May2018

Preschool News Fellowship Friends Preschool

Fun on the Farm!!! Our spring musical program will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 21st and 22nd. The program will begin at 6:00pm. The end of the year slide show will begin 15 mins prior to show time. Your children have been working hard to make this a super fun program and the Fellowship Friends dancers have been hard at work as well. We would like for the students to dress in denim pants or shorts, we will supply the shirt for them. Dancers will receive their costumes from Miss DeeDee prior to the program. She will send out information regarding any other details for the program soon.

Graduation 2018

We will be celebrating our graduates with a special ceremony

immediately following the program. We invite

those parents of graduating four/five year olds to return to the sanctuary for our graduation ceremony. This will be approximately 15 minutes and will honor those students leaving our program for kindergarten.

Splash Day Let’s celebrate our last day of

preschool with a SPLASH!!!

Send your student to school

with their bathing suit for the last day of

school, Wednesday and Thursday, May 23rd

& 24th . Please apply sunscreen as we cannot

and send a dry set of clothes in their back-

pack. This will be a fun day of water games,

activities and farm themed fun!

Muffins with Mom Your little ones are

anxious to celebrate

Mother’s Day with you.

Please join us for

muffins at preschool on

Wednesday and Thursday, May 9 and

10 at drop off. We will gather in

classrooms for refreshments and gifts.

We look forward to seeing you.

First day of preschool for 2018-2019 will be:

Tuesday, September 4th (T/Th) Wednesday, September 5th (M/W)

Open House will be Wednesday, August 29 (M/W) at 10am Thursday, August 30 (T/Th) at 10am

More news to come… Look for the summer newsletter to be mailed to your home the beginning of August

Change of Plans? We realize that times are trying for many families with job moves, transfers and unexpected events. If your family is facing changes and needs to reconsider preschool placement next year, please call Lisa as soon as possible. I will be in the office frequently over the summer and will check messages, or you may leave a message for me with the church office. 817-430-1500

National Day of Prayer: Thursday, May 3 at 12 noon All denominations are welcome to meet at the Trophy Club clock tower to pray for our town, our state, our nation and its leaders. Our school will organize special prayer sessions for all of our classes in observance of this special day.

A Big Thank You … To Doug Adkins (aka Astronaut Doug), Genevieve Shafer (aka Miss Frizzel, and Lisa Minnick (aka Mrs. Polar Bear) For dressing up and being guest readers for our Discovery Day service project day which focused on literacy.

May Preschool Project: $ Bucks for Bryce $ Our focus will be on one of our own families that needs our help. The Bell family has an infant son that is battling Menkes syndrome which is a deficiency of copper in the brain and body. We will be selling t-shirts for $20 and also accepting cash donations to go to this family. We are asking our students to do extra chores or good

Last Discovery Day May 18: We will be celebrating our last Dis-covery Day with farm themed fun. This will be a water day so please send students in bathing suits, water shoes, a towel and a dry change of clothes. Apply sunscreen before school as we are not permitted to apply sunscreen. Please label every-thing with your child’s name. This year our scientists experimented, explored and learned many new things as well as how to think using the scientific method. Our themes touched on 19 branches of science this year.

May 3 National Day of Prayer at noon May 4 Discovery Day May 9 & 10 Muffins with Mom May 14 & 15 Zebra Day May 18 Last Discovery Day—Fun on the Farm May 21 & 22 Spring Program & graduation 6pm May 23 & 24 Last Day of Preschool—Water fun day!!! July 9-13 First week of Summer Program July 16-20 Second week of Summer Program

Mystery Theme for May is

Fun on the Farm We will explore animals, crops, equipment

and people who work on farms.

Preschool Progress Reports/ Conferences

We don’t need a special reason to praise your terrific children… it has been a great year of learning and having fun. We will be evaluating your child and will be visiting with you in a phone conference before the end of the school year. We will be sharing all of the great progress your child has made and also share some areas that may benefit from practice over the summer. This is a good opportunity to ask questions or express any concerns you may have.

Zebra Day! Monday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 15 We have been working for so long each week learning a different letter. We have finally come to the end of the alphabet! We will be celebrating the letter Z with some zebra day fun. We will have special snack, special activities and are asking

We have several people that we need to thank for helping us do what we do. Our superstar parent volunteer chairs -Jenna Fossum and Erin Gross and committee members: Christina Vaughn, Megan Grivas, Julie Shedlock, Andrea Williams, Katie Kraus, Janet Greedy, Mary Emily Boedeker, Adri-anna Shabbot, Phyllis Neely, Linda and Brian Highfill, Kathy Reading and many more parents that helped us out this year with things like,

the Thanksgiving feast, Snack Sack packing, Valentine’s rotations, solicitation and set up for the spaghetti dinner and auction, and especially for organizing the teacher appreciation week and covering our classes during our special lunch. We could not have done all that we have done without these wonderful parents and grandparents.

Our summer program is on the way…

We are excited as we plan our summer fun weeks July 9-13 and July 16-20 from 9am—noon. This will run similar to our last days of preschool with fun rotations in subjects such as science, crafts, snack, gross motor, academic skill review, play-ground and music. Some of the activities we will have are a fishing pond, special snack recipes, boat races, nature scavenger hunts, camping bingo, rock lettering, camping play, sleep-ing bag races, and so much more. There will be new activities each week, so that if your child attends both weeks, it will be something new everyday! We ask that you do send a backpack with a change of clothes and a hat as we will be doing some activities outdoors and will have a campsite set up for dramatic play. Apply sunscreen everyday. Fridays will be fun water days so they will need to have bathing suits for those special days. Preschool will provide a special t-shirt for every child who attends. We are look-ing forward to a fun time with the kids. If you have not yet signed your child up for these fun weeks, we are still accepting registration until May 15. If you have any questions, please see Lisa in the office.