Epiphany Episcopal Preschool

And summer camp is a wrap! Have a great summer everyone!

We had a great week of Ball Bonanza camp! Balls of all kinds used for science, art and just plain play time fun!

And that's a wrap on the 2022-23 school year! What a fabulous end-of-year celebration on Thursday morning. Ms. Cathy led the students in a musical presentation showcasing some of their favorite songs, we recognized our rising kindergartners, gave thanks for those who helped us this year and ended with a 10-minute slideshow highlighting our favorite moments of the year. Below is a portion of the prayer offered by Rev. Dina - highlighting our theme this year of CURIOSITY.

"We give thanks for the adults who taught, cared, and shepherded your children entrusted into our care. We give thanks for the children whose learning and growing before us were sparks of light. And we pray for the graduates who are now ready for a new school, new experiences, and to expand their world. Let the lessons and practices of curiosity offered this year find a comfortable and permanent home in their hearts. Let it guide them to risk, to try. And to try again. Let this curiosity help them take failure, not as a measure of their worth, but as a chance to learn and start anew."

Wow MAY has just flown by! We had a great week of food, flowers and Fan mail for Teacher Appreciation Week. We also threw a Cinco de Mayo party and have been working to move our rock pit to a new location. We hosted a VIP Tea, and today we celebrated our final Fun Friday with a beach party complete with sand art, popsicles and of course WATER fun! Only a few more days till our End of Year Celebration and then CAMP!

Celebrating Earth Day this week! Chapel time with Ms. Sue talking about how to care for God’s Creation, digging for worms (and any other bugs we could find), and recycle art! Thankful for such nice weather these past two weeks!

Such a lovely day to be outside! We had a great time at our egg hunt, and loved having Sparky the dog serve as our honorary school mayor. He proudly led every class into the courtyard for their egg hunts.

The Sea Turtles class got a new student today. Meet Box-a-saurus-Rex. He is a friendly dinosaur :).

What a fun week! Our inaugural VIP breakfast event and St. Patrick's Day shenanigans!

We love Fun Fridays! Today was Transportation Day. The students earned money to visit the car dealership and buy a car. They attended a driving class before they could drive off the lot (a heated game of red light, green light!). They all received their drivers license and celebrated by going to the drive thru to get their lunch. Then they hit the customization shop before heading home!

We celebrated special friendships in our Fun Friday group by making friendship soup - students helped prep the veggies, combine the ingredients and gave a taste test…thumbs up!!

Chapel time with Rev. Dina today! Lots of talk about hearts and love. Our youngest class led us in the singing and signing of Jesus Loves Me. And here are a few things the students are grateful for: walls, legs, eyes, nice weather, clouds, sun, ice cream, sharing, God, windows, and Christmas (Just 10 months and 10 days!)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

This is the last thing we do at school each week. Our Fun Friday group makes a convoy as we park the vehicles in the “garage” for the weekend! See you Monday!

Welcome February! Fairy Tales, Space, Groundhogs and hearts!

Where did January go?! Time flies when you are having fun - lots of Winter and Nursery Rhyme fun happening this month!

We are ready to go at the MAEVE-Herndon preschool fair!

Registration information for the 2023-24 school year is now online! Registration for current families and church members begins 1/30 and for new families on 2/6. Call 703-466-5204 or email [email protected] to schedule a tour!

It might have felt like summer outside...but it was winter for sure inside this week!

And that's a wrap for Epiphany Preschool for 2022! We think the image below says it best - High Five's all around! Rev. Dina gave high fives to all the students as they walked out of the worship space following the Family Christmas Sing-a-long. What a wonderful time together! Thanks to the students, staff, families, church staff and church members who help make Epiphany such a fun place to be! We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and we will see you on JANUARY 3rd!

Fairfax Schools have called for a 2-hour delay on Thursday, December 15th. Epiphany will open at 11:00am, and our Christmas Family Sing-a-long will still take place at 12:15pm.

Christmas is in full swing!

Such fun for our Sea Turtle families today! Here are a few of our gingerbread creations!

We love nativity scenes - this manger got pretty elaborate, but baby Jesus was well protected by the lamb ❤️

Where did November go! SO much fall fun!

We love these glorious fall days! So much fun outside today…..then we celebrated with Fun Food Friday and made owls to eat!

It must be a great time when you have no chance to take pics till the event is almost over! Halloween Parade today - and we didn’t let the rain ruin our parade - we just brought it inside! Treats for all to take home!

Another fun week learning about farms and pumpkins and corn!

Such fun at school today - a visit from My Pet Alpaca....alpacas, goat, bunny, snake and gecko! SO thankful to have parents, siblings and grandparents join us for this fun day!

Everyone loves music with Ms. Cathy! (And Oliver the Owl!)

Chapel time with Rev. Dina today! We did a body prayer and learned a 3-word prayer (we talked about prayer!). Our three word prayer: Help. Thanks. Wow! (Courtesy of Anne Lamott)

A fun week exploring apples, learning about community helpers and making art with the color orange!

This week we celebrated all things yellow! We also LOVE our group time! Songs, sharing and making new friends! Looking forward to a fun October!

We've had such a great start to the school year - so nice to see the halls decorated with such wonderful creations!

It was so nice to get kids back in the building today to meet their teachers! Let's get this school year started!

We are looking forward to meeting parents tonight! The teachers have been working hard all week and are ready to get the year started 😀

Can you guess what our theme for the year is? We can't wait to be curious with our students this year!

Teachers are back and getting their classrooms ready! We can’t wait to meet our youngest students in the Guppies class!

Just a reminder to join us this Sunday for Blessing of the Backpacks and the Blessing of the new Outdoor Classroom! What a great way to start the school year!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to our fabulous staff! 🍎

Happy First Day of Spring! 🌷🌷