A great start!

The first month of school is almost behind us!  It's been a wonderful beginning!  We learned about each other, our families, our homes, and emotions!  We'll begin a journey into Fall next!  Today our class went on our first field trip of the year!  We visited a local park.  It was the perfect introduction to our exploration of Fall!  We went on the hunt for the elusive Beaver.  Though we didn't see the Beaver we did see evidence of a Beaver.  We explored the many large sculptures in the park, visited one of our student's garden plot, saw huge sunflowers, a windmill, and collected specimins that represented fall to us.  We'll explore our findings on Monday!  WELCOME FALL!

There's the Beaver sign!

One More Week!!

Things are starting to get busy at Coop!  In one more week the halls and classrooms will once again be filled with the laughter of children!  On Monday and Tuesday the parents will be cleaning our classrooms until they shine!  The Teachers have been busy preparing their classrooms, lesson planning, and resting!  It's an exciting time!  Our two's and three's classes are full, and our four's has a few openings.  We're all looking forward to another great year!

Assistant Preschool Teacher needed!

Assistant Preschool Teacher needed for the 2012-2013 school year.  Experience working with preschool children and DCFS Head Teacher qualified preferred.  Hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings from 8:45-12:15.  Please email resume to:  coopnurserycu@gmail.com by August 16, 2012.  Coop is an Equal Opportunity Employer.



It's been a busy Spring in the 4/5's class at Coop!  We recently completed our study of art with an Art Gallery opening!  Parents stopped in for a tour and for cookies and juice.  The children used all kinds of art mediums to complete their works of art.  Here a parent and student are looking at art that was created with flour, water, salt and food coloring.  This made a beautiful and tactile work of art!

For earth day we held an enrichment activity on recycling given by one of our parents.  The children learned what could be recycled and what can't be recycled.

We took our annual visit to a local park for an end of the year celebration with ice cream and play!

It's hard to believe that the 2011-2012 year is almost over!  Time does fly by!  We'll conclude our year with an end of the year picnic at a local indoor playground with a short promotion ceremony.  It's been a great year and though always sad to say goodbye to the children and their families, we look forward to a new school year and new adventures!

Thank you to the parents of the class of 2011-2012 for sharing a small part of your child's life with me!  I wish your families a bright future!

Sincerely,

Ms. Anna



100 day in preschool!

Looking over our 100 items!
On Thursday the 4's class celebrated 100 day! Each child brought 100 items from home. We had legos, blueberries, toilet paper sheets, pennies, gum balls from a sweet gum tree, M & M's, just to name a few! We counted to 100 by ones, fives, tens, and twenties. We talked about addition, subtraction, and multiplication, we made counting to 100 books, and we ate pizza to celebrate!

It was a fun morning!

Here we're busy working on our 100 counting book. We made these books by stamping 10 stamps on each page. Some of the children extended the activity by writing, by tens, the numbers to get to 100.

Next week we begin a study of art! We'll visit a local art museum, have one of our very talented former parents do an art enrichment with the class and we'll celebrate the end of the unit with an art gallery opening! It's going to be fun!

Volcano!

We had a lot of fun with "tall" painting! These turned out great and even the kids who don't normally "do" art, had fun with it!

I love to end our study of dinosaurs with an erupting volcano. This year we were all surprised by the explosion! So much fun!

Music Enrichment at Coop!

We are so incredibly lucky to have parents at our school with diverse talents that they are willing to share with our students! One of our Dads shared his rock and roll talents with our classes this past week. The children were captivated and enjoyed singing along to some familiar tunes! Thanks, Adam, YOU ROCK!!!