Bright Beginnings Preschool and Elementary

09/04/2026

Big Congratulations to our own Taylor Fletcher on her nomination for Van Alstyne Homecoming Queen !!!!! Taylor is the sweetest and kindest young lady ever. She is so helpful around our school with both our students and parents. Regardless of how the students in VA vote next Friday, in our eyes, Taylor’s already a QUEEN!! 💙🤍👸🏼

09/03/2026

09/02/2026

✂️💕 Tiny hands, BIG skills! 💕✂️

Snip, snip, hooray! 🎉 Our little 2-year-olds are learning how to use blunt, child-safe scissors, and they are working on SO many skills while having fun!

Every little snip helps strengthen those tiny hand muscles, build hand-eye coordination, and practice using both hands together. 🖐️👀 These are all important building blocks for coloring, drawing, getting dressed, using utensils, and eventually writing! ✏️🌈

Who knew a little pair of scissors could create so much BIG learning?! 🥰✂️

Learning through play is the best kind of learning! 💛

09/01/2026

Community Helpers Week!!!!
🪖Today, Staff Sergeant and Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient, B. C**t Floyd, visited our school to talk about how the Army and other armed forces help keep our communities safe.
🎖️SSG Floyd served two tours in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. The combat deployment he led was later featured in the documentary, Citizen Soilder.
🇺🇸 It’s hard to put into words for tiny humans how important people like SSG Floyd are not only to our country, but our communities as well. However, they loved having him read a book about the army, getting to touch and wear his dog tags, and try on the helmet he wore in combat. He also talked about the importance of service and related it to helping our friends, siblings and parents!
💙 We appreciate SSG Floyd’s willingness to always come talk to our students when we ask, giving our Blue Jays a chance to meet a real life Hero (aka Community Helper).

09/01/2026

Our Prek4 has spent the last several weeks reviewing proocedures, along with 5 Frames and the Alphabet Chart. This helps us, and our new friends who weren’t with us in PreK 3❤️

❓Why 5 Frames???

Pre-K learners are being introduced to 5 frames as a way to represent numerals and quantities! While it may look like a simple math activity, 5 frames help children develop some BIG early math skills. 🧠

Instead of simply memorizing that “4” is a number, our Pre-K students are learning to visualize what 4 actually means. These early number-sense skills create the foundation for more advanced math concepts later on! ❤️🔢

Little frames = BIG mathematical thinking! 🌟

09/01/2026

🍝🌈 Learning Through Sensory Play!

Who knew colorful spaghetti could offer so much learning?! Our Infants and Waddlers (12–18 month old) explored cooked spaghetti dyed in bright colors, giving their little hands a fun sensory experience while building important developmental skills.

Squishing, squeezing, pulling, grabbing, and transferring the noodles helps strengthen fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, while the different colors, textures, and movement encourage sensory exploration, curiosity, and early cognitive development.

At this age, children learn best by touching, exploring, and experiencing their world—and sometimes learning gets a little messy! 🥰🌈🍝

Messy hands = busy brains! 🧠✨

08/31/2026

💛💙Join the best, at Bright Beginnings!!!

Link below to schedule a tour, or call 903.998.0075!!🎓📚 Fall is quickly approaching and our limited spots will fill up fast!!!

-TEA Certified Teacher with Bachelor Degrees
- Small classroom ratios 🧮
- Play based learning 🧸
- Christian learning environment ⛪️

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08/28/2026

TRANSPORTATION WEEK - Planes!!!!
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We were so excited that a real life pilot was able to teach us all about planes and how they help people and supplies get from one place to the next !!!
🛩️ First Officer Sipe, AKA “Captain Adam” visited our school this week. We learned all about planes, how pilots read maps, and he read a book to us! He also gave us some cool plane stickers. Captain Adam’s daughter is a Bright Beginnings Blue Jay, and she was exceptionally proud of all her dad taught us!
🛫 We are so thankful he came to visit our school and for his service to our country! 🇺🇸

08/28/2026

📚Our 3- and 4-year-old Blue Jays are demonstrating exceptionally strong early literacy skills by identifying auditory phonetic recognition with every letter of the alphabet!!!
🏆At this age, children are typically still developing consistent letter recognition and BEGINNING to connect letters with sounds. MASTERING all 26 letter sounds, AND writing the corresponding letter, demonstrates an advanced level of phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge, providing a strong foundation for blending sounds, decoding words, and beginning to read independently.
🧠This achievement reflects our dedication to quality curriculum and preparation for the early elementary years!
👩🏼‍🏫 None of this could be done without our college degreed, TEA Certified Teachers with many years of experience in PreK and Kindergarten!!!