundraiser to begin on Monday!!!!

Our preschool fundraiser will begin on Monday, November 23 and continue through the next few weeks. We are going to be selling coupon books through Price Chopper. They sell for $5.00 and the preschool makes $4.00 profit.

They have $50 worth of coupons. I will distribute some on Monday and keep some at the preschool. The coupons are good at any grocery store and one is $5.00 off @ Price Chopper.

Our goal is to make between $600 - $800. This money will be used to pay for graduation, and our big end of the year field trip.

Please look for information Monday and do not hesitate to contact me with questions.


The Preschool Advisory board met Thursday night to discuss the fundraiser and our budget for the remainder of 2009-2010 school year.

Trick-or-treating 2009

Thank you to the local businesses of Wellsville! We went to over 20 businesses to trick-or-treat.

Here are the preschoolers all dressed up in their costumes getting ready to go

Getting candy @ City Hall

Randy's Tire

This week we will talk about Health & the letter H. We have been working on cutting, tracing, letter & number recognition, and birthdays.

Party & trick-or-treating postponed

The Halloween party & trick-or-treating has been postponed until Monday because of rain. We will have regular preschool on Thursday.

Thank you!

TRICK-OR-TREATING

Trick-or-treating for Thursday will probably be postponed until Monday due to the weather. It is supposed to rain most of the day Thursday.

I will update through the website and emails. We will also call the afternoon class tomorrow if it is postponed.

Please stay tuned for more info.

Kari

Update

Well....I got the nasal mist for the boys today at the Franklin County Health Department. I was notified by a friend that they had some in stock, and they were free! We headed to Ottawa, and until we actually pulled in the parking lot I still was not 100% sure we were doing it. Well, I talked to friends at Children's Mercy, our doctor's office again & the nurses at the health department, and decided it was in the best interest of my kids to get them the vaccine.

I talked to Miss Jenny tonight and she got the vaccine for her daughter today too at Price Chopper in Gardner.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

H1N1 vaccine

I am really struggling with the H1N1 vaccine for my three boys. I have read through tons of articles on both sides, called my doctor's office, and spoke to several friends. The arguments for and against are both convincing, putting me (and many others) in the situation of not knowing what to do. I am going to keep calling my doctor's office to see when they get the vaccines in and then make a decision. I am happy to discuss what I have found, so feel free to call me with questions.

Please feel free to do your own research and make a decision that is best for your family.

The Franklin County Health department is doing vaccine clinics for certain age groups, and you can get on their list if you choose. I know the clinics will be offering the nasal mist for free, but I don't know about the injection.

Some helpful websites:
www.cdc.gov
www.flu.gov
http://www.franklincoks.org/healthdepartment/healthdepartment_page.htm
www.webmd.com

It's almost time for Halloween....

Next Thursday we will do our annual trick-or-treating to the local businesses. We will go to 21 or so businesses.

Kids will need to bring something to collect their goodies!!

Our schedule for next Thursday will be a little different. Both classes will go trick-or-treating from 10:30 - 11:30. The morning class will dismiss @ 11:45 and the afternoon class @ 2:00.

I will post pictures next week!

Families....

Next week we will discuss families & the letter F. Please send a family photo on Monday (if at all possible), and we will return pictures on Thursday.

Thank you!!!

Louisburg Cider Mill

Enjoying the hay bales!

Getting ready for the hayride

The preschoolers went on their first field trip to the Louisburg Cider Mill and pumpkin patch! We had a great day with lots of sunshine.


I am still figuring out this website, so please stick with us!

Our first field trip info.....

We will go to the Louisburg Cider Mill next Wednesday @ 11:00 am. The morning class will meet @ 9:00 and the PM class will join us @ 10:00. We will leave around 10:15.

The cost is $8.00/person and includes: cider/donut, tour of cider mill, hayride, children's play area & pumpkin. In the event of rain we will re-schedule.

Children need to wear their preschool shirts & if it's cold you may put a long sleeve shirt under it.

We are off to a great year!

More pictures to come next week.

Learning for this week....

This week we will learn about Colors & the letter C. We will make colorful caterpillars & play a new color game.

We will finish our Bible story and get ready to learn another memory verse.

Tuition for October will be due on Thursday.

Our first field trip is planned for October 7 however in the event they are still calling for rain we will have to change the date.

God Bless each of you this week.

Pictures - more to come

Our new behavior chart!

Our door.

Inside the room - a member painted this on the wall for us.

Calendar and weather chart. We meet here for circle time.

This week we will discuss About Me & the Letter B.

The children will practice cutting, tracing, lacing & matching shapes. We will have free play during gym time and probably walk to the park if the weather stays nice.

We implemented a color behavior chart last week and the kids all did great. I will update more about it in the future.

Pictures to come after permission slips are signed from the parents.

We still have a couple of openings in both sessions.

Welcome

Welcome to the new page for Special Blessings Preschool. We provide preschool for children ages 3-5. Children must be three before Sept. 1 to enroll in our program.

This site is intended to keep parents, friends & community members updated on the happenings at our preschool.

Please check back often for pictures and updates.