Preschool

Upcoming Dates and Announcements:

• CLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING WCDS EVENTS
• SAVE THE DATE! EARLY CHILDHOOD SHOWCASE – Thursday, May 8th @ 5:30- 6:30
• What to expect:
• Families should drop off their child/children to their classroom by 5:15. Parents can then go to the gym, where the evening will begin. At 5:30 the children will come to the gym with their teachers and take their place within their exhibition space. Parents will be invited to explore their child’s exhibit and the other classes as well. Following the exhibits within the gym, children and families will be invited to enjoy refreshments in the amphitheater (weather permitting) and tour classrooms.
• Here are the details for Preschool: Guided by the children’s interests and imaginations, the preschoolers chose to create their very own museums. We invite you to take a look through your children’s eyes as they became artists, scientists, storytellers and curators! This museum is not just a place to look, but a place to listen, wonder and celebrate the many languages of your children.
• Weekly Snack List
• Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
• Teacher Email: mshah@wcdsedu.com, awolle@wcdsedu.com, aschultz@wcdsedu.com 

Hello Preschool Familes!

What a week our little museum curators and artists have had! They say that when art and humor collide, masterpieces become giggles! If the amount of giggles we had this week are any indication of the masterpieces they have created, then we have a classroom full of Picasso’s!

On Tuesday we read the story “Mayhem at the Museum a Book in Pictures” by Luciano Lozano. In this story a little girl visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her classmates, and just like any museum, you may look but NOT touch. what begins as any typical visit to a museum, quickly becomes anything but. The art comes to life and begins to touch the art museum visitors in hilarious and surprising ways! The students loved exploring every turn of the page as they made inferences on”what happens next” by looking at the pictures. We then set out to create our next museum exhibit- superheros! Much like the story, their images came to life, as they created their very own super hero figurines and their personas! They did not disappoint! Next we brought our friend Lincoln’s monster truck museum exhibit to life! They learned about graffiti art (We promise, they will not be tagging any local buildings anytime soon! ) Armed with spray paint and tires they squealed with delight as they watched the colors spray from the cans!

On Wednesday, in preparation for our animal museum exhibit we read the story Gorilla Painting. The children have become experts on identifying what the author and illustrator do so we thought it was a great time to introduce the elements of a story. We talked about what a main character is and what the setting of a story is. Your children have been working so hard all year long on reading comprehension and we are blown away by their growth! We began working on their animals they would like to have shown in the museum and we will study our artist next week to wrap up these creations.

On Thursday the children were introduced to Vincent Van Gogh and his famous piece “Starry Night” It was only fitting that their science and planet museum be inspired by such a beautiful masterpiece. The children put their own spin and interpretation to this piece creating 3-D planets, moons, space people and galatic nerf guns!

While our days have been filled with mayhem as we gear up for the finality of the school year, the laughter, collaborative moments, and extra hugs are creating a beatiful tapestry of memories that will forever be in our hearts!

Have a masterpiece of a weekend with those little artists!

Miss Arden, Miss Meredith & Miss Airry

Super Heros

Graffiti Art on the Monster Truck

Animals

STARRY NIGHT – PRESCHOOL STYLE

DAILY DISCOVERY & EXPLORATIONS

Upcoming Dates and Announcements:

• CLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING WCDS EVENTS
• Spring Long Weekend. April 18th-April 21st. Classes resume on Tuesday, April 22nd at 10:00am
• SAVE THE DATE! EARLY CHILDHOOD SHOWCASE – Thursday, May 8th @ 5:30 p.m
• Weekly Snack List
• Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
• Teacher Email: mshah@wcdsedu.com, awolle@wcdsedu.com, aschultz@wcdsedu.com 

A Look at Our Week:

Inspired by Couple Under One Umbrella by the colorful artist Leonid Afremov—and a perfectly timed rainy Tuesday!—we explored the beauty of rain and self-expression through our April self-portraits. After a fun “trip” to our classroom museum to admire the painting, the children got to work on their own self-portraits in the rain. First, they used black Sharpie Flair pens to draw themselves walking in the rain, just like the couple in Afremov’s painting. Then came the most exciting part—adding bright pops of color by gluing vibrant tissue paper squares to create a dazzling, rainy background. It was wonderful to see how each child brought their own personality into their artwork! To bring the whole project to life, we snapped photos of each kiddo outside, smiling under a big umbrella—true little rays of sunshine in the drizzle! We added their pictures and drawings to their colorful creations, and the final pieces turned out absolutely adorable. You can now see these masterpieces proudly displayed in our classroom.

