It's where school starts.

Where oh where do I start? The preschoolers are learning a ton of information. “They are learning to rhyme, they're learning their names, numbers one through five, and the very important golden rule,” said Mrs. Sheila Heiberger, one of the preschool teachers. Heiberger also said “The preschoolers also took the time to learn about voting,” seeing as that had to be done Tuesday, November 2, 2010.

There are 51 preschoolers this year (one of the largest groups they've had), that are split into five sections. Some go in the morning from 8:00-11:00, while some go in the afternoon from 12:45-3:45. When in the classroom each day they go to a number of fifteen learning stations that are based on the kids' interests and what's being learned that week, parents send in the items needed for these learning stations. The preschoolers are taught by Mrs. Sheila Heiberger and Mrs. Renae Engelkes.

“Jack be nimble Jack be quick, Jack jumped over a candlestick.” Your wondering what this has to do with preschool aren't you? It would potentially be one of the nursery rhymes they are learning. Not only are they learning the original nursery rhymes, but they are learning “I Love You Rituals,” this is a book that changes the nursery rhymes to teach kindness. It makes the rhymes nice and less violent.

While working on counting the kids' had to order themselves one to five using the story “monkey jumping on the bed.” Also using this story they had to work on pattern, by putting them selves as boy monkey, girl monkey, boy monkey, and so on. Another thing they are working on is reading each others names. This helps them to learn the letters of the alphabet, while learning who is in class with them. Not only that, but they are learning to print and spell their own names.