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Monday 7:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday 7:30am - 5:30pm Wednesday 7:30am - 5:30pm Thursday 7:30am - 5:30pm Friday 7:30am - 5:30pm

Great Beginnings Preschool

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Lyla's second to last day at Great Beginnings. She made each teacher a special frame. Hard to hold back the tears. Thank you for making these last two years so special!

Back together for a super fun summer play date. Toby, Emerson and Charlie met at Great Beginnings in 2012. 5 years on they play together like no time has passed. ❤️ these boys!

Great Beginnings Preschool had been a fixture in the Long Beach Community for over thirty-five years. Please call for information or stop by for a visit.

Operating as usual

02/04/2020

Grey Whale

🐋❣️Our friend, the Grey Whale, breached over and over again! It was quite a show! Here is a quick taste.🐋❣️

02/04/2020

Dolphins

More from our Great Beginnings Whale Watching Trip🐋❣️🐬

02/04/2020

🐋❣️🐬 Our annual Great Beginnings Whale Watching Trip last Friday was one of the best! 🐋❣️🐬

10/13/2019

🌻Help Us Spread The Word!🌻 As most of you know, Great Beginnings is a really special place... so we need just the right person!❣️

09/14/2018

Happy Dot Day! Today we read Peter Reynolds book “The Dot”. It is a great reminder of how we make our mark in the world.

09/10/2018

Learning about the five senses, colors, and shapes can be fun!

09/06/2018

Back to school activities included learning about the primary and secondary colors through experiences. Marble painting, watercolor experimentation, and reading “Mouse Paint”.

08/21/2017

Photos from Great Beginnings Preschool's post

With the eclipse happening today, we made our own eclipse viewer. In California we only saw a partial eclipse, but it was fun to pass around the viewer (pinhole cereal box), for the kids to see. 🌎🌑🌞🌒🌓🌔

07/13/2017

We've had a fun start to our summer session, learning all about animals that live in the sea. We know all about octopus, fish and hermit crabs! 🐙🐟🦀

04/15/2017

We have been checking on April the Giraffe everyday this week at GB. The wait is finally over! April had her baby this morning. 💗

04/13/2017

Our grass baskets are all grown and ready to go home. Today we started coloring our hard boiled eggs and filled our baskets with some goodies. 🐣🥚🍬

03/22/2017

Today at Great Beginnings, we enjoyed having Molly Hogan from Wildworks. We are so lucky to have the opportunity to see these beautiful, non-releasable wild animals up close. 💗🦉🦅🐆🐿

03/18/2017

We had a fun St. Patrick's day at Great Beginnings! The leprechauns made mischievous messes everywhere. We had a rainbow hunt to make pots of gold, we enjoyed a "green tasting" party, we found the leprechauns pants in our trap, we found gold coins scattered around the yard, and we tasted shamrock shakes after nap. 🍀🌈💚Happy St. Patrick's Day!

03/14/2017

We are getting ready for Molly Hogan, of Wildworks to come visit us on Wednesday, March 22nd with some of her non-releasable wild animals.

03/10/2017

We are all ready for "Dad's Night" at Great Beginnings. We can't wait to see all our GB dad's with their kids tonight from 5-6:30!🚦🚗🚧🚙

03/07/2017

The start of spring brings monarch caterpillars and butterflies to our garden. Today we got to watch a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis!

03/01/2017

Today we experimented with instant snow. Although it was not cold like snow, we discovered that it was wet like snow, fluffy like snow and squishy like snow.

02/28/2017

We are learning all about weather. Today we did a science experiment with water (to represent the atmosphere), shaving cream (to represent clouds) and food coloring (to represent the rain.)

02/16/2017

Fun garden finds 🐞🐛🦋

02/16/2017

Preschool science experiments: Will it float 🛳 or will it sink📎?

12/15/2016

We've been working hard making our annual holiday ornaments using gourds. This year the "big class" tried something new. ☃️🎄🎁They are almost all ready to go home. Happy Holidays!

11/23/2016

Stone Soup at Great Beginnings was a success! It is so great to teach children how to wash, cut and prepare a meal together. 🌽🍠🍅Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

11/03/2016

Today we harvested our sweet potatoes from the garden, and roasted them in the oven to eat!

10/25/2016

Halloween fun at GB! 🎃👻🕸

10/13/2016

During the month of October, we have had a lot of fun learning all about bats and pumpkins. It's beginning to look, and smell (pumpkin spice pumpkins and play dough) like fall at Great Beginnings.

09/17/2016

We have been learning all about our 5 senses. This week to celebrate our sense of hearing, we made musical instruments with recycled materials, and uncooked rice and beans.

09/15/2016

Here's what we got to experience today at GB. A very large Praying Mantis was walking around our garden at school. As we watched it walk across the trellis, it suddenly caught a bee and began to eat it alive in front of us. What a great learning-teaching experience!

09/10/2016

We had a great first week back at GB! We've made new friends, explored different art ideas and read some new books. We got to paint with golf balls on paper, paint with marbles on paper plates, and we learned our primary and secondary colors. 🖌🎨
Books: Mouse Paint http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1296415.Mouse_Paint
The Family Book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120654.The_Family_Book

07/12/2016

We have been learning all about the worlds oceans, and exploring ocean animals in the classroom. We have made beautiful art using fish and octopus to make prints. Summer learning is fun!🐟🐡🌊🐠🐙🌎

07/02/2016

Happy Fourth of July weekend! We can't wait to start our summer session on Tuesday, July 5th!

05/26/2016

Truly amazing to watch. We learned so much information today. Our students, 3-5 years old, learned high school biology today 😊

05/26/2016

We had a great day at school today! Dr. Sue, an Entomologist, came to teach us all about "bugs". As always, it was an amazing presentation.

05/14/2016

Today was a great day! Finally our Eastern Black Swallowtail hatched from HER chrysalis, emerging as a BEAUTIFUL butterfly. We know the butterfly is a girl because throughout this process, we learned that the girls have blue on their wings and the boys only have yellow.

04/22/2016

Happy Earth Day! Our Eastern black swallowtail is starting its chrysalis today! 💗🗺😊🌎🌱🐛

04/13/2016