Teaching Reaching and Healing, all with God's Love
Castle Rock, Colorado
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LUTHERAN CHURCH Teaching Reaching and Healing, all with God's Love Castle Rock, Colorado |
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| May 2008 FAITH LUTHERAN PRESCHOOL……committed to joyful early childhood education entwined with the love and grace of God! Faith Lutheran Preschool is still accepting registration applications for the 2008 – 2009 school year. This year we are offering a new class on Friday mornings for the 4/5 year olds which will include beginning Spanish and a variety of multi-cultural activities. Click here for registration information, or if you would like to set up a time to visit, please call the preschool at 303-688-3532. What do teachers, students and families at Faith Lutheran Preschool do? FLP does— ACTIVE LEARNING— The best learning is active learning! Active learning takes advantage of children’s natural desire to move and touch. Young children love to manipulate items and explore new ideas. They enjoy the opportunity to see how things work and to test their own theories! Active learning takes advantage of children’s natural motivations, abilities, and interests. Kids get lots of opportunities to investigate what interests them – to solve problems, discover relationships, and make comparisons. Children use all their senses to make discoveries: How heavy is it? Does it smell? Can I find another one that feels the same? What does it sound like when I drop it? How is it different from the other items? Using their hands, eyes, nose, ears and mouth to explore an item, children gather more information and remember what they learn. As they interact directly with their environment, children not only gather sensory information, they also refine their senses and motor skills. For example, it takes very refined movement of the hands and fingers to produce the penmanship required for writing. Squeezing clay, picking up puzzle pieces, and lacing threads through beads are ways for young children to practice and develop the small muscles of their hands and fingers! We organize the classroom environment to promote active learning, and plan activities to encourage children to think and talk about their discoveries and creations. In addition, to further facilitate their learning field trips are planned to enhance some units. This month, the Fives (Gold Class) are expanding their knowledge of Butterflies, observing caterpillars becoming butterflies and the unit concludes with a visit to the Butterfly Pavilion. The Fours will discover and learn about Dinosaurs completing their unit with a visit the Dinosaur Museum. FLP’s knowledgeable staff provides activities, materials, space and time for children to explore, discover and create -- to be active learners! FLP invites you to come and see this exciting process in action. FLP Director, Marian Kolker |
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available from the Preschool office and between services. Proceeds go to our scholarship fund for grants to families who cannot afford full tuition here at FLP. Your support enables us to offer up to a 50% scholarship based on need and circumstances. We need volunteers to sell Grocery Certificates between services. For anyone wishing to help sell grocery certificates. Please call the preschool office or speak to someone selling on a Sunday. |
| Questions: 1. Do you know what this is? 2. Do you know how to use it? 3. Do you know how it can help? 4. Do you know who it has helped? Answers: 1. It is a Grocery Certificate Sold in $25 increments. 2. A Grocery Certificate can be used at Safeway, King Soopers and City Market stores to purchase anything. Change will be given if the entire amount isn't used. 3. Faith Lutheran Preschool receives 5% of every $100 spent in grocery certificates. 4. Ten to thirteen families a year benefit ftom a scholarship program the Preschool offers. Please consider volunteering to sell and BUY! Thank you. |