It's Time for fall 2016/2017 Preschool Enrollment!!

Welcome to The Little Red Preschool Blog!

Registering  for the 2016- 2017   If you'd like, to register your child please contact me, contact information is below.

At The Little Red Preschool children will learn their letters, sounds, numbers, shapes, colors, and so much more through our fun weekly themes. We teach kindergarten readiness concepts through fun hands-on activities. Math and literacy are a focus but we also teach science, cooking and physical education. To enroll, children must be 3 by September 1st or already 4 years old.

*Safe environment, positive atmosphere, and lots of fun materials

*Music and movement are used daily.

*Kids will learn their letters and sounds. After letters and sounds are learned sight words will be taught

*Small class sizes.

*Warm home environment.

* Fully fenced yard

*A healthy snack daily.

CLASSES OFFERED

*PreK  Morning Class Full	MON/WED/FRI  9:05 to 11:05am	$80/mo.	$75 registration fee
**3 to 4-Year-Old  Morning Class	TUES/THURS  9:05 to 11:05pm	$60/mo.	$55 registration fee
**3 to 4-Year-Old  Afternoon Class depending on interest	TUES/THURS 12:00 to 2:00 pm	$60/mo.	$55 registration fee

 



*PreK students enrolling must be 4 years old by Sept. 1st and independent with bathroom skills
**3-year-old students enrolling must be appropriate age by Sept. 1st and independent with bathroom skills
***Receive a $5 discount on tuition if paid on the 1st of each month 

CALENDAR 2016-2017

I mostly follow the same calendar schedule as Nebo School District to allow everyone time to spend with their families.  Important dates are listed below.

TBD The Little Red Preschool Open House
Sept. 6 & 7 School Starts
Oct. 20-21      Fall Break
Nov. 23-25 Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 23 - Jan. 2 Christmas Break

Jan. 13                         Professional Development Day (no school)
Jan. 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Feb. 20 Presidents' Day
March 17 ASD Professional Development Day (no school)
April 3-7 Spring Break
May 17 Last Day of School / The Little Red Preschool Program

Enrollment for Summer Camps also begins in February.  All kids ages 3 - 7 are invited!  This year's themes are Fairies (June 6 - 10) and Pirates (June 13 - 17).  These one-of-a-kind camps are all about FUN!  Each camp day has it's own theme and includes crafts, dress-up, stories, games, activities, coloring, snack time, fantasy play and more!  Each week includes a water day with water balloons, games and play on the giant inflatable water slide and bounce house!  We also have a special character visitor each week that spends time reading to the children, completing a craft with them, and getting their picture taken with them.  Your child will be bringing home prizes, crafts, a picture with frame, diploma and MORE!    I offer 20% discount for EVERY referral that signs up on your summer camp price!  

 You may also pick up the forms at the preschool, or I can email them to you.  Please email or call if you have any questions and I hope to see you soon!!
laceymecham@yahoo.com 
801-766-3672

2016 SUMMER CAMPS for our Pirates (boys)

Our Summer Camps are FULL.  IF you'd like to get on a waiting list, please email me at laceymecham@yahoo.com 

Pirate Training Camp

Ahoy, me mateys!  Ye be invited to join the Captain fer a week of

PIRATE TRAINING CAMP!

Join the crew of 3-7 year old boys June 13-17 fer pirate                     swashbuckling adventures galore!  It be $50 fer week –and ye be bringing back a trove of loot in return!

Call Captain Lacey quick or ye be walkin the plank!

801-766-3672

2016 SUMMER CAMPS for our Fairies (girls)

Our Summer camps are FULL! If you'd like to get on a waiting list please email me at laceymecham@yaoo.com 

Fairy Summer Camp

Fairies, Fairies did you hear?  Summer Camp is coming near!

You’ll dance, you’ll eat, you’ll have sweet fun-you’ll be a

Fairy before it’s done!

The camp is June 6^th- June 10^th please say you’ll fly by

Your fairy godmother awaits your reply! 

All fairies aged 3-7 are invited to visit the magic meadow.

The fairies are awaiting your arrival and will need some very

special help from you.  If you complete all your fairy duties,

You will be inducted to the fairy family!

Admission $50.00

Call your Fairy Godmother Lacey to announce your arrival:

                                                   801-766-3672     

Meet the Teacher and our Philosophy

Meet the Teacher:

         Hi!  My name is Lacey Mecham and I’m excited that you are interested in The Little Red Preschool.  I have wanted to be a teacher as long as I can remember.  I have taught preschool in my home in Lehi for the nine eleven years.  Then in March of of 2013 our family moved to Santaquin where I resumed my in home preschool. Before that I taught in Alpine School District in there title one preschool. 

