F is for FISH.

Another great day at preschool!

We learned all about FISH today!
Look at our cool FISH crafts we made:

I love watching them work so hard.

Their little hands working away. 

Soak these pictures up. 

They will be teenagers WAY too soon.

Another good book this morning!

We laughed and laughed at 

The Pout Pout Fish!

We had a special guest after nap today!

Gavin's kitty, Carol, rode underneath their car 

today ALLLLLL the way to town! Haha!

Gavin's mommy saw her and needed

her to stay with us until she got off work.

The kids were so excited!

We took Carol outside with us to let her go potty.

She may or may not have gotten an impromptu bath

in the sandbox full of melted ice water.

Ahem. 

Disclosure: No animals or children were hurt during this time.

Hahaha!

Thank you for letting Carol come play today, Gavin!

I hope your day was fabulous!
Ours sure was!

This is the day that the Lord has made. 
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24

With Love, Mrs. Melea

Happy New Year!

Hey y'all!
I am BLOGGING!
woo hoo!
Can you tell what one of my New Year's Resolutions is?!
Haha!
I can't promise I will be able to do this everyday, but I'm going to
try my hardest!

During circle time we, of course, went over our letters, numbers, counted,
etc. but we also went around telling our very favorite Christmas gift. It
sounds like they all had a wonderful Christmas!

We started off the 2nd part of the school year with a sweet book:

I love books that have a CD that reads it! It has sound effects and 

different voices reading...it really keeps the kids engaged!Afterwards 

we went around the circle telling what we would like our New Year's 

Resolution to be! Alot of them wanted to "help their moms" with various

chores. We had one child that wanted to start a garden! So cute!

After our book we worked on our classwork. We just did a little 

worksheet introducing the "F" sound.

Gosh, they are cute! Aren't they?!

I hope you had a fabulous holiday! I enjoyed every second of it!

My house was FULL! I love it when my kids are all home under

one roof! I was in HEAVEN!

And this cutie pie. We had a wonderful time

with sweet friends on New Year's. Much needed.

 If you need me, after Rhett's ballgame, I will be in 

my bed with my jammies on watching this:

Don't judge. 

I am loving this verse right now. It just might need to be my

go to verse:

Rise up, take courage and do it. Ezra 10:4

With Love, Mrs.Melea

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful week celebrating Christmas!

I wanted to share some pictures of our fun party day!

After breakfast we started working on our reindeer food!

The kids enjoyed scooping and mixing their own.

In the middle of making our reindeer food, we 

had a special guest arrive! The kids were SOOO

excited!

The first thing they had to show him was "his" elf, 

Jolly, hanging from the lantern! Santa recognized him!

We had to start right into letting Santa know what 

we wanted to see under the tree! 

(Parents, you are welcome to right click and save

whatever pictures you'd like!)

This is me and my WHOLE group!

 I am so happy to have this picture! It took 

a few shots to get everyone looking at the camera.

We always sing a song to Santa before he leaves.

This year the kids wanted to sing TWO songs.

They picked Santa Claus is Coming to Town 

and Jingle Bells. 

Then it was time for Santa to go visit other kids. 

We hated to see him go!

We REALLY didn't want him to go! Haha!

Did you know Santa drives a red truck?!

Then it was time to open presents!

All the kids were so sweet and LOVED their presents!

That afternoon, we had a birthday party for Jesus!

I have always taught my kiddos the real meaning of Christmas.

Yes, we do Santa and Elf on the Shelf, and all the fun stuff, but I try 

very hard to put most of the emphasis on the birth of our Savior.

Each child had their very own cupcake with a birthday candle!

We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus and blew out our own candles! 

The kids thought this was AWESOME!

After our birthday party for Jesus, I had a special surprise 

at the door! One of my Giggles & Grins Alumni, Alex,

came to see me! He was as tall as me!! I love it when past 

students come to see me!

Merry Christmas to you all!

Please remember: