Enrolling for Fall 2014

Our first year of preschool in Price was a huge success! We had a great time making friends, going to fieldtrips to Coldstone, the Prehistoric Museum, and the Fire Station, and learning the skills we'll need in Kindergarten!

This fall our morning Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday class is full! But I'm still having people contact me looking for available spots. Because of this, I have decided to consider adding a twice a week (Tuesday/Thursday) afternoon class. This class would go from 12:40-2:40 (to let out right before Castle Heights Elementary and aid parents in simplifying their student pick up). Tuition for the afternoon class is $50 with a registration/materials fee of $25. This class will open as soon as I have enough interest. I will need at least 5 students to make a class. If you or someone you know has a preschool cutie who would like to join Happy Day Preschool's afternoon session, please contact Miss Megan.

Thanks!

Preschool in Price, UT

We are now enrolling for fall 2013. Miss Megan is brimming with lots of fun ideas and is working hard to get the classroom decorated and stocked with books and learning supplies! 

Contact Miss Megan to register!

Our New Digs

Our preschool classroom is now set up and ready to go in Price, UT! I'm looking forward to a great year! 

Happy Dr. Seuss Week!

Last week we celebrated Dr. Seuss Week! I downloaded a few new apps for our preschool iPad and our favorite was Dr. Seuss Camera.

After reading a few favorite Dr. Seuss books, we had fun taking silly pictures of ourselves and emailing them to our parents. Using technology is a fun way to learn!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Preschool Large Motor Development

Preschool isn't just about learning ABCs and 123s. Its also about developing control over our big and small motor muscles. One of the funnest ways we exercised our running, twirling, dancing, and rolling muscles was by jumping in an enormous pile of leaves.

Best recess ever.

Preschool Letter Writing Practice

One of our favorite writing center activities is our white board letter writing. I got 26 popsicle sticks and wrote all of the alphabet letters on them. Then my preschool friends take turns choosing sticks out of a cup and writing the letter they chose on the white board.

This cute friend got on a roll and wrote all 26 letters!

Letter Parking Lot

A great way to review letter names and sounds is to create a parking lot. Draw parking spaces on a paper and write the letters you'd like your child to practice in the spaces. To play the game, provide your munchkin with a pile of hot wheels and call out a letter name. Your cutie "drives" the car to the correct letter parking spot and you call out the next one. When the parking lot is full, clear the cars off and try it again. 

Instead of calling out letter names you could play a variation of the game by calling out letter sounds for your child to park the cars on. Or for readers, you could make a sight word parking lot.

This game is so fun, the kids never wanted to leave the letter center!

Preschool Lesson Plan: X is for X-Ray

Price, UT Preschool Now Enrolling

Happy Day Preschool has relocated from Lehi to Price, UT and is preparing to reopen this fall!

Miss Megan cannot wait to meet new friends! Please contact her by email (missmeganhinckley@gmail.com) or phone (801.830.4352) for more information or to register.

Preschool Ideas: Sweet Dream Spray

One of our friends brought a great invention for show and tell that we wanted to share! It's a spray that she sprays on at bedtime to keep the bad dreams away. Genius!

Preschool Halloween Party

We had a fun Halloween party with a cowgirl, a mermaid, a witch, iron man, dearth vader, a ladybug, a kitty, rapunzel, and an elephant who did not want to pose for a picture. It was a great day!

Preschool Lesson Plan: Ff is for Foot Fishy

We made these cute fishes with our footprints today. We sure giggled when Miss Megan painted on the orange paint. We have the funniest feet!!!

Preschool Red Day

We learned about the color red this week! These are some of the things we found in our classroom that are red!

A Great First Week!

Our first week of preschool was a complete success! We spent time getting to know each other and singing lots of songs where we got to introduce ourselves. Its so fun to make new friends.

We talked about rules and routines and how following the rules keeps us all safe and happy. To illustrate, we read our new favorite books "No! David!" and "David Gets in Trouble." That silly David is always doing something hilariously naughty. [He may have even forgot to put on his pants when he walked to school!!!] Then we made our own David puppets so we could practice helping David behave. I'm glad our preschoolers could help David out.

Here are some pictures Miss Megan snapped during centers this week:

We even helped check the chicken coop for eggs! Look what we found!

We're looking forward to next week! We start our letter of the week curriculum and our color unit!

Preschool Openhouse

Before our new school year began, I had the chance to meet our new preschool friends! What a great class we have this year! 5 cute girls and 4 handsome boys!

Everybody got to choose a book to take home and read. They also got their very own brand new box of crayons to color and write with at home!

We decorated stars and used letter stickers to spell our names!

I thank my lucky stars to be able to teach such a great group! I'm looking forward to another fantastic year!!

Looking for More Friends!

We have 3 openings left in our preschool class this fall! If you know anyone who loves having fun while they're getting smarter--let them know that there is still time to sign up!

Miss Megan is getting so excited to start preschool and meet all of her new friends! We will see you soon!

Letter Review and Pattern Unit

This week we reviewed the letters we've learned so far this year. We made cookies and stamped letters on the top before we baked them. Miss Megan let us roll out the cookies ourselves then we stamped letters on the top. While they baked we watched "The Letter Factory." Then we enjoyed the cookies for snack!

We played alpha friend Bingo and had a lot of alphabet fun!

We also started learning about patterns this week. Miss Megan made this video to show us!