Hello and Happy New Year!!  Our new month has kicked off with some chilly temperatures, but we have been busy bees and keeping warm.  This past month, Mrs. Holland has taught us all about the letters K, L, M, and N.  We learned the sound each letter makes and how to form the upper and lower cases of each.  To reinforce these letters, our craft projects included kangaroos, kings, koalas, lions, ladybugs, love, monkeys, mittens, night, noses, and narwhals.  Please take a moment to see all the projects on the art wall.  We have done painting projects as well as practiced our scissor skills for other crafts!

               For Bible story time, I taught lessons that also reinforced our month’s letters.  For letter K, we learned that Jesus was a kid like our preschoolers and did many of the same things.  Jesus didn’t stay a baby in the manger, but instead grew up and learned to walk, talk, write letters, and read!  Wow-neat!  Letter L was a revisit to a favorite story of Daniel and the Lions’ Den.  Daniel was punished for praying to God not the king.  In the end, God’s angels protected Daniel from the ferocious lions and the king realized that praying to God is the right thing.  We met two sisters, Mary and Martha for letter M week.  They enjoyed having Jesus be their visitor.  Martha busied herself in the kitchen with cooking and cleaning for their special visitor, Jesus, while Mary sat with Jesus and read the Bible, sang, and prayed.  Which sister do you think Jesus said was doing the right thing?  Ask your child!  I bet he knows!! 

                Lastly, for letter N week, we learned about Noah, his ark, and the flood.  Noah obeyed God and built a big wooden boat to save his family and all the animals.  After the flood, God put something in the sky as a reminder that he’d never flood the Earth again.  What was it?  Ask your preschooler!  God asks us to keep him as #1 and always in our hearts.
  
Geography: Iowa (pigs), Kansas (tornadoes), Kentucky (Happy Birthday song), Louisiana (Mardi Gras),
Maine (blueberries)
  
Vocabulary: joey, mane, knit, flood, ark
 
 Reminders:
*  Thursday, February 12^th-In class Valentine’s Day Party.  Please help your child prepare Valentine’s cards to share with classmates.  Thank you for signing up for our party’s needs!
*  February 16-20^th-No School, Winter Recess
*  If your child will be absent, please contact school at 607.756.4850 or via the school’s email account at stpaulluthns@gmail.com   (notice double l ).
*  Fall 2026 Registration is open!  We have toured and registered families already and encourage you to reserve a spot for the Fall.  Registration is on a first come-first served basis!