Our Young Fives friends celebrated their learning with an end of the year picnic in the park complete with Happy Meals, Snow Cones, and Friends!
Kindergarteners at the ECEC are counting down to summer with their annual Alphabet Countdown! During the last 26 days of school, students and teachers celebrate special letter-themed days together. Here are photos of "M for Mask" (make a mask at school), taken earlier this week.
Happy Nurses Week to all our dedicated Nurses! Here at the ECEC we celebrated our wonderful School Nurse Mr. Mills with an instrument parade. Dan, your selfless care for all of our children does not go unnoticed! Thank You!!
Students and staff at the ECEC are celebrating Ms. Jessica for Secretary's Day today. We appreciate all she does to go above and beyond. Each class participated and made her special drawings, posters, and cards. Mrs. Wilson's class walked to the office this morning to say thank you and read 10 reasons why. Here are a few they came up with:
"for giving us band aids when we get hurt"
"for clipping our nails when we have a hang nail"
"for giving us paw stamps"
"for saying the pledge of allegiance"
"for helping us solve problems"
"for calling our parents when we need them"
Our Young Fives students are learning about growing and gardening, and they get to shop at and work at the Flower Shop. Customers order and pay, and workers follow the orders and make the arrangements!
Happy Bus Driver Appreciation Week! Students at the ECEC made cards and thanked their bus drivers this morning on their routes. Thank you bus drivers for ensuring the safety of our students every day on their way to and from school, field trips, extracurriculars, and sporting events.
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Young Fives celebrated reading month with daily mystery readers. Readers gave 3 clues for students to guess and arrived to read a story. They were so lucky to have 8 mystery readers join us from our school family. Thank you to all our mystery readers!
This week, students at our ECEC welcomed esteemed author Lisa Wheeler. Ms. Wheeler is known for her best-selling children’s books spanning a variety of topics including dinosaurs, holidays, rhyming, and animals. She spent the day delivering engaging presentations to all preschool, young fives, and kindergarten classes. Her “I Met An Author Today” program included songs, hand-plays, and readings of a few books with coordinating activities. Students were given the opportunity to preorder books that Ms. Wheeler personalized and signed the day of the event. A special thank you to LEAF for fully funding this event for our youngest readers as well Schuler Books - Okemos for working to handle the book preorder for this special event. Our students felt excited and inspired!
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Kindergarten Round Up is right around the corner! Save the date: April 11 and 12.
Last week in Young 5s, students learned about letter O, our student athletes completed in the 2024 Young Fives Olympics! They learned about important Olympic symbols like the five rings and the importance of the torch. After an opening ceremony, the athletes competed in cozy coupe races, ball bouncing, shot put, hula hoop passes, egg and spoon race, tug-o-war, and an obstacle course. The Olympic Games ended with gold medalists!
Young Fives students in Mrs. Wooley's class worked as elves at Santa’s Workshop. They needed to check the North Pole mail, fill toy requests, choose wrapping materials and get their presents wrapped for Santa’s sleigh!
Kindergarten students at the ECEC wrote letters to the Grinch this week and walked them over to the Grinch mailbox in front of the Laingsburg Public Library. Thank you to the Winterfest committees for finding ways to involve our community's children in the holiday festivities!
The middle school basketball players welcomed our youngest wolf pups into school this morning. These student athletes opened car doors, greeted from busses and walked preschoolers, Young 5, and kindergarten students into their building. What a great way to start the day!
Students in Mrs. Wooley's Young Fives are learning about the letter V and practicing being part of a Vet Clinic. They brought their pets to the clinic to be checked out, but also took turns working at the clinic and giving care to the animals.
Thank you LSW Emergency Services for visiting the preschool, Young 5s, and kindergarten classes at the ECEC during fire safety week. We appreciated our presentation from Firefighter Aaron to learn about what to do and where to go during a fire. Students loved ending their learning with a visit to the truck to check out the hose and siren and especially the coloring books and fire hats.
During F week in Young Fives, students learned how to make French toast! Each student cracked their own egg, mixed their ingredients, dipped their bread, flipped their own toast, and of course enjoyed their hard work!
Kindergarten students learned about cooperation in communities this week and visited places in our community today on a walking trip. A special thank you to Chief Dan with the police station, Leonard's Hardware, Tammy at Tammy's Bakery, Mrs. Chavez at the library, and the mail carriers at the post office. Our students experienced first hand the effects community helpers have on our town and ended their tour playing in McClintock Park.
Mrs. Klaver's class learned about butterfly life cycles and released their own classroom butterfly this week!
