Boy, it's been a busy time in preschool. I'll go back to Dec., Jan., to give you some ideas of what we have done in preschool since I last updated this page.

December was a very busy month. I decided that the preschoolers should learn that it is better to give than to receive. So what better time to do that than the Christmas season? I called Fort Dodge and made arrangements for the preschoolers to visit the veterans at Christmas time. So each preschooler brought a wrapped pair of gloves and stocking cap to school.  Then we took a field trip to Fort Dodge on the old yellow cheese wagon (bus) on December 12.  The preschoolers sang Christmas songs for the veterans and then they gave the gifts to the veterans.  The veterans had such big smiles on their faces and they didn't want us to leave.  The preschoolers enjoyed it and still talk about it.  And you know not one preschooler ever asked why we didn't exchange Christmas gifts in our classroom!  We did several activities that involved The Christmas Story and Advent.  What a great season to teach preschoolers!

January was spent getting back into the swing of a regular schedule after Christmas vacation. The preschoolers were going through many assesments and standards testing for parent/teacher conferences in February.  The preschoolers were all practicing counting to 100 and learning a few new shapes, and of course more letters of the alphabet.  The 4 year old morning preschool class is reading words and some simple beginning reading pages.  They have also started to do simple adding and subtracting. I am very proud of how hard they work on their skills. The preschoolers were learning that it is now 2012. In religion they learned about Jesus Feeding Thousands With Fish. The month ended with the preschool class working on the classroom basket and project for the SHCS Catholic School Week Auction.

February started great in preschool.  The preschool class put together a fleece Sesame Street blanket for the auction.  The preschoolers helped tie the knots all around the blanket.  Then we made a handprint pillow to go with the blanket.  Mrs. Missi Haskell helped the preschool classroom put together a Sesame Street basket for the auction. Well, I was at the auction and I will tell you that I was so excited and amazed!!! The preschool blanket and pillow brought $1,000 at the auction.  I would like to thank all the great preschool parents that bid on the blanket and pillow.  Our basket brought $53 in the silent auction.  I would also like to thank Mrs. Haskell for helping with the basket.  The preschoolers learned about Groundhog day and we did many activities and experiments to learn about the Groundhog.  The preschoolers are learning how to be soldiers of God and they are learning about The Wise Builder and The Foolish Builder story in the Bible.  Of course they are making Valentines and getting excited that Valentines Day is next week. 

Don't forget, preschool does hold parent/teacher conferences next week.  Conferences will be Wednesday Feb. 16 from 4:30pm - 8:00pm and Thursday Feb. 17 from 8:00am - 12:00pm.

Please remember it is time to pre-enroll for preschool next school year.  Please visit with Mrs. Lee-Flax for pre-enrollment for 2012-2013.

God Bless and Have a Happy Valentines Day,

Mrs. Lee-Flax

SHCS Preschool

Wednesday

October 5, 2011

Dear Preschool Parents,

I hope everyone has been blessed with a great week.  The preschoolers are learning things so quickly.  Please don’t forget to look at their papers in their folders everyday.  It is a joy to work with all the preschoolers.

The health nurses are doing vision and screening tests this week. They will try to have letters out sometime next week to the children that need to see a doctor for either vision or hearing.

October Preschool payments were due on Monday October 3.  Please make your payments in the office and be sure to tell the office ladies your preschooler’s name so they can put the payment in the correct file.  Snack payments for October are also due and you pay that $5 to Mrs. Lee-Flax.

The Halloween parties will be during the morning classes this year. 

1.  The 3 year olds will have their Halloween party on Tuesday October 25.  That means that all the 3 year olds will come to school at 8:00am on Tuesday October 25 and there will be no afternoon 3 year old class that day.  Each preschooler will need to wear or bring their Halloween costume to preschool that day.  The preschoolers will go Trick or Treating in the upper grades that morning.

2.  The 4 year olds will have their Halloween party on Monday October 31.  So, all 4 year old preschoolers will come to school at 8:00am on Monday October 31 and there will be no afternoon 4 year old class that day.  Each preschooler will need to wear or bring their Halloween costume to preschool that day.  The preschoolers will go Trick or Treating in the upper grades that morning.

The preschoolers may bring treats for the party.  There are nine 3 year olds and seven 4 year olds.

