February 7, 2026 ~ WEBSITE VIEW

GREETINGS, NOAH'S ARK FAMILIES & FRIENDS!

💟🥰☕ Thank you for joining us for February Family Chapel Time, where our theme was Love and Compassion. Speaking of love, we would love to see you at LGK's Second Sunday event, Hearts, Hugs, & Hot Chocolate, tomorrow around 10:30 AM (following worship services and Sunday school) in Fellowship Hall.

💕 VALENTINE'S DAY CELEBRATIONS

The Junior Twos, Pre-K, and Kinder Prep classes will celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday, February 12, and the Junior Threes class will celebrate on Friday, February 13.

You may click the graphic below to view your child's class list.
Due to food allergies, please do not include any food items or candy with students' Valentines. Thank you for helping us keep everyone safe.

🥞 SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE BREAKFAST

All Noah's Ark families are invited to our Shrove Tuesday "come & go" Pancake Breakfast on Tuesday, February 17, from 8:30–9:30 AM in Fellowship Hall, before school begins.

Breakfast will be lovingly griddled up by Lake Grove Church's Fourth Quarter Men’s Group, featuring pancakes, sausage, fruit, and beverages.

👉 Please submit your RSVP by Tuesday, February 10.

At the breakfast, families will also have the opportunity to contribute to the Noah’s Ark Scholarship Fund. This fund was established using remaining funds from the Nancy Stewart Memorial Play Structure Project, along with a generous gift from Lynn and Fritz Bartsch in memory of Brian Bartsch. The scholarship supports families who may need assistance with tuition.

We are actively growing this fund to support families for the 2026–2027 school year. If you’re able, please consider donating at the pancake breakfast—together, let’s build that scholarship stack! 💙

Have a wonderful weekend,

~ Feb 8: LGK hosts Hearts, Hugs, and Hot Chocolate, 10:30 AM in Fellowship Hall

~Feb 11: Pre-K & Kinder Prep walking field trip to the Post Office and Oakridge Park

~ Feb 12: Junior Twos, Pre-K, & Kinder Prep Classes celebrate Valentine's Day in their classrooms

~ Feb 13: Junior Threes Class celebrates Valentine's Day in the classroom

~ Feb 17: Noah's Ark Shrove Tuesday Pancake Breakfast, 8:30 - 9:30 AM in Fellowship Hall

~ Feb 20: LGK opens registration for their Kindergarten - Second Grade Summer Camp Program

~ Feb 20: LGK 345ers Bowling Night, 6:00 PM at Tigard Bowl

~ Feb 21: LGK hosts Family Movie Night, 5:00 PM in the Youth Room

~ Feb 25: LGK hosts Ladies Night Out, 6:30 PM at Si Señor

~ Feb 28: LGK hosts a parenting class: Giving Out of Our Emptiness: Spiritual Burnout in Parenting, with Tara Ludwig, 10:00 AM in the Courtyard Room - childcare provided with registration

This week at Covenant Kids, our after-school enrichment activities focused on love and friendship. Next week, we will continue reading, learning, and participating in a variety of Valentine 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!

This week, we started our Valentine's Day theme, which also includes friendships and feelings.

During circle time, we sang "Five Little Valentine Bears Jumping on the Bed" and matched hearts by color.

We had so much fun with the Valentine's Day post office, writing notes and mailing them!

At the art table, we painted our Valentine's bags, dropped watercolors onto heart diffusing paper, spun hearts in a salad spinner, and made heart suncatchers with sticky paper and heart confetti.

We have been working on our transferring skills using our new bunny tongs that mimic the movement of scissors, but are a bit easier to handle. We pick up items from the left bowl and move them to the right bowl.

Our reading corner is set up with books, emotion cards, and feeling activities.

We got lots of large-motor play in the gym, the hub room, and outside in the sunshine!

Next week we will continue this theme, and on Thursday we will have our little celebration. Please make sure to get our class list from the newsletter and bring a Valentine for each child (no edible treats, please). We will have you help your child place them in the bags upon arrival.

Have a great weekend!

We had a wonderful week together in our classroom! We began the week with Chapel, and it was so nice to see everyone back, settled, and ready to learn. We also introduced our Valentine's theme, and the children jumped right in. They especially loved creating valentines and "sending" them through the mail in our dramatic play area—such sweet moments of creativity and imaginative play.

In Art, we painted hearts using salad spinners, practiced using scissors while decorating special Valentine's Day cards for loved ones, and worked together on a surprise birthday banner for Mr. Ian! 🎉 The children were so proud of their work. We also introduced the letter E, focusing on letter recognition, its sound, and tracing practice.

We look forward to celebrating Valentine's Day with our class next Friday.
We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Our hearts and hands were busy this week in Pre‑K. We kicked off our Valentine's Day and Friendship theme by talking about how we show love and kindness, and how expressing gratitude is important all year, not just at Thanksgiving.

In Learning Without Tears, the children explored the letter/sound K and reviewed numbers 1 to 7 through hands‑on activities that build early writing and number skills.

The children had so much fun in our post office dramatic play area, where they enjoyed pretending to send and receive mail just like grown‑ups. They also practiced singing their Valentine's Day songs with excitement for our upcoming walking field trip to Oakridge Park Senior Living. Before heading there, they will get a chance to mail their very own letters at the Post Office.

We also kicked off our Hearts Across America project. The children are excited, and each time we receive a new card, they carefully place a heart on the state on our classroom map where the card came from. A big thank you to our families for helping our class receive mail and for making this week full of fun and learning.

We hope you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend.

Kindergarten Prep had a fun week with our Community Helpers theme! We had great discussions about all of the helpful jobs we know about, which sparked sharing about what everyone wants to be when they grow up.

One highlight was our mini sensory bin full of kinetic sand and construction vehicles! Building houses and buildings with fire, near our fire station, was also a big hit! A lot of hard work was spent putting together our various puzzles. We had fun with art while practicing our fine motor skills.

We created a big group project making Valentines for the residents at Oakridge Park, and we are looking forward to that field trip! Students were very excited to start decorating their Valentine's Day boxes. We will definitely be spending more time on those next week!

We practiced the sounds and formation of the lowercase letters g and u this week. Our number this week was 15, and we used Unifix cubes to make various combinations that add up to 15! We continue practicing our rhyming words and having more fun with patterns!

Have a wonderful weekend!