Making Friends & Sharing Smiles

Precious smiles were everywhere - making it hard for us to teach and not just take pictures all day. Pilgrim Community Preschool is overflowing with God's love and we are so lucky to be able to see your children bloom and grow.


As we ended our week, friendships are being made everywhere. We read a book by Bishop Tutu called God's Dream. It is a beautiful book about sharing God's love with everyone.

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What Are We Going To Do This Year?

Learn, of course.

These are our ideas about things to learn at school this year. I'm not sure about my abilities to teach skateboarding, Chihuahua tricks or jumping in a waterfall - but I'm pretty sure we have coloring, cutting, puzzles and playing covered.

Friends and Centers

Today we found fun things in our class. We have baby dolls....We have puzzles.....
and we have friends!!!

Our first day was a success. There were no jitters or sad feelings - just an overwhelming appetite to learn. Of course, it will take us a while to learn the structure and rules of our classroom, but God is so good to us. We are a beautiful class with love to share. Thank you parents for blessing us with your children this year. We are off to a wonderful start.

"The Lord is great, everybody sing....la, la, la, alleluia!...."

PS - did anyone tell you about our book today - or just enjoy their yummy candy kisses?

Our First Day

We did it! We had a great day and it really was lots of fun!!!!! You can see our personalized school bags. Everyone was very creative in decorating them this year. Great job parents for making our school bags so cool! We had so much fun showing off your handiwork - it wasn't really bragging too me - just pride.

Let's Be Green This Year

Every year that I teach, I watch the amount of trash that we create increase. We spend a lot of time talking about how precious God's creation is and this includes our beautiful planet Earth. I would like to pose the option of using re-usable plastic cups in our classroom for snack time. This would save about 64 "Dixie cups" per week. It sounds like a lot of work, but since we have water every day, clean up will be fairly easy. Me or Mrs. Laurie could quickly wash our cups at the end of each day in antibacterial dish washing detergent and use them for a month at a time. At the end of the month, the children could bring their cups home and you could dispose of them as you wish. It could even be re-purposed one more time as a pencil cup, "Lego" or "Barbie" accessory holder or whatever else your family could dream up. Please let me know if you are interested in this idea. Send me an email or attach a note to your child's school bag. I will not pursue this idea if I do not have a majority of support from our parents.

Mrs. Laura & Mrs. Laurie

Hooray for school! We are your teachers this year and it is so easy to remember our names- Mrs. Laura & Mrs. Laurie. We have been working hard preparing our room and meeting everyone at our conferences. Our students are beautiful and say they are excited about coming to school next week. We know, however, that this can sometimes be difficult. It is has been a fun summer and leaving mom and dad for a new classroom and new faces can be a little scary.

We are so lucky that God has given us this opportunity and will work hard to make this a great year. Happy "Back To School!"

Back To School!

It is already that time of year again and we are so excited to be back at Pilgrim Community Preschool. Our classroom is ready to go and we can't wait for everyone to return to learn and share God's love. It will be a fun and exciting year with new faces and new friends. I know that it is hard to believe but time will disappear and your children will grow up right before our eyes. With the start of "big school," there is so much excitement about getting bigger and closer to kindergarten. Our prayer is for everyone to have fun as they learn in grow.