We all had an exciting week back. Celebrating Easter was the main highlight with crafts and painting, as well as a popcorn party with surprise eggs and treats mixed in. Our verse for the week was, “I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.” ~ Revelation 1:18. We shared the foundational message of Easter, about Jesus dying on the cross for our sins ~ the wrong choices we make, and also the excitement that comes with Jesus coming back to life, going up to heaven, and how his spirit can live in our hearts. New life is also represented in the springtime when we see the new baby bunnies and the growing plants and flowers. We are learning how to take care of our plants, and we made sure we watered them well. It's exciting to see the green flower shoots coming up out of the dirt. Some are taking longer to grow, and we talked about how that is okay, that each one grows in their own time, just as each one of us grows in our own time. We made special cross necklaces, and took some small gifts home including the jelly bean prayer eggs and bookmarks. We reviewed Rectangles, met our ZooPhonics friend Xavier Fox, filled cross shapes using blocks, played a game where we guessed the sounds in each egg, and played in fine sand using different strainer tools. It brings us joy to see the children becoming stronger friends, and giving of themselves by pushing their friends on the swings and it was so great to see them making such a thoughtful choice without even being asked! On that note though, we have also been teaching about having gentle hands. There has been a lot of pushing and roughhousing lately, and this naturally comes with strong friendships forming. Please talk with your children about it at home. I believe this will help. Ms. Denise did fabulously leading the children in special songs to keep them moving, including "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes,” as well as working with them on recognizing their names. We could see clearly that all of the children are gaining strength in their fine motor skills while being able to place tiny stickers onto their letter X. For next week, Monday, we will celebrate Earth Day and Wednesday we will be celebrate Ms. Denise’s birthday, on her actual birthday, April 20th!

~Ms. Genevieve

Greetings Pathfinder families! We had a wonderful week with the focus on a Holy Week theme. Monday we began will the story of Palm Sunday and the letter Qq with the introduction of a new Zoo Phonics friend Queenie Quail. Tuesday we read and talked about the Last Super and Jesus’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, we also learned about the shape oval. We painted oval Easter eggs and lifted the tape off the middle to expose a Cross ✝️ Wednesday’s lesson was on the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus. We celebrated Jesus’s Resurrection with an 🐣egg hunt and Easter treat party! 🐰 I hope you all have a very blessed Easter Celebration, we will return Monday for color Yellow day.

-Ms Cami 🍎

Happy Easter Investigators!

Even though the weather has not cooperated we had a wonderful week celebrating spring and God's gift to us through Jesus Christ as well as learning all we can about the sense of sight. Honestly, there are so many great things happening in our class that it's impossible to mention them all but here are the highlights.

This week we learned about:

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Next week: 

Teacher Jenni and I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Celebration!

Blessings to everyone,

Teacher Debbie

Happy Easter! This week was all about Easter. We had several fantastic discussions about why Jesus died and how His death covered our red choices. They loved that they could open the resurrection eggs and explain what happened to Jesus and why. Students colored eggs, sorted bunnies, matched letter eggs, counted eggs, colored books, decorated baskets, graphed bunny shapes, and played Easter Bingo.

They also wrote the room rhyming words -ad and -in. Our numbers were 13 and 14. Students loved the dramatic play center. This week it was Garden Shop. They got to plant seeds, plants, and flowers. They also enjoyed designing gardens and selling their plants. 

Have a Blessed Easter, Teacher Jennifer and Teacher Hope

Happy Holy Week beautiful families! We spent a heartfelt & memorable week together as a preschool family. Evaluations have started and your students are so excited to show me what they know! During whole group time at the carpet, we have focused on rhyming games, syllable games and blending letter sounds in 3 letter words (I teach Consonant-vowel-consonant (cvc) words in word families such as cat, bat, sat) & in Science we did a Peeps Taste Test using our 5 Senses.

Thursday was our Easter Celebration! We celebrated by having an Easter Egg Hunt in the Friendship Center, a delicious snack & cute Easter video and a special re-telling of the Easter story using Resurrection Eggs. Each student came to the front of the class & opened up a numbered egg to discover what was inside. Each egg held a small figurine symbolizing a part of Jesus’ journey to the cross & Resurrection! It was so heartwarming to hear everyone’s retelling & how they are comprehending it all! ♥️Ms. Tanya & I would like to give a special thank you to Mr. Fernando (Lucie’s dad) & Ms. Cami for being our amazing volunteers on Thursday! Thank you also to everyone who donated the yummy food for our party! 💖We hope you have a blessed Easter Sunday and remember that Jesus loves you!✝️

Lots of love, Ms. Desiree

Picture Day is scheduled for Wednesday, April 27th! We will be using Irene's Photos & Design (a local photographer). They have created a special ordering page for us where they let you view first before ordering, so there is no commitment. Here is their price list:

Link to payment HERE

Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up May 3rd-5th. Be on the lookout for for an email coming soon with a link for signing up for your conference time with your teachers. And mark your calendars that there will be no school during conference week. We look forward to having individualized time to meet with each of you!

Mark your calendars for our upcoming school field trip to the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium! More details will be coming soon on how to pre-purchase tickets for your families.

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