St. Paul Nursery School Family Newsletter
March 2025
Hello families! As I write, I am enjoying a beautiful blue sky and birds happily chirping. YES, Spring is officially here and our past month of lion and lamb weather days is behind us! Looking ahead, we have about another 10 weeks of school until the real warm, summery days are here. :)
This last month, Miss Jennifer taught the academic portion of our preschool days and we learned letters Q, R, S, and T. Our craft projects included queens, quilts, rain, rainbows, seeds, Spring, trees, and trucks. We continue practicing the sounds our alphabet letters make as well as how to form both upper and lower cases. We encourage you to stop and check out your child’s art projects. Extra at-home writing practice with name and letters is always helpful too! Please check for correct finger grip of writing tools. We will begin our Spring assessments soon. After results are sent home, the teachers are available for parent/teacher conferences to review your child’s progress.
Please ask your child what they remember about these Bible stories!! For letter Q week, I taught the children about the queen who protected a baby she found in a basket by the river. She kept him safe and later called him Moses. Letter R week was super fun! We reviewed our Bible stories since September and then had a Bible story quiz-game. Everyone knew the right answers and was able to get a prize from the treasure box!! We chose our favorite stories for letter S week. The top picks were Jonah and the Whale and Moses. Letter T week was about Tabitha. Tabitha knew of God’s love for her and others. As she looked around, she saw people with tattered clothes and hungry bellies. She was good at making clothes and cooking food. She showed God’s love by giving away new clothes and lots of food. What a great example for how we should care for others!
We also had a very fun field trip to PlayD8 Indoor Play Center in McGraw, hosted by the Ellis family. Thank you for a great morning together!! The play center is available for group events and is an awesome rainy-day option for indoor fun!!
Geography: Rhode Island (1st carousel), South Carolina (vacations!), South Dakota (Mount Rushmore), Tennessee (country music)
Vocabulary: question, quilt, shamrock, lamb, lion, leprechaun, Spring, traveling
Looking Ahead:
* Easter Party: Thursday, April 10, 2025. Party sign-up on the countertop-thanks!!
* Spring Recess: April 14-21, 2025
Reminders:
* We will be using the playground more and more! Please send either boots for your child to change in to or footwear that is OK for outdoors.
* Tuition is due the 1st of each month with a late fee added after the 10th of the month. We have April, May and June tuition due yet. (They are all full tuition amounts, even June. Yearly tuition is equally divided between the 10 months of school.) Feel free to pay off the last 3 months per month or in a lump sum.
* Can you help?? We are actively setting our roster for Fall 2025. Have you registered for the Fall? Can you refer other families to our preschool? Word of mouth is very valuable and we appreciate getting the good word out about our sweet preschool. New families that register and are referred by YOU will allow you to receive a $25 thank you.
* Practice with name writing and scissor skills is always a good idea!
Thank you for the little ones you bring to St. Paul. Each of them is unique and offers me a bright start to the day with plenty of smiles and giggles!
Love, Mrs. Wendy Clark-Darby
