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Our Preschool Pathways Classroom

Our Preschool Pathways program provides a “bridge” between our Early Preschool and Preschool classrooms for children whose birthdays will ultimately miss the cutoff date for kindergarten entrance. By identifying those children early, we can help them stay with a consistent group of peers through preschool, pre-K and kindergarten.

Nurturing Active Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Happy Hearts®

Health & Safety

Our school is committed to high standards of safety and cleanliness as we create a caring and nurturing environment where children can thrive.

Requiring any children or staff with respiratory illness symptoms or fever to return home and stay home until fever free for at least 24 hours
Frequent disinfecting and sanitizing of high-touch toys
Frequent handwashing by children and staff, which is embedded in our curriculum and daily staff protocols
Training teachers on common signs of illness in children, and placing signage in every classroom to keep signs of illness top of mind
Daily laundering of crib sheets for infants; for older children, individual cots and blankets are provided for each child and laundered weekly
Ensuring appropriate teacher-student classroom ratios
Continuous health & safety training for our staff, including first aid and CPR certification
Maintaining an up-to-date and customized Safe School Plan posted in all classrooms for easy teacher access

Our Preschool Pathways Classroom Teachers & Staff

Mrs. Scheuss

Preschool Pathways

Hi everyone! My name is Mrs. Scheuss, some of you may know me as Ms. Ziggy. I was born in Guatemala and moved to a small town in Northern Minnesota called Pequot Lakes when I was 6 months old. I graduated from Pequot Lakes High School in 2018 and attended University North Dakota, completing my Criminal Justice degree in 2021. I moved to Eden Prairie at the beginning of May 2022.

I worked at Head Start when I was in college and absolutely loved it and made me decide to take this career path for now!

In my free time, you can find me spending time with my family and friends, playing board games, going fishing and binge watching Friends. I have a dog name Winston and a cat named Oliver.

I am so excited to be here at Primrose and getting to spend time with the kids!

Mr. Olson

Preschool Pathways

Hello, my name is Mr. Olson and it is great to meet you! I’ve played football for 12 years and now I’m moving onto the world of education. I’ve played just about every sport you can name but football is my true passion. I am excited to get to know all of you and begin this educational journey together.

Ms. M. Johnson

Preschool Pathways

Hello, my name is Ms. Johnson and I am excited to get to know all of you!

I grew up in Willmar, MN and moved to Jordan, MN shortly after I graduated. After that, I attended St. Cloud State University for a year doing generals with a major in Real Estate. I ended up deciding to get my Real Estate License on my own time. My first job was working at an after school daycare with children ranging from Pre-K to 5th grade. After that, I worked at a Preschool in Chaska for a summer with children’s ages ranging from 2-6 years old.

After I attended college, I worked for a year in Carver at a Preschool with 14,1 year olds! This has been my favorite age to work with so far as I love to watch them learn and grow. It is so rewarding as a teacher to know that I had an impact on these children’s lives and helped them grow up!

In my free time I enjoy shopping, going to the gym, hanging out with friends and family, and going for walks with my Red Heeler puppy!

Ms. Ray

Preschool Pathways

Bio coming soon!

Mr. Ingram

Preschool Pathways

Bio coming soon!

Gallery

Building a Home

Let’s look at our Primrose Color Display board. Can you name some colors? Today, we are going to be building a home for our toy animals or people. Think about which one you want to make a home for. What color are the blocks we’re using? How big does the “bed” need to be for your toy. What rooms will you have in your house?

Careful Observations

Benjamin the Bear showed the children our stones and magnifying glasses. Then he reminded us that we need to be safe with our stones. Now we are going to explore our stones using the magnifying glasses and make comparisons based on size, color, and feeling. Finally, as a small group we will sort the stones based on size and color.

What Do You Do with Your Family?

What do you do with your family? How does it make you feel when you do it? Let’s draw a picture and make a sentence of what we like to do with our family!

My Home Patterns

Today we made patterns in our artwork. We glued shapes together to create not only a pattern, but a house too! We worked on our fine motor skills by using scissors to cut out shapes to build a house.

Over and Under

Support the children to use directional vocabulary to describe the position of the toy animals. Begins to identify directional vocabulary such as left, right, forward, backward, over, under. Builds with blocks, maneuvers small objects and manipulatives.

Stone Positions

We guided the children to place the sorting stones in order from large to small. Begins to estimate, compare, order (seriate) items by size and length-related attributes Builds with blocks, maneuvers small objects and manipulatives Is increasing eye-hand coordination Shows an understanding of unsafe and dangerous situations and items and follows safety rules, participates in emergency routines, follows transportation and pedestrian safety rules, understands personal boundary safety Begins to see self as member of a group (e.g., participates as a member of a group, interacts with others in a variety of group settings)