Mrs. McNeil dons the Cat in the Hat Costume to celebrate the day with Paige!	Mrs. Goff is set to welcome her class for a Seussical Day!
Mrs. Wilkens, aka The Cat in the Hat, helps Jenna and Joe with their special hats for Seuss Day!	Emma says, " Green Eggs and Ham! I will not eat them, Sam I am! I will not eat them, even if my friend Brian is eating them!!"

Mrs. McNeil and Brown's class enjoys a Pajama Dance Party!	Mrs. McDannell and Mrs. Stone have a Wide Awake class on PJ Day!	Mrs. Hewa and Marchand's class made their own homemade pizzas!
Makiah helps Mrs. Weeks flip pancakes!	Mrs. Sicard and Lawler's class ordered the Super-Jumbo Pizza!	Mrs. Goff's 3 year olds make a Giggle Tree in PJ's!

Mrs. Sicard's class made flower pots for parents and enjoyed a yummy feast of treats!	Mrs. Johnson's 3 year old class enjoys their valentine treats.	Mrs. Leger's 3 year old class....'put's their right leg in, takes their right leg out...', doing the Hokey-Pokey at their Valentine Party.
Mrs. Goff's 4's did Hearts on Your Head races at their Valentine Party!	Some creative valentine mailboxes in Mrs. McNeil's class
Mrs. Hewa's 4's show off some cute mailboxes!	Mrs. Wilken's morning 4's enjoy Valentine Ice Cream Cupcakes!	Mrs. Johnson's afternoon 4's make Valentine flower pots, and flowers...with their thumbs... Thumbody Loves You!
Joshua, from Mrs. McDannell's class shows off his giant robot mailbox!	Holly's Valentine Castle Mailbox, complete with a photo of Princess Holly!	Sam and Nicole show off their creative mailboxes!

Crazy Hat Day

The 4's classes celebrated CRAZY HAT day in January....did you know there was a day set aside as National Hat Day?? Preschool never misses an opportunity to celebrate! Mrs. Wilken's afternoon 4's sported many school spirit shirts with their hats!

Mitten Day

The 3's class enjoyed their own celebration of Mitten Day...we wore mittens to do lots of activities, like these children in Mrs. Johnson's class, tossing marshmellow snowballs at Jolly the Snowman. It was harder to throw marshmellows with mittens on! Mrs. Dailey took cover behind Jolly!

Mrs. Goff's 3's also celebrated Mitten Day by reading the Big Book called "The Mitten", and then used a giant mitten,allowing the children to retell the story... how many animals snuggled inside the mitten??

Christmas Programs

Christmas in January...We held 3 of our programs after Christmas break due to weather closures in December.

The Afternoon 5 day 4's from Mrs. Wilkens and Mrs. Goff's classes did a super job!	Landon, CJ and Matthew were awesome wisemen	We sang Silent Night using sign language!

Malea soloed Happy Birthday Jesus.	Haley reminded the shepherds to "Fear Not!"	All 3 afternoon 3 day 4's classes performed together on January 6th!
Rohit, Tucker, Kirat and Rishiv sang their very best!	A very serious group of Nativity actors!	Mrs. Johnson sings "The Gift Goes On" with the children
James prepares to sing his solo!	Mrs. Hewa and Mrs. Wilkens morning 4's did an excellent job on stage!	Mary and Joseph, also known as Aubrey and Luke sang their best!
Lauren from Mrs. Hewa's class gets ready to sing her solo.	Moms and Dads all enjoyed the show!

Mrs. Goff's 3 day 3's perform with Mrs. McDannell's class on Dec 14th at our Christmas Program

Ciara made a beautiful Mary in our Nativity play	Angelo and Christopher, the shepherds sing "Away in a Manger"	Santa and Mrs. Claus visit the Thursday 2's class, and noone was afraid!
We enjoyed Santa and Mrs. Claus taking time out of their busy schedule to come visit us for 7 Christmas programs this week! Here is Shepherd, one of our 2's getting some Santa hugs!	Timothy and Cameron play the part of wisemen	William Wagner played the part of a shepherd
	Mrs. Leger and Mrs. Johnson's 2 Day 3's classes. They performed "Away in a Manger".

Our Thanksgiving Programs for all 4 year old classes were held Nov 21st and 22nd in the Fellowship Hall. We enjoyed dressing up as Pilgrims and Indians, telling our moms and dads the real Thanksgiving Story, singing fun songs and then sharing delicious breads together as a family.

