During the summer when the sun is shinning and the weather is warm — the teachers and children leave the classroom to take short walking trips around the neighborhood! These small walking field trip are fabulous for many reasons!

1. The children learn all about safety awareness and stranger danger.

2. The children get a good amount of exercise walking around our quiet neighborhood.

2. Getting out of the classroom and into the sunshine is FUN!!

If you’re passing by the neighborhood and see the preschoolers of Saint Victor’s Preschool on a walking trip – give us a wave!

This week was all about cooking! The teachers planned an array of fun cooking activities that helped to promote and encourage the children’s sense of curiosity, creativity, and just plain having fun! The cooking activities included — making jell-o, banana and strawberry fruit smoothies, blue egg omelets with cheese, chocolate covered bananas, lemonade and a fruit salad!

I am a huge fan of children helping out in the kitchen! It’s a wonderful way to teach and bond with your child. Children are not perfect — they will make a mess and take longer than you would like by helping out. But the experience is priceless, the memories will last forever and the benefits are immense. And you might just spark a life long passion for cooking within your child!

Cooking/baking teaches children many concepts! They include:

1.) Patience —Learning to wait for their turn.

2.) Counting – Count the numbers of ingredients in the recipe.

3.) Science – Cooking is science — baking, frying, etc. 

4.) Fine motor skills – Cracking eggs and mixing the batter.

5) Team work – The children learn that working together as a team will help everyone!

6.) Fun – Cooking/baking is super fun, messy and produces a yummy finished product!

Making blue eggs with cheese!

Chocolate covered bananas!

Making Fruit salad

“Farm animals” was the theme for our third awesome week of summer school! We talked about various farm/barnyard animals including cows, horses, chickens, pigs and sheep! The children learned that cows make milk, chickens lay eggs and pigs like to roll around in the mud to keep themselves cool.

The fun crafts included cotton ball sheep, cute pink pigs in mud (brown paint), horses of all colors and chickens too! We had so much fun singing “Old McDonald had a farm”, reading “The Three Little Pigs”, and “The little red hen”!  The preschool went for a walk around the church and the neighborhood — taking short walking trips helps build safety awareness! All in all, it was a super fun week!

             

The second week of summer school was all about  “Gardening”! The children learned all about the different parts of a flower — i.e. stem, petal, roots! They even got to do some “hands on” gardening in the back yard playground.

Miss Alejandra and the children planted various seeds into soil  — all the children were given the opportunity to touch and feel the soil before planting the seeds. The children will continue to water their own special plants throughout the summer — we are excited to watch our plants grow!!

In addition to planting flowers, the children took a stroll up to the garden sanctuary directly in front of Saint Victor Church! The garden sanctuary has many, many beautiful flowers in bloom and is truly a secret garden of sorts. In the classroom, the children painted sunflowers and read stories about flowers.

It was a beautiful week of growing and learning!

“Under the sea” was the theme for our first week of summer school here at Saint Victor’s Preschool! The children learned all sea animals through related fun books, pictures, songs and of of course making fun sea creature crafts! This week’s fun crafts included jellyfish, sea horses, whales and their own miniature aquariums!

What an awesome first week! Can’t wait to see what next week will bring….

On Friday June 19th, the Saint Victor’s Preschool celebrated its 4th Annual Farewell celebration — as we said goodbye to our departing tkers and Kindergarteners!

This year’s theme was the “Wild West”! The classroom was decorated with cactus, wanted posters and balloons! The children (and teachers) dressed as cowgirls and cowboys and celebrated by singing special farewell songs and by performing a square dance!

The event was definitely bittersweet as we are sad to see our friends leave but happy they are moving on to new schools and new adventures!

On Monday June 15th , Saint Victor’s Preschool held its 2nd Annual “Donuts with Dad” event! We provided yummy donuts along with freshly brewed coffee for all dads to enjoy. I’m happy to report that it was an overwhelming success! A BIG thank you to the parent volunteers that came out early to help setup up. I hope all of the hard working dads enjoyed their early Father’s Day treat!

Our official preschool polos are now available for purchase! The polos are a dark navy color with the preschool logo patch embroidered on the left side.

All shirts are $20.00! Stop by the preschool office today to purchase your child’s polo! Adult polos are also available for purchase!

On behalf of the administration, staff and children of Saint Victor’s Preschool — We wish you and your loved ones a blessed Easter!

For our last day of preschool (Holy Thursday) Easter vacation -the children celebrated the day by learning about the Last Supper and eating bread and grape juice. Sr. Marta Ann stopped by to to speak with the children about Jesus and the last supper. Afterwards the children, teachers and Sr. Marta Ann attended the noon mass at at Saint Victor Catholic Church with Msgr Murphy.