Newsletter 11

Merry Christmas my sweet Owls. I hope you are enjoying your vacation. Many of you were heading out of town. I pray you are having safe travels and fun with family. We have already been ice skating and to the movies. It is nice to have a break.

We have had so much fun the last two weeks at ELP. We got to ride a camel and have a party for Jesus. We also painted with bells and decorated a stocking with stickers. This is a great fine motor skill. We painted a Christmas tree and stamped Christmas items.

Thank you for all the wonderful Christmas gifts and well wishes for the Christmas season. Enjoy the new pictures of your sweet babies. Have a wonderful Christmas and a safe New Year.

Merry Christmas my sweet Owls

With Love,

Ms. Tracee

Newsletter 10

Hello Owls~

We had a Christmas good time in our class this week. We practiced cutting or throwing the streamers in our discovery table. We washes the reindeer in our water bucket. We experienced decorating the Christmas tree. We put stickers on the Christmas Tree. We read Our First Christmas and played with the manager scene. Our favorite item is the baby Jesus. We worked on our secrete Santa Gifts and painted with silver.

Outside we played with the foot tall manager. It is fun to let them slide down the slide. In our water tables we had hay and babies. We colored a Christmas tree and painted green paper with glitter.

In Chapel we talked about bells and having the love of Jesus in us and making a happy sound. We then followed the star (flashlight) to find baby Jesus.

Next week is the Christmas Party. I have plates and napkins for every class. Thank you Debbie Melzner. I have a cake for Wednesday class. I still need a cake or cupcakes for Tuesday and Thursday. As always Parents are welcome but you know I am fine with celebrating on our own if you need your three hours. We will be celebrating directly after the Live Nativity.

Have a great Weekend.

Newsletter 9

Good Afternoon Sweet Owls~

We had a turkeyriffic day in the owl room. We played with the black beans and leaves again. We painted over fall shapes and took them off to see the white shape on the paper. My sweet owls painted a turkey body and we gobbled. We read Blessings everywhere and sang our turkey song. We had our picture taken and this takes a while so we did not have as much time to explore. We went to Motor movement and played with Ms. Betty and in Chapel we talked about sharing and fed Mr. Hungry. His belly was empty and then it was full. Yeah. We had so much fun on the playground too. We painted on brown paper with fall colors and colored with crayons.

Enjoy your weekend. Remember next week is the big picnic. It will be at 11:00 all three days. You may come and enjoy but as always I understand if you need all 3 hours to go to the grocery store.

With Love,

Tracee

Newsletter 8

Hello Owls~

I hope you are enjoying the Owl like weather. We enjoyed another fun week at school. We enjoyed the black beans, squirrels and fall leaves in our discovery table. We loved scooping and dropping the beans on the floor. We practiced cleaning up too. We painted on the easel with sponges. We made a pumpkin patch by putting yellow and red paint on the bottom of a cupcake pan and mixed to two colors together to get orange and then made a print on the paper. My Owls loved this. They loved the sensory feeling of mixing the paint and they got to watch the paint turn colors. We read Blessings Everywhere and talked about being thankful. We threw colored leaves in the air and said up down and sang about the leaves falling. We laughed and squealed during this experience. We sang our Turkey song and gobbled. We sorted the balls in different colored blocks- red balls in red box ect. We will continue to sort different items. My Tuesday and Thursday class got to play outside where we painted a hay bell and also everything else around us including ourselves. What an experience.

In chapel-we searched for Jesus to tell him Thank You for healing the sick men.

Remember to send a jacket that can get dirty. We do a lot of exploring outside and will continue to as the weather gets cooler.

Have a wonderful weekend and God Bless!!

With Love,

Ms. Tracee

Newseletter 7

Happy Halloween!! I hope everyone is having a spooky day.

