From the director: January 2015
Happy New Year!
The Preschool Parent Group rented a snow machine for use on the playground with the children. Since it was raining the first day of “snow” we took the machine upstairs and used it outside Faith Family Center under the overhang. Some of the snow was blown downstairs and I was able to enjoy the snowy view. 
The next day it went down on the playground were some children were “dashing through the snow” on tricycles while others swept, raked, and danced.
PJ Day at preschool will be January 13 & 14. The children love to come to school in their PJs. If your child chooses not to wear their PJs just bring them to school in a bag (the PJs not your child J). Sometimes they change their mind after seeing their friends.
Some of you have asked me about where you can donate gently used toys. This is a good time of year to help your child share toys with children who don’t have any toys as you make room for the new toys they receive for Christmas. Not an easy lesson but a good one when your child is ready. This church takes toys to Presbyterian Urban Ministries. If you have any donations you can bring them to the office and I will get them to the church member that takes care of donations for that ministry.
The first phase of the mud kitchen is in the Nature Space. Mrs. Greaves is taking each class down and introducing them to the environment. Thank you to the following people who were able to work on the spur-of-the-moment this past weekend to get our kitchen started: Andrew, Betsy, and Jackson Greaves, Gary, Jeanine, Kevin, and Justine Gutowski, Sondra and Henryk Pederson, and Aaron Barlett. A special thank you to Gary Gutowski for donating all the wooden pallets. There is more work to be done and parents will be notified when there is a work party. I know many of you want to see the space. Mrs. Greaves and I will set up some times for parents to visit the mud kitchen with Mrs. Greaves.
Brand new mud kitchen ready for dirt!
The space is also designed to be easily cleaned, durable to ‘living’ outdoors, and maintained with a minimum of effort! Designs can vary! The idea would be to place the Mud Kitchen in the nature space, using repurposed materials (e.g. palettes)