Having fun celebrating India's Makar Sankranti Festival!

We are so lucky to have many different cultures enriching our community of children at Coop!  Last week one of my student's mother talked with the class about India's Makar Sankranti festival.  This festival features kites and sesame sweets.  She helped the children make kites and then we went outside to fly them.  It was the perfect day in Illinois for kite flying!  A little breezy and temperatures in the low 40's. The children had a great time!

Preschool Open House!

Visit Cooperative Nursery School during one of our Open Houses on Wednesday February 25 from 6-7 p.m. or Friday February 27 from 10 - 11:30 a.m.  Coop has been educating C-U's preschool children since 1946!  We offer half day classes for 2, 3, and 4 year olds.  Classroom activities include art, science, math, and literacy enrichment daily and weekly music and spanish enrichment!  Children do not need to be potty trained for our program.  We are happy to work with parents on this important milestone!

Be sure to check out our unique learning environment for children!

 



Our Annual Class Play!

Most years my four's class writes a play.  We base the play on a story that we've read during the school year.  Past year's plays have been based on Little Red Riding Hood, The Mitten, Peter and the Wolf to name a few.  This year the children chose "Peter Pan".  They rewrote the story to include several new characters!  We had Peter Pan and Pierre Pan, Mittens the Cat, Martha the talking dog from "Martha Speaks", Baby Mario, Ariel, Stitch, and several others.  The children and their parents came up with their costumes and the children decorated the backdrops.  We practiced and practiced and practiced some more!  The performance was marvelous! 

 Painting trees for a forest background!

 Drawing ocean creatures in our ocean background!

Group Pic!

Our performance was followed by an after party!  A great time was had by all!

Preschool Open House!

Please visit the Cooperative Nursery School at our Open House on Thursday February 27, 2014 from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. or Friday February 28, 2014 from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 

Coop has been educating C-U's preschool children since 1946!  We offer half day classes for 2, 3, and 4 year olds.  Parents have the opportunity to assist in our classrooms and serve on our Board of Directors!  Potty trained is not a requirement of our program.  We will work with families on this very important milestone!  We offer Spanish and music enrichment to our students each week.  Come visit us, you'll love our school!

Hibernation Day in Preschool!

Hibernation Day (aka Pajama Day) has to be one of my favorite days of the year!  The children love it and are so engaged!  I thought I'd share a pictorial story of our day!  Enjoy!

We began the day with music/movement class!

We begin our hunt for clues to where the bear is hiding!

Continuing on the Bear Hunt!  The clue took us down the stairs!

We found the bear!

 Hibernating in our cave!

Eating popcorn in the cave!

A messy cave with a few crumbs left over!

A story is a great way to end the day!



Coop Nursery School at the Pumpkin Patch!

We had such a great time at the Pumpkin Patch last week!  It was a very cold day!  We walked and played with snow flurries surrounding us!  This group of four year olds set a record for the fastest time walking to the patch, picking out a pumpkin, walking back from the patch, posing for a group picture, and walking back to a warm building!  The quick pace kept us warm!
Happy Halloween everyone!

Great Start at Cooperative Nursery School!

What a great start to a new school year we've had!  Our class is a busy one!  We've learned about ourselves, families, and met new friends!  We had fun learning about apples and fire safety!  We now move on to discovering all we can about our fantastic Autumn season! 

We are rocking in our school shoes!

We learn so much during large group!

Fine motor activities keep us busy!

Music is a great time to release some energy and have fun while dancing!

Working on our writing skills!

We are looking forward to having more fun in October!