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Preschool

 

MAY IN PRESCHOOL!

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Welcome to St. Peter Cathedral School's Preschool Program!  Our Preschool Teacher, Anne Earls, has over 20 years experience teaching in a preschool setting.  After visiting our webpage, if you have additional questions, Mrs. Earls would love to talk to you.  You may reach her Monday-Friday from 7:30am to 5:30pm at 459-8663.

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What is St. Peter Cathedral School's Preschool Program all about?

As a parish program, St. Peter Cathedral School Preschool will first and foremost include experiences to create an awareness of God in the lives of our young students. It is also our intention to create a readiness and love for learning through experiences rather than to push formal instruction during these early years. St. Peter Cathedral School Preschool Program is located in the lower level of St. Peter Cathedral Church. This location affords our program numerous "extras"that aren't available across the street at the "Big School." A few of these "extras" are: visiting different areas of the Church, trick-or-treating throughout Cathedral Prep, having the Prep students read to our Preschoolers, enjoying field trips to different areas of Prep, i.e., the band room to make beautiful music, or the gym for parachute fun. Since our classroom is located next to the Prep cafeteria, delicious lunch items for purchase and special treats await the class provided by "Mr. Frank" and his loving staff. Our Preschoolers do not wear uniforms. There is no bus service provided - just tons of fun and love!

Please click here to download our Preschool Brochure (Adobe PDF)

 

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What are the days and hours for the 3-year-old Preschool Program?

The days and hours for our 3-year-old program are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00am-11:00am. Children are more than welcome to be dropped off beginning at 7:30am. After-care is available for our 3-year-old Program and is explained in Question 4.

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What are the days and hours for the 4-year-old Preschool Program?

The days and hours for our 4-year-old program are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8:00am-11:00am for the morning only program and 8:00am-2:00pm for our all-day program. Children are more than welcome to be dropped off beginning at 7:30am. After-care is available for our all-day preschoolers and is explained in Question 4.

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Do you have an after-care program?

Yes, we do! Beginning in September, 2007, we are very excited about offering an after-care program for both of our Preschool classes. For our 3- year-old program, after-care is offered as follows: 11:00am-2:00pm ($9.00 per day, with a $25.00 yearly registration fee) or 11:00am-5:30pm ($18.00 per day, with a $25.00 yearly registration fee). For our 4/5-year-old program, after-care is available from 2:00-5:30pm ($9.00 per day, with a $25.00 yearly registration fee). Our after-care program is really a structured extension of our Preschool Program where the children will enjoy lunch (for the 3-year-old program), a rest period, art, math, science, outdoor playtime in our private playground or indoor playtime in the Prep Gym during inclement weather, snack time and computer time.

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What kind of lunch is offered for the children?

For the 3-year-olds who are participating in after-care or for the all-day 4- year-olds, the children are more than welcome to pack a lunch (microwave "heat-ups" are available). As our preschool is located right next to the Prep Cafeteria, our preschoolers are able to purchase a Prep lunch for $2.00 a day. This lunch includes milk and their choice of homemade soup, salad, sub sandwich, PB&J, PB or just J sandwiches, or Mr. Frank's daily special, along with fresh fruit. If your child would just prefer to buy milk, the milk price is $0.35 per day.

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Does your program have any special or fun days?

Yes!! We have several special fun days planned for each month: Farm Day, Halloween Parade, Pajama Day, Gingerbread House decorating with their families, Pirate Day, Beach Day (with 500#+ of sand), and Royal Day, just to name a few.

 

Up-Coming Special Events:

  • May 24 and May 25 are our annual art shows in Preschool.  This year's theme is "A Night at the Oscars."  Each show begins at 7:00pm.  We encourage our children to have fun with this and dress in their best actor and actresss outfits.
  • Our annual end-of-the-year picnics will be as follows: 4/5-year olds will have their picnic on Wednesday, May 26 beginning at 11:00am at Will's house; and our 3/4-year olds will have their picnic on Thursday, May 27 beginning at 11:00am at Amani's house.
  • Summer vacation for Preschool begins on Friday, May 28.
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Announcements:

  • SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS: GREAT NEWS - you can now order Scholastic Books on-line.  To see the flyer, please click here.  Book orders are due by 16th of each month.
  • GYM CLASSES: Our Preschool Program is fortunate to be able to utilize the Prep Gym for our gym classes. Please, please, please pack or have your child wear white-soled sneakers so that we don't mark up their floor. If the children have to participate in their socks, they will not be able to run (which isn't fun at all). Thank you:-)
  • SHOW & TELL: Children can bring anything they want to talk about. It certainly doesn't have to pertain to what we are learning about in Preschool.  

 

Wish List:

  • Boys and Girls Costumes - size 4T to size 10
  • Wood trains and tracks
  • Regular size Lego's