We had a fallerific week in the Owl room. We read The Five Little Pumpkins again and played with our puppets. We love to count the pumpkins and look at the different shapes on their faces. We put our own face on a pumpkin while we talked about two eyes, one nose and a mouth. We talked about the shapes of the items- triangles and circle. We experimented with glue. It is fun to watch them with this foreign liquid. We played in the water and pumpkins. We finger painted on a mirror and made prints. We also looked inside a gooey pumpkin. This was great fun. We stamped our Fall Festival bag.

We also went to the festival where we picked apples, threw bean bags, rode a Hay ride and picked a spider off a spider web. In Chapel we talked about how a God takes a sinner like me and cleans us out. Just like we clean out a pumpkin.

I look forward to next week - we will continue to talk about fall and pumpkins.

Have a great Halloween!

With Love

Ms. Tracee

Newsletter 6

Hello Sweet Owls~

Another great week was had by all owls again this week. I enjoyed talking with some of you on Thursday night. I loved meeting some Dads. Your Owls were so proud to show you off.

In our classroom this week we talked about pumpkins. We caught pumpkin ping pong balls with nets while they floated in the sensory table. We colored with markers and crayons again. We painted pumpkins and put some glitter on them. It was so much fun. We read Five Little Pumpkins and played with my pumpkin puppets. We counted them and talked about the different shapes on the faces. We touched and explored the different kinds of pumpkins and gourds. We talked about bumpy, smooth, little, big, fat, skinny and then we rolled them down the slide. Just like the pumpkins in our story rolled out of sight.

We played with Ms. Betty's bean bags by throwing them up and down. We danced and played with the balls. We love this.

In chapel we read the story of Joseph's coat of many colors. We danced and got a stamp.

I look forward to next week. We will be having our fall festival. Parents are always welcome but I also realize you may only have 3 hours a week of freedom so please do as you wish.

Again it was great to see many of you on Thursday and hope you have a great weekend.

With Love

Ms Tracee Hoot Hoot!!!

Newsletter 5

Hoot Hoot!!

We had an Owleriffic week in our class.

First off- Thank you so much for the gift card to Target and the chocolates. I can't wait to go to Target. You are so kind and I feel so loved. You are much too generous. Thank you, Thank you.

We had so much fun at the Petting Zoo. We got to chase the baby pigs and pet the bunnies. We saw a Llama, Yak and Donkey. The goats and sheep were friendly and loved to eat the hay. Most of my friends loved it and I had few tears. In our room we discovered animals in the oatmeal and made a picture with zoo stamps. We talked about the colors and animals as we stamped. We built a farm out of the Lego's and played with the animals while mooing and oinking. It is great fun to knock it over. We read Google Farm and sang Old McDonald had a farm.

Outside we painted bunnies and pigs. We washed the animals in the water tables. We love to ride the bikes and push the lawnmowers.

In Chapel we played with the parachute and got a stamp.

I look forward to next week~ we will be talking about pumpkins, Halloween and Fall.

Please join us for Family Night on Thursday October 21. 6:30-7:30.

Have a wonderful weekend

With Love,

Ms Tracee

Newsletter 4

Good morning wonderful Owls~

We had another great week in the owl class. We talked about spiders. We found spiders in the oatmeal. We enjoyed filling the oatmeal cans with spiders and oatmeal. We turned rice colors and played with scented play dough. Some of us wanted to eat it the play dough smelled so good. We made spider prints with spider rings and of course wrote with markers. We love this. We read The Itsy Bitsy Spider and sang it in a big loud voice, a itsy bitsy voice and a voice in the middle. I have a book where we place the big spider, big rain and big sun on the big water spout and the same for little and middle. We talked about all the words and then we sorted all the spiders, rain and sun. We love to sing and then we sang "I have a spider on my head" and other body parts.

Outside we painted, play on the play ground and Ms Pat had ice in the water tables and we used tongs to pick up the ice. This is great for motor skills.

We went to chapel and listened to the story of the 4 friends who lowered a friend into a house to see Jesus and he was healed by Jesus. We got to lower a friend in through a box house roof and say "Get up and walk"

This week we will be talking about the Farm and the petting zoo is coming. Yeah!!

