Every spring, we gather our classes and have road rallies! Each class gets to bring a riding toy and helmet from home and ride on our “track”. Our wonderful parents volunteer to man the snack station, “gas” station, and ribbon station. Each time a student completes a lap, they receive a streamer to put on their bike or scooter. students love collective the streamers and participating in this fun day!
We love to celebrate Jesus’ birth with our students! Scroll through the pictures to see some of our favorite Christmas traditions here at NCP!
Christmas Trees and decorations decking our halls 🙂
Gingerbread houses ready to be decorated
Decorating gingerbread houses with a special grown up
Dress up play to tell the Christmas story
A cozy backdrop 🙂
Another Christmas tree!
More gingerbread houses!
Every year in the spring we invite local musicians into our school to teach our students about various types of instruments and styles of music. Over the years our guests have included middle and high school violinists, a local music composer, an organist, a flautist, guitar players, keyboard players, and an in school visit from Popovsky Performing Arts Center.
We love to give our students a variety of experiences! One way that we do that is tot ake them on field trips. Our field trips have included the Manheim Farm Show, Various local pumpkin patches, a bowling alley, Eastland Alpaca Farm, The North Museum of Science, and even an in house field trip to see reptiles up close and personally!
Checking out the piglets at the Manheim Farm show
We love the Manheim Township Farm show
Butterfly exhibit at the North Museum
Observing different materials under the microscope at the North Museum
Eastland Alpaca Farm
Who doesn’t love a tractor?!
Pine Hill Farms
Riding a school bus for our 4s and 5s is one of the BEST parts of a field trip!
Petting the animals
Wagon ride at the pumpkin patch
Lunch bunch is an opportunity for our 4s and 5s to have an extended day at preschool. It serves to give the students an opportunity to meet new friends who are not necessarily in their class. They can also practice eating lunch in a school setting; we help them to develop skills like asking for help to open things and managing their time to talk with friends while also eating. We have a new theme each month that lunch bunch runs.
Students who attend lunch bunch will get time for free play, listen to a story, eat lunch, and participate in centers that focus on process not product.
Lunch bunch happens on Wednesdays directly after school until 2:00pm. The cost is $15.00 per session.
Listening to a story that matches the monthly theme.
Listening center
Play dough center
Playing games together
Picnic style lunch on carpet squares
Enjoying free play before lunch
Process Art Center
As a whole school, we celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast in the morning, served by our wonderful parents and teachers, and have an evening program where our families come to see us perform songs, bible verses and finger plays. 
