What a great morning for our Dads to get to visit with their child and have breakfast. A huge thank you to everyone that helped make this day so special.

Which comes first? The chicken or the egg? Our Pre-K class has 14 eggs in an incubator, and now we wait 21 days. Learning about life cycles is an important way to develop children's understanding of the world and helps them understand and deal with weighty concepts such as life, death, and birth.

In science this week we put food coloring in vases with water, and added white carnations. In 24 hours we had red and blue flowers. The children thought this was pretty cool!

Tearing paper may seem like child's play, but it is a vital fine-motor skills that lays the foundation for numerous activities throughout life. As children master this seemingly simple task, they are honing their grip strength, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination, and precision.

In preschool we introduce units of measurement that children can wrap their minds around. Usually those are with regular household objects and toys. In these activities children delve in deeper to understand measurement of length and height with blocks and yarn!

I traced each child's shoe, and they had to use blocks to measure the length of the shoe, touch and count the blocks, and write the correct number.

We cut a piece of yarn to measure each child's height. We attached them to the wall in our science center. We compared their height and discussed short and tall. We will do it again at the end of the year to compare how much they've grown.

What a wonderful talent show! We realize that any good performance takes time and a great amount of effort and flexibility. Rest assured that this has not been wasted time, rather time well spent. This is how St. James stands out from all the rest. Some of our curriculum objectives that your child has learned through this experience are: following limits and expectations, traveling skills, gross-motor skills, speaking clearly, following directions, attends and engages, and persists.

They also gain a tremendous amount of self-confidence and self-control. It’s not easy at the age of 4 and 5 to perform in front of an audience. We think these children did a remarkable job.

All of this would not have been possible without help from our parents, Mrs. Denise and her middle/lower school helpers, and Mrs. Wright. A big thank you to all of these special people.