Following our rainy-day art adventure, we turned our attention to a beloved spring tradition—Easter bonnets! After reading Easter Parade by Irving Berlin, the children were full of excitement and creativity. Inspired by the festive spirit of the story, they each designed their very own Easter bonnets using paper plates as the base. With a colorful selection of loose parts like soft tulle, fluffy pom poms, colorful foam flowers, ribbon, tissue squares, and sparkly beads, each child crafted a unique and joyful creation. The process was filled with laughter, imagination, and a wonderful display of fine motor skills as they carefully arranged and glued their chosen materials. The finished bonnets were as bright and cheerful as the kids themselves—perfectly capturing the whimsy of springtime!

With their handmade Easter bonnets perched proudly on their heads, the kiddos were beyond excited to parade down to the playground for a special egg hunt organized just for them by our amazing 5th-grade students on Thursday. It was such a joyful sight—our little ones marching in their festive hats, giggling and waving as they made their way outside. Once the hunt began, they eagerly dashed around, scooping up colorful eggs tucked into every nook and cranny. The squeals of delight as they opened their treasures were absolutely priceless! Back in the classroom, the fun continued with a creative activity led by our wonderful student teacher, Miss Payton. Using squishy eggs, paint, and lots of fun stickers, the children decorated their very own Easter eggs. It was a fantastic way to wind down after all the excitement. The smiles on their faces said it all—what a magical day!

Thank you, as always, for sharing your amazing children with us. Wishing you a beautiful, bright, and joyful spring season!

-Meredith, Arden, and Airry

April Self-Portraits:

Easter Bonnets:

Egg Hunt and Decorating Eggs:

Daily Discovery and Explorations:

Upcoming Dates and Announcements:

• CLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING WCDS EVENTS
• Early Dismissal Thursday, April 17th @11:30
• Spring Long Weekend. April 18th-April 21st. Classes resume on Tuesday, April 22nd at 10:00am
• SAVE THE DATE! EARLY CHILDHOOD SHOWCASE – Thursday, May 8th @ 5:30 p.m.
• Weekly Snack List
• Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
• Teacher Email: mshah@wcdsedu.com, awolle@wcdsedu.com, aschultz@wcdsedu.com 
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  On April 17th, the fifth-grade class will be hosting a Spring Egg Hunt for our PS-4th grade students on main campus. We have lots of plastic eggs from previous years but we need your help in gathering items to fill the eggs. If you are able to donate a dozen small toys, trinkets, stickers, or candy for the school, we would love to have them by Monday, April 14. Thank you in advance for your help in making this a special event for our students! 
  
  
  

Hello Preschool Families!

Pablo Picasso once said “Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”

Preschool is now in the beginning phase of bringing each of their museums to life and just like Pablo Picasso, give us a museum and we will fill it! Last week the children journaled “If I had a museum”. As we like to say “it’s possible here” … so at 3 and 4 years old it’s possible here to create your own museum.

These were there ideas:

Avery – “I will have a Science Museum. I will have science toys in there, we will learn about space and maybe Nerf Guns”

Isla -“This is a Rainbow Museum. You just do like rainbow things”

Archie -“Mine will be The Museum of Letters. They will go on a letter hunt! You have to climb the letters, they will be different things”

Khy- “This is my Museum of Spiderman because I like him. People will look at Spiderman art and people can build webs.

Levi – “It will be a Museum of Toys, You can with with toy rainbows”

Emma – “A Monster museum, just because I like monsters”

Hunter -“It will be a Sonic Museum. Look I made a sad face. The Sonic Museum is just a sad face, It’s not Sonic, it’s actually a sad museum”

Romeo -“My museum will be the Museum of Elephants. My museum will have lots of elephants, it will have mom elephants and dad elephants. It will have lots of baby elephants because they are cute, People will learn about what they eat and what their snacks are.”

Lennon – “The Museum of Letters, the people will play with letters and it will be colorful”

Brody – “My Museum of Rainbows. We will go on a rainbow hunt and look for colors . They can build with rainbows.”

