School Newsletter
August 2010
In just a few days the 2010 – 2011 school year will begin. The teachers will be welcomed back to school from August 2nd - 6th. They will be busy working on setting up their classrooms, finishing lesson plans and attending workshops. Church and preschool staff will attend a CPR/First Aid refresher course on Tuesday August 3rd. Other workshops for the preschool staff will include “Stomp,Skip and Jump”, “Kindergarten Readiness” and “Language and Early Literacy Content: Making it Fun at School”.
The preschool staff is a fantastic group of people: Returning for another wonderful year are: Chris Barstad, Denise Cooper , Nan Davis, Belen Meglioli, Yama Ringman, Sandy Vega, Kara Zeigler, Debi Stalker, Lisa Coney, Emily Ragan, Leslie Farmer and Brigit Voss. Kristen Rystom will return as our preschool Administrative Assistant. The children will start school the week of August 9th, with orientation days.
Our preschool curriculum is faith based and developmentally appropriate, using the Colorado State Preschool Standards as a guideline in planning their daily lessons and activities that will include weekly Spanish lessons. What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) and what does it mean to children? You may have noticed that our classrooms have a lot of bustle and noise, and children are up doing things, talking, playing, and exploring. Research and experience tells us that to be effective with young children, teaching practices need to be “developmentally appropriate.” What this means is simply that educators need to think first about what young children are like and then create an environment and experiences that are in tune with children’s characteristics. Children 3 – 6 learn far better through direct interactive experiences than through just listening to someone talk. They learn extraordinary amounts through play and exploration. And the younger children are, the more what they learn needs to be relevant and interesting on the day they learn it, not just in the context of some future learning. Based on such knowledge about what children of this age are like, we design our program to fit them. It works a lot better than trying to redesign children! A developmentally appropriate program like ours is age-appropriate.
To make our program a wonderful place for every child, we gear our classroom environments and activities to this community and the families involved. We’re eager to learn as much as we can about each child’s family, cultural background, past experience, and current circumstances. With this knowledge we work to create a program that fits the children and the families we serve.
We hope that everyone had a safe and fun summer! Remember you are always welcome to visit our preschool.
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KING SOOPERS & SAFEWAY GROCERY GIFT CARDS are available from the Preschool office and between services. They are sold in $25 increments. Faith Lutheran Preschool receives 4% of every $100 spent in grocery certificates. If we expand on our current purchasing, our percentage will increase up to 10%. Ten to thirteen families a year benefit from a scholarship program the Preschool offers.
To purchase grocery gift-certificates, please stop by the Preschool Office or call 303.688.3532.