St. Helen Preschool

PROFILE
St. Helen's Preschool is a multi-age preschool catering to children ages 3-5 years old. The preschool opened in September 1993.
We are a family-centered school welcoming our parents to help in the classroom, at our concerts, in our garden, fundraising, and many community projects. We also enjoy ice cream socials, family field trips and we invite our parents to serve on the preschool parent board.
The teachers of St. Helen's are degreed and have many years of experience in the preschool field. The teachers attend workshops and classes throughout the year because of their dedication to the young child.

Curriculum
Developmentally Appropriate Practice is letting the child's play be their greatest vehicle for mental and physical growth. Play is fundamental to the child's development.
Young children learn the most important things by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children...and the way they do this is through their play. Children stimulate each other's thinking; therefore, the learner relationship in a multi-age classroom is one of the most important relationships.
The role of the teacher is to prepare the environment so that the young learner can explore, test and try out new experiences. The environment and curriculum is a planned arrangement of time, space, resources, people and ideas.
When children are given opportunities for creative, investigative play, they learn to think for themselves, and they become more self-initiating, responsible, creative and inventive. Through play, a child's learning is reinforced and they are learning to think for themselves.

November 8, 2000
Thank you to everyone for helping out with our Halloween parties. We appreciate all the extra help and support! We couldn't do it without you!
There is so much going on in the next month. Please keep these letters available to keep you up on all the special events and activities. You will be seeing a lot of flyers and sign-ups in the next few weeks. All information is available on this web site.
Tuesday, Nov. 9, the Zoo Man from Wildlife Zoo is coming with some special friends. We do not have classes this day, but please come to the playground around 9:45 for the 10:00 show. ALL ARE INVITED! The show is about one hour long.

There is NO SCHOOL this Thursday, Nov. 11 for Veteran's Day.

Sign-ups are outside for the following events:
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES (No classes Nov. 18-19. Please sign up for a time to talk to your child's teacher.)
FIELD TRIP TO SUNFRESH FARMS (Trip is Saturday, Nov. 20. We will meet at the farm. A flyer was passed out on this last month with times, directions. Charge is $3.00/person at the farm.
THANKSGIVING FEAST (Our feasts will be Tuesday, Nov. 23 and Wednesday, Nov. 24. We ask everyone to contribute to our "Friendship Stew." The children come to school only for the feasts on those days. 10:00-11:00 for the morning classes and 12:30-1:30 for the afternoon classes.)
We are off for Thanksgiving holiday Nov. 25 and 26.

Themes for the following weeks:
Nov. 8-12 Farm and Letter Hh
Nov. 15-17 Harvest Letter Hh and Ii
Nov. 22-24 Thanksgiving (No letter)
Nov. 29 Advent (Letter Jj)
DON'T FORGET OUR 200 CLUB. THIS IS OUR MAJOR FUNDRAISER FOR THE SCHOOL. WE STILL NEED MORE MEMBERS AND YOU NEVER KNOW...YOU MAY WIN.

On Dec. 4, we will be having a workshop to make reindeer shirts for the holiday. It is on a Saturday from 8:00-12:00, we provide everything (paint, glue, eyes) you provide the shirt or sweatshirt for your child or yourself. Michael's, Craftmart, Walmart, etc. have shirts and sweatshirts. The best colors are red, green, and white. We ask that you pay $3.00/shirt to help pay for the cost of paint. We will wear these shirts when we visit the senior citizen home in December to Christmas carol.
Any questions, please call Marcia at the office 979-4202.