Lincoln – “The Museum of Monster Trucks. They will play with monster trucks and build lego trucks, you can play in tires.”

Ben – “My Museum of Rainbows, there will be a Sonic”

Evelyn – “This is a Happy Museum and a Dress Museum. It’s both. I work there and. clean it. All the girls pick which dress”

Roman – “This is a Hiding Place Museum. I’m making a dinosaur piled high so I can sleep in it with a pillow and a blanket. and there’s games.”

Lily – “So there’s planets in my museum. They can eat sandwiches in there and people will look at planets.”

Clara -“The Museum of Princess’s. You can play with them and look at them and there will be dresses!”

Audrey -“It is a Minnie Museum. You rude around on a penguin. There’s a bug, huge butter there too!”

Atticus- “This is a Monster Museum. You stop around like a dinosaur, you roll like a grasshopper, and then you chop things with a knife and there’s mowing and a spaceship.

The first step to filling a museum though, is to build one! We read the story The Museum by Susan Verde & Peter H. Reynolds. A little girl ventures to a museum and as she skips and whirls from room to room the exhibits evoke joy, wonder, curiosity and inspiration, her inner artist unleashed! When presented with an empty canvas she is invigorated to create and express herself, the greatest thing that art allows us to do! We then revisited the children’s blue prints for their museum ideas this week, feeling inspired, the children used air dry clay, loose parts and acrylic paint markers, to create their mini museum structures!

On Wednesday we began to work on our pieces for our first museum … The Museum of Letters and explore our first artist in our artist study, Andy Warhol. We read the ABC’s of Andy Warhol, admiring the beautiful penmanship of letters from Andy Warhols mother and the whimsical illustrations created by Andy Warhol himself of images representing each letter. The children then learned about the King of Pop Art and his most notable style -Screen Printing. Focusing on the letter A the students were invited to create their very own screen prints of the letter A to display in our museum. The kiddos were given little pencils to write their letter A’s on to a foam tray. Next, they chose their choice of paint color to add on to their tray, then using a new art tool, brayers, they rolled the paint onto the trays, allowing it to soak into their A’s, lastly they pressed their paper onto the painted trays and pressed down, then giggled in excitement as we pulled them up and their A’s were magically transferred to the paper!

The beauty of a museum is that it’s a place where everyone feels like they belong, a place where anything can be beautiful. We are so excited to continue our study of museums and artists and share the beauty of belonging through the eyes of your children.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend, with the faces so adorable that they belong in a museum!

Miss Arden, Miss Meredith & Miss Airry

MUSEUM ARCHITECTS

ANDY WARHOL SCREEN PRINTING

DAILY DISCOVERY & EXPLORATIONS

Upcoming Dates and Announcements:

• CLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING WCDS EVENTS
• Weekly Snack List
• Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
• Teacher Email: mshah@wcdsedu.com, awolle@wcdsedu.com, aschultz@wcdsedu.com 

A Look at Our Week:

We kicked off our week with the beautiful story Planting a Rainbow, which inspired our March self-portraits. After hearing the story, the children were tasked with envisioning themselves as colorful flowers in a vibrant garden. Using oil pastels and Sharpies, each child carefully designed their flower-self portrait, adding bright colors and creative details. The final touch was gluing real flowers and ferns onto their artwork, giving it a beautiful, natural element. We also added a photograph of each child to their masterpiece, capturing their unique smiles alongside their creations. These portraits are now on display in our classroom, and they truly bring so much warmth and joy to the space. 

The remainder of our week was focused on Celebrate. Your children have been an integral part of the preparation for the upcoming Celebrate event! Over the past few weeks, the children have been working together to finish our beautiful mirror mosaic that will be auctioned off at Celebrate. This masterpiece is a true reflection of their creativity, with pieces of each child’s artwork carefully embedded into the design. It’s a stunning work of art that showcases not only their individual contributions but also their ability to collaborate as a team. We’re so proud of how it turned out, and we can’t wait to see it displayed at Celebrate! If you can’t make it to the event in person, don’t worry—you can still be a part of the excitement by bidding on the mosaic via proxy. This unique piece of art would make such a meaningful memento of your child’s first school experience! 