Parents are always welcome. I just ask if you do want to come to remember the separation for the little guys can be hard. If it is late in the morning maybe consider just taking them home with you after the petting zoo. I will take lots of pictures.

Tuesday October 12 9:15-9:45

Wednesday October 13 10:15-10:45

Thursday October 14 11:15-11:45

With love,

Ms. Tracee

Newsletter 3

HOOT HOOT Precious Owls,

We had so much fun in the owl room this week. We talked about bears. We scooped and poured our rice over the bears while talking about colors and size. "Big red bear" We colored with crayons and made pictures with our bear stickers. They are requesting certain stickers by using their language. We bathed the babies again, fed them and put them to bed. We read Brown Bear and retold the story with the animal pictures. We let the animals slide down the slide while we talked about colors and animals. We loved this. My owls love sliding with the animals too. We played with the bear sorters and sand a song while putting them on our body parts. "I have a bear on my head". They think it so funny when I put the animals on my head. HEHEHE!!

We had a great time in motor movement where we meet Mrs. Betty and played with her bean bags, balls and danced to the music.

In chapel we talked about Zacchaeus and jumped up to find a tree branch and looked for Zaccheus as he was hiding. This was fun. We also got a stamp.

Outside we played in the water, painted and looked through the glasses, played with the shiny objects and listened to the egg shakers.

We had a full week in the Owl class. I had happy friends.

I look forward to next week- We will be exploring spiders, and fall.

With Love

Mrs. Tracee

Newsletter 2

Hello Sweet Owls~

We had another wonderful week in the OWL class. I had very little tears and more smiles and happy squeals as we learned and explore our room. We continued to talk about "Me and Our Families". We scooped and poured in the rice table again. It is so fun to put it on the floor. We are working on keeping it in the sensory table. We also washed the babies and poured water over them while talking about our body and pointing to the different parts. This was a favorite among all the little owls. We discovered our blocks with our pictures on them and talked about our friends names and stacked the blocks while using all the language. We read our books and talked about what we love and we also read "Peekaboo Baby" We tried painting with our feet but my owls were not ready so we painted with brushes instead. It was fun to watch some of them paint for the first time. We made dots on the easel and of course played outside.

This week we went to chapel and talked about how God made everything. Ms. Pat had huge story items she pulled out of envelope to tell the story. We danced and got a stamp.

Please remember to bring 2 changes of clothes. I had a thought, the first outfit seems to get the dirties. Maybe send them in a play outfit and I will put them in their cute outfit when it is time to go home.

I look forward to next week we will be exploring Bears.

Have a wonderful weekend

With Love Ms.Tracee

Newsletter Week 1

Hello Sweet Owls~

What a wonderful 2 weeks we have had at school. We are having so much fun getting to know each other. All of my owls seem happy exploring our room and outside. I had very few tears. YEAH!! We love playing in the rice in the sensory table, it is fun to scoop and pour the rice over the people. We enjoyed reading Here Are My Hands and touching and naming our body parts. It is so fun to see ourselves in the mirrors and look at our beautiful face. We sang a few songs and played our music instruments. We loved hearing the different sounds. We made our first day of school hand prints and colored an Owl. We explored Ms. Pat's water tables and painted. We had fun in the sandbox and slid down the slide.

Please remember to send your little Owls in play clothes so we can explore our environment and we don't have to worry about our clothes. Also maybe two pairs of extra clothes. I do my best to clean them up after our work is done but some friends love the water and the paint and our brains are growing while we explore.

Remember to make your file folder scrapbooks and a separate family picture is great also. I like for them to have a book of their families in our library to look at.We read these and they are usually their favorite books to read. It is great for them to see their name when looking at these books.

I look forward to next week~ we will continue to talk about "Me and our Families"

Every week I will post new pictures to Snapfish. Click on the link. I am having some trouble with my camera. So please be patient with me and the pictures. I will get better and more consistent with each class.

Have a wonderful weekend.

With Love~

Mrs. Tracee