Mrs. Hewa's class were the Pilgrims and Mrs. Wilken's class were the Indians

Mrs. Johnson's class	Mrs. Sicard's class	Mrs. McNeil's class
Children using sign language in              the song "Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart"	Mrs. Goff's MWF 3's presented a short program and enjoyed a feast with their parents.
Mrs. McDannell's class shared a fruit salad with all their classmates

Mrs. Goff's 5 day afternoon 4's enjoy performing their Thanksgiving songs		The McNary twins tell us what the Pilgrims and Indians ate for their feast!
Mrs. Wilken's 5 day afternoon 4's tell us who's peeking from inside that tepee!	Prisha and friends sing all about giving thanks	Bruce tells us about the Pilgrims being thankful for the new land.

Mrs. Wilkens and Mrs. Goff's classes Program Nov 22, 1:00pm

Harvest Hoedown

The 2nd annual Harvest Hoedown was a rootin'- tootin' good time for all. We welcomed 2 horses on Monday morning, Bucky and Chance. Chance came back for our afternoon classes and for our Tuesday Hoedown. We had terrific weather, and loads of awesome parent helpers! We made stick horses, art projects, played in the rodeo, hunted pumpkins, ate in the chuckwagon, sat on the tractor and rode horses!

Alexa takes a ride on Bucky	Connor gives Chance a good brushing	Alex enjoys a ride on Chance
Jamie only needs one hand while riding Bucky!	Elizabeth is the driver on the big tractor!	Mrs McDannell and Mrs. Stone gather up some children at the tractor!
Cowboys Michael and Nicholas enjoy a snack at the chuckwagon	Mrs. Sicard's class enjoy trail mix, rootbeer floats and a sing-along with Youth Pastor Matthew Hensley	Kristen, Hayden and Kojo work hard at swatting those pigs and cows into the pen at the rodeo!
Mrs. Wilkens gets her crew ready for sack races!	Aubrey tackles the barrel racing with a winning pony.	Lasso Practice at the rodeo with some 3 yr old cowpokes.
On the search for the great pumpkin, Madison finds one hiding in the caterpillar!	....and Will finds his at the top of the slide!	The 4's created their name in rope, like Kayla did here!
And Mrs. McNeil's 4's are working on Cow Seeds to plant at home!	Jack Ryan and Kaitlin work on the Cow Seed packets	...while Jackson from Mrs. Goff's class glues his name
Everyone enjoyed dressing up like cowboys and girls...even Mrs. Dills!

Harvest Hoedown - Day 2

Our Hoedown continued on to Nov 1st with the 2 day 3 yr old classes... here are a couple of photos from their fun day:

Austin enjoys his ride on Chance	Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Dailey's class visits the horse.	Amber looks adorable in her cowgirl attire!
Colleen finds her pumpkin in the pumpkin patch!	Landon rides the 'indoor ponies' at the rodeo	The boys are ready to race at the sack race course!

Pumpkinville

All 144 four year olds, family members and teachers headed to Leesburg for a day at Pumpkinville. We enjoyed apples, hayrides, slides, the petting zoo, pony rides and many other activities...what a great time!!

Here we are at Pumpkinville, and headed out on our hayride!!		Some of the girls enjoying the moon bounce!
Mrs. McNeil and Mrs. Brown welcome a new staff member!	Jessie feeds a billy goat.	Everyone enjoyed the petting zoo and feeding the animals, even Mrs. Goff!
Everyone's a daredevil... check out Landon and Hailey on the slides!		We all got a pumpkin at the end of our visit, and Connor picked out a nice one!

Johnny Appleseed Day

In September we celebrated Johnny Appleseed's Birthday. We learned about apples, sorted them by color, graphed them by taste, counted seeds and ate apple-y snacks all week. Lots of apple projects and apple stories rounded out the week!

Fire Prevention

It's October, and that means it's Fire Prevention Month and time for our annual visit from the Gainesville Volunteer Firefighters! We enjoyed a great day learning about the truck and all the things it can do, hearing the siren, seeing the lights and then watching the firefighter get ready to go into a building that is on fire. We learned to stay low in smoke and if we are in danger, we should yell out for help.

Our community helper for September was the Police Officer. We were excited to welcome Officer Wrobels from the Fairfax County Police Department to visit our 3 year olds, and Officer Lawler from Manassas to visit our 4 year olds. We enjoyed meeting the officer, and learning about his car and his work. We know that police officers are friends, and we must always obey them.