Speaking of Celebrate, who says the grown-ups get to have all the fun? This week, the children listened to stories of Alice in Wonderland and had a blast designing and decorating their very own unique top hats! Each one was a creative masterpiece, full of personality and flair. To top off our fun week, we wrapped things up with a delightful “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.” The children enjoyed a fancy, whimsical tea party with beautiful place settings, complete with tea cups and floral centerpieces. It was such a joy to see their faces light up as they sipped “tea” and shared the fun with their friends.

Enjoy your weekend and we are looking forward to spending the evening with those of you coming to Celebrate!

-Meredith, Arden, and Airry

MARCH SELF PORTRAITS

MAD HAT-TERS

TEA TIME

DAILY DISCOVERY & EXPLORATIONS

FINAL CELEBRATE PREP

Upcoming Dates and Announcements:

• CLICK HERE FOR UPCOMING WCDS EVENTS
• ⭐️Your children have been working hard on their class art piece and hope you will be at Celebrate to see it and bid-there are still event tickets left! Thank you for always supporting WCDS- https://app.betterunite.com/wcds-celebratewonderland
• Friday, March 28th– 11:30 am dismissal, Aftercare is available
• CELEBRATE MARCH 29, 2025. Hope to see you there!!
• Starting in the new year, our preschool class will begin having community snacks. This will be a fun way for the children to build independence, as they’ll help set the tables, prepare and distribute the snacks, and clean up afterward. We’re asking families to sign up to bring snacks for the class for one week. You will provide snacks for 20 students for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning snack times. Monday and Friday snacks, as well as afternoon snacks, will remain individual, as usual. Click to sign up for your family’s week. Thanks!
• Beforecare is available in the gym from 7:30- 8:20 and aftercare from 3:30-5:00.
• Teacher Email: mshah@wcdsedu.com, awolle@wcdsedu.com, aschultz@wcdsedu.com 

Hello Preschool Families!

What… A… Week! The grass did not grow under our feet! The Spring weather put a little pep in our steps, bigger smiles on our faces and allowed us to take our learning outdoors.

We kicked off the week with a letter hunt in our out door learning space. Armed with magnifying glasses, the children set out to search for the hidden letter blocks, the children raced and giggled as they scoured the amphitheater, excitedly identifying and reporting back which letters they had found. We then gathered together and read the story “There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed the ABC’s” Next, that silly old lady made an appearance in our classroom and she was only hungry for letters! The kiddos were presented three letters at a time, they were then asked to listen to the sound of the letter that that old lady would eat and had to identify which letter out of the three made that sound. They squealed with excitement as they waited to see if the lady would eat the letter they chose, we are happy to report that they are letter experts!

On Wednesday we read the story “Hello In There” A charming story about a little girl anxiously awaiting the arrival of her sibling. With every turn of the page the mommy’s belly grow bigger and the children loved watching as the flaps opened and we watched page by page as the baby continued to grow. Before we knew it, the baby had arrived! As we wrap up our study of babies and families, the time had arrived, the children were given a baby of their own to take home and care for! The children created the cover of their “Baby Books” that they will use to document their babies journey to home with them! We cannot wait for them to share all the stories in their books with us next week!

While letters are all the rage in the preschool classroom lately and the children are asking how to spell things, learning that the letters are how we create words, we thought, what better way to explore letters than to spell the most important thing we own, our names! We listened to The Name Song sung by Maya Angelou. A beautiful tribute to our names and the pride that they carry. It is the one thing that is with us throughout our entire lives. We then came together around the circle and sand “Everybody’s Got A Name” and practiced spelling our friends names. After, the children were invited to find their names at the tables. The kiddos were given various loose parts, such as straws, mesh tubing, and pipe cleaners to create lines, while beads, gems, and tree circles could make curves, to create a mosaic masterpiece of their names!

While we gear up for CELEBRATE next week, we used Daily Discovery to begin the second step of our art piece. The children worked methodically and diligently to create a mosaic mat to showcase those beautiful self-portrait mirrors. The children are so excited to share the art they have been working so hard on. This will be a one of a beautiful, one-of-a- kind art piece that you will have the chance to bid on! Stay tuned for the final reveal next week!

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Arden, Miss Meredith & Miss Airry

CELEBRATE SNEAK PEEK

LETTER HUNT

THAT LITTLE OLD LADY

BABY BOOKS

LOOSE PART NAMES

DAILY DISCOVERY & EXPLORATIONS