            I have 5 wonderful kids.  I have chosen to teach preschool so that I can be home, while still having the opportunity to teach and influence children.  I believe children need a rich learning environment with many learning experiences to excel in school.  I’m anxious to provide such opportunities for your child. 

I love teaching, I love children's enthusiastic approach to learning and watching their eyes light up with excitement!  It is so rewarding.

Philosophy:

Little Red Preschool is based upon the belief that young children learn best in a safe, nurturing environment, which provides opportunities for children to learn and develop through activities which are age and individually appropriate.  I believe that preschool age is the formative developmental time for children.  The program provides a rich environment that promotes children’s active exploration in all areas of development:  physical, emotional, social and cognitive.  Curriculum is integrated into the classroom through a thematic approach whereby learning activities are concrete, real, and relevant.  Learning is an interactive process between the teachers and the children.  The environment and activities are age appropriate and consider the different needs, interests, and developmental levels of individual children.   Children have opportunities to play and work with other children; make choices and encounter consequences; and negotiate social conflicts using appropriate language.  They need to begin to learn that their actions affect others.  Learning to function in a classroom environment is also a preschool focus.  Students need to learn to follow directions, work and clean together, listen and participate, and sit during lessons.  Large and fine motor skills need to be fine-tuned at this time.  I have a strong believe that new skills should be learned correctly, rather than struggling to correct them in later years.  Learning should be fun and active with music, movement and enthusiasm!

Learning should be fun!  I am dedicated to fun learning and to a positive preschool experience for you and your child.  I look forward to a fun, exciting year! 

The Little Red Preschool copyright 2002

Class Times

CLASSES OFFERED

*PreK  Morning Class Full	MON/WED/FRI  9:05 to 11:05am	$80/mo.	$75 registration fee
**3 to 4-Year-Old  Morning Class	MON/WED/FRI 9:05 to 11:05pm	$60/mo.	$55 registration fee
**3 to 4-Year-Old  Afternoon Class	TUES/THURS 12:00 to 2:00 pm	$60/mo.	$55 registration fee

 




 *PreK students enrolling must be 4 years old by Sept. 1st and independent with bathroom skills
**3-year-old students enrolling must be appropriate age by Sept. 1st and independent with bathroom skills

CALENDAR 2016-2017

I mostly follow the same calendar schedule as Nebo School District to allow everyone time to spend with their families.  Important dates are listed below.

TBD The Little Red Preschool Open House
Sept. 6 & 7 School Starts
Oct. 20-21      Fall Break
Nov. 23-25 Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 23 - Jan. 2 Christmas Break

Jan. 13                         Professional Development Day (no school)
Jan. 16 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Feb. 20 Presidents' Day
March 17 ASD Professional Development Day (no school)
April 3-7 Spring Break
May 17 Last Day of School / The Little Red Preschool Program 

Class times fill up fast so reserve your spot today
The Little Red Preschool is located at 200 South Oak Summit Dr (1250 East)  Santaquin, Utah  

Our Classroom:)

"TINKER TIME" & Fine Motor Skills

One thing we really focus on at preschool is our fine motor skills. These are important to develop as they lead to important writing skills. We do many activities to promote practice. I wanted to highlight a few for you.
For the first 10-15 minutes of the day, the kids have 'Tinker Tray time' During this time, the kids have a tray assigned to them each day. WIth an independent activity for them to complete. After which, they clean it up then come and join me and the other children at circle time. The tinker tray activities vary but they include math practice, literacy review, or fine motor activities. Here are some pictures to give you a better idea.

Spooning beads into baby food jars. Each baby food jar has a line drawn on it. Your child is to fill it exactly to the line with out going over or spilling the beans. Very tricky! This works with coordination along with fine motor skills.

Here we get to "Tinker" with a real Hammer, safety Goggles and nails. She is working on hamming the nails into the wood.

We use this pocket chart to review matching skills, sequencing skills and many more. They feel so important placing things into the pocket chart. This day the children were working on ordering the apples small, medium, and largetransferring pompoms from a bowl onto a plate using plastic tweezers. This works on one to one correspondence and also works those fine motor muscles!

One of our Trays is practicing counting. They place one marble on one dot until all the dots are covered. This helps with one to one correspondence.

"Tinkering" with strings and wood beads onto a shoelace. Lacing is a great fine motor activity and really develops that tripod grip we use for writing.
Try Tinkering with Unifix cubes. This really gets their little fingers working connecting the cubes. We'll also be working on making patterns with these later.
This is a fun 'nuts & bolts' activity. You match the bolt to the nuts (same shape) and screw the nut onto the bolt. An EXCELLENT fine motor activity