March 7, 2026 ~ WEBSITE VIEW

🐦🦜 Birds Today, Bunnies Tomorrow! 🐰🥯

Lake Grove Kids is hosting two exciting family events this weekend, and all Noah's Ark families are warmly invited!

TODAY | 3:00 PM
The Oregon Bird Man will be in Fellowship Hall showcasing his colorful and exotic winged creatures. This interactive presentation is always a big hit with kids and adults alike!

TOMORROW | 10:30 AM
(Following the 9:30 AM worship service)

Join us for Second Sunday: Bunnies & Bagels!

🐰 Pet and hold live bunnies in the Courtyard Room
🥯 Enjoy a bagel bar in Fellowship Hall

We hope to see many of our Noah's Ark families there!

 

🎨☀️ Summer Camp Registration Is Coming Soon!

Priority Registration:
📅 March 31 – Opens for current Noah's Ark students (ages 3–5)

Community Registration:
📅 April 3 – Opens for Lake Grove Church families and the wider community

This summer, we are excited to offer nine themed camps from June through August, each filled with fun, hands-on activities designed especially for preschoolers.

2026 Summer Camp Themes

🏰 June 1–4 — Disney Camp
🦸 June 8–11 — Superheroes Camp
🦁 June 15–18 — Going on Safari Camp
🤠 June 22–25 — Cowboy Cooking Camp

🌞 June 29 – July 3 — Noah's Ark Closed (Summer Break)

🎨 July 6–9 — Amazing Artists Camp
🦕 July 13–16 — DINO-mite Dinosaur Camp
🏴‍☠️ July 20–23 — Pirates & Mermaids Camp
⚽💃 July 27–30 — Sports & Dance Camp
💦 August 3–6 — Wet & Wild Water Camp

 

🎒📚 Kindergarten Prep at Noah's Ark

We still have a few openings in our Kindergarten Prep class for the 2026–2027 school year.

If you have friends or family who may be looking for an additional year of preschool before kindergarten, I would love to connect with them and share more about this special program.

💙💚💛 As always, thank you for being such a faithful and joyful part of our Noah's Ark community. 

Have a wonderful weekend,

~ Mar 7: LGK hosts Oregon Bird Man, 3:00 PM in Fellowship Hall

~ Mar 8: LGK hosts Bunnies & Bagels, 10:30 AM in the Courtyard Room & Fellowship Hall

~ Mar 13: LGK hosts 345ers: Christian Youth Theater production of The Wizard of Oz!  - 6:00 PM meet up at LGPC to travel to Sherwood Center for the Arts

~ Mar 15: TAPESTRY CONCERT: featuring our very own Ms. Abby and her bestie LaRiche Lamar, 1:00 PM in the Sanctuary - a concert for all ages that you do not want to miss!

~ Mar 18: LGK hosts Guys Night Out, 6:30 PM @ Hop N' Cork with complimentary appetizers

~ Mar 23-27: Noah's Ark is CLOSED for SPRING BREAK!

~ Mar 29: Palm Sunday

~ Mar 31: Noah's Ark Preschool opens Priority Registration for 2026 Summer Camp to its currently enrolled families

~ Apr 3: Noah's Ark opens its 2026 Summer Camp Registration to the greater community

This week at Covenant Kids, our after-school enrichment activities focused on Dr. Seuss. Next week, we will read and learn about Dr. Seuss and participate in a variety of  activities to accompany the stories. Click on the blue bar below to view the weekly photos.

Click the bar above to sign up your child on our CK Google Sign-Up Sheet. From there, click the sheet's "Day/Date" tab at the bottom, enter your child's name, select the "Pick-up Time" checkbox, and indicate who will be picking up your child. Covenant Kids fees are $10/hour, and you will be billed at the end of each month.

We look forward to your child joining us at CK!

We started our rainbow theme this week, so our classroom is quite colorful!

During circle time, we each placed a color paddle on the overhead projector and noted its color. On Thursday, we built a rainbow with our wooden arch blocks. (See videos in photo album.)

