Spring Fling

Just a quick reminder, this Friday April 8th is Spring Fling. Featuring activities for the kids and an ice cream social. Whole families are welcome. In the school gym 6 - 7:30pm.

PJ's And Recycling

Today was PJ day at school. It was fun to see everyone wearing their favorite pajamas, parents too. The Imagineers also had a visit from CleanScapes. We learned about recycling, what items we can recycle and what we should compost or put in the garbage. We also learned of the different ways items can be reused or remade into something else. The kids brought items from home and got to put them into the blue recycling bin. We heard a few stories and then everyone put on their safety glasses and reflective vests. We headed outside and waiting for us was the CleanScapes recycling truck, where all our items were recycled. We were told how the truck works and everyone got a chance to sit in the driver's seat of the truck.  A very exciting and fun day at preschool, thanks to our friends at CleanScapes for taking the time to teach us about recycling.

Open House

On Saturday, March 5th, from 10 am - 1 pm, we'll be opening our doors for our annual Open House event. Tour our facilities, meet Teacher Patty and several preschool parents and kids, and find out why we love Shoreline Cooperative Preschool.

SCP is located at 816 NE 190th St., Shoreline, WA 98155 [Get directions from Google Maps]. Please call us at 206.362.3257 if you have any questions.

Our preschool offers a unique and educational environment through:

• Fantastic teacher with 25 years teaching experience
• Regular field trips as part of curiculum
• Guided creative play
• Puzzles and creative thinking
• Small group projects
• Spacious gym/indoor playground
• Outdoor playscape and playground
• Science tables
• Art projects
• Sensory and water tables

We offer classes for three age ranges:

Discoverers
22 Months - 3 years
Tuesday & Friday
9:30 am til 11:15 am

Imagineers
3-4 years
Monday, Wednesday, & Thursday
9:30 am til 12 noon

Inventors
Pre-K Class: 4-5 years
Monday, Wednesday, & Thursday
12:30 pm til 3 pm

No Potty Training Necessary!

Visit our web site for more information, or to contact us:
http://shorelinecooperativepreschool.org/

Current SCP parents: If you can, please come by preschool during Open House, and bring your kids!

Workbook Fun!

This year, I've heard several parents talk about how much their Imagineer is really into the idea of preschool workbooks. At our house, it's become a part of the day. Immediately after supper, D asks to "do the workbook". Here are a couple of workbooks we've really enjoyed along with (because they can be a little spendy when you're burning through them!) a couple of sites with lots of printables (FREE!).

Richard Scarry's Big Busy Sticker & Activity Book: A great book for Busytown fans! It's loaded with really colorful pages and all kinds of activities and games. In addition there are literally hundreds of stickers to be used for all of the activities. It takes a little searching around at times to match the stickers to the pages, but you'll get the hang of it. They're all letter coded. I only wish they made the sticker pages perforated as we opted to pull all of the pages out (before D stuck them all!).

Brainquest Workbook: This was also a really great book. It's organized into color-coded sections by topics (numbers, letters, etc.) and lasted a long time. The pages are all full colored and it's a pretty thick book.

TLSbooks.com: This site is nothing fancy, but is chocked full of printable sheets. We printed them all up double sided to save paper. They are listed by type of activity and there are lots and lots of pages.

Kidslearningstation.com: It takes a little clicking around to get to the pages that you want to print, but they have a nice selection of activities.

Do you have a favorite site? Feel free to comment below. As always, if you want to purchase the workbooks mentioned above, please use the links below for Amazon to support SCP!

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

It was the start of the Lunar New Year this week, and as usual Teacher Patty was helping us celebrate in style. In the Imagineers class we were playing with Mah Jong pieces, drawing and painting Chinese characters, reading books about Chinese New Year, eating fortune cookies with our snack, and some of us even wore beautiful silk clothes from China. The highlight of our morning was probably our parade down the hallway, with half of the kids as the dragon and the other half beating drums. I've posted a bunch of photos to our Flickr account. Check 'em out on Flickr!

Discoverers Teacher Opening!

We are just starting the search for a teacher to teach to the Discoverers class this fall! This a part-time role and a great opportunity to work at an awesome school. If you know anyone who might be interested, the job description and application information can be found on the Shoreline Community College website. Check it out!

Parent Education Resources

In case you missed them, below you'll find books from our last meeting with guest speaker Connie Dawson, Ph.D. She is the mother of 3 and grandmother of 8 and a former therapist working with families and childhood attachment problems. She taught in the counselor education program at Portland State University and is currently writing a book about 7 unposted rules that govern relationships.