{"id":499,"date":"2014-10-01T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/?p=499"},"modified":"2014-10-04T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:09:06","slug":"ministry-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/ministry-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Loving Start Preschool:<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Katy Meyer<\/p>\n<p>An Extension of Bayview United Methodist Church<\/p>\n<p>Offering a half day preschool experience especially for 3 and 4 years olds. Some may start when <!--more-->they are<\/p>\n<p>almost 3 or leave after they turn 5. Parents may choose how many days per week is right for their child<\/p>\n<p>with mornings available M-F and afternoon class on Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This month I interviewed Lucy Meyer, K4 student at Loving Start Preschool:<\/p>\n<p>Mom: Lucy, what room are you in?<\/p>\n<p>Lucy: Butterfly room!<\/p>\n<p>M: Why is it called butterfly room?<\/p>\n<p>L: Because it has butterflies all over the room!<\/p>\n<p>M: What is new about your school this year?<\/p>\n<p>L: Teddy Bear Picnic!<\/p>\n<p>M: What&#8217;s your favorite thing to do at school?<\/p>\n<p>L: Paint!<\/p>\n<p>(Noteworthy: The kids now get to paint on easels in the new Art Studio&#8230; check it out downstairs.)<\/p>\n<p>M: What&#8217;s your favorite thing to do in the climber room?<\/p>\n<p>L: Ride the bikes!<\/p>\n<p>M: What are your teachers like?<\/p>\n<p>L: KIDS!! (We shall give the teachers the benefit of the doubt and assume Lucy<\/p>\n<p>understood the question as &#8220;What do your teachers like?&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 Although the great thing<\/p>\n<p>about LSP teachers is that they are like kids with their sense of wonder, discovery and<\/p>\n<p>playfulness.<\/p>\n<p>M: What does your mom like about your preschool?<\/p>\n<p>L: Mom! What do you like about my preschool?<\/p>\n<p>M: I love the developmental approach to learning with hands on sensory activities, social skills through<\/p>\n<p>play, a positive first leaning experience, the super cool parent-child nights (like Fairy Tale night and<\/p>\n<p>Outerspace night), community field trips (like Outpost, Classic Slice and Milwaukee Fire Department),<\/p>\n<p>affordable tuition (5% discount for BVUMC members), and the kind, empathetic teachers. Oh, and of<\/p>\n<p>course, the delicious cookie dough that LSP kids sell every November \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving Start Preschool: by Katy Meyer An Extension of Bayview United Methodist Church Offering a half day preschool experience especially&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministryspotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayviewumc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}