Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You!

Menu change for Tuesday, April 25th. Turkey Mashed Potatoes Gravy Corn Roll Fruit Milk

Students in Ms. Sydney and Ms. Becky's classroom learned counting, measuring and colors by making slime. Needless to say, the kids had a great time and found out that slime is not easy to remove from hair. Lesson learned.

A select group of students from Princeton Primary School dropped by today to read with our students. Our kids love our guest readers and we will be doing this again on May 19th. Thanks Kelli Stanley and Nicole Davis for making this a reality.

Congratulations to Rebecca McFadden for being named the Mercer County Early Learning Center Service Person of the Year. Becky works diligently every day to prepare our little learners for the journey ahead of them.

AFTERNOON BUS INFORMATION 3/28/23: Bus 579, which is a special needs bus and also drops off at daycare, will not run this afternoon. This affects Silver Springs, Mercer, Princeton Primary, Straley, and Princeton Middle.

Students in Ms. Mary Kate and Mrs. Emily's class learned about rainbows and patterns today.

Applications for Pre-K for the 2023-2024 school year are being accepted now. Please call the school to get yours. (304) 425-4251

Please help us celebrate Dr. Seuss Week : Feb 27 - March 3 by encouraging your child to participate in our special days. Each day our students will focus on one Dr. Seuss book and dress accordingly. Hope we can all have a lot of fun!

SILVER SPRINGS FAMILIES: The telephones at Silver Springs Early Learning Center are currently not working.

Ms. Sydney's classes have been studying about magnets. They have had fun learning by racing cars using magnets and painting pictures using magnets.

All schools in Mercer County will dismiss 2 hours early on Friday, February 10th. The Early Learning Center will dismiss at 12:00. Please make any necessary arrangements for your child.

With the snow days on 2/1/23 and 2/2/23 the following days will be converted to instructional days: May 30, 2023 May 31, 2023 Please mark your calendars.

Young Paleontologists - Students in Miss Sydney and Mrs. Becky's class tried their hand at finding dinosaurs and dinosaur bones. Students got to chip away at their rocks to find what was in the middle. Needless to say, the kids had a great time being dinosaur hunters.

We will be celebrating our 100th day of school on Friday, February 3rd. We encourage everyone (students and teachers) to dress up like they are 100 years old. Please mark your calendars and let's have some fun.

All Mercer County Schools will operate on a 2 hour delay, tomorrow, Monday, January 23rd.

Attendance Matters!

Mercer County Schools will be hosting a Ready Freddy event at Mountain Valley Elementary School on February 11th. Bluefield area schools are invited from 10 - 12 and Princeton area schools from 12 - 2. If you have a child who will be attending Pre-K or Kindergarten next year be sure to come out for some useful information and fun for the kids.

More ice art pics from Miss Saunders and Mrs. McFadden's room.

Students in Miss Saunders and Mrs. McFadden's class created art using ice. Students first froze colored water and then were able to create paintings using their icy brushes.