The students at Sacred Heart are asked to help support the school carnival.  So each preschooler is asked to bring two 2 liter bottles of pop (any brand) to preschool to donate to the carnival.  They need to bring their pop by Friday October 21.

Preschool Parent/Teacher conferences are going to be held on Wednesday October 26 from 4:30 to 7:45pm and on Thursday October 27 from 8:00 to 11:45am.  I will have a sign up sheet next week for everyone to sign up for a conference time.  It is very important that you attend your child’s conference.

The school carnival will be on Saturday October 29 from 2-5pm at the school.  The preschool class will be doing the Lollipop Tree booth.  We need preschool parents to sign up to work in the booth.  I will have the sign up sheet in the preschool room next week. Gloria Calderon and Rebecca Lee are the preschool room parents and they will be in charge of the booth.  Please donate an hour or two of your time to help work the booth.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me.  I am available after 3:30pm at

 (620)227-6532 or my email is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Thank you and God Bless,

Mrs. Lee-Flax

SHCS Preschool

September is going by so fast in preschool.  This week we are learning about bears, Fall, the numbers 1 & 2, shapes, and "The Story of Creation".  The preschoolers are adjusting to the daily routines and they are a good group of children.  This Thursday and Friday will be "Bring your favorite teddy bear to school".  We will read "The Teddy Bears Picnic and our bears will eat snack with us.  We will also make a bear cave for our bears. Since we are learning "The Story of Creation" we will be painting water color pictures of the Creation.  You are welcome to stop by our room and look at our Fall leaves on the bulleting board outside our door.  The preschoolers are creating the leaves.  I hope everyone has a great week!

God Bless,

Mrs. Lee-Flax  

Preschool has started off well.  There are 20 students in preschool at Sacred Heart Cathedral School.  I know we will have one more start later in the year and as always, the number will increase during the year.  We are all getting to know each other in the preschool classes and we are learning the basic classroom procedures.

Our theme for last week and this week is Apples.  We have colored and painted pictures of apples.  We have dissected apples, ate apples, counted with apples, observed apple seeds and played with apples.  The preschoolers have even received their own apple newspaper featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog. The preschoolers are learning their numbers and working on printing their first names.

Our religion theme for last week and this week is Noah's Ark.  We have done many activities to go along with the theme.  The preschoolers would be proud to tell you the story of Noah's Ark.

September will bring lots of fun for us.  We will be doing Bears for letter B and Cowboys for letter C.  Our religion themes will be "The Story of Creation" and "Joseph and The Coat of Many Colors."  We will be learning about the season Fall.  Preschoolers will be doing many activities that include Fall, harvest, leaves, and etc.

Thursday August 25, 2011

Dear Preschool Parents,

If you would like to order from the Scholastic book orders, please return the orders to Mrs. Lee-Flax by 3:30pm on Tuesday Sept. 6.  When you order books we receive points toward items that can be used in the classroom.  Please do not make out a separate check for each book order.  If you are ordering from more than one book order, just add the prices together and write a check for the total to Scholastic Book Clubs.

The children had a wonderful first week of preschool.  I am blessed with a great group of parents and preschoolers this year!  Please remember that the preschoolers cannot wear flip-flops to school and all shoes must be worn with socks.  If you have not sent an extra set of clothes to school please do so.  We’ve had quite a few milk spills at snacktime and only seven children have an extra set of clothes at school.

We will be dissecting apples and painting with them.  So please remember to send an apple with your preschooler on Wed August 31 or Thursday Sept. 2.

There will be no preschool on Friday Sept. 2 – Teacher’s in-service meetings and no preschool on Monday Sept. 5 – Labor Day.

I know how tight everyone’s budget is now. So I thought that the preschool parents would like to know that LifeTouch will be taking the students Fall pictures in October and preschoolers are included.  If you want to purchase your child’s pictures you will receive a packet ahead of time but you have to pay for the pictures before they will take them. I’m not real sure on prices but I know the pictures are very expensive and you might want to start saving for them now.  You are not required to purchase the pictures.

Also the school carnival will be held at the school during a weekend in October and you might want to save money for carnival game tickets and the yummy food that they serve at the carnival. 

Please feel free to ask me questions and to give me suggestions anytime.  I can be reached at the school after 3:30pm – (620)227-6532 or at my home after 7pm – (620)225-4052.  Please do not leave a message on my home answering machines because it is not working properly.