At the art table, we explored rainbow colors by creating a collage on Tuesday and mixing primary colors on Thursday (using matching colored spools).

We've been working hard on strengthening our fine motor skills by using tweezers, garlic and citrus presses with playdough, squeezing clothespins on a wire rack, scooping and pouring rice, transferring pretend food from bowl to bowl, picking up colored cubes using salad tongs, and holding short rainbow crayons. (Using shorter tools naturally promotes a tripod grasp).

We will have fun with more rainbow ideas until spring break, and we will add some St. Patrick's Day activities, too!

We loved starting the week with chapel time and seeing so many of our wonderful families. It's always such a special way to begin our week together!

🌈This week was all about rainbows in our classroom! Our class enjoyed exploring all the colorful activities and learning through lots of hands-on play.

In art, we cut colored construction paper, sorted the pieces by color, and glued them onto a large rainbow made on butcher paper. This activity strengthened fine motor skills while also practicing color recognition and sorting. The children also created their own rainbows using a variety of colorful materials, encouraging creativity and sensory exploration. We even made a fun rainbow ceiling decoration that brightened up our classroom!

We also introduced the letter/sound U this week. The children practiced recognizing the letter, learning its sound, and tracing it, helping build early literacy and pre-writing skills. In our third small group, the children used large push pins to poke a shamrock shape on cardstock. This activity continues to strengthen the muscles in our hands, improving our pencil grip.

It was a colorful, creative week filled with learning and fun! Have a great weekend! 🌈

We had a busy week in Pre-K, celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday during our mini Spirit Week and Read Across America, while beginning our Author Study. The children enjoyed looking at books, pretending to be librarians, and even checking out books in our dramatic play library.

For The Cat in the Hat, students practiced patterning while making their own Dr. Seuss hats and worked on fine motor skills with tearing and cutting. We also celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday during snack time, which everyone enjoyed.

On Fox in Socks Day, the children became sock designers at the art table and made their own unique socks. After using socks to measure our bodies, we had fun dancing along to Fox Sox in a Box by Katie Dwyer.

Put Me in the Zoo was a fun day of process art. The children created Lorax Truffula Trees and spotted leopards for our hallway display. They also joined in movement activities to the song "Let's Go to the Zoo" by Music and Fun.

For The Dr. Seuss Sleep Book, we wore pajamas and played a "yawn game," where, just like in the book, one small yawn spreads across the whole circle. The children shared and compared their bedtime routines and finished circle time by singing Are You Sleeping? (Frère Jacques).

During small groups, we focused on rhyming in reading using natural language from Dr. Seuss books, and we will continue working on this skill next week. We also practiced the letter formation of V and its sound, and the number 10. Using Unifix cubes, the children measured Dr. Seuss characters, building early math and comparison skills.

Our week was full of reading and lots of hands-on learning, and we can't wait to continue our Author Study next week with the work of Eric Carle.

Have a great weekend!

Kinder Prep kicked off the first week of our Author Study theme by celebrating and honoring Dr. Seuss! We read so very many of his books! Students did an art project based on 5 of us books, and therefore created their own Dr. Seuss books. We mixed a little science into our art to paint "water" - ask your child about it! We ended the week by having Green Eggs and Ham, so be sure to ask if they liked it!

On Wednesday, instead of Gym time, we practiced Qi Gong in the HUB Room with the Wednesday morning Qi Gong group at Lake Grove Church. Qi Gong is a gentle practice that combines slow movements, breathing, and balance to help calm our bodies and minds.

We practiced the sounds and formation of the lowercase letters r and n. We also took the opportunity to practice our rhyming skills since many Dr. Seuss books lend themselves to this so nicely! As for numbers, we focused on 17 this week. The class even came up with their own measurement activity! Everyone's height was measured using Unifix cubes. Lots of counting! Our range was 60-93! It was very fun to watch them get so excited about this.

Enjoy your weekend!