St. Paul Nursery School Family Newsletter
May/June 2026
This is our final newsletter for the year and I will recap what fun and learning we did in May as well as the events lined up for the rest of the schoolyear.
The academic portion of our mornings was led by Mrs. Holland. She taught us all about letters W, X, and Y and, of course, we had special projects celebrating Mother’s Day. We learned how to print both upper and lower cases of each letter and the sound of each letter. X was tricky because in the front position, it sounds like a Z! For letter W, we did projects with watermelons, a wacky face craft, and painting with waffles. I think dressing up for Wacky Wednesday was the MOST fun!! Letter X allowed for projects with x-rays, xylophones, and X marks the spot. We did projects with yawning, yarn monsters, and yellow suns. We had a very special morning of muffins, singing, and crafting as we honored our special mommies.
During the Bible story part of the morning, I taught about Jonah and the Whale for letter W. Jonah did not obey God the first time and something under the water happened to Jonah! Ask you preschooler what happened…they’ll know! Jonah learned his lesson and listened to God the second time. For letter X, we learned about all the X-tra special ways that make God awesome. He’s always in our heart, will always listen to our prayers, forgives us when we make bad choices, and loves us always!! What a GREAT FRIEND!! For letter Y, we remembered 3 people in the Bible that said “Yes!” to God. Mary said, “Yes! I can be Jesus’ mother.” Noah said “Yes! I can build an ark!”, and Jonah said, “Yes! I will obey (the second time asked!) and go to Nineveh.”
This next week, we will be doing Z for zebra, and a Bible story about Zacchaeus.
Vocabulary: monument, cyclopes, teapot, rays, xylophone
Geography: North Carolina (vacations), North Dakota (tallest sunflowers), Ohio (1st ambulance), Oklahoma (hurricanes), Oregon (lighthouses), Pennsylvania (chocolate), Rhode Island (1st circus), South Carolina (more vacations!), South Dakota (Mt. Rushmore), Tennessee (country music), Texas (everything is BIG)
What’s Ahead:
* Final tuition payments are due. June is the same $ amount as the other months. Yearly tuition is divided equally by 10 months.
* Spring assessments are being distributed. If you would like to review your child’s progress, please schedule a time with the teachers.
* Tuesday, June 2: DAIRY PARADE. We have been asked to meet at 5:30pm on Maple Ave.
* Tuesday, June 9: YEAR-END CELEBRATION at 9:00am, children dismissed following reception.
* Thursday, June 11: DONUTS for DAD at 9:00am, children dismissed following event.
It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with your child this year. We have watched them grow socially, emotionally, and certainly physically! We have had fun mornings together with lots of learning sprinkled in!!
Best Wishes to all of you!
Love, Mrs. Wendy Clark-Darby