God Bless,

Mrs. Lee-Flax

SHCS Preschool

Very Important Notes

Preschool - Upcoming Dates

Pre-Kinder Graduation is on Friday May 20 @ 6:30pm in the Sacred Heart School Gym.  I am asking parents to sign up to bring cookies, juice, or napkins.  I have a mom that has volunteered to serve the cookies and juice after the graduation ceremony.  I am sure she would be glad to have some help if anyone wants to volunteer.  Thank You.  The preschooler’s caps and gowns should be here by May 17. Pre-Kinder is the 4 year old classes.

The Last Days of Preschool are Monday May 23 and Tuesday May 24.  I am planning a movie and ice cream day for each preschool class on their last day.

The preschoolers have been taught the letters A –Z by sight and sound.  They are working very hard on learning their numbers 1-50.  They know their shapes, colors, and almost everyone can print their first name.  We have 2 five year olds reading easy reader books.  I am very proud of the preschoolers.  Please practice all of these skills this summer.  Also remember to spend some time outdoors with them.  Explore the dirt, air, grass, leaves, flowers, bugs, birds, and weather with them.  These are all important skills for them to learn.

I will miss seeing all the little preschooler's smiling faces every morning during the summer.  I am very proud of the pre-kinders that will be attending kindergarten in August.  The pre-kinders took a field trip to Wright Park Zoo on Friday May 6.  I think they loved the bus ride as much as they loved the zoo and the animals.  We returned to school and ate popsicles outside.  I think they enjoyed the afternoon.  I would like to thank our bus driver, Mr. Joe and the two parent volunteers who joined us, Mrs. Paula Schneweis and Mrs. Michelle Frazier.

There were two preschoolers that made the top sellers list for the Pappa Murphy Pizza fund raiser.  They were Ellie Perak and Brooklyn Schneweis.  They will be attending the Pizza Party as a reward.

I always try to remember to add a delightful preschool story to our article, so here is one.  This is a true story.  Yesterday the preschoolers were doing their calendar activity when one preschooler raised his hand to speak.  I called on him and he said, "Teacher I have money in my nose!"  I said calmy, "Did you stick some coins up your nose before school?"  He replied, "No, teacher you told us not to pick our nose because it looks like we are digging for gold and I need to put my finger up there and get it out!"  I told him to get a kleenex, blow his nose and use the hand sanitizer.  He blew his nose loudly and then while holding the kleenex up he said, "Look teacher, it's just not worth much, there's no money!"  I just wanted to roll on the floor while laughing but I smiled and told him to put the kleenex in the trash and use the hand sanitizer.  Remember they do hear what you say and they take everything seriously.

Thank You & God Bless Everyone,

Mrs. Lee-Flax  (SHCS Preschool Teacher)

It's April already!  The preschoolers are learning about Lent and Easter during their religion lessons.  Their busy little minds tend to make them ask lots of questions during religion!!  One little boy informed me that his dad told him if you get put in timeout to many times you will go to hell.  I asked him if he understood that.  He replied by saying yes and pointing at the floor.  That led us to discuss that God does forgive us if we confess our sins.   On a happy note, one of the 3 year old preschoolers has already returned his Lenten Rice Box to school.  His family particiipated and they put money in the box everytime they ate supper to help him understand that there are people in the world that have no food.  He couldn't wait to bring it back to preschool so we could return it to church for the poor people to have some food!

Tomorrow (Monday April 11) is Kindergarten Round-Up.  It will be interesting to see those smiling little faces walk down the hallway to Kindergarten and back down the hallway to preschool when they are finished with Round-Up.  So many of them thought that they were going to attend Kindergarten everyday once they went to Round-Up.  They are excited to be big kids now.

Pre-Kinders are preparing for their Pre-Kinder Graduation.  We are practicing the songs that they will sing at the graduation.  Pre-Kinder Graduation will be Friday May 20, 2011 at 6:30pm in the Sacred Heart School gym.  Please attend and see how proud these children are to be going to kindergarten in August 2011.

Preschoolers are almost finished learning the alphabet.  They are learning the letter Yy this week.  I made the children a promise at the first of school.  I promised them that if they learned and practiced priniting each letter of the alphabet that they could ride the big yellow bus to the Wright Park Zoo and tour it.  They are soooo excited to finish with letter Zz!!!  Their field trip to the Zoo will be Friday May 6.

Time flys by so fast! I can't believe how much the preschoolers have learned since August.  They have also matured and physically grown so much.  It is great to see that they are socially and spiritually growing also.  I hope that everyone is as proud of them as I am.

God Bless and have a great week,

Mrs. Lee-Flax

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preschool

Happy New Year!  Can you believe it is 2011?  I am very excited to welcom the preschoolers back on Tuesday Jan. 4, 2011.  Sorry I haven't been doing classroom updates for preschool.  It seems like the preschool has had so many fun things to do and I am sorry for not getting those posted on here. 

In November we had a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Celebration in each preschool classroom.  The preschoolers gave thanks to God for giving us our families, school, weather, and so many other things.  One preschooler even gave thanks for girl things for his mother.  We practiced everyday in each preschool class for 3 weeks preparing for the SHCS Christmas program. 

December 1, 2010 the preschoolers sang the opening songs at the SHCS Christmas program.  They did a great job and they were so cute on the stage.  The preschoolers learned the Christmas Story from the Bible and they made free standing Nativity scenes to share with thier families.  The preschoolers learned many Christmas songs and they even made Jingle Bell necklaces and Christmas chains.  Each preschooler painted a Christmas tree with thier hands on a white t-shirt and they took the t-shirts home to wear on Christmas.

January will be a busy month in preschool.   We will celebrate a New Year upon returning to preschool the first week in January.  The preschoolers will began making an item for the Sacred Heart School Auction.  I won't tell you what the item is because I haven't told the preschoolers about it yet.  We will be learning about nutrition and how to stay healthy.  Our 4yr. old classes will enjoy a visit from Dr. and Mrs. Perak.  They will talk to the preschoolers about germs, how to eat healthy, why exercise is important and healthy snacks.  The preschoolers will be buckling down and really studying hard because I will be doing lots of standards testing with them during the months to come.  The preschoolers have learned so much since August.  We have a few that are reading from books and a few that are doing simple addition and subtraction.  The preschoolers are so smart.

We have increased our numbers in preschool.  We welcomed two new preschool students in October and we will be welcoming two new preschool students during the first week of January.  That will bring our preschool count to 27 children.  We will always welcome new students to our preschool for as the Lord said, "There is always room for one more."

God Bless Everyone,

Mrs. Lee-Flax

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Preschool is cool!  Several preschoolers have adopted this saying.  It makes me feel great and I hope they really mean that they believe this.  The preschoolers have been studying the Children's Bible story "The Story of Creation."   They have done an excellent job of trying to remember what God created on each day.  They also learned a song to go with the story and the song is "In the Beginning".  In the next week we hope to have a pajama day in preschool to celebrate the 7th day when God rested!

  I have been observing each preschooler to see how far they are advanced on the Kansas Early Learning Standards scale. We are reviewing abc's, numbers, shapes, rhyming words, patterns, math, science, and reading skills.  The next two weeks (Sept.7 - Sept. 17) we will be learning the letter Bb, numbers 1-10, the star shape, how to add with our counters, what the season Fall is, and participating with repetitive stories. We give many high fives and lots of applause in our classroooms.  The preschoolers are doing a very good job of adjusting to preschool.

I was asked today if the preschoolers would like to open the SHCS Christmas program with two of their favorite Chrismas songs.  Of course my answer was YES.  The program is scheduled for December 1, 2010.  I will start practicing the songs with the preschoolers and they will venture down to the music room to practice with Miss Latta also.  So, if your preschooler happens to be singing Christmas songs just join in and sing along with them.

The last week of October the preschoolers will learn about All Saint's Day.  The preschoolers will also have a costume parade through the school and the older students will trick-or treat them with candy.

In November the preschoolers will learn about the first Thanksgiving and they will have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Celebration.  If parents have empty coffee cans please donate them to the preschool class.  The coffee cans will be used to make Indain drums.  We can also use empty baby formula cans for the drums.

The plan to have Preschool Parent Nights is in the works.  I have to confirm a few details with the principal and then I will post the topics, presenters, and dates on this page.

I want to thank all the preschool parents for sharing your little angels with us.  They are such a joy to have in the school. 

Sincerely,

Mrs. Lee-Flax