Grace For Kids

08/31/2026

05/29/2026

Could this four-day week really have been our last week of preschool for the 2025–26 school year? It seems like we just started not that long ago!

We spent a lot of time outdoors enjoying God’s creation. We went on several scavenger hunts looking for shapes, colors, and textures. We also used magnifying lenses to examine things in nature and even painted the sidewalk with water!

We finished reading six Pigeon books by Mo Willems and created our own Pigeon artwork to remember one of our favorite book series. We also enjoyed the classic story Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault and made our own letter trees. As we talked about signs of summer, we created Summer Fun wreaths to celebrate the season ahead.

Friday was a very special day as family members joined us for our end-of-year celebration. First, we shared why we believe that Jesus is our Good Shepherd. We also wore the headbands we made and performed a mini-mini production of Chicken Little. We showed our families how the game “Mr. Fox, What Time Is It?” helped us practice number skills and demonstrated the Magic Milk science experiment.

Throughout the year, we created a page for each letter of the alphabet. We were pleasantly surprised when all of our pages were assembled into a book. We each got an ABC book that we created ourselves. We also received a pictorial memory book filled with photos from our year together.

To conclude our celebration, we were presented with Graduation Medallions and Certificates, recognizing that we are ready to take the next step in our learning journey. Three of our graduates will be attending 4K in Osceola, one will attend 4K in Amery, one will attend 4K in St. Croix Falls, and one will begin kindergarten at Salem Lutheran School in Stillwater.

Congratulations, graduates! You have grown in so many ways this year, and you had a lot of fun while doing it! May God richly bless you as you move forward!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Play Day
Saturday, June 20
9:30–11:00 a.m.
All Grace for Kids Preschool alumni and new 2026–27 students are invited to attend. Children from the community are also welcome, even if they have no connection to Grace for Kids.

Open House/VBS for Littles
We will also be hosting an Open House in July and VBS for Littles in August. More details will be posted on Facebook at a later date.

05/22/2026

As the school year begins to wind down, we are making the most of every day together!

This week we continued practicing counting and number recognition through 20. We also conducted a fun Magic Milk experiment and enjoyed watching the colorful reactions unfold before our eyes.

Our Bible lessons taught us important truths about God's love and care. From Jonah, we learned that God always forgives us when we turn to Him. From Daniel in the Lions' Den, we learned that God protects His children—sometimes in truly amazing ways!

We also challenged our engineering skills by building towers with a variety of building blocks and seeing how tall and strong we could make them.

Of course, we have been spending as much time as possible outdoors. With the beautiful spring weather, outside has become our favorite place to be these days!

What a blessing it is to learn, play, and grow together each day.

05/16/2026

One of our themes this week was birds and nests.

After 21 days, we finally welcomed chicks into the classroom! We had no idea how entertaining they would be to watch. Our favorite moment was when they perched on top of the waterer and looked out at us. Their cheerful peeping could get quite loud at times, too! We have also enjoyed observing a Robin, a Phoebe, and two Bluebirds nesting nearby.

We finished our study of the alphabet with the letter Z, and our ABC book is now complete. In just one more week, we will have studied numbers all the way through 20. During Jesus Time, we reviewed God’s plan of salvation and learned how God helped David defeat Goliath. Like David, we can boldly proclaim, “The Lord is my strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10)

The great outdoors provided many science lessons as well. The Spring Peepers have been calling, we heard a toad singing, and we listened carefully for different bird calls. We are also keeping a close lookout for even more birds’ nests.

05/09/2026

There are a lot of fun things to do in May!

This week we celebrated two special occasions —Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day—but the highlight of the week was a visit from Ranger Scott of the National Park Service. Through games and hands-on activities, he taught us how to care for God’s creation and protect our environment. We helped clean up “litter” he had scattered around the churchyard and played a game that showed us what can happen to deer when their habitat is destroyed. Ranger Scott also explained why he considers his pickup truck to be his office! To top off the visit, each of us was officially sworn in as a Junior Ranger. Thank you, Ranger Scott, for teaching us!

We also spent time learning about frogs and ponds, writing stories inspired by Harry the Dirty Dog, and preparing the chicken pen for the arrival of the chicks. Our Bible lesson about Philip and the man from a different country reminded us that God can use each of us to share the good news of Jesus with others wherever we go.

We anxiously anticipate other fun things to